“I should probably get back in there. Rach, Vi, Momma B would you three do me a huge favor and go shopping for some baby stuff for the kid. Whether or not Dixie lives or not, she’s not going to have my little brother. Raven and I will be raising him as ours,” I proclaim as I reach in my back pocket for my wallet to pull out my credit card.
“We can do that,” Rachel says. “Do you have a budget?”
Shaking my head, I hand her the card. “No budget. Grab everything you think we’ll need for him.”
“Okay. We’ll handle everything.” Rachel nods, putting the card in her back pocket.
“Thanks, I’ll come give you all an update when I know something else,” I say before turning and heading back toward the doors.
Closing my eyes, I do something I haven’t done in years.
Pray.
I pray that my little brother is born healthy. I also pray that nothing will happen to Raven. I don’t want my greatest fears to come alive.
Losing her will kill me.
Chapter Sixteen
Raven
“You need to leave,” Dixie snaps the moment Blaze steps out of the room.
“Now that’s not gonna happen,” I drawl, smirking at her before turning my attention to the machines hooked up to her. “Be honest, how did you bring on your early labor.”
“I didn’t do anything. It’s from the stress you keep putting me through that’s caused it. If you’d have just stayed out of all of this Blaze would be with me now instead of you,” she sneers.
“Oh, you poor thing. You really are coo-coo in the head if you think my husband would leave me for you. He marked me as his. You know what that means?” I pause for a moment to give her a chance to answer. “It means that no whores like you will ever come between us.”
“I already have. I have his child inside me.” With a smirk on her face she runs a hand over her stomach. “And the best of it is we’ll be holding our son very soon.”
“Dixie, hate to break it to you, but you’ll never have the chance to see that child,” I say right before the door to the room opens and Doctor Alverez steps inside.
“Looks like I’m in time to join the party,” Alverez says as he goes about washing his hands. “Harlow is on her way as well. She’s just gotten here for her shift.” The doctor states mentioning my cousin's name.
“Good,” I nod, trusting my cousin to help with what needs to be done.
“Doctor please make her leave my room,” Dixie demands.
“I don’t think that would be wise considering that the child belongs to her,” Alverez retorts.
“The hell it does,” the screech Dixie makes is satisfying. She’s about to learn you don’t fuck with me.
“Oh, but it is Dixie. Remember when you first showed up, I told you that you were marked, and I never go back on my word. Your child has been mine since that day. How long do you think it will be before he’s born Alverez?” I ask, turning my attention from the bitch to my friend’s husband.
“Let’s go ahead and check,” he says, putting his gloves on, as Harlow quietly steps into the room. Her face stoic of any emotions. That’s her. Several men have claimed she’s nothing but an emotionless bitch but, in all honesty, if they only knew the truth. She’s known for her fury and has no problem snapping someone’s neck. Harpy is her code name in our world. It’s a name she lives up to that’s for sure.
“I want another doctor. You can’t do this, I’ll sue you all,” Dixie yells thrashing on the hospital bed.
“Yeah go ahead and try Dixie, it won’t help you,” Harlow sneers, heading for the sink to wash her hands.
“Go ahead and try no one would believe you. Now stay still so the good doctor can examine you,” I demand putting a hand on her shoulder squeezing it tightly to gain her cooperation.
“Dixie, I’m going to check your cervix to see how far dilated you are,” Alverez states as he slides the blanket over the woman’s legs. Spreading them apart he reaches under the gown and does his exam. “Seems you are ready to push, you’re fully dilated.”
Harlow goes about getting everything prepped for the delivery.
“No, I’m not. She’s going to take my baby,” Dixie protests, shaking her head. Her face a contortion of pain as she fights a contraction.
“Oh Dixie, I told you this already, that child is mine. He’s Blaze’s little brother and we’re going to be raising him as ours. Now prepare to push my son out or I’ll go ahead and slice your throat and let the doctor slice your stomach wide to get him out.”
Granted I don’t intend to do any of that. That’s not how I work.
“No. You’ll have to kill me if you want this child. He’s mine. I worked too hard to get this far. Blaze is mine. I’ll make him understand why I did it, along with what you're planning to do to me,” Dixie pants through a contraction.
“He already knows what I have planned. You think he’s going to stand in my way, I don’t think so sweetheart.”
“Just relax, it will all be over soon enough,” Harlow says softly from Alverez’s side.
“Ray, she's ready to push,” Alverez says, right as the door to the room opens and Blaze steps inside.
“Liam help me, please. She’s going to take our baby,” Dixie pleads reaching a hand out for Blaze.
Blaze merely gives her a blank look before crossing the room to stand behind me.
“I’ll be right here Little Bird if you need me,” he murmurs in my ear.
“Thank you, sweetie. You just rest. Doc and I will make sure this baby is born without complications. God knows what she’s done to him by slamming her stomach into a wall. Which I guarantee is what she did.”
“Alright and afterwards, you and I need to have a nice long talk about you running from me,” he states firmly, squeezing my waist.
Tilting my head to the side, I glance behind me to meet his gaze. “Oh, trust me we’re gonna be talking about quite a bit once this woman is out of our lives.”
Grinning Blaze leans down to press his lips against mine. “Looking forward to it,” he murmurs before stepping back to let me get back to helping Alverez.
“Blaze, I’m gonna need you on the other side of Dixie. You and Raven hold her legs up. Harlow, I’m going to need the olive oil,” Alverez orders as he positions himself at the foot of the bed where he’d collapsed the bottom half.
“What the hell do you need that shit for?” Blaze asks as he does what Alverez told him to do.
“It makes it easier for the baby to slide through the vagina,” Harlow clarifies.
Glancing at Blaze, you could literally see him swallow at being told to hold Dixie’s leg while she pushes a baby out. Oh, this is going to be fun. I hope my big bad husband isn’t going to pass out.
“Alright Dixie, I don’t give a damn if you want to or not. You either push or I make it happen,” Alverez snaps, determined to deliver this baby without any problems.
He’s a professional doctor, respected in the community but he’s also the spouse of Raul who I work with at the vet clinic. Raul also is the one who was Vicky’s and my contact for when a job was sent to us. He vetted all of them, turning down the ones he knew we wouldn’t take. So Alverez has it in him to be ruthless when needed.