Page 84 of Mating of Convenience
She laughed as if I’d made a joke and I started wondering if everyone working on this station was a sadist. Not that I cared, at this point. All I cared about was that things were finally happening.
“Be glad you’re an alpha,” I hissed at Nathan as they wheeled me into the delivery room and he held on to my hand as if he was actually scared.
“My dad told me he fainted when I was born,” he blurted out.
“He what?” I wasin painnow and processing words into meaning was hard when there was literally something inside of me trying to claw its way out.
“He fainted,” Nathan repeated, a light blush coloring his cheeks. Even the nurse was giving him the side-eye now, though she didn’t say anything. “I’m not telling you that because I think I’m going to faint or anything. Just... it popped into my mind.”
“You better not faint!” I tried to give my mate the evil eye, but had to laugh instead. Nathan looked so flustered that I forgot about my pain for a second.
“Why are you laughing?” Nathan demanded.
“Because you’re so damn adorable.” How great was it to have a mate who could make you laugh even in situations like this?
“I’m not adorable!” Nathan claimed, but he clearly had no idea what he was talking about.
“If you hadn’t put this damn baby into me I might want to kiss you now.”
“Youwantedthat baby,” he tried to remind me, but by that time, we’d reached the delivery room and the doctor came in, taking up all of my attention.
“How are you feeling, Mr. Probst?”
Fucking hell, could everybody just stop asking me how I was feeling? “Great,” I pressed out through gritted teeth, hoping the doctor wasn’t too dumb to tell that what I was feeling wassarcastic.
But he only smiled in response the same stupid way the nurse had smiled. If I was ever having another baby it wasnotgoing to be born in this hospital--not that I was ever letting Nathan near me with his dick again. Actually, maybe it needed to be cut off. Remove the thread. But no, I still wanted to have sex. Just not sex that resulted in babies. My eyes snapped to Nathan as the solution shone through the haze in my mind. “You’re getting sterilized.”
Both of my mate’s eyebrows shot up, but he caught himself after only a second. “We’ll talk about that later, angel.”
“I’m not changing my mind,” I insisted.
We didn’t argue about the matter any further, though, because now the doctor was asking me to ‘push’, like it was the easiest thing in the world to just push out a baby. Didn’t he know how much ithurt? Maybe he didn’t, because he told me to just ‘breathe’ through it. The manobviouslywasn’t an omega, or if he was, he’d never given birth.
Never ever coming back to this hospital.
Nathan was saying something now, but I couldn’t hear exactly what. I was too busy pushing and not dying of agony. Whenever I was able to catch my breath a little, I glared at my mate. I still had no idea what he was rambling about, but he probably deserved the glares. Everybody in this room did because they all failed to get this goddamn baby born.
Why had I ever thought this was a good idea?
“One more push,” the doctor said.
I wanted to roll my eyes at him, because I was pretty sure that was not the first time he said that, but I didn’t have the energy. If he wanted a push, I could give him a push. I put all the strength that I had left into it.
And then the doctorstillwanted another push.
This was fucking ridiculous.
“Are you sure that’s a baby I’m trying to push out?” I asked, my own voice sounding hysterical to my ears. “You sure that’s not a whole football team?”
“Pretty sure.” The doctor daredsmileat me.
I wanted to kill him. But I also wanted this to be over, so I took as deep of a breath as I could and pushed once more.
“I can see the head,” the doctor said, so I redoubled my efforts, and then...
Then there was a cry.
I could hear my baby crying.
