CHAPTER 74

Maya's pov
I suddenly started feeling like I swallowed an elephant because damn, it was barely ten hours ago I finished my wedding and I didn't half of how heavy I suddenly felt. My weight doubled five times over.
Dang!
Asher had been busy with calls—answering to people that were still congratulating us and returning the calls to those he missed. I love being married to him. Even though one might think that has not changed after saying ' I do' and since I've practically lived as his wife for over a year now. But trust me, saying those two syllables 'I & do' would very much measure up to the best words I've said in all of my life. It feels so good to call him my husband and hear him call me his wife without having to cringe. Most of all, I am super happy because I finally got to carry his last name and just as you all already know, I'm growing his baby inside of me.
"Goddammit" I muttered to myself for the umpteenth time this evening after our wedding. "Uhhh" I groaned in frustration and Asher had to end his call to come to check on me. That might have been part of my plan anyway.
"What's wrong, wife?" Asher asked, kneeling on the ground in between my legs. I felt tears of different emotions start to trail down my face and for the life of me I couldn't exactly say what was wrong with me or why I cried—my hormones were running wild and that too unabashedly.
"Hey, Baby what's wrong? Is the baby okay?" Asher asked, placing his palm on my bump.
"Don't touch me" I said, shoving off the hand he had on my leg. Asher's face fell immediately.
"What's wrong Maya? Is the baby okay?" He repeated his question, only this time he was using a calmer tone.
"Yeah, right. I knew it would eventually lead to this…I'm suddenly Maya not a baby anymore. It all suddenly became solely about your child and not me. You don't love me anymore" Asher just knelt and looked at me, his mouth opened and closed without a single word coming out of it. "You won't even deny it?....really? I let out an ugly sob. I mean a very ugly sob where my mouth was wide open, with mucus streaming down my nose and a very, very annoying cry sound left my mouth.
" Of course not Maya. I love you and you know. Hell, it's not even long ago we got married"
"True. And I think that too is part of the show" I said, still pouring out loud cries. All my attempts to stifle them went down the drain.
"The hell are you talking about Maya?"
"You don't call me your love anymore" I choked out a sob then continued….Asher's hand on my back trying to smooth me helped though. "You don't call me babe or baby anymore. You don't even call me your love. I feel like the babies are taking all of your attention and the moment I have them out, I'll be completely out of your life"
"But just did…" I raised my brows at him and he swallowed then started again "I'm sorry Maya…Baby. I never meant for you to feel less of anything good, talk more of my love for you. I love you with every fiber of my body and it wouldn't change even after I die, because I'd be loving and tripping again and again for you even on my grave. I'm sorry I didn't let you feel it enough and as for our children, baby, there's no way I could ever take you away from their life because I want them to grow up and become you. You are the perfect example of what a wife and mother should be and I'm sure both I and the kids would be damned to not have you in our lives. You mean the world to me, Maya. And I love you with every bit of the flesh that makes my body and with every breath I take" Asher spoke and at the same time, one of his hands was on my lap, drawing faint lines while the other one was cupping the side of my face. I couldn't help but cry out all the more and think further as to how I ever deserved someone like him in my life. "I love you, Maya. Regardless of however you look. In my eyes, you'd always remain perfect"
I shut him up by slamming my lips on his and he doesn't waste time deepening it. My bump was a little problem though but we did just fine, telling each other how much we love ourselves with that one kiss.
I pulled away. Not because I was breathless or tired of the kiss but because a sharp pain suddenly cut through my stomach and ended up on my brain. It was like a tsunami of fire, I just couldn't explain it.
A crease appeared between Asher's brow as his whole face contorted with worry. He stood from where he knelt and sat on the bed close to me but he shifted almost at the same time his butt made contact with the mattress. "Did you just pee on our bed?" His eyes wrinkled as he spoke but certainly not out of disgust.
"Oh, course no….how could.." I was stopped from completing my sentence when I felt the pain again, running through my belly. My eyes widened when I looked at the floor, seeing the large puddle of liquid flowing on the tile.
"Oh, fuck me…"
"I won't have a baby not just yet. You'd have to give papa some time to fix up" Asher said. He looked at me once more before he asked "what? What is it?"
"I think….oh my god, Asher, I think…..awwwwwww"
Asher finally put two and two together, it seemed. His eyes were wide open as he looked at the puddle on the ground and back up at my face "is it time?"
