Kaden was right about the pregnancy being very fast. I was already close to giving birth even though it had only been three months. I was a nightmare, I still am, during this pregnancy. I don't know how Kaden doesn't want to leave me! Instead, he keeps telling me how much he loves me which always warms my heart.

"Why do you have to be so beautiful, hm?" he questioned as he came up to me and hugged me from behind. His arms obviously didn't make it fully around me since my stomach was pretty huge. "We are so having a son." Kaden was adamant that we are having a boy but I was sure we were having a girl. Unless I'm wrong..

"If you say so," I mumble, turning my head and kissing his cheek. I could feel his stubble on my lips and it tickled me. Oddly enough, I loved it. He knew I did but he also knew I loved him no matter what so it didn't really matter what he did with himself. I did make it known that I wasn't a huge fan of a full-on beard though.

"How do you feel? Are you in any pain? Do you need to rest?" He kept firing questions, not allowing me to actually answer them. "Do you want food? Do you need me to rub your feet?"

"Kaden, I'm fine," I tell him before he could fire more questions at me. "I feel fine and I'm not in any pain. I don't think I need to rest and I don't need food and a foot rub? I am honestly fine thanks." It was like this every day. He fired the same questions and more often than not, I replied with the same answers. "Thank you for caring," I told him, turning in his arms so I was facing him. My stomach separated us a bit but he still managed to wrap his arms around me and kiss me a kiss on the lips.

"How can I not? I love you and our son," he said, placing a hand on my stomach and smiling at me.

"How can you be so sure we are having a son?" He shrugged in response and then went about guiding me towards our bedroom upstairs. He gently helped me into bed and I didn't protest. I was starting to feel tired and I think he knew that. He lay beside me and pulled me closer. I lay my head on his chest as my eyes started to close.

My sleep was interrupted rudely and I felt water trickling down my legs. I was also feeling quite a bit of pain but I knew I wasn't having contractions yet. Either way, I knew they were bound to start soon. I judged Kaden, trying to wake him. He grumbled something in response and so o judged him again. "What is it, love?"

"Um, my waters broke?" In an instant, he was up in a flash. He was throwing clothes into a bag and then ushering me out of the house and towards the pack hospital. It was the closest one. Within minutes, I was already lying on a bed with Kaden right by my side. He was holding my hand which I was scared about. I saw how the man's hand always got crushed and I didn't want to crush his. Every time I took my hand away from his, he took mine back in his again. "I don't want to hurt you," I finally tell him, making him furrow his eyebrows at me.

"Hurt me? Nova, you could never." Just as he said that, I felt one some really bad pains. They were probably my contractions starting. As well as that, I squeezed onto Kaden's hand. I didn't mean to and I hoped it wasn't too hard.. "Oh, now I understand," he said to me. "Don't worry, just focus on you and the baby. Everything will be fine."

More and more contractions kept coming. They were coming quite frequent and soon enough, I was being told it was time to push. Scary, right? Kaden's hand was probably numb too. Oops. Even if it was, he didn't choose to show that he was in any pain.

Labour took ages and it was hard work but before I knew it, it was over. "It's a boy!" The doctor exclaimed, cleaning him up and handing him to me. He was quite tiny, most likely because he was only a couple of weeks early. He was crying away, as I assumed newborns do.

"Joshua," Kaden stated, "I like that name."

"I like that name too," I mumbled, looking down at our son. "I guess you were right." There was me thinking that we were having a girl but instead we had a boy. Either way, I was happy. He was healthy, alive and well. He's perfect.

"So, little Alpha junior, hm?" The doctor said, walking around to us. "Joshua Clark, yes?"

"Yes," Kaden confirmed. The doctor then walked off whilst Kaden and I admired our son. I handed him over to Kaden since I could tell he was itching to hold our first child. "He's going to be such a strong Alpha," Kaden said, tapping Joshua's nose with his finger. "How are you feeling, love?"

"I'm okay but how is your hand? Did I hurt you too much?" I ask him, worry all over my face.

"Would you look at that. You're the one who gave birth yet you're concerned over me," he chuckled out, giving me a light kiss on my forehead. "You're a gem, you know that? I love you so much."

"Labour wasn't as bad as what I've been through," I admit. Being stabbed in the back was so painful. Childbirth was sort of a breeze in the park, for me at least. All the beatings had sort of prepared me. "We could easily make more children, I'll be fine during birth!" We both laughed as he handed Joshua back to me.

"I'm going to go get you something to eat and drink, you must be hungry and thirsty." In all honesty, I wasn't. I told him that but he didn't believe me. He then left to get me some food. Hopefully he would get himself some too. I stared down at Joshua and kissed his forehead.

"You're such a cutie," I muttered. With his little fingers, he kept grabbing onto my finger. How adorable. We were interrupted when Edna came in alongside Marco.

"Oh what a precious little guy!" Edna squealed, walking straight over. I handed Joshua over to her and she cooed over him a lot.

"What's his name?" Marco asked.

"We decided upon Joshua," I tell him. He walks over to Edna and she hands Joshua over to Marco. "Good thing he takes after you otherwise he'd be an ugly baby," Marco joked just as Kaden walked in.

"Shut up, I'm not ugly," Kaden grumbled. He set the food down on the little bedside table I had and handed me the bottle of water he had.

"I was teasing, dude." Marco handed Joshua back to Kaden. He gave Joshua a big kiss on his forehead. "Man, I'm so happy for you guys! Little Alpha-Luna family. This is great. The pack are dying to meet their future Alpha!"

"Well they're going to have to wait a week at least. We need to make sure our little guy settles in well," Kaden said, his eyes filled with adoration. I drank a bit of the water but didn't eat. I wasn't hungry at all. I knew Kaden wouldn't be too happy though. After an hour or so, Edna and Marco left. Joshua had also fallen asleep and so Kaden placed him in a cot that the doctor provided for us. Kaden then sat on the edge of the bed. "Who thought we would make it here? I didn't, especially when you kept running away from me," he joked. I could tell he was joking around but I still felt bad about it. "Don't you apologise," he said, probably noticing the look on my face.

"He's so tiny," I say, looking at him sleeping in the cot.

"He will soon grow big and strong like his father." Kaden then pulled me towards him, placing a soft kiss in my lips. "I love you, Nova."

"I love you too, Kaden. You know, next step is getting married."

"Is that way of you asking me to marry you? Or your way of hinting to me that you want me to ask you?" It was actually none of those. I wasn't thinking of any of those. I just thought that the next step is to marry, not that I minded us just being a couple. But a marriage? I did dream of marriage since I was young. A white dress.. Beautiful decorations.. My mate at the end of the altar.. Yeah, those.

"No, no. There's no rush, I'm just saying."

"Alright, alright. Now come on, eat up."

"I'm actually pretty tired," I tell him. He nods his head and stands up, kissing me on the forehead and telling me to rest up. I asked where he was going and he said he would be back and that he had to speak to some people. As soon as he left, I drifted off to sleep.

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