“I’m goingto fucking kill you!” Anna screamed, red-faced, into mine, her tiny hand beholding the strength of The Hulk as she squeezed it tighter than a vice until I felt the bones creaking in my fingers. “You did thistome!”
I didn’t bother arguing with her, standing quietly as I fought the need to pry my hand out of hers, bearing the pain as she gave it anothersqueeze.
“One more push!” Kay said, who stood in the midwife garment on the other side of the sheet, helpers on her left and right, as she ducked between Anna’s legs, eyes determined. “The baby’scrowning!”
“Fuck!” Anna hissed, her eyes glancing up at me for a fraction of a second before Kay gave her the go-ahead and Anna let out a horrifying scream as she pushed. And this time, I swore I heard the crack in my hand but bit down on my lip as I fought the queasy need to escape outofhere.
“You’re doing good, Anna,” Mallory said from her other side, her hand wrapped around Anna’s as she clenched down on a soft, gelled squeezy thing Hunter had gotten Mallory when she had gone into labor two months ago. She dabbed a cloth against Anna’s head and wiped away the sweat, going through the breathing motions with her. When I had tried to do that the first time, she had bitten my head of straight away, and an hour or so in, I had been screamed at to just stand still and shut up. So four hours on, I hadn’t moved an inch or spoken, letting Anna take her anger out on me as I reminded myself that this was, in fact, my fault, and every time Anna screamed, I told myself it would beoversoon.
“Here, it comes!” Kay called, the excitement evident in her voice as she peeked back over the curtain. “Onemorepush.”
“You said one more push four hundred pushes ago!” Anna screeched back, causing Kay to rollhereyes.
“Come on, you big wuss,” Kay teased. “I mean it this time.” She looked Anna in the eyes, her silver ones holding onto hers as she said loud and clear. “Onemorepush.”
I could feel the huge burst of adrenaline, fear, and excitement as both Anna and I knew Kay’s words were true, and for the first time in several hours, I turned to my girl, my other hand wrapping around hers and my probably broken one as I leaned down and pressed a kiss against her fever-hot lips. “You ready?” I could feel the smile on my lips, and though I could see Anna’s body had no energy to return it, the way her blue eyes shone told meeverything.
“One more,” I said, holdinghergaze.
“One more,” Anna repeated, and with a deep, shaky breath, she let out the most terrifying, horrifying scream as she pushed all her last remaining energy into that one last big push. It felt like it would never end, until suddenly, Anna’s hand went limp in mine, her scream cutting off, and a big gasp of air fell from her lungs as the pushwasover.
The silence that followed felt like an entire lifetime as my heart stilled in my chest while I—aswewaited.
And then weheardit.
A loud, proud, and long cry broke the silence of the room as Kay stood back, lifting a wriggling, red-faced baby in her arms. “Congratulations, Mommy and Daddy.” Kay smiled as I moved, almost in a trance, toward her, turning in my blue gown as Kay came toward me, her eyes meeting mine, holding out the wriggling child. “Do you want to holdyourson?”
“Son?” I choked, and I heard Anna sob behind me as I looked down at the small head of dark hair, his eyes closed shut, and skin a blushed crimson as Kay held him outtome.
It was as if the world slowed as she raised the baby up to her chest and my arms reached toward him as she lowered him again onto my forearm and hands. His feverishly warm skin touched mine, and all I remembered thinking was how heavy he was as Kay moved her arms away. She turned toward the umbilical cord as she pulled out a small pair of scissors, but I paid little attention as the world stood still around me, as my son’s cries were the only thing to fill my ears, my eyes taking in every inch of blushed skin, dark hair, and chubby cheeks as the weight of him in my arms grounded me to where Istood.
“Why are you crying?” Anna’s choked half sob, half laugh took my attention as I turned to look at her, feeling the burn of my eyes as I let the tears fall down mycheeks.
“Our son,” I said, turning to look down at him and then uptoAnna.
Kay reached up and cut the umbilical cord shorter, and I began my first steps with my son in my arms as I walked toward my woman. Her baby blue eyes were filled with her own unshed tears as I stepped forward, reaching my arms out as Anna’s came out and wrapped around our son. I kept mine on hers as her strength had all been zapped from her and supported her as she brought our son to the top of her chest and placed a soft, long kiss against his forehead. His cries seemed to soften slightly as she turned and looked down at our baby, our son, and said the words I had spent months longingtohear.
“Welcome to the world, Dimitri SashaKazimirov.”
* * *
Anna criedout as I sucked on her nipple, both still so sensitive, round, and not to mention, swelled several cup sizes, as I struggled to fit her other breast inmypalm.
“Stop teasing me,” she hissed as I let my cock rub up and over her clit, the throbbing length just teasing her lips, never making it far enough down to even brush her entrance. Her legs tightened around my waist, heels digging in hard to my pelvis as she urged meforward.
“This is revenge,” I growled, nipping at the tender pink skin of herareola.
“Revenge?” Anna growled. “Forwhen?”
“You didn’t think I noticed you this morning? Walking around in that silky red underwear you know I love, your tits spilling out the top of them, ass begging me to bite it when you knew I had to head totheclub.”
“I wasn’t teasing you! I was getting dressed!” Anna’s nails dug hard into my shoulder, and I felt the hot bead of blood mix with the sweat on my skin as it slid down myspine.
“You can’t lie to me.” I leaned my mouth down to the edge of her neck, my nose brushing aside the long, damp hair stuck to her skin. My lips opened, and my teeth slid over theunbrokenskin.
“Don’tyouda—”
Anna didn’t get chance to finish as I pressed my teeth into herskinand—