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Chapter Sixteen
I sighed tiredly as I rested my head back against the fluffed up pillows and considered my chances of sneaking out of bed and out to the nursery where my little girl was. I was still stuck in bed, the doctors keeping me an extra day just in case I developed an infection across my stitching. I was going home today but I wouldn't be discharged until the afternoon.
Reyna had been brought to my room for her morning feed but when the nurses saw that I was tired they took her back to the nursery much to my annoyance and agitation. I didn't want my daughter to be looked after by a complete stranger even if they were qualified to look after her. I wanted to be the one who watched her as she slept and soothe her when she was upset.
Paul chuckled when he saw my agitated expression as they wheeled Reyna away and had told me that she would be fine. He didn't even flinch when I glared at him; it wasn't my fault that I was worried about my daughter being away from me. I didn't know any of these people; how could I not worry? What if someone dropped her? What if she was cold or crying and she was ignored?
I took a deep breath and calmed myself before I did try and sneak out of my room. Paul was back at work for a while but he had a week off on paternity leave. Every chance he got he walked past my room to check on me and I knew that if I left and he did walk past to find me gone he would go crazy. Having a werewolf crazy and worried was not a good thing especially in a hospital.
A knock on the door caught my attention and I straightened, hoping it wasn't another nurse back to prod at my stitches. I recognized the woman as one of the carers for the babies. "Is everything ok?" I asked worriedly.
"Your little girl's perfectly fine. Are you expecting any family to come by?" She asked sounding nervous.
I frowned and shook my head, "Paul's doing some work today and the only other person that could be coming around is at work as well. Why?"
"There's someone who keeps looking at your daughter and he keeps insisting that he's family. He wanted to hold her but without your permission we don't let anyone near her." The nurse said reassuringly.
"I'd like for her to be brought down here please." I said immediately, knowing that it would be Embry who was looking at her.
She nodded and left to bring her. I sat anxiously in my bed waiting for Reyna to arrive and as the minutes ticked by I began to get increasingly nervous. What was taking her so long? All she had to do was wheel the bed down the hall and into my room. Had Embry interfered? Just as I was about to get out of bed the nurse arrived looking flustered and arguing heavily with someone.
"You are not allowed to hold or touch her." The nurse all but shouted.
"I'm allowed. I'm good friends with the father of the baby." Someone insisted sounding desperate.
I sat up straighter as the nurse wheeled the baby over looking stressed. I immediately took Reyna in my arms, glaring at the tall figure behind the nurse; Embry was looking down at the bundle in my arms desperately. I thanked the nurse and she eyed Embry before she left, leaving the bed beside mine. Embry moved closer once the nurse had disappeared but stopped when my glare intensified.
"You stay where the hell you are." I snarled.
Embry sighed frustrated and began to get angry, "Why can't you just let me near her? She's my imprint!" He said exasperatedly. "I have a right..."
"That is where you are very wrong." I said coldly, "You have no right. I don't care if you're her imprint. You and your buddies are the reason that Paul had to run away from his family. If I have it my way you will never see her."
"You can't be serious." He shouted. "That's my imprint; don't you want her to be happy?"
"Of course I do but I also want Paul to be happy." I snapped back, gently rocking Reyna as she started to whimper, "You tormented him for years. He will never get over that."
Embry sighed, "It wasn't just me that did it, alright? We never thought he took it seriously..."
"So it was just some fun for you guys? Tormenting him? Teasing him? Making beats on how easily you could get him to phase? That's disgusting." I snapped.
"I'm sorry, alright?" He exclaimed, "What more do you want me to do? Beg?"
"That would be a good start." I said shortly.
He glared at me but didn't respond when he noticed that Paul had walked in, "What the hell are you doing here?" He snapped.
"It's fine Paul. I was just explaining to Embry that there's no chance in hell of him coming near Reyna." I said cheerfully.
Embry looked desperate and turned to Paul and dropped to his knees, "I'm sorry for being an ass and tormenting you. Please, let me be with my imprint!"
I looked down at shock and so did Paul. He backed away looking at me with wide eyes. Embry was still at his feet spitting out whatever he could say, "Will you shut up?" Paul said looking slightly freaked out.
"She won't let me near my imprint and she said I had to beg so that you would let me be near her..."
"I said that you needed to beg first." I cut in correcting him. Paul raised an eyebrow at me and I shrugged, "He's not getting away with things that easily."
Paul chuckled, "Let him hold her Lorry. Trust me, he's going to have a lot of strict rules for when Reyna's old enough to date."
"Which we'll both decide upon later and make him sign a damned contract." I grumbled, reluctantly handing Reyna over to Embry who looked like Christmas had come early.
He looked down at her in awe, "She's so little." He said, sighing contently and sat in the chair next to the bed holding her carefully.
I watched him frantically but relaxed when Paul ran a hand through my hair soothingly, "Maybe we can make him do diaper duty." He winked at me.
I laughed and Embry's face lit up eagerly, "I'll do diaper duty!"
"Yeah, he says that now." I muttered to Paul, "Have you seen Lee?"
He shook his head, glancing over my charts briefly, "He kind of bolted out of the house this morning when I tried to talk to him about Leah." He scratched his head, "Now that I think about it he looked kind of terrified."
"That's probably because Leah was waiting for him outside the house." Embry piped up, turning for a moment to look at us before his attention went back to the baby in his arms. "She ignored what you told her and spent the run home planning on how to convince that guy to listen to her and het him away from you."
Paul sighed, "Typical Leah."
"She's not going to get very far..." I began and stopped when the door flew open, Leah looking at me hysterically.
"He won't listen to anything I say!" She shouted waking Reyna up.
Embry panicked as the baby in his arms howled and he reluctantly handed her to me, "If you don't sit your arse down and stop hovering I'll have you thrown out of the room." I threatened and turned to Leah, "That's your problem that Lee won't speak to you. If you had of waited until he'd spoken to me and allowed me to tell him the good side to imprinting, which he already knows of course, he'd be a lot easier to deal with. But don't you dare barge into this room screaming while my daughter is asleep again, got it?"
Leah blushed and looked a embarrassed, running a hand through her hair, "I'm sorry. I never thought I'd imprint and..." She cut off, well aware of Paul and Embry's giant presence in the room.
"Boys get out now." I ordered, giving Paul a kiss and a glare at Embry, "Leave or the only time you'll ever spend with her is during diaper duty."
Embry gulped audibly and bolted from the room leaving Leah staring after him stunned. She looked back at me in amazement, "You have him under control already."
"You've got to start early with them." I joked and looked at her seriously, "Sit down, we've got some talking to do."
A/N sorry its been so long! I felt guilty writing when I should have been studying for my exams and then I got writers block but I'm back now. I've got another story lined up and this one is almost done so read and review people!