Her Burning Desire
Chapter 49

Melony

The next few days went by in a blink. Theodore, myself and all our loved ones have been helping us get our nursery ready. My parents were currently on their way here to stay with us for a few weeks until we get adjusted to the baby. My father said he would be more than happy to help Theodore and his father with the pack so he could spend more time with our pup and I. Theodore greatly appreciated any help that we could get. We're both very excited about welcoming our son into our lives, but we are dreading the conversation that will take place soon after he is born. Theodore and I have become accepting of our child's destiny over the last several days. We know he is destined for great things, and the moon goddess doesn't make mistakes. We decided to put all of our faith in her. I mean, if it wasn't for her, then I wouldn't be where I am today. She gave this life to us. I believe in what she is doing. That doesn't make me worry any less though. As long as I have Theodore on my side, I think we will be okay. \r\ Theodore is currently in our room putting our bassinet together with Mark, while I am relaxing in the bath tub. I have had lower back pain all day today. I assume I have just been pushing myself and doing too much. I keep laughing at myself as I sit here and listen to those two bicker back and forth about what parts go where and blaming each other for doing it wrong. Come on, how hard can it be? It has instructions. I face palm myself before I decide to get out of the bath to go and stop these two from killing each other over a baby bed.

I got dressed, combed through my hair, and was putting it in a braid when I heard a pop sound coming from my nether region and then a gush fell down my legs. I stood frozen still, completely shocked. My heart dropped to my stomach, my nerves now taking over. This is it. I am having a baby. I AM HAVING A BABY! "THEODORE!!" I shouted as loud as I could. I would be lying if I said I wasn't in a little bit of a panic.

I heard the bathroom door fly open and I made eye contact with my mate in the mirror. "Theo, my water broke." I watched as his face was confused, then as he looked down to the floor I saw surprise, then he paled.

"Great, you both are panicked, this is going to be a disaster. Mel! You need to snap out of it! OUR. PUP. IS. COMING! And if you don't go soon, you're going to be in a lot of pain shortly." Harper's words knocked me back to reality.

"Theodore, I am in labor, we need to go to the hospital." I turned to him.

I watched as he started to come back to planet earth also. "Your in labor? We're having our baby? YOUR IN LABOR!" he was shouting now. I threw my hands up in frustration.

Before I could even slap him to knock him out of his trance, Mark came bailing through the door at quick speed. All I could hear him say was "Lunas in labor?!" then his feet hit the water that my body had released all over the floor and he slipped and skidded across my bathroom, covered in amniotic fluid. He lifted his hands up, looking at himself covered in liquid. "Please," he gagged, "tell me," gag again, "this isn't," another gag, "pee!" I couldn't help it. I bust out laughing, I was laughing so hard I was bent over at my waist with tears rolling down my face. Then it hit me. A contraction, a sharp pain straight in my abdomen that felt like someone was taking knives and stabbing me at the same time they were stretching my body in 10 different directions.

"AHHHHH!!!" I reached up and gripped Theodore's arm and squeezed him for dear life. "Theo," inhale, "hospital," exhale, "NOW!"

I watched as realization flashed across his face, he instantly picked me up and ran out of our room and to the hospital. He mind linked our doctor and she instructed she would meet us there.

Theodore

I ran as fast as I could. I knew Melony was in pain because every time she had a contraction it felt like she was strangling me by my neck. I made it to the hospital and they had me place her in a wheelchair to take her to our private room. While they prepped Mel and got her situated, I took a few moments to contact everyone. I asked Todd and Olive to finish up the pack business and call the elders before coming to see us. I asked Mark to grab a few things from our room and bring them to me once he got cleaned up from his mishap in our bathroom. I finally got ahold of my father and told him what was going on but also asked him to call Fred and Kate to let them know they should just go straight to the hospital. They must have gotten Melony settled in her room because a nurse by the name of Ann came out to let me know I could go back with my mate and Luna now.

As I approached the door, I took a deep breath, needing to keep my emotions in check for Melony and the baby. As I entered, I saw Melony on the bed reaching her hand out to me, smiling. I walked over to take it when I noticed that Doctor Thompson was gloved up and checking things on Melony down below. "How is everything, doctor?" I asked.

