The Alpha’s Nanny (Lori and Gabriel) novel Chapter 2

Despite being heavily sedated, Lori woke up not well rested. And her whole body hurt. Like hell.

She had nightmares too. A baby crying, a wrapped baby in a crib crying and crying. And whenever she tried to reach the baby, it felt like the baby strayed farther away from her.

The next morning, she didn't feel better, just equally worse. No visitors still. Just a phone call and a text message from her co worker Birdie, who was asking her when she would get back to work.

She had not given her proper notice to why she had missed work. She would text her boss later to inform him.

Ugh. She felt sick inside. Truly sick.

Worse still, she had a new problem, her boobs. They were huge and rock hard. She touched them and winced.

The pain she was feeling was unimaginable.

The nurse walked in with her breakfast tray, weird, She couldn't remember eating the night before, had she gone to bed hungry?

How long was she sedated?!

"Good morning Lori. How do you feel?"

Lori shrugged.

"I feel even worse. My boobs ache so bad."

She said as she reached for her tray. She was very hungry.

There was chocolate pudding, green beans and scrambled eggs.

"Oh it happens! Sorry about that but they're going to be very sore for a few days."

"What? Why?"

She asked and the nurse sighed.

"Well, your body has already prepared itself for a baby, so you're lactating."

"But I don't have a baby. I lost mine."

Lori said bitterly as she stabbed her plastic fork on the green beans, attacking it with ferocity.

"Yes. I know you did. And it's a horrible thing really."

Her voice was sympathetic but Lori was sure the woman would never be able to understand the magnitude of pain she was going through.

"I can offer you a better solution to your aching boobs if you want."

The nurse said as she looked at her hopefully.

"What is that?"

"There is a baby on this floor, she was born the exact same time your baby was born, sadly, her mother didn't make it. She cried all through the night. We fed her formula but, she's not taking it very well. If you donate your milk it could help her."

Lori sat there for a while, she remembered the cries in her dream. Had she dreamt about a baby crying or was there a baby truly crying?

"Yes."

Lori said without hesitation and the nurse widened her eyes.

"Yes? Are you sure?"

Lori nodded.

"I am sure."

She said and the nurse smiled.

"Thank you. I know how hard this is for you."

She said and Lori scoffed as she looked away. Oh she had no idea.

"I will come back with pumps then have a quick talk with the girl's family to inform them."

The nurse left and Lori had her breakfast quietly.

Twenty minutes later the nurse came back with pumps like she had said and talked about how the child's father had quickly agreed.

The nurse left with her milk, murmuring something about the milk being screened first.

Lori went back to sleep, the doctor came back to do a checkup on her. Her c- section scar was healing quite nicely he had told her. Lori had murmured something about the hospital bill and her doctor had told her the Fullers had cleared the hospital bill.

Good. Because there was no way she would have paid for it herself, she didn't have a dime to her name.

Besides it was in the agreement that they would settle all hospital bills. She only wished they had let her see him before taking him away.

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Gabriel didn't leave the hospital, even though he didn't sleep a wink, he didn't leave, he couldn't just bear the thought of leaving his daughter alone.

He had not picked out a name yet, partially because he and Suzie had not come up with one. He wanted her name to be perfect, whatever it is he came up with had to be perfect.

After the baby was born and the doctor told him Suzie didn't make it, he had quietly made her funeral arrangements. Suzie didn't have any family, at least none that he knew of.

Her only family was her daughter.

He remembered when he first held her in his arms, she had immediately stopped crying as he stroked her head gently.

She was so tiny. So so tiny, but when she looked at him, when she really looked at him, the world stopped.

Nothing else mattered at that point, Gabriel knew at that moment he would fight tooth and nail to protect her.

By all tests and count, baby Caine was a healthy child.

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