My Promised Rejection (Olivia and Ace) novel Chapter 98

Ace POV

Watching each of my pups come into the world is indescribable. I never really believed that I would ever be lucky enough to have a mate. I think that’s why I was so easily fooled. I push thoughts of the past away. I refuse to let them taint this moment. Feeling what I feel for Olivia, I know exactly how oblivious I was. She loved me even before Ryker was awakened. She loved me so much she was willing to walk away for mine and my daughter’s happiness. I will always be grateful to the goddess for bringing her back to me. She was always meant to be mine. I will spend the rest of my life loving her.

When my second son is set on her chest, a wave of relief washes over me. I was terrified something would go wrong while Olivia was in labor. Having multiples is just as hard on wolves as it is on humans. My mate has been a trooper. “Oli, honey, what’s wrong,” Evie asks, snapping me out of my thoughts. When my eyes focus back on Olivia, the nurse is already taking our pup from her chest while another pushes Evie out of the way.

Everything happens so fast my brain can’t catch up with what’s happening. Vital signs are taken and a jumble of numbers are called out. Ryker whimpers and a hundred thoughts rush through my mind, but the one that is the loudest is, I can’t lose Olivia. I feel like frozen in place as Olivia is yet to open her eyes.

“Ace, get it together. Everything looks good. Her vital signs are perfect and there is no sign of hemorrhage. She is exhausted and her body is acting accordingly. Her body gave in to the exhaustion because she needed time to recover” Maureen says after shaking my shoulders to bring my attention to her, since my eyes hadn’t left my motionless mate.

“Ace, we need to get her cleaned up, and then you can sit with her until she wakes up. She will wake up, Ace. Do you hear me?” she asks. I nod not knowing what else to do. I’m not a doctor right now. I am a man whose mate is unconscious after giving birth to his pups. I trust Maureen, but it doesn’t make the fear that has settled in my stomach any less. A few minutes later Evie is on one side of the bed, and I’m on the other. The only sound in the room is the steady beeping of the monitor and Olivia’s soft breathing.

Her hand rests in mine as rub circles on the back. “Olivia, my love, please wake up. I know you’re exhausted, but just tell me that you are alright. Yell at me for waking you up. I don’t care what you say, but just say something.” “She is so strong Ace. I remember watching her as a little girl and every time she fell I’d expect her to run to me, but she didn’t. She’d get up and brush herself off and try to do whatever she was doing again,” she says.

“I’d rush towards her thinking she needed me to make it better, but she would just smile and keep going.. When everything happened, I desperately wanted her to understand and forgive me, but she was right. Despite the magic, I made selfish choices. I hurt people that deserved far better from me. The fact that I’m sitting here is a testament to my daughter’s heart,” she says.

“She was wiser and stronger at seventeen than I was as a grown woman. Charles always said that our Oli girl was special and he was right. Oli loves with every part of herself, which is why she had such a hard time forgiving me. She expected better from me. I wasn’t worthy of being her mother, but I’m grateful every day that she has forgiven me. That she has given me a chance to be part of her life. A part of your family. She won’t leave you or her pups, Ace. Maureen is right. She is just tired. Any minute she is going to wake up and want her pups, and you close,” she says.

Evie’s eyes meet mine and her words soothe the torrent of emotions raging inside me. “Thank you, Evie. I’m glad you were here with us. She needs you Evie. She doesn’t see you as the woman that destroyed everything anymore. She sees you as the mother that was there every time she fell in case she needed you. Never doubt that, despite it all, she never forgot that.”

“I know you are all excited to learn their names since we have kept it a secret, but I guess it’s time to tell everyone.” “I love you Ace, but quit stalling” Connor says and I chuckle. “Dad you are holding Oliver Hudson. Morris.” My father looks down at his namesake and tears well in his eyes. “Thank you” he chokes out before I move to Connor. “Connor, you are holding Maverick Connor Morris.” Becca smiles with her arm wrapped around Connor as he just stands silently absorbing what I said.

“Amber, you are holding Charlie Evy Morris.” Amber smiles and presses a kiss to our daughter’s forehead. A sob has us looking toward Evie, but it’s not her, its Xavier. He really has changed for the better. He doesn’t hide behind the man he thought he had to be. I’m grateful that we all have each other and we are happy.

What I’m most grateful for is second chances and my beautiful mate.