Next chapter will be my last chapter for this story. I'm thinking of making a sequel but I'm not sure. Let me know what you think. I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Chapter 32
It took Dimitri seven minutes to figure out that I hadn't returned yet. He came to the car to see me bending over and screaming. After that things happened in a blur. I was in the car and on my way to the hospital in the blink of an eye. Dimitri rushed me in and the nurses put me on a gurney and took me to a delivery room with Dimitri by my side. Dr. Olendzki did all the proper checking she needs to do and then left the room for a few minutes.
"It's to early Dimitri. What if something is wrong? Did you see the letter?" I fire questions at him. He looks just as panicked as I feel.
"I don't know Roza, we will handle whatever comes our way. And yes, I did. We will deal with it later. Just focus on you and the babies now." I take in deep breaths and try to not die from the terrible pain in my body. Dr. Olendzki comes into the room again.
"You're not in labor Rose. It's just Braxton Hicks caused by a terrible amount of stress." I look at the good doctor and then to Dimitri.
"So, no babies today?" Dimitri asks her. She shakes her with a smile on her face.
"Not today, but soon. I'll send over the discharge papers." She leaves the room again.
"Huh, suddenly it doesn't hurt as much." I say to Dimitri making his laugh. I join in after a bit and we both just sit on the hospital bed having a laughing fit.
"What is so funny?" I look up to the door to see Lissa standing by the door with my parents behind her. The concerned look on their faces just makes me laugh even more. It feels like I'm high from smoking weed and now I have the giggles. Dimitri sobers up and tells them it's just false labor from reading the letter.
The letter.
Adrian send me a letter. He wants me and my babies. Well, one of my babies. He will kill Dimitri's child. Suddenly my laughter turns into crying, making my whole-body shake. Dimitri wraps his arms around me and just holds me while I cry. Suddenly, my giggling high feeling is replaced with a wave of depression. How can he still ruin my life? He is supposed to be out of my life now. And that letter wasn't just delivered via the mail. No, it was hand delivered to Dimitri's car. The only people who knew we would be there is everyone that was with us. None of them would do that to me. Or would they? Adrian paid Mason, a very good friend, to do some of his odd jobs. I guess everyone has a price and Adrian is good at finding that price. What if he found another weakness a friend of mine has and he is using that to his advantage? I can't go through that again. I refuse to lose another friend because of Adrian. Dr. Olendzki comes in with my discharge papers.
"Rose, you need to take it easy for the next month until your babies are out. Such big spikes of stress are not good for them. Dimitri, please help her remember to be on bed rest until babies are here." She didn't have to tell Dimitri twice. Even if she didn't say anything, I know Dimitri would have tied me to the bed for rest. He can be a bit over protective sometimes, but I love it. It makes me feel important. I don't always show it and I like to be able to take care of myself but I need to think about my babies first now. Dimitri takes me to our new house and he leads me straight to our bed on the third floor.
"I called Jill and told her to tell your clients that you will be on maternity leave for the next two months and she and Angeline will cover everything. Lissa will be by tomorrow with her kids." Dimitri informs me as he fluffs my pillow for the third time.
"Come and lay new to me." I say to him. He needs to stop fidgeting; it's making me more nervous. Dimitri is normally the strong and stoic one. When he gets nervous, it means we are in big trouble.
"I need to call the prison." He takes out his phone and dials the prison's number.
"Warden Masters, we received a letter from Adrian Ivashkov today. That need to stop. He is harassing the woman he kidnapped." Dimitri listens to what the warden has to say for a few minutes.
"I don't care how you stop it; you just need to. That is not acceptable." I zone out the rest of his conversation with the warden. There is nothing the warden can do really. If Adrian wants to get a letter to me, he will find a way. There are more ways to do one thing than it seems. I should have known that these past few months were too good to be true. I thought Adrian is gone now and my life will be better. As the months went by, I became almost normal again. But it was all a lie. Adrian was just laying in the dark, waiting to pop my bubble of happiness. But why now? Why did he wait so long to make it known that he has more plans for me? Is it because he is ready to make a move? Surely, that can't be it. He is locked away. He is probably just taunting me. Trying to freak me out all over again. I will not give into his games. He can't touch me. Not now, not ever. Dimitri will make sure of it. And I will to. I'll start to learn to fight as soon as I can after giving birth again. I want to be in top shape to handle everything. Adrian will never get the upper hand again. And he will never lay a hand on my children, even if it kills me. That is a promise.
