Chatper 474
Chapter 474 – Sharing the News E
“Cora?” I gasp the minute I get the phone to my ear, still scrambling out of bed and tangled in the
sheets.
“Hey, Ells,” she says, her voice somehow both tight and bored at once. “Sorry to wake you up – ”
“You didn’t wake me – ” I say quickly, reaching for Rafe in his crib and scooping him up in my arms.
Behind me, I hear Sinir climbing out of bed too,ing to my side.
“I didn’t?” Cora asks. “Why actually.” Her voice goes stony. “Don’t tell me. Knowing you and Dominic, I
probably don’t want to know.”
A littleugh bursts from me as I shake my head, trying to get back on track with this conversation.
“Cora,” I say, looking down at Rafe’s bright, wide -awake face, “what’s up? Why are you calling? Is the
baby -”
“Yeah,” she says on a sigh. “Roger insisted I call. Baby’s on its way!”
“Oh my god!” I shriek, spinning to Sinir and beaming at him for the second time this morning. “It’s
time for the baby! We’lle right away -”
“No, take your time,” she says on a sigh and I frown at her even though she can’t see me.
“Cora, what is going on? Why are you calling in the middle of the night for us toe but then also
telling us not to hurry?”
“Because my stupid mate made me call you,” Cora says, her voice annoyed. She lowers her voice to a
whisper. ” He’spletely freaking out, Ells, even though everything is progressing totally normally -”
“A,” I say, passing Rafe to Sinir’s waiting hands and smiling up at him. “Go easy on him, Cora!
He’s a first-time dad!”
“And ast time dad,” she mutters, making meugh again, “if he’s this annoying every time I go into
labor.”
“Okay, well, should wee?” I ask, looking up into Sinir’s face, a silent question in my eyes. Can
we go? Is there any pressing national business that means we need to stay back? Sinir nods
eagerly to me, letting me know we can.
“Yeah,” she says on another sigh. “Do you mind? Honestly, E, I don’t think my body is anywhere
close to ready to push but Roger just wants everything in ce.”
“Okay,” I say cheerfully, nodding up to Sinir who gives me a wink and starts to walk away to the
closet to get himself and Rafe dressed. “Honestly, Cora, if he’s freaking out this much how did you ever
talk him into a home birth?”
“Well now he’s trying to talk me out of it – anyway,” she sighs, “will you juste?”
I grin as I hear Roger yelling something in the background, his voice thick with anxiety though I can’t
hear what he’s saying. My heart swells a little for my secretly-sweet brother-in-w, who I know has his
whole heart wrapped up in what’s happening today.
“Yup,” I say, “we’ll be there as soon as we can. And we’ll let Henry know too.”
“Okayyy,” Cora says on a sigh. “See you in a bit!”
“Excited!” I call through the phone before hanging up and tossing it onto the bed. Then I practically skip
into the closet in my excitement, going immediately to Sinir’s side and wrapping my arms around his
waist, grinning up at him.
“Is Cora all right?” he asks, cupping my face in his palm.
“I think so,” I say, nodding up at him. “Apparently she’s still got time – Roger’s just freaking out.”
“Of course he is,” Sinir says with augh. “Roger’s great under pressure except when ites to
things that arepletely out of his control. It’s going to drive him crazy to have to watch Cora have to
go through a great deal ofbor and pain and not be able do anything about it.”
“That’s so weird, but also so sweet,” I say, nodding and pressing a quick kiss to his chest before flitting
off to my side of the closet and selecting some clothes that I hastily pull on. When I’m ready, I turn to
take the half-dressed baby from my half-dressed mate and finish getting Rafe all wrapped up in cozy
layers.
“Are you ready to meet your little cousin, Rafe?” I coo to him, plucking a little squeeze pouch of baby
food off its ce on the shelf and sitting down with him in our little arm chair so he can have something
to eat while Sinir finishes getting ready. “And then, in a couple of months, your little baby sister?”
Rafe grins at me and Iugh, because the way he looks at me when I talk – god, it’s as if he’s already
starting to understand.
I spend a few quiet moments with my son, thinking about how he’s going to react when there’s a little
baby around –
And quite suddenly my eyes fill with tears when I realize that in my mind I’ve already stopped thinking
about Rafe as The Baby
That the title has already passed to my little girl
“What is it?” Sinir asks, and I whip my head up to see that I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn’t
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“Rafe’s not the baby anymore,” I say, sniffing even as Iugh at my own ridiculousness. “I didn’t even
think about that “
“Of course he is,” Sinir says, smiling sympathetically at me and taking Rafe from my arms. “He’s
always the baby.”
“He’s already so big!” I insist, gesturing towards him. “He was trying to stand up in his crib today! And
now that there’s a Sinir cousining today – and another baby on the way “the tears start to spill
down my cheeks and I press my hands to my poor mother’s heart. “Oh, he won’t be the baby anymore!
He’s the eldest!”
Sinirughs at me a little, shaking his head. “He’s always our baby, E. You know that. He can be
both.”
I stand quickly, reaching for my baby boy and clutching him protectively to my chest when my mate
hands him back to me. I shake my head as I look up at Sinir. “It’s just all going so fast…”
“Life has a habit of doing that,” Sinir murmurs, stepping close and wiping my tears away with his
thumb. ” But if it didn’t, you won’t get to live it.”
I nod, sighing and looking down at Rafe, who looks up at me with curious and interested green eyes. I
can’t help but smile at him and press a quick kiss to his head. Then I look back up at his father. “Let’s
not tell anyone about the new baby yet, all right?” I say quietly, sniffing back thest of my sentimental
tears. “Let Cora have her day.”
“It’s a good idea,” Sinir says, wrapping an arm around my shoulders and pressing a kiss to my
forehead. ” Though Roger will probably be able to smell it on you.”
“Do I already smell different?” I ask, my eyes going wide. I am, at best, a few days pregnant – honestly,
even if that.
Sinir sniffs the air around me lightly, experimental. “A little,” he says with a shrug. “It’s subtle, and
Roger will be distracted, but yes, E, any wolf who gets close enough to you is going to be able to tell
that you’re carrying my pup.”
“Weird,” I say, looking down at myself and sniffing. “Why can’t I smell it?”
“I don’t know,” he says, his mind already moving towards other things as he starts to look towards the
closet door. “Can you usually smell yourself?”
“I don’t know…” I say, honestly thinking about it. Seriously, I’ve known I’m a wolf for a while now, but it’s
still weird. “Can Rafe smell the baby on me?”
Sinirughs, tugging me along with him as he starts out of the closet and we cross to the door of our
room. “I don’t know, ask him.”
So I do, babbling a little to my sweet baby as we walk down the hall. But of course he doesn’t respond
with his own words, though he sends a great deal of happiness down our bond and reaches out his
hands to me, trying to touch my face and making meugh.
I’m quite full with happiness as Sinir and I climb into one of the cars in the garage downstairs,
surprising the poor sleepy attendants who rush to get it ready for us. But even with the little dy, we’re
on the road in a few minutes, heading to Cora’s house to help her, and calm her mate, and greet the
new little Sinir baby.