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Chapter 57

Penulis: Ihechiink
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-03-28 10:47:05

Elena's POV

By midnight the contractions had slowed to the point where the monitoring nurse described them as sporadic rather than patterned.

Sporadic was better than patterned. Sporadic meant the magnesium was doing its work, that the cascade my body had been building toward all day had been interrupted, that the twins were, for now, staying where they were. Dr. Okonkwo had come in at eleven thirty and reviewed the readout and said she was cautiously encouraged and that cautiously encouraged w
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