Page 59 of Come Alive
“Why does she need a C-section?!” Mateo roared loudly as several nurses attempted to restrain him. “You aren’t taking her without us.”
Kazi’s vision blurred, there had been so much blood. Too much.
“They need to do this quickly. Don’t hinder them from helping her.” James rubbed his temples as he leaned back against the wall. It was clear, without it he would have fallen to the ground. “She’s going to be fine. They all are.”
But Mateo didn’t calm down.
“Mateo, stop. Yara doesn’t need you to be arrested.After,” Kazi murmured, stabilizing his nerves he reached out, squeezingMateo’s shoulder. “She knew this might happen. We all did. It’s a high-risk pregnancy.”
Kazi’s words were for himself as much as them. The doctor’s knitted brows and flat lips had caused all three of them to pitter into differing meltdowns. Mateo’s just happened to be the loudest.
Mateo exhaled, his anger waning, he shook off the nurses that were still attempting to calm him. “I’m fine. Leave me.”
The nurses offered one last concerned look before backing slowly out of the room and leaving the three men behind. A short while ago, Yara had been in here and everything was going well. She had been pushing, but then something changed.
Her face had turned pale and thenthe blood.
Kazi glanced back at the bed, at the evidence of her suffering, before flicking his attention to James and then to Mateo.
“I’m going to kill that first doctor.Stewart Lean? Was that his fucking name? The same one she had before when we were in here. He was just as useless now as he was before. He wasn’t doing anything to help her. He pushed her too hard, joked that she wasn’t doing enough. He made her feelshame.” Mateo’s hands were clenched into tight fists, his rage filling the room.
“I understand, but he isn’t the one in there with her now. It's someone Emilio sent for her,Lizbeth. She’s going to be fine; we just have to be patient,” Kazi expelled.
Yarahadbeen under too much stress, and the doctor hadnothelped.
Kazi would help Mateo kill the doctor. But that was later. Right now, they needed to be here for Yara and their children.
“Now what?” Mateo growled.
“Now we wait,” James said.
And the three men fell into uncomfortable, anxiety riddled silence. Waiting impatiently for news of their woman and twins.
***
It felt like hours later when the doctor finally returned–a different one than from before. All three of the men jumped to their feet.
“I’m Lizbeth, I–”
“Where is she? How is Yara? How are the babies?” Kazi marched forward to her first, demanding answers.
The doctor’s face was ashen. She spluttered before answering, “She is fine. The babies are fine. But…they aren’t twins. At least not exactly…”
“Spit it out! Take us to Yara!”
“You’ll have to see.” Lizbeth gestured and they all fell into line following her to the recovery room.
Once inside, Mateo froze at the doorway, at the sight of Yara. Kazi nearly did too at the clear pain and trauma she had just had to endure. Alone. But he broke out of it first, rushing to Yara’s side. She was awake but groggy, sweat coating her forehead, plastering her hair to her face. It was longer now than before, and Kazi brushed it back.
“Are you okay?” He looked around for the babies, forhisbabies. “Where are they?” He directed the question to Lizbeth.
“I’m a walking science experiment,” Yara replied breathlessly, leaning against Kazi for support and wincing in the process.
“Yara, baby, please tell us what’s going on?” James cut in from behind Kazi as he reached out to hold Yara’s hand.
The door opened before them and the first doctor,Stewart Lean, the one who had caused this mess in Kazi’s opinion, walked in wheeling two hospital cribs.
“Looks like these little ones just needed their mom to get a quick snip. At least now you won’t need an extra stitch for your husband.” The doctor eyed all of them questioningly.
