finishing this course without redecorating it.” Jet laughs as I hear Chief reprimand them both in the background, telling them to knock it off.
A loud whistle blows, and I rip the phone away from my ear, feeling like I might have just gone deaf. For fuck’s sake. Is it that hard to pay the mother of your unborn child just a little bit of attention? “Bull?” I call.
“Babe,” he laughs. “You should see this kid. He’s fucking red in the face, holding onto his stomach. I swear, he’s not going to make it. Oh … oh no. Here it comes.” There’s a slight pause before I hear all four of the guys burst into uncontrollable laughter. “Naw, shit,” Bull says, unable to breathe. “It’s all down the fucking ladder. You should have seen this, Angel. It’s fucking atrocious,” he calls out loud, still laughing at the guy. “You’re cleaning that shit up, Jones.”
“BULL,” I scream, making every eye in the maternity ward turn my way. “Would you shut the fuck up and listen to me?”
Fucking silence everywhere. Bull shuts the hell up, just as I so kindly requested, while everyone around me stares on in horror.
The noise in the background of Bull’s call fades to a distant hum, and suddenly his voice is a lot clearer. “Sorry, babe. You have my undivided attention. I was just training the boys. Is everything alright?”
“No, everything is not alright,” I say, irritated. “My water broke. I’m in labor.”
“Fuck.”
“Yeah, I know. I’ve been having contractions all morning, but I thought they were just Braxton Hicks again.”
“Babe, are you sure?”
Why do people keep asking me that?
“Yes, I’m fucking sure,” I snap at him. “This isn’t my first rodeo, Bull. Either I just pissed myself in a major way and didn’t have the slightest clue, or my water broke, and seeing as though I don’t like to make a habit of pissing my pants, I’m going with option two.”
“Shit, um … okay. I’m leaving now.”
“Wait, Bull,” I call, knowing he’s bound to start panicking if this goes down anything at all like it did with Jessa.
“Yeah?” he breathes.
“I’m okay. This is going to be fine. There’s no rush. My water has only just broken, and my contractions are far apart.”
“You’re sure?”
“Yeah. It’s fine,” I tell him. “Just take your time.”
“Like hell,” he booms in a tone that has a grin stretching across my face. “I won’t be missing a single second of this. I’ll be there in ten.”
“Okay,” I smile as my heart fills with all sorts of happiness. “Oh, and Bull?”
“Yeah, Angel?”
“I love you.”
There’s a short pause before I hear the joy in his deep voice. “I fucking love you, too.”
With that, Tarryn leads me into my room, hands me a gown, and shuffles me into the bathroom. She lets the nurses down here know what’s going on before offering me an encouraging smile and hurrying back to continue attending to my son.
I get myself dressed in the gown and stop when a stronger contraction comes on, making me groan with the pain and realize just how real this is.
The contraction fades away, and I wonder if Bull really meant it when he said he’d be ten minutes. I want to believe that I’m the strongest woman out there, but when it comes down to it, I could really use him here, if only just to hold my hand and remind me that I can do this.
I hear a fire truck siren from outside of the hospital, and I grin to myself, realizing that daddy’s little red wagon just sped right through the stop sign. It will only be seconds before he busts through that door.
I get myself as comfortable as possible in the hospital bed and have midwives come in and connect me to all sorts of machines. They hardly have a chance to finish their job before Bull comes skidding around the corner, having to grab hold of the door frame to stop himself from flying straight past.
He grins at me.
I grin back.
And just like that, I know we’re ready. We’ve got this.
CHAPTER 27
AMELIA
Four hours.
Four fucking hours is all it takes for my body to go from uncomfortably pregnant to ‘get this fucking devil beast out of my vagina.’ How is that even possible? With both Ryan and Coby, I was in labor for twelve hours, yet this little one is ready to go. He or she must really be wanting to meet Mommy and Daddy.