"You better get comfy, this might take a little while. She is only dilated to 1cm right now, we have to get to 10 before she can start pushing." She walked to the trash to throw her gloves away, "I will come by and check her every hour, if you notice anything unusual hit your call button and I will come in here right away. Melony," She turned her attention to her now, instead of both of us. "No food or drinks until after the baby comes, you can have ice chips, but that is all. I would start thinking about pain relief. Once you get to a certain part in your labor, you will no longer be able to have anything to help suppress the pain. You would then have to continue to do it all natural. Hang in there, today is a good day. We get to meet our future Alpha." She smiled at us and took her leave. 6 hours have passed now and at the last check up Melony was only dilated to 4cm. I ended up pushing our call button because within the last 30 minutes it seemed Melony's contractions were happening almost every minute or so. She is screaming in pain, and drenched in sweat. I feel absolutely terrible for her, and by the time we have our baby I am going to need an x-ray because I think she has broken all the bones in my hand. She wouldn't let me leave her side at all. I had to send Mark to go get her more ice chips before she started taking people's heads off. Dr. Thompson is now entering the room.

"Well, it looks like we have made some progress in the short amount of time from what I am hearing." she beamed at us.

"Just get this thing out of me!!! This is absolutely terrible!" Melony was screaming next to me. I felt horrible about this. I wish I could take all her pain myself, it was killing me to see her so miserable.

Dr. Thompson patted Melony's thigh, "I promise once this little boy is born, you will forget about everything that is currently happening."

Melony gritted her teeth and directed her gaze at me, "I may forget, but I will NEVER forgive." She was giving me a death glare and I visibly gulped. "You will never touch me again after this, I will sleep with a barricade around me before I let you put another baby in me!!" I just nodded, "Okay, Mel, okay."

"I hope your ready, because this baby is on his way out! On the next contraction, Melony, I need you to give me a big push!" Dr. Thompson instructed. Almost immediately, another contraction hit Mel, she bared down, and pushed as hard as she could. "Great Melony, Keep going." the nurses were cheering her on.

Another hit and Melony let out a scream, "AHHHHH!!" I just kept kissing her forehead and holding her hand whispering sweet nothings to her to help.

"That was great! Only a few more and he will be out. I have his head right now, we need the shoulders and then the hard part is over!" Dr. Thompson mused.

As if on cue, Mark walks in. This guy seriously knows how to get to places at the worst times. Melony's legs are spread wide open for the entire world to see. She is in pain and struggling, the nurses and doctors are trying to catch my child, I cannot move to shove him back out the door right now, and my baby's head is hanging out of my mate's crotch. Mark walks over to the bed scrolling on his phone when he finally looks up from hearing me growl at him because he was in direct eye contact with Melony's lady bits. His entire face went pale and he fainted. GREAT! Just what we need at this moment. My mate wants to kill me, my baby is about to make a grand entrance, my hand is basically shattered, and now my gamma is passed out on our delivery floor. I heard Melony start to cry next to me. I immediately put my attention back on her. She was leaned up against my arm, tears rolling down her face repeating over and over, "I can't do this. I can't do this anymore, Theodore. I'm tired." and just like that she shattered my heart. "Come on Mel, one more good push and our baby will be here, all of this will be over!" I helped her to a sitting position and with the next contraction she pushed so hard she had a couple of veins that broke along her neck line. Then the most beautiful sound echoed throughout our room. My boy, his cry. Melony crashed back on the bed completely exhausted. The nurses got our son cleaned up, while the other nurses helped Mark up off the floor and sat him in the chair beside my mate's bed. He sat there with an ice pack on his head, and his face flushed. Finally, they brought our baby over to us to place him on Melony's chest. One look at him and we both just burst into tears. He was perfect. He had Melony's light brown wavy hair, but all of my features. Then he let out a little yawn and we saw his eyes start to peak open. When a werewolf is born, the first glimpse of their eyes is actually their wolf's eyes. That is how we determine if the child is a wolf, or will be human. I felt the room get tense and we all held our breath. His eyes opened and the brightest blue stared right at us. Melony and I shared a look of sympathy with each other, but we had already known that our pup was indeed the Lycan king.

"He's a Lycan....I think I might pass out again.." was what snapped me out of my gaze at Melony when I looked over and saw Mark staring at our child and had gone completely pale, yet again.