Alpha Moretti Chapter 44

Update: it was not fine.

The burning sensation I felt only continued and worsened throughout the day. It was finally at night when I was trying to sleep when I couldn’t take it anymore, and I knew something was wrong.

“Are you sure we can’t get you seen by Rossi?” Ansaldo comfortingly massaged my back, to see if that will help with the pain.

“It’s not a contraction. It’s just burning, like an intense burning.” I groan, and push my face into the pillow as it started again.

“Alright, that’s it. I’m taking you to Rossi right now.” He firmly declares.

“No but-“

“Liam, this is not the time to act all tough and stubborn. Now either I can help you walk over there, or I can carry you.” He stands up from our bed.

“Ansaldo, it’s not anything serio-PUT ME DOWN!” I yelp in surprise when he picks me up bridal style.

I squirmed, but all that did was make him tighten his hold on me. Eventually, I gave up when another wave of pain started.

I bury my head in his shoulder, and suddenly I feel my water break.

“Sal,” I look up at him, and he stops and looks down.

“Is your water supposed to be red?” He looks back over to me, his face going pale.

I bite my lip and shake my head.

He picks up the pace to the doctors office, and I almost cry in relief when he gets there.

“Rossi!” He shouts. I hear footsteps walk around a corner, and I’m too scared to lift my head from my mates shoulder.

“He’s bleeding, a lot. He’s talking about no contractions but a burning.” I hear my mate quickly explain.

“That means the twins are distressed. We need to get him into an emergency C-Section right now.”

I try not to cry. Instead of going to Rossi when they started, I just sat back and put my babies in danger. I’m so stupid.

“Hey, Li, it’s gonna be alright. Everything’s going to be okay.” Sal whispers in my ear. I can tell he’s trying really hard to not be worried as I was, so I just nodded.

I feel him set me down on a rolling medical bed, and they begin to roll me away from him.

“Wait, wait where will Ansaldo be?” I look around desperately at the nurses and doctors.

“He’s right behind you, he just needs to put on sterilization clothes. It’ll be fine.” Rossi explains to me, and I calm down slightly.

They roll me into a room and begin to set up a wall in between my head and my stomach, and they set up an iv, where they put in medication that made me go numb from the chest down.

“If you need more numbing medicine, just let me know. We want you to be comfortable during this.” Rossi explains.

I just weakly nod, still worrying about my mate. I just want him with me.

But I didn’t have to worry for long. He walked in and slowly made his way past the doctors and by my side, where he grabbed my hand, and I squeezed hard.

“You had me worried.” I try to lighten the mood.

“Sorry, I’ll try to be on time to the next one.” He jokes back.

I feel a nurse put a breathing tube around my face, with the tiny little things that go in your nose. I wiggle my face, trying to get adapted to the weird feeling of air being forced into me.

I hear mutters of talking on the other end of the cloth, and a weird tugging feeling. It didn’t hurt at all, which was a relief.

“Sal, what if things won’t be ok? Like what if we lose one of them?” I try not to cry.

“We aren’t losing them, no matter what, alright? Everything will be fine.” He squeezes my hand reassuringly.

“I’m so stupid for not going in when the burning started though. I should’ve listened to you.”

“Hey, were here now. We didn’t know it was harmful to the pups, alright?” He looks at me, and I give him a small nod. “Good, now don’t be so hard on yourself. Everything will be fine.”

As soon as he said that, I hear a cry erupt, and Rossi declare that it’s our son. I smile in relief.

I see my mate look past the cloth, with an expression I have never really seen before. “He’s perfect, Li.”

I desperately wanted to see what he saw, but I needed to still be unmoving.

About a minute passes before a nurse hands over our son to Ansaldo carefully, and he holds him by my head.

“Hello.” I barely manage to whisper. Oh goddess, he’s so perfect. I admire every part of him, and how much he looked like Sal, but with my dark hair.

I use my pointer finger and move it against his chubby little cheek, and I chuckle as he whines.

“What name did you pick out for him?” I look up at my mate, and he’s still smiling at our boy.

“Gio. Gio Alexander.”

I look down at Gio again, and the name fits him so well.

