Total pages in book: 68
Estimated words: 69511 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 348(@200wpm)___ 278(@250wpm)___ 232(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 69511 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 348(@200wpm)___ 278(@250wpm)___ 232(@300wpm)
“I imagine he had nothing to do with getting the doctor stabbed,” I replied, trying to think about anything but the way my bones in my hand were likely turning to dust.
“No,” Auden agreed. “He really had nothing to do with it at all. The doc was stabbed in the chest. Took out his left lung and went into his heart. It took him a long time to heal from that, but when he came back, he wanted nothing to do with the gang division, or the undercover work that he and Gable were doing.”
I didn’t blame him.
“Is that how he got his face scar?” I asked curiously.
“No, that came after.” He grimaced. “Kid with a knife trying to get out of going to jail.”
“So what does this have to do with today?” Maven asked as a nurse came in, a smile on her face.
None of us smiled back at her.
“I’m just gonna do a real quick check…” She disappeared under the blanket covering Maven’s lower half as soon as she had her gloves in place.
She came back out seconds later with a smile. “Eight, now. Should be any time now. Can I get you anything?”
Maven shook her head, and the nurse left with a promise to be back in ten minutes.
Auden answered Maven’s earlier question once she was completely gone.
“Darryl Horton said, as he was fighting Gable, he was going to make sure he got a hit put out on his head just like his twin brother,” Auden murmured. “When Darryl stabbed him, he said he’d make sure that the amount was higher, though.”
That explained his need for Callena to be there.
He needed her to figure out what was going on with Garrett.
I guess I couldn’t blame him for being angry and scared.
That didn’t stop the hurt, though.
I was lost in my own thoughts when Maven screamed bloody murder.
I jolted out of my stupor and stared as Auden all but launched himself at her.
“What?”
“It burns!” she cried out. “Oh my God. It burns so bad!”
I had no clue what burned, but if this was how childbirth was going to go, I would never, ever get pregnant.
“What do you want me to…”
Maven grunted and started to yank her hospital gown over her body.
There were some things that I’d never seen before when it came to Maven, and her entire body was one of them.
I’d certainly never seen her vagina, and that ended today as well.
Because it was front and center when she said, “Oh my God. Is it burning?”
I couldn’t stop myself from looking.
That’s when I saw that she had a baby’s head nearly out of her vagina.
“Um,” I said Auden. “I’ll just go and get the n…”
She cried out, screamed really loud, and then she was holding on to me so tight there was no way in hell that I would be going anywhere.
Unless it was to the ER for my own doctor’s visit to make sure my hand wasn’t fractured later.
“Stay!” she growled low in her throat.
“Yes, ma’am,” I said at the same time that Auden said, “I’m not going anywhere.”
“Someone catch it,” she hissed.
Yet she didn’t let go of either one of our hands.
I looked at Auden, and he looked at me, and we went in together as one and caught the baby as she all but launched it out of her vagina at us.
Auden caught the head, and I caught the tush, and we scooped her up and deposited her on her mother’s chest.
The baby started to scream almost instantly, and finally, Maven let me go.
I tried not to let out a whimper as the blood flow returned to my hand.
All I did was hold my hand that was now covered in baby juices out to my side and reach for my phone.
“Holy shit,” Auden whispered. “Holy fucking shit, Mave. We have a baby girl.”
Maven burst out crying, and I started to film.
I videoed the two of them as they got to know their new baby.
When I realized that I should probably go get a nurse, I left my phone propped up at the edge of the table to capture the moment despite my not being there and hurried out to find a nurse.
I did stop to wash my hands first, though.
I didn’t find a single one, and when I noted that there were two rooms down the hall with a woman screaming out herself, and about ten nurses shoved into the room, I realized why.
There was a bigger emergency than Maven’s.
I went back into the room and started looking around, finding everything that I would need to get the job done.
This time I pulled gloves on, though.
There was only so much that I loved my friend, and being covered in her fluids wasn’t something I was interested in continuing.
“Auden,” I said, catching their attention. “Get her over here and let’s get her cleaned up. I tried to get a nurse or a doctor, but the entire staff is in two rooms down the hall with other emergencies.”