Xxx
Two more letter came. Both promising the same thing, that Adrian will be out soon and coming for me. I tried to just play it off like Dimitri is doing. He is claiming that Adrian doesn't have a foot to stand on. He will not be able to get out anytime soon. I try to just let it roll over my shoulders, but it's so hard. I'm three days past my due date already. The doctor says it is normal to sometimes go over but I just know it's because of stress that I'm not going into labor. I don't want my babies to come out yet. In my stomach, they are safe. No one can get to them. But if they stay in there, they could die. Dimitri makes me do these exercises to induce labor. I have been sitting on an exercise ball, bouncing up and down everyday for twenty minutes. I tried talking a walk, I tried drinking certain smoothies, but nothing works. I flip through one of the pregnancy magazines Lissa left for me.
Can sex bring on labor? Is the headline of the first article.
"Well, can it?" I ask myself out loud. I skim through the article to get the answer.
Having an orgasm may help to stimulate your womb (uterus) into action. Having sex can trigger the release of oxytocin, a hormone that helps your contractions. Semen may help to soften, or ripen, the neck of your womb (cervix), ready for it to open when labor starts.
Well, I know what I'm trying next. I close the magazine and send a quick text to Dimitri. He is in the study working on some admin for the training center. Normally, I would pick my ass up and go down myself but waddling is not fun and walking is getting hard. Dimitri comes up a few minutes later.
"What's wrong?" He asks. I may have said that I have some urgent news for him.
"Come here and take off your pants." He looks at me like I've grown a second head. I start to take my pants off, well, I try.
"Sex can bring on labor and I want these babies out. Take one for the team Dimitri." He still doesn't look too sure as he comes over to me and takes off my pants.
"I'm not much help so this is going to be all on you." Sometimes the filter between my brain and my mouth doesn't work and I just say the first thing that comes to mind. This is clearly one of those moments.
"Oh, goodness Rose. What am I going to do with you?" Dimitri laughs. I wiggle my eyebrows and point to his crotch.
"You are going to do me." Dimitri never really needs much motivation to have sex with me. He pulls down his pants and spreads my legs open. I can feel my arousal pooling between my legs. He starts to enter me and instead of the incredible pleasure that always comes what Dimitri makes love to me, a wave of dull pain shoots up my body.
"Wait!" I shout at him. I have felt that dull pain a few times today. We are both silent for a few minutes and the pain comes back a bit stronger. More wetness comes out between my legs and I'm pretty sure it is not arousal this time. Dimitri looks at me with a raised eyebrow.
"Did you just p…"
"No! My water just broke." I interrupt before he can finish his sentence. Dimitri springs into action. He helps me get dressed and he pulls his own pants up. This is it. This is not a false alarm. I'm becoming a momma now. I start to make my way down the stairs as Dimitri runs around to grab all the bags we need for the babies and for me when I get discharged. I call Lissa as I reach the second floor.
"Hey, I'm heading to the hospital. Don't worry about coming, I know babies are hard especially if you have three." I hear her shout at Christian to get the kids before I even get halfway through my sentence.
"No way, I'm there for you Rose. Are you out of the house yet?" She asks. I can hear her running around through the phone.
"No, getting down these stairs is hard to do." Dimitri runs past me and when he reaches the bottom of the stairs, he stops and looks back at me with a weird look on his face.
"Can I carry you?" Dimitri asks. I roll my eyes at him.
"Was Christian also like a chicken with no head when your water broke?" I ask her. Dimitri continues to the door and goes to put the things in the car.
"Yes, he looked like he was going to push a baby out instead of me." I hear Christian mutter something on her end that did not sound so nice.
"Oh, I still love you." She says to him. I finally reach the front door when a big contraction hits me. I grab onto the door frame and let out a small scream. Dimitri runs to me from the car and wraps his arms around me, whispering in my ear how everything will be okay. I squeeze one of his hands as hard as I can to try and relieve some of my pain. It doesn't really help much.
"Are you okay? Get her into the car." Lissa says as she gets to us. She must have run from their house to ours while I was having the contraction. With both their help, I get to the car and Dimitri start to drive. I take in deep breaths as we drive. We arrive at the hospital and they put me in the same delivery room they did when I had Braxton Hicks. Dr. Olendzki doe the same tests she did last time.
"Wow, you are already three centimeters." She pulls off her gloves and pats my knee.
"I'll be back in a bit to check again. Once you are at ten, we can start pushing."
"You mean I can start pushing. How long will this take doc?" I ask.
