All Chapters of Rejected while pregnant - My Ex husband begged too late : Chapter 51 - Chapter 53

The drive to the hospital passed in a blur that neither of them would remember clearly afterward Elena counting contractions aloud between breaths, Damian’s hand gripped so tightly in hers that she would find faint marks the next day, Camila in the front seat beside Tomas, praying quietly in a mixture of English and the Portuguese she rarely used except in moments too large for any single language to hold.“Thirty-four weeks,” Elena said between contractions, her voice tight with fear she was trying and failing to keep steady. “We were supposed to have two more weeks, Damian. The cord, Baby B’s cord….”“Dr. Whitman is already at the hospital,” Damian said, his own voice carefully level despite the fear plainly visible in his eyes. “She’s been planning for exactly this possibility for weeks. This is why she moved the monitoring to weekly, Elena. She’s ready for this. We’re ready for this.”Elena nodded, gripping his hand through the next contraction, and found, despite the fear, a stra

Elena exchanged a glance with Damian, both of them too exhausted and too content to summon much alarm, and a moment later the nurse returned wheeling a cart absolutely overflowing with white roses an arrangement so enormous it barely fit through the door, easily the largest bouquet Elena had ever seen delivered anywhere. Damian actually laughed at the sight of it, some of the old tension finally draining fully from his shoulders for what felt like the first time in days.“No card at all?” Damian asked, studying the arrangement with faint suspicion born, Elena understood, of an entire year spent learning to be wary of unexplained gestures.“Just this,” the nurse said, handing over a small folded note.Elena opened it carefully, and felt something warm and unexpected move through her at the familiar, elegant handwriting.I heard the news through the same channels that told me about the wedding. A daughter and a son I hope they inherit their mother’s remarkable strength and their father