*Bianca*
I bit back a scream that wanted to burst through my lips as another contraction rattled my body. They were still relatively far apart. It could still be hours before the baby was born. I just had to pray that we had enough time for Leo to make it back to me.
I shut my eyes and tried to breathe the way that the baby books suggested when mothers were in labor. It was far too tempting to hold my breath as I waited for each new wave of pain. I couldn’t believe that this was finally happening. For so long, the baby had seemed like such an abstract thought, something so far in the future.
Now, they were coming and their father wasn’t there.
That made me want to cry far more than the pain did. My heart felt like it was breaking as I feared for Leo’s life. My breathing was starting to come out in harsh pants as I reached for my phone for the hundredth time in the last hour. I cursed the fact that I didn’t have a cell phone charger down here.
