Two Hundred-Seventy-Three

I look up at him with a little fear in my eyes. He looks over at Summer and says,

“We will finish this discussion later. Okay?”  

“Of course, Alpha.”

Zachariah then carries me out of the office and up to our room. He lays me on the bed. I am not surprised when a little while later Ava knocks on the open door to the bedroom. I look over at her and smile. She enters and as she sits next to me she says,

“So, what seems to be going on here?”

“I don’t know. I felt my stomach tighten.”

“Is that all? Was there any pain?”

“No, no pain, just the tightening.”

“Okay, can I take a look?”

“Sure.”

She does her checks, shaking her head every now and then. Fear starts to build in me as I then ask,

“What’s wrong?”

“I believe that you have entered the first stages of labour. Now I am gathering with Darius. Your labour was quick?”

“Well, I guess it was. Valentino the bastard had sedated me, for