Irresistible (Neighbor from Hell #11) - R.L. Mathewson Page 0,73

that it was time.

“Well, I mean, it might have something to do with it,” Melanie murmured only to gasp in pain and tighten her hold around his hand.

“It’s time,” Roger announced right around the time that Melanie began shaking her head.

“No, no, no, no, I changed my mind. He can stay where he is,” Melanie