I hear another cry, and Rossi announces that our daughter is here.

Ansaldo leans back carefully to catch a glimpse at her, meanwhile I still admire Gio.

As the minute goes on, my eyelids start to feel extremely heavy.

Was I this tired the entire procedure?

I feel someone push away and escort Ansaldo out of the room, as someone moves my head to look straight up at the ceiling.

I hear muffled protests, but I can’t make out who from anymore. I was just so tired, and closing my eyes was all that really mattered at the moment.

I feel a nurse take off my oxygen tubes and replace it with a mask, and I hear irregular beeps and shouts from Rossi.

But that didn’t matter. I just needed to sleep.

So I closed my eyes.

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I take a deep inhale, as my body comes to be aware of the state it’s in. Uncomfortable pain that comes from healing.

It takes me forever to open my eyes, because they feel so heavy, but I’m finally able to do so.

Slowly moving my head around, I feel something on my hand, and I look down to see Ansaldo holding my hand, but also asleep.

Im barely able to manage a smile, but I do. I move my head again and notice I’m in a comfortable patient room, and not the OR. Thank goddess all of that is over.

I try to sit up, but I cry out in pain when a sharp feeling hits me in my lower stomach.

I feel Ansaldo quickly move from my hand, and he’s pushing me back down into the bed.

“Hey, don’t do that. You’ll undo your stitches babe.” He quietly tells me, clearly his voice is groggy from just waking up.

Once I’m back laying down, I see the blue green eyes that I love, and I’m immediately calmed down.

He leans in and gently presses his lips to mine, and I do a loopy smile into the kiss. He pulls away, and grins when he sees my goofy smile.

“Is the pain medication kicking in?” He laughs.

“No, I just love you,” I giggle. He rolls his eyes. “And you’re really hot.” I continue.

“Yeah ok, it’s the pain medicine.” He shakes his head, clearly amused.

I pout. “No it’s not. It’s the truth.”

He just tilts his head and admired me, before Rossi walks in, clearly shocked to see me awake.

“Luna, you’re finally awake.” He makes his way towards where I lay down.

“How long was I out?” I ask, clearly confused.

“About 12 hours. You lost a lot of blood in there.” He checks my file at the end of my bed.

“Any reason why I lost a lot of blood?” I take a deep breath, and since when I feel the sharp pain at the bottom of my stomach again.

“Careful. And yes, a very big reason. When I tell you guys why, please keep in mind that we did everything we could, but ultimately we had to make a few choices that were life saving over beneficial choices.” He begins to seriously explain.

“What do you mean?” Ansaldo takes my hand again.

Rossi takes a deep breath. “It means that when we were doing the C-section, we found that your uterus was ruptured, most likely from stress, and that your daughters head was in your bladder. Which explains the burning feeling. We tried to salvage what we could, but in order to save your life, we had to remove your uterus.”

My heart drops. I see out of the corner of my eye Ansaldo turning to look at me.

“I’ll never be able to have kids again.” I whisper.

“I’m sorry, Luna. I did everything I could.” Rossi apologizes.

I get lost in my own train of thought as I don’t respond to him, and Ansaldo discusses a few more recovering details with him.

I definitely wanted to have more kids with Sal. Sure, maybe not right now, but in the future. Now that wasn’t possible. Not unless we wanted to adopt.

But I do have two pups with him already. And I couldn’t ask for anything better than that. Whatever we do in the future, it’ll be ok, and we’ll figure it out.

“Sal,” I begin, and he looks over to me as Rossi exits the room. “I’m not upset about it. It saved my life, and I’d much rather be here with you and our twins, no matter what I have to go through.”

“But lia-“

“I’ll get over it. Maybe not right now, but eventually. I’m here with you and Gio and Riya, and that’s all that matters to me.” I explain quickly.

He hesitates, before his facial expression softening.

“Riya?” He asks.

“Riya Annabella.” I nod, and he gives me a soft smile.

“My sisters name? You wanted it in her name?”

“Of course I wanted it in her name. I know how much your sister meant to you, and her name will live on in this family.” I explain why I decided to use it.

He quickly kisses me in response, and in gratitude.

“Thank you.”

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