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Besides the woman downstairs, no one else had been hit in their building. Mitch and Chase made sure they were home every night before dark. She was relieved. The thought of someone being out there trying to get in was terrifying her. Before her pregnancy she’d have thought nothing of it whereas now she was in a more vulnerable position.
She cooked for Mitch and Chase on Tuesday night. Her back was killing her. She rubbed the pain away hoping when she lay down that would ease it a bit.
Her men were going over some figures while she ate her food and read one of the erotic books she’d bought some time ago. Mitch and Chase were holding off on sex until after she’d had the baby. She understood why but missed their touch every night.
Later that night as she lay in bed surrounded by Chase’s and Mitch’s warmth, she heard their apartment door opening. Leah tensed. She knew that sound as Mitch and Chase had come through that door a thousand times.
“Shh, I’m awake,” Mitch said.
She stared at him feeling her heart beating rapidly inside her chest. “Someone is in our apartment,” she whispered to him.
Mitch nodded. “I don’t want to alert them we know.”
“I’ve got my cell phone,” Chase said, handing the phone to Leah. The door to their room was open. If they moved too suddenly then the intruder would see the movement. She licked her lips and then couldn’t believe what happened next. Mitch stared at her, and her eyes widened.
“My waters just broke.”
“What?” Chase asked.
Mitch stared at her terrified. “Her waters just broke.”
“Shit.” Chase handed her the phone. “Call the police. We need to get this done fast.”
Leah’s hands were shaking. This was the most inconvenient time. Mitch covered her mouth the moment her first contraction started. She’d never felt anything like it. The pain was unbearable. She stared into his eyes and bit her lip to try to contain the scream.
“She’s not going to last,” Mitch said.
“Fuck this.” Chase lunged out of bed. In the commotion, Mitch let go, and her scream echoed off the walls of their bedroom. She put the phone to her ear, waiting.
What happened next was the most surreal experience of her life. Chase and Mitch wrestled the intruder to the floor. The police arrived minutes later. There were several in the area because of all the break-ins. The intruder turned out to be the woman who sat next to her at the laundrette that day all those months ago. The woman took keys and then stole anything of any value. She hadn’t tried to break into their apartment sooner because she hadn’t seen Leah until the other week. The woman didn’t try steal from places she didn’t have a key to.
Her contractions by that point were already minutes apart. Leah knew she wasn’t going to make it to the hospital. The ambulance that she’d phoned the moment after she’d spoken to the police arrived, but too late.
However, she was unable to get to the hospital.
Marvin Preston Fields Lawson Jones was born on their living room carpet at three in the morning, screaming his little head off.
