Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

#Chapter 292 – Big Alpha Baby

Ella

I’m gripping my sister’s hand, gritting my teeth and groaning through the first of my pushes, when the door bangs open again. I don’t open my eyes – can’t look –

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Quite frankly, at this particular moment I don’t care who the hell it is if it’s Hank, or Roger, or insurgents coming to kill us – all I care about is the horrible, tearing pain within me as I work to bring my baby into the world.

I moan, throwing my head back against the pillows as I pant, feeling the pain subside a little bit.

“How is she?” I hear Hank ask, and I open my eyes to see him there next to me. I try to give him a little smile, failing a bit. “Hello, Ella,” he says softly, his voice warmer than I’m used to. “You look like you’re doing great.”

I murmur my thanks to him as he turns his attention back to Cora, getting a full report, and I shift my gaze to Roger, who stands awkwardly across the room.

“Roger,” I say, putting my hand out to him, inviting him closer.

“Hello, Ella!” he calls, awkward. “Happy…happy birth. Or whatever.”

Sinclair starts to laugh quietly. “Come over, Roger,” he demands and Roger sighs, hanging his head and deliberately choosing not to look at me as he comes to stand with his brother. ” What,” Sinclair asks him as he arrives at his side. “More of a cigars in the waiting room kind of guy?”

“Yeah,” Roger agrees, giving his brother a little glare. “I’d say that’s much more my vibe.”

giving him a tired little smile. “I want

voice kinder now as he meets my gaze. “Just….when you’ve cleaned it up a bit.

start to return. Cora climbs up onto the bed for this one, cursing a little at the lack of stirrups and the soft surface of the mattress that makes it harder for her to see what’s really going on. Roger

solid force next to my head. ” You’ve moved quite quickly through this, Ella,” Hank informs me as the contraction ends and I pant, working to catch my breath. “This is rare, even for a wolf birth. But you should be

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him a little bit when he says this. I have no idea what that could mean is there trouble in paradise? – but honestly, any of my interest in that question is immediately wiped out when

as best I can, in the short spaces between them. I can feel my baby moving inside

of this pattern, Cora gives a little gasp. “Okay, he’s almost here!” she says, and the cheer in her voice is a balm to my agonized body. I look at her with hope in my

ravaging my body. I wait for the next contraction and, when it comes and Cora tells me to, I push – absolutely as hard as

Ella! Just

I feel the contraction end, and I look to Cora for instructions. Instead of a happy smile, though,

at the pain that shoots through my back.” What’s wrong?

tense next to me. I can tell by his voice that he’s working, so hard, to stay still and steady, to let the doctor’s do their work. Inaction and the passing of responsibility to another – no matter how much they outstrip him in their expertise – has never been his

hesitate and exchange glances again, then looking

shakes her head at me, leaning forward to press me back to the

Sinclair. “Please,

sits back and I see that her face is worried. “Ella,

in the past few pushes. Which is sometimes a

is some worry,” Hank continues, “that because he’s such a large baby,

I gasp, suddenly horrified. Sinclair goes rigid next to me.

common,” Hank says hurriedly. “Lots of women experience this with large babies. It’s called shoulder dystocia – we think

gasp, confused, baffled, horribly

though her worried voice belies her words. “We’re trained