Aideen (Slater Brothers)(36)

 

Alec did just that. The bloody freak of nature kneeled down next to the pool, cupped his hands at the sides of his mouth and shouted, “Stop your journey down the vaginal canal, we’re not ready for you yet. Your daddy is at the gym pumping iron, have some respect and wait for him!”

 

Dominic pulled Alec away from my most private body part and smacked him on the nose. “Stop it.”

 

Alec jumped with fright and silently lifted his fingers to his nose while he stared at his brother with wide eyes.

 

“I can’t believe you just did that to me.”

 

Nico shook his head, chewing on his inner cheek probably so he wouldn’t smile. Branna rubbed Alec’s shoulder, smiling before she looked back to me and winked.

 

“Aideen?!”

 

Oh, thank God.

 

Branna smiled wide. “In the bedroom!”

 

Seconds passed by, then Kane and Ryder burst into the bedroom. I didn’t look up. Instead, I lowered my head and screamed as pain swam around my abdomen.

 

“Strip down and get into the pool with her, she needs you,” Branna ordered Kane.

 

“Where the fuck have you been?” I screamed as I pushed.

 

I ignored everything and picked up the two balls Branna had given me earlier and continued to squeeze and release them in my hands, focusing all the pain I felt into the objects.

 

And breathing, I really needed to remember my breathing.

 

I heard mindless chatter and sounds of items hitting my bedroom floor, then I heard water splashing, as ripples of water knocked against me.

 

Kane was in the pool.

 

I felt a hand pressed against my back, then multiple kisses to my shoulder.

 

“I’m here, babydoll.”

 

I began to cry, the relief of having him here hit me like a bomb. I was terrified he would miss the baby being born.

 

“I’m sorry,” he whispered and kissed the side of my head. “I’m so sorry.”

 

I turned my head to him, pressing it to the side of his face. “I can’t do this.”

 

Kane smiled. “What are you talking about? You’re doing it, and you’re doing it fucking awesomely.”

 

“Hell yeah she is,” Branna agreed.

 

Kane interlocked his hands with mine and didn’t make a sound when I squeezed him with every ounce of energy I had.

 

“God, it hurts!” I cried out and held our conjoined hands under my stomach.

 

“Spread your legs as wide as you can, honey, and as soon as you get another contraction you bear down and push, okay?”

 

I nodded to Branna and gripped Kane’s hands as Branna instructed me to move our affixed hands under my thighs as I pushed. It didn’t take long for a contraction to hit, and when it did, I did what Branna had said and I pushed. Contractions were painful and just utterly horrid, but pushing?

 

Pushing. Hurt. Like. Hell.

 

I screamed as loud as I ever had in my life when burning ripped through my vagina. “Ahhhhhhh!” I roared until my contraction faded, but even then the burning lingered.

 

“Branna,” I cried and squeezed my eyes shut. “It’s burnin’.”

 

I felt the cloth against my head.

 

“Push through that sting, do you hear me? You push through it with everythin’ you’ve got.”

 

I did just that. For thirty more minutes I pushed like hell through the burning sting until I thought I would collapse from exhaustion.

 

“She’s crownin’, that means the head is almost out, Kane,” Branna whispered. “You’re about to deliver your baby.”

 

Fear struck me.

 

“Branna, help him,” I pleaded, terrified Kane might let the baby fall by mistake.

 

“I’m ready,” he breathed. “I’ve got this, babydoll, trust me. Push as hard as you can one more time.”

 

Ryder and his brothers hunkered down in front of me and they each grabbed my hands, arms and legs, letting me use them as leverage.

 

“Let’s do this, Ado.” Alec smiled.

 

I nodded my head, then I sucked in a huge breath and with all my might, I bore down and pushed like my life depended on it.

 

“Good girl, babydoll,” Kane cheered. “Keep pushing... keep pushing.”

 

“The head is fully out,” Branna whooped a few seconds later.

 

More burning pain flooded my vagina and I screamed, but quickly inhaled and exhaled through the pain.

 

Nico moved to the side to get a better view and laughed. “Nothing but dark hair, a true Slater.” He tried to high five Damien who pointed at his own mop of white hair causing Nico to wince and say, “My bad, bro.”