Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“Calm down sweetheart.” His voice still held a note of his laughter as he tried to calm me. “I’m on my way home to get you. We will go to the hospital together.”
“Really? Thank you so much Joaquin. Ahh, I’m so excited. I get to see my little nephew today. Yay!” I couldn’t contain my bubbly excitement as I squealed into the phone.
“Just finish what you’re doing and get ready, I will be there soon.” He hung up the phone, I could hear his laughter as he chuckled at me even as he ended the call. He must think that I’m going insane, but I couldn’t help it, I was happy.
I finished arranging the giant gift for Nikki. It basically looked a lot like those diaper cakes I had seen pictures of online but it had so much more and it was way bigger and more elaborate. There were diapers in there too of course. But there were also bottles, wash clothes, onesies, cute adorable outfits, toys, stuffed animals, lotions, soaps, blankets. There was a lot more too. It was all arranged on a stack of boxes for other little odds and ends.
They might have a bunch of the stuff already, but they would need more than one of these things. One set to leave at home with mom and dad for when they watched the baby, one set for my house for when I kidnapped my sweet little boy and brought him home to get lots of practice for my own baby and to give Nikki and Noah a night off to relax. A set to leave with Nikki’s parents so they were properly prepared to babysit. You could never have enough with all the people who could potentially watch the baby. I wasn’t going overboard at all, really. I swear I wasn’t.
Joaquin arrived a few minutes after I was done putting together my massive gift. He hadn’t actually seen everything that I had gotten for them and his eyes just about popped out of his head when he saw the massive thing sitting in front of me.
“What the hell did you do? Buy everything in the whole damned store?” He asked with a grimace on his face.
“Oh shut up. I actually restrained myself a little bit.”
“Restrained? Restrained with what?” He sounded incredulous, like he couldn’t believe what I had just said.
“I didn’t buy any of the really big stuff.” I informed him.
“Big stuff? Like what?”
“Car seat, stroller, crib, dresser, you know, the big big stuff.” I listed them off.
“This thing looks massive, if I wasn’t as strong as I am I would need a damn forklift to carry it.”
“Don’t be so melodramatic Droopy.”
“I’m not kidding, this thing is massive.”
“Well it doesn’t matter, I don’t need you to carry it anyway.” I huffed at him as I made my way toward the giant gift. But I didn’t even get halfway there before he ran in front of me and put his hands on my shoulders.
“Oh no you don’t. You’re not lifting that massive monster of a gift.”
“Joaquin, I’m not a weakling, I can lift it.”
“I don’t doubt that, but it’s as big as you are, and you’re pregnant. You’re not fucking touching it.”
“It’s not that big.” I said looking at it. It was at least a good eight inches shorter than me.
“If that present was any bigger, it would walk there itself.”
“You’re being ridiculous.” I huffed as I tried to walk around him, but he stopped me again.
“I told you, you’re not lifting that thing. Just grab your purse and let’s go, I’ll carry that monster.” I rolled my eyes at him but did as he said, grabbing my bag and walking out of the room ahead of him.
On the way down I opened all the doors for him, and then opened the hatch of the large SUV we were taking to the hospital. It was the only vehicle the gift would fit into. Ok, maybe I did over do it, but I didn’t care, it was too late to take it all back now.
When we got to the hospital I found that Mom and Dad were already there waiting, as were Nikki’s parents and youngest brother. I ran over to mom and hugged her.
“What have you heard?” I asked her, grinning like a crazy auntie, which I guess I was.
“Everything is fine. They just got her taken back and are getting her situated. She was waiting for you to show up cause she says you’re her real birthing coach in this because we all know Noah is going to be useless when it starts happening. He’s smart as hell and can keep his cool for everything except his family.” Mom was laughing as she said this.
“Oh, I know.” I laughed with her.
“Hello Alpha, Luna.” Nikki’s dad came over, a nervous look on his face. He hadn’t been this nervous around me in the past when I met him, but to be honest I hadn’t seen him much since Nikki and Noah got married and I was still in high school then.
“Hi Mr. and Mrs. Parker, how are you?” I smiled at them but I noticed that Mr. Parker flinched a little. It was like he was afraid of me for some reason.
“I’m good Luna, thank you for asking.” He tried to smile but it became a grimace.
“Mr. Parker, I’m the same person I was when Nikki got married, you don’t have to be nervous.” I gave him a reassuring nod and for some reason he looked over my shoulder at Joaquin. “Don’t worry about that giant puppy either.” I joked and that got a real smile out of him.
“You really do act just the same.” He seemed to be a little more at ease. “I’m glad that you and Nikki stayed close even with things changing like they did.”
“I won’t change the fundamentals of who I am just because my status changed. I am who I am and that’s never going to change. And with the baby coming today I hope our families can be a lot closer from now on.” I smile at him.
“That would be nice.”
We talked for a few minutes longer until Noah came out to get me.
“Rivi, Nikki is ready for you.” He seemed so excited and nervous. It was like he didn’t know which emotion should take control and he was just spinning like a top from one to the other. It was totally cute and I would so make fun of him for it later. But for now the attention needed to be on Nikki, not Noah.
Things seemed to be moving pretty fast once I got into the back room with Nikki. Apparently she had been in the early stages of labor since last night and didn’t even realize it, she only noticed something was up when the pain of the contractions got really bad.? Not five minutes after I got to the room her water broke and it was almost time for the big show.
