Chapter 9
The delivery room at the hospital in Wolf Branch felt too quiet, too still, for such a joyful occasion. One mother-to-be paced the floor, each of the fathers and her own partner taking turns walking with her, holding her hand, rubbing her back.
Her partner - a woman who wouldn’t be having her own baby today - did everything she could to stay happy and cheerful and honestly excited, but Alex caught Gena’s unguarded expression more than he wanted to.
Thankfully the room wasn’t the same cold, bright operating room where they’d lost the baby and left that part of their dream behind a few months before. This could have been a living room if you ignored the especially fancy adjustable bed with monitors built in.
Warm and comforting gold walls, soft rugs on the floor. Couches and ch