"For some it passes by fast, for others it can go on for a bit. Do you want any drugs for the pain or are you going to do it all natural?" I look to Dimitri to see what he thinks. He looks completely lost. Well, I feel lost too. This is the first time either of us has done this.
"Let's see how this goes and I'll decide later." I say. She nods her head and heads out of the room.
"Did you call my parents?" I ask Dimitri before another contraction hits me hard. He holds my hand and tries to sooth me through it. I can see he feels helpless because he can't take my pain away.
"Lissa assured me she will call everyone." Dimitri says. There is a small knock on my door and then my mother pokes her head into the room.
"Just wanted to see how you are doing?" She comes into the room and stands by my side. I take her hand in mine, glad that she is here.
"It feels like I'm being torn open from the inside out." She smooths back my hair and kisses my forehead. Another contraction rips through me and I cry out in pain.
"How are things in here?" Dr. Olendzki asks as she reenters the room.
"Her contractions are about three minutes apart now." The nurse that has been checking on me informs the doctor.
"Okay, you are about eight centimeters now. Almost there, Rose." She leaves us again.
"Momma I can't do this. It hurts." I start to cry. My mother puts her forehead against mine.
"I know it hurts baby; I know. But your babies will be here soon and then all this pain will be gone. This is a few hours of pain for a lifetime of happiness." She has told me this before. I understand what she is getting at and Lissa told me that the pain is only a distant memory but right now, going through this. It feels like this is too much to take. I have a several more contractions before Dr. Olendzki says it is time to push. My mother leaves us to go and update the rest of my family and I get ready to push. I wish I had the right words to describe the pain and hard work it is to push a small human out of your vagina. The saying that it feels like all your bones are breaking is so true. It is a pain that I can't fully describe no matter how hard I try.
"Climb onto the bed behind her. It will help with support." Doctor Olendzki says to Dimitri. He does as she says. It helps a bit and being in Dimitri's arms feels better. He whispers in my ear how much he loves me and how proud he is of me for doing this.
"Okay, I see the head. One last big push Rose." The good doctor tells me. I feel tired and hurt and I don't know if I can do this anymore. I feel tears running down my face. Dimitri wipes over my forehead with a cold cloth. I start the last push. The feeling of a human being pulled out is just terrible.
"There we go, a beautiful baby boy." I hear the cries of the baby, my baby. A wave of tranquility washes over me as I hear my baby make noises. A nurse brings my boy to me. He is so beautiful. I have never felt such an enormous amount of love for anything in my life before. I take my baby into my arms and hold him close to my heart. Dimitri reached from behind me and lightly caresses his son's dark patch of hair. The feeling of peace and love soon vanishes because of the new waves of pain running through my body. I'm not done yet. I still have one more baby to push out. The nurse quickly takes my boy from me and Dr. Olendzki tells me to push again. I'm tired and in pain and I don't know how I'm going to do this again.
"I can't. Please, I can't." I cry out. I can hear the weakness in my own voice. I wanted to be strong for my babies and for myself, but this is hard. All the torture I went through with Adrian is nothing compared to this. I know that good things come from this pain. I know that I'll be a momma to two beautiful tiny humans after this and that hopefully, I only have to go through this one more time in the future. But its so hard.
"You can my Roza. You can move mountains. This is nothing." Dimitri whispers in my ear. I grab both his hands in mine and squeeze as I try to push the baby out. Dimitri doesn't give me any indications that I'm hurting his hands. He just lets me take his strength as my own. Cries pierce the room again as my baby comes out. It is much louder this time around as before.
"You have a stunning baby girl." Dr Olendzki tells me as she hands my baby to the nurse. I take my baby from the nurse. She looks almost the exact same as her brother with the dark patch of hair on her head.
"Hey baby girl. I'm your momma." I caress her cheek with my pointer finger. Dimitri wraps his arms around me and holds me tightly. I can feel the love flowing from him through me to our little girl. The nurse takes my baby again and starts with the clean up job. Dimitri gets out from behind me and goes to the nurses to check on the babies. I close my eyes for a brief second as the exhaustion takes over. Soon all the noises in the room fade away and I'm left with a blissful darkness. I did it. I brought two beautiful children into this world. Now it's my job to take care of them and to raise them right. My children will want to make a difference in the world by doing good and being a delight to have around. Adrian may have fathered one of them but they will never be anything like him. I'd rather die than see one of my children harm another person. With Dimitri's help, I know that we will do a good job with them. They will be loved every day.