Chapter 108

“Stop fucking telling me to push. I AM FUCKING PUSHING!” I scream at our doctor as she pats my leg and throws me a haughty look, and Arry takes my hand and tries to turn possessed rage to face him. The room is coming down on me, and I have lost all concept of time. My body is turning itself inside out with a pain they no way in hell prepared me for, and the stupid woman is getting on my very last nerve. Sweating, heaving, panting and trying not to break my teeth with every wave of bone-gnawing agony ripping through me.

“Baby… Breathe, count with me, look at me. You’re doing so well. Just breathe and relax a little.” He’s stroking me, trying to get me through this, being sane and calm while my doctor and her nurse are making me crazy. I’m trying hard, but I was not expecting this to be so traumatic. I don’t think I can do it. It feels like we have been here for days, and I am so overheated and achy that even my teeth are sore.

“It hurts… So much.” I start crying again, an