#Chapter 291 – 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 –

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.”

you here,” I say to him, 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. Gotten some

feel the pain 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

takes Cora’s space at my side, Sinclair solid a 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 in the final parts of

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

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

a balm to my agonized body. I look at her with hope in my

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

me, “he’s here,

begin to push again. And push, and push. I gasp, laying back and panting as I feel the contraction end, and I look to Cora for instructions. Instead

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

doctor’s do their work. Inaction and the pa*sing of responsibility to another – no matter how much they outstrip him in their

Cora hesitates, “it’s okay, Ella – he’s almost born – but…” She and Hank hesitate and exchange glances again, then looking down at the baby. I struggle to sit

but

head at me, leaning forward

beg, my eyes fixed on

back and I see that her face is

the past few pushes. Which is sometimes a sign

“that because he’s such

suddenly horrified. Sinclair goes rigid

women experience this with large babies. It’s called shoulder dystocia – we

baffled, horribly

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

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head. She puts a steady hand under my shoulder, pulling upwards. “Come on, Ella, you need to change your position before the next contraction comes – I’m going

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