Alpha's Regret After Her Rebirth by Aurora Starling

Chapter 0378

Chapter 0378

Hannah

“Oh, Goddess. Are you sure?”

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“I think I can tell, Lily,” I said, clutching my back and wincing as another jolt of pain worked through me.” Look at the mattress.”

Lily, dressed in her nightgown with her robe flowing loosely on top, rushed past me and pulled the blankets back. Indeed, the mattress was soaked from my water breaking in my sleep.

The house turned into a blur then. As the contractions began coming more frequently and more painfully, my sister called the midwife–an older woman named Margaret who had assisted Lily during her birth- and prepared the bedroom.

outside

Guards were posted not only my bedroom door, but also at all entrances to the house. It was

something that I had expressed a need for since I had moved back home; I couldn’t risk Noah showing up and trying to steal my baby, the heir to Nightcrest.

I doubted that he would, considering the fact that he seemed to think that my child belonged to another man. But it made me feel a whole hell of a lot safer during a vulnerable time.

Soon, my bedroom had been transformed into a makeshift delivery room. Fresh sheets and towels covered my bed, soft music played on a speaker, and aromatic candles had been lit to calm me.

“This is unnecessary,” I groaned as Lily lit the final candle. “I don’t care if–Oooh!” Another contraction rippled through my body.

“Breathe,” Margaret cooed, rubbing my back as we paced the room together. “Just breathe through it. In through your nose, out through your mouth.”

I did as instructed. “The scent of the candles will calm you,” Lily explained, shaking the match and crossing the room to take my other arm. They helped a lot during my birth.”

I shot my sister a withering glare, but there was no real heat in it. I couldn’t be mad at her.

a mentor to me. Having already gone through a birth of her own, she had all kinds of tips to share, all sorts of techniques to help

say something. but another contraction hit me and I squeezed her

over. “Just keep breathing, just like

focusing on the breathing techniques I had

they laid me down on the bed so Margaret could check my cervix. “I can’t, Lily. I

her eyes flashing. “You’re the strongest person I know, Hannah. You’ve faced worse than this and come

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Chapter 0378

with a cool cloth, murmuring words of encouragement. My father paced nervously outside the room, occasionally peeking in to check on our progress. Soon, the sun rose and even reached its zenith

cut through the haze of pain. “I

I felt a release. The room

was over. With a whimper, I laid my head back on the pillow,

girl!”

and relief streamed down my face as Margaret placed my daughter on my chest. She was perfect–tiny, red–faced,

my mother breathed, her

her. “Hello, little one,”

sweat–caked hair out

hesitate; I’d already come up with a

I said, the name feeling right on my tongue now that I said it out

breathily, “Melody…

nothing else mattered. Not the pain I had just endured, not the challenges that lay ahead, not even the fact that Noah wasn’t

reading my mind, suddenly cleared his throat and broke the

do

notify Noah that the baby has been

I shouted in unison, startling

closer, soothing her with gentle whispers. “No,” I repeated, more calmly this time. “I don’t want Noah involved in

furrowed. “But Hannah,

of sleeping around so much that I didn’t even know who the father was. So as far as I’m concerned, he’s not Melody’s father. He may have conceived her with me, but he’s not

counts.”