Total pages in book: 121
Estimated words: 118693 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 593(@200wpm)___ 475(@250wpm)___ 396(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 118693 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 593(@200wpm)___ 475(@250wpm)___ 396(@300wpm)
Wonder if we have time.
Oh jeez, Rory. Get it together.
Shaking the thought from my head, I called out, “You might want to come in with Flash.”
Stay calm. Talk calm. Be calm. Then Finn will be calm. That had been the advice of my birthing coach.
Finn and Flash walked through the door, and Finn pulled me into his body. “Damn, you are sexy as hell, do you know that?”
The way he looked at me, like I was his everything, made it hard for me to ignore the pull in my lower stomach.
His hand trailed across my stomach and down into the comfy shorts that I’d been living in the last two weeks.
“Finn…we can’t.”
His fingers brushed against my clit, and I was stunned by how my body reacted. For Pete’s sake, I was in labor.
He slipped his finger inside of me and kissed along my neck. “Fucking hell. You’re so wet.”
“Finn.”
“I know, baby, feels so good to me too.”
The contraction was steadily growing stronger. “Oh, God!” I cried out. “It’s stronger than the last one.”
Finn stopped, then started up again. “Okay, whatever that means. As long as it’s making you feel good, baby.”
“No! Finn! Oh God!”
I gripped his arms and dug my nails into them. Anything to make the contractions stop.
“Rory, mother freaking f’er! You’re drawing blood.”
I buried my head in his chest and tried to breathe through it.
“Hee hee hoo. Hee hee hoo.”
“Yeah, feels that good, huh? Not so sure about the whole breathing-exercise thing we learned in class you’re doing, but whatever floats your boat.”
Then something happened.
“Holy shit! You’re soaking wet!”
Pulling my head back, I looked into his eyes. His smile faded. “I’m having a contraction, not an orgasm, you idiot!”
“What!”
“I think my water just broke.”
A horrified look hit his face.
“Oh, gross! Yuk! Eww!” He started gagging as he pulled his arm from my shorts and ran to the sink.
“What the fuck! I was trying to get you off at the same time my daughter was trying to come out! I’m going to hell!” He scrubbed his hands, then looked up. “It’s because I told Flash he wasn’t getting any more food, isn’t it! This is karma!”
I followed his stare to the ceiling. “What are you looking at, Finn?”
“Nothing. I was praying. Come on, we need to get you to the car and then to the hospital. How far apart are they?”
“Um…” I looked at the clock. “Fifteen minutes or so.”
“What? Why did you wait? Rory, we need to be able to have time to get to the hospital.”
“It’s ten minutes away, Finn, and the last contraction before that was thirty minutes ago. This one came faster.”
He helped me out the front door and into the car. “We’ve got this,” he said in a reassuring voice.
“‘We?” I asked. “Last time I checked you were trying to have sex with me while I was having a contraction.”
Finn reached in and pulled the buckle around me. “Hey, in my defense, you were making your moaning noises like you wanted me.”
“I did want you.”
He smiled. “Really?”
“Yeah, but not anymore.”
“That is totally understandable,” he said, then lifted his hands. “Wait! I need your bag, and I need to lock up the beast.”
“Hurry!” I cried as he ran back into the house.
Two minutes later Finn came running out. He tried to jump over a bush but hit it and fell to the ground.
“Finn! Oh, my goodness, are you okay?” He stood, and my stomach turned.
Blood.
I covered my mouth and gagged.
“I’m good. Let’s go.”
Tossing the suitcase into the back of the car, he jumped in. I stared out the window, trying not to look at him.
“Let’s do this! Let’s bring a baby into the world.”
“Finn. Nose. Blood.”
I peeked over at him as he looked into the mirror. It was running down into his mouth. “I’m going to puke!” I cried out.
“No! Not in my new car. Wait! You’re still wet from peeing!”
I shook my head. “I didn’t pee! My water broke!”
“I hope that doesn’t stain.”
My eyes were closed. “Are you still bleeding, and are you really worried about that right now, Finn?”
I could hear him open the glove box.
“Nope. I’m good on both counts.”
We somehow made it to the hospital and safely up to the labor and delivery floor. Finn’s nose started to bleed again, and the nurses had to tend to it. It wasn’t lost on me that it took three of them to stop the nosebleed.
Right as I got settled into my bed and asked the nurse for the magical shot that made all the pain go away, Finn walked in with Harmony.
“I found your poor husband practically being raped by a couple of nurses.”
Finn rolled his eyes and walked to the side of the bed. Leaning down, he kissed me gently on the lips. “Have I told you how beautiful you are?”
“You have, but I sure could hear it again.”