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She had everything it took to be a President’s Old Lady.
The club would forever be in our lives, and maybe even our children’s lives.
I spun her around and crushed my lips to hers, cupping her face with my hands as I devoured her with a resounding cheer going up around us.
“I’ll always be yours, Op,” she whispered breathlessly.
“Likewise, blackbird.”
“Can you lot stop sucking face and open the damn box!” Rose protested, drawing us apart. “I’m dying over here. I need to know.”
Blizzard slapped his hand over her mouth and chuckled. “Rose would like you to please open the box.”
Chelsea cringed, her hand going to her stomach and her eyes opening wide.
“Woman,” Blizzard growled. “Now look what you’ve done, you’ve put her into labor.”
Laughter tinkled around us, but as I grabbed Chelsea to hold her up, I noticed the wetness streaming down the side of her leg and pooling on the floor. I was frozen. “Chelsea…”
She shook her head furiously. “No, Op, it’s too early, it’s too early...” she cried softly, her voice shaking.
The world seemed to stop still for a moment.
This was it.
The babies were coming and they were coming early.
Get your fucking shit together.
“Blizzard! Help me hold her. Leo, bring my truck around to the door.” My brothers rushed around to us, Blizzard grabbing one of Chelsea’s arms and helping me lead her to a chair.
“I’ll get your hospital bag. Where is it?” Hadley asked as she and Rose hurried over, rubbing their hands on Chelsea’s arm and whispering words of support. But my woman was in shock, she kept looking at me like she didn’t know what was going on. Like it was inconceivable for this to be happening. The doctors had warned us that it was a probability. We just never thought it would be this early.
“It’s sitting by our front door,” she finally answered, and Hadley dashed off up the stairs.
“I’m going to get you a coat and a towel to sit on okay?” Rose offered and with a kiss on Chelsea’s cheek, she disappeared too.
“It’s too early, Op,” she said again, her voice shaking.
Blizzard held his hand on her shoulder in support as I crouched down in front of her. “It’s going to be okay. We’re going to go to the hospital and we’re going to see what’s going on. And you know what? We might even be able to hold our boys today.”
“They’re boys!” Blizzard crowed, the rest of the room filling with excitement.
Chelsea’s smile pulled at the corner, but I could tell she was in some kind of pain.
“I might get to hold my boys today.” I nodded, encouraging her to hold on to that thought because I didn’t want her to know that I was just as fucking scared as she was.
Camo and Ham sped on ahead to the hospital to get a wheelchair ready and let the nurses and doctors know that we were coming. Chelsea gripped her hand in mine the whole way, squeezing it tighter and tighter as the pains came and went, but not once did she complain.
It was as if she was somewhere else, barely squeaking out a sound, determined to just get through this and meet our babies on the other side.
The nurses rushed her through to the maternity floor and placed her in a room. They poked and prodded her, taking tests and other things in order to try to determine just what was going on. As soon as they set up a monitor on her stomach to capture the boys’ heartbeats, finding that they were both very regular and didn’t seem to be in distress, I calmed a little, dropping my head against Chelsea’s hand that I was still holding while she lay in the hospital bed. She still had yet to let it go, even when the nurse had come to put in her drip.
Our family was out in the waiting room, while Rose and Hadley paced just outside the doorway as we waited for the doctor to come and check her out. The contractions were getting stronger quickly, and I was getting fucking nervous. I looked up when I heard the door open, but was shocked to see just who it was.
“Hey, how are we doing?” Piper asked sweetly. She was dressed in her nurse’s uniform and had a badge clipped to her pocket that read NICU. “I saw your name on the incoming chart and just wanted to come and make sure you were okay.”
I saw Chelsea smile and gesture with her hand for Piper to come closer. She pulled up a seat on the other side of the bed.