There was a gigantic smile on his face as he held me at arm's length and studied me. Another tidal wave of pain shot through me and I shoved his hand from my arm and quickly used it to support my stomach and lower waist. It felt like whatever bone, vein, or chord that was joining the two they were forcefully being tugged off. "Motherfucking shit……yes, it is fucking time"
But that lovely and handsome Alpha king husband of mine didn't reply to me, but instead, he completely ignored me and the hell of a pain and instead smiled.
Like he fucking smiled widely, that wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes and I thought he check would flaten over. "What the fuck is so funny?" He didn't answer me but continued to clap his hands against each other and smile all the more. "Why are fucking laughing?" I snapped at him, unable to contain my hormones responsible for that because every part of my lower body appeared to be on fire and I couldn't be burning while my husband just sat and watched and smiled and cried.
"Nothing love….nothing baby….can I feel?"
"Yeah….I hope you feel your death coming 'cause I'm certainly going to kill you after I babe this baby……fucking take me to the hospital already, Ash. It hurts"
Asher's POV
"Fuck it hurts….I think I might die" Maya screamed, digging her nails into my back as she tried to take deep breaths.
"That's perfectly normal" the doctor commented as he stood in front of me and ran various un-mechanized tests—just a few touches on Maya's stomach and some other shits I really wanted to pay attention to. My focus was solely on Maya who writhed in pain in front of me.
"This isn't fucking normal. I wasn't supposed to be due until a month but here I am in your goddamn hospital and you dare tell me about normalcy? Your dump head fucking told me I'd be due in five weeks during my last antenatal check-up…last week and you dare tell me it's normal? Four weeks before the…… Fuccccck! Asher!" Maya screamed before me, her words sank deep into my heart and I could see the sense in them, I was with her last week for her monthly antenatal check-up and the doctor outrightly told us both to be expecting our goodies in five weeks after confirming they were super healthy and doing just great….if that is true then is my wife suddenly in labor and why all these pains? Cypher was already up and ready to take out any impediment. The doctor notices my stance and does a double-check. It was a doctor from my pack —the best doctor in the pack. The only reason I had entrusted Maya to her, in the beginning, was because I know of her good records, especially with pregnant women, so why the hell was my own different?
Maya screamed again, breaking me out of my thoughts.
"Is that supposed to be a normal doctor?" I asked Dr. Neil, trying to maintain my anger because I swear to the motherfucking goddess that if Maya screams as loud again like this, I was going to rip her head off.
"I swear that this shit isn't fucking normal" it was at this point I agreed to Maya's claim. She swears, but not most of the time or as often as I or the rest of the guys with the exception of Daniel swears; she only swears when she is trying so much to prove a point or show how restless she was over a certain issue. Clearly, everything was beginning to point out that my wife was suffering too much from what wasn't supposed to hurt this much so it wasn't normal. Maya had always been one hell of a strong lady so if she couldn't withstand this pain, it sure as hell does mean one thing…..
"You heard my wife doc…this isn't normal. You had better start to do whatever you have to do or else…"? Maya's sudden pull at my hand made me turn back and look at her. "It's going to be fine love. We are going to be okay" I said and planted kisses all over her face, while I massaged her hair. That thing was something I know helped her calm down a lot in the past and true to my thoughts, she visibly relaxed after that one act and I was more than ready to do it all over again, even if it means these assholes of doctors would look at me like a lovesick pup Alpha.
It's my wife's compressibility we were talking about….
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There was no way I could get to my phone right now so I quickly shot the guys a message through the mind-link and informed them of Mays's conditions. I felt several replies hit my mind back but there was no way I could focus on it as I willed my all on Maya once again
"Fuck…..I can't….I can't…this is too much" Maya pants after another session of pushes and deep breaths. Her hands pressed onto my deeply and I grabbed her just as much right, hoping there was a way I could share in her present pain or better yet, take all of it because if what I currently feel in my heart is a part of what she was passing through, I couldn't even imagine what the total package would be….after fourteen hours of labor I was do fucking tired and I wasn't even the one that did the job.
"Alright, Maya…one more push"
"I don't have any more push in me, doctor, get these children out of it leave me the fuck alone!"
"You can do it, baby…I'm here and I'll help you go right through it. You can do it. Come on, see you ready?" I asked Maya, taking over the doctor's job, if she couldn't do her job, I'd be more than glad to step into it for my Wife's sake. "Come on, count with me, Maya…one…two…three….go"