Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

#Chapter 478 – New Baby

Cora

“You’ve got this, Cora!” Ella cheers at my side while I squeeze Roger’s hand, panting and shouting as I give what the nurse has told me is one last, final push.

I put everything I have into this final moment, squeezing my eyes shut and pushing as hard as I can, wanting this done – wanting to feel my little baby in my arms

And suddenly the pressure lessens, and my eyes fly open as I gasp And there’s a little baby’s cry ringing out through the room.

“Here!” I gasp, leaning forward fervently, some motherly demand in me needing my little baby now even as I see him in the nurse’s hands. “Give him to me!”

The nurse hesitates, looking towards her colleagues. I moan a little, still reaching, wanting him now

“Do it,” Ella snaps suddenly up from my side. She stands and moves towards the nurse, putting a hang on her shoulder and gesturing towards me. ” He needs his mother – ”

Roger is completely still at my side, his eyes focused totally on the baby, who starts to cry his little heart out.

“Please,” I beg, reaching for him.

“All right,” the nurse says, nodding and bringing him forward. “We’ll clean him up in a minute – ”

And she takes two steps forward, and leans down, and places my little baby in my arms

And I burst immediately into tears.

Because the weight of him against my arm-his little head curled against my elbow-my heart just breaks to feel him close to me, so strange and new and yet so completely right.

down my face as I take in every ounce of him, every

my side, his arms wrapped around me, staring down at our

believe he’s here,” I whisper

believe he’s so mad,” Roger replies, his

“You know, Roger,” I say quietly, “most new parents say something nice about their kid when

at the baby with an expression somewhere between shock and awe.

the baby, cuddling him close and pressing a kiss to his forehead. “Welcome to

up with something that good. He needed

me,” I sigh. “My whole

I’m exhausted, and my whole body is aching, I just feel such

and I are the only three people in the world. I

Cora?” she asks quietly. “Will you let the nurses clean him up and wrap in him in a blanket?

to be checked. And I laugh as the nurse comes close, reaching for him. “I’m sorry,” I say, shaking my

nurse says, grinning at me as she takes the baby from my arms. “You’re just an excited new mom and the birth went

checked out by the doctor. But the nurse is right – everything went well, and the baby looked fine to me. I

and holding her hands out, palm up.

of hers and laughing a little. “I’m sure

little, looking up at me with wide eyes, and I turn my head to the side, not understanding her reaction. But then she just grins and shakes her head,

leaning my head on Roger’s

I sit up a little with curiosity. This isn’t the first time Ella has healed me, of course, but this is the most conscious I’ve been for it and I can really feel it this time – the way the gift runs through me, seeking out the parts of me that hurt and sweeping through

I

hands away and opening

I say, laughing a little. ” Honestly, Ella, it’s