Filed to story: Owned by the Alphas Novel
Tabby smirked like she knew exactly what I had been thinking.
I didn’t get a chance to call her out on it because there was a knock on the door.
Derik rushed to get it, swinging it open.
Galen strode in, immediately taking off his coat as Mom came in behind him.
She rushed to my side, checking my temperature, my pulse, her hand going to my stomach.
Galen knelt down between my legs and rolled up the sleeves of his shirt.
“How far apart are your contractions?” he asked.
“Don’t know,” I gritted out, my words turning to a scream as another one ailed me.
My mom soothed me through it but it didn’t help. Nothing did.
Galen looked to my Alphas. Derik stepped closer, “Not far. A couple of minutes at the most. They are long,” he confirmed.
Galen nodded and started his check. Which made the pain worse and I only just managed to refrain from kicking him away from me.
Kai growled and I looked over at him. He peered out of Tabby’s curtain with a sneer.
“There are vampires here,” he bit.
“They are watching over the hut. Lorelai’s voice has carried and I am not positive that the rogues have not heard it,”
Galen said, matter-of-factly.
I wasn’t even sorry. Screaming helped. Rogues be damned.
“They stay outside.” Kai left no room for argument but nobody bothered.
“We are going to have to get this baby out soon, she has been birthing for too long,” Galen murmured.
“Couldn’t agree more,” I let out tightly. I had been birthing for what felt like forever. My twins were in the next room, probably wondering why I couldn’t hold them, why my screams echoed.
But I was stuck with a baby in my pelvis, not moving further down to where it needed to be for me to push.
Galen confirmed as much when he started pressing on the top end of my stomach. He pressed hard, feeling for the baby.
I grimaced, trying to relax as it forced me into another contraction.
“Small pushes with each contraction, entice the baby down,” Galen instructed.
I did what he asked for the next hour.
Small pushes. Deep breaths. Pants. Relax. Don’t push.
Every instruction grated on my nerves. Grated on my thin patience.
Why couldn’t he just get the baby out?!
He sighed and shook his head at my mom who was looking more worried with every instruction.
My Alphas looked like they were about to tear Galen apart for not doing more.
But Tabby was calm.
Cain talked to her in whispers I couldn’t discern and she hummed, pausing to answer him before going back to her humming.
“What the hell is going on?” I demanded after another contraction made me shake and clench my jaw.
“The baby is not engaging where it is meant to. It might need help but it is still too far up. Can you use your shadows?”
Galen asked.
I could. I would. I was about ready to do anything to get it out of me.
Not only because I was becoming more spent by the minute, but because I had been waiting hours to hold my child and it still wasn’t here.
It made me nervous that it would never happen.
I harnessed my shadows, pushing them down into my stomach at the same time I followed Galen’s instructions to bear down into my pelvis.
I held it as long as I could, then stopped to take a breath.
Galen checked, but I had to go again.
And again.
I couldn’t go again. I was panting, my energy almost gone, my eyelids heavy again.
My limbs and bones were weak; I was still in so much pain.
I couldn’t imagine being able to get this baby out now.
Until shadows, not mine or Brax’s, flowed over the sofa and down onto my stomach.
I sucked in a breath as they caressed my stomach, pressing lightly on it before adding more pressure to where Galen had been pressing.
I grinned and looked up at Brax, who was the only other one who could see them.
“The twins,” I whispered.
I used my shadows on the inside and bore down again.
There was an immediate shift, and my eyes went wide.
It was working.
The pain mixed with the pressure in my pelvis in an instant.
My magic was warm inside me, heating my body from within. I didn’t have the energy to harness it, but it knew how to help.
It entwined with my shadows, helping me push as the twins’ shadows did too.
“That’s it, Lorelai,” Galen said, guiding me.
And then it happened, the one thing I had been sure was a lost cause to hope for.
I birthed mine and Derik’s child on a hearty scream that shook the cabin.
But it was the only noise that came.
There was no cry, no gargled sound to tell me my child was okay.
I peered over as Galen used the towels and blankets on my baby.
The Alphas were just as tense. I looked up at Derik with tears already prickling.
“Derik?” I whispered.
He knelt down next to me as my Mom moved to help Galen.
Derik grabbed my hand and kissed the back of it, then pulled my head to kiss the top of that too.
“He will be okay,” he whispered shakily.
“It’s a boy?” I said, my tears falling at the silence in the room.
Derik nodded, his own eyes wavering. He swallowed hard before answering.
“We have a son.”
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