Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
After about fifteen minutes or so, Riviana was hissing almost constantly. It was like the pain from the kicks were getting stronger. I could even feel the slight changes in her belly when they came.
“Riviana, sweetheart, are you OK?”
“The baby is just really active right now.” She said through gritted teeth. “She is not happy with all the stress that Mommy has been under lately.”
“Are you sure that is all that it is?” I was getting worried, and I didn’t know if I should call Griffin or not.
“Yeah, I am sure that’s all it is. It’s just a little pain, nothing that I felt when I was having Talia. Then again, I hadn’t realized I was having contractions until after my water broke. That was how it was with the twins and Talia.” She laughed reminiscently, and that just sent a wave of dread through me.
“Let’s get out of the water. I want to call Griffin, just to be on the safe side.”
“Alright, fine.” She said, sliding off of me and hissing again.
I helped my Little Bunny out of the water and set her gingerly on her feet. Handing her a towel, I started toward the sink and the clothes that she had brought with us. I needed to get dressed as well, if I was going to call Griffin here.
I dried myself as I was walking, and in a matter of seconds, I had my pants on. I skipped the boxers and the shirt, I was aiming for expedience, not style or comfort. The moment that I turned to face my Little Bunny again, she cried out, louder than before.
“Ahh!” Then followed that up with something else. “Uh oh.”
“Uh oh? What uh oh? What happened?”
“M..my water just broke.” She turned to look at me and I saw the shock in her eyes. “Joaquin, the baby is coming.”
“Shit!”
I ran to her side and pulled her into my arms. Her clothes fell to the floor and most likely were already soaked.
“I will sit you in the bed, then I will call Griffin. Do you think that you can make a door at the moment?” I asked her, but a contraction hit her hard.
“AHHH! I don’t think so.” She turned the scream into the beginning of the I, it was hard to hear, knowing that she was in pain.
“Then he needs to hurry.” I had the sense of mine to throw the towels down on the bed. We could get new sheets and a new mattresses, but if I could just keep things cleaner while my Little Bunny was in the bed, she wouldn’t need to worry about coming back into the bed right away.
Riviana was laying on the bed, screaming in pain. I knew that time was short and that I barely had the time to spare for the call to Griffin, but he needed to get here as soon as possible.
“Hello?” He said as he answered the phone, sleep fogging his voice.
“Griffin, I need you here now.” There was an edge of panic in my voice.
“I need you here now. Riviana is in labor. Her water just broke. She’s having contractions. We won’t make it to the hospital.” I explained it to him as calmly as I could, but I knew that I likely sounded like a scaredy cat. I didn’t know what to do. This wasn’t my forte here.
“Shit!” I heard him getting up out of the bed on his end of the line and a voice calling out for him.
“Griffin, honey, what’s wrong?” It was Lana, his wife.
“Riviana is in labor. Her water broke at the castle. They won’t make it to the hospital.”
“Let me get dressed, I will come with you.” She was moving as well.
“Joaquin, can she open a door for us?” He asked as Riviana screamed in pain in the background.
“GGRRRAAAHHHH!”
“No, she can’t. She is in too much pain.”
“Damn.” He swore as the sound of clothes moving in a closet filled the other end of the call. “We will hurry. We’re not far, as you know. If Riviana needs to push before we get there, then you need to step up and deliver that baby, Joaquin.”
“I can’t, Griffin. I don’t know what to do.” I was feeling more than panicked now. I was fucking terrified. “I can’t do that, Griffin.”
“You can, Joaquin, and you will.” He practically growled at me on the phone, being more fierce and commanding than any man in our community had the right to be. It was working though. It was getting through to me and opening my mind. The fog of fear and panic was subsiding and allowing me to think, to listen.
“Griffin?” I said his name questioningly and he understood it for what it was.
“Get towels, Joaquin, to wrap the baby in. You don’t need to cut the cord, I will do that when I get there, I won’t be long. She’s delivered naturally before, so she will know the feeling of it all. Just coach her to breathe and try not to push. If the baby starts to come out on its own, meaning she is crowning, then she will have to push, no matter what.”
“Dammit, Griffin, this is scary as hell.”
“I know, Joaquin, but you can do it. You won’t be the first father in the world to deliver a baby, and you won’t be the last.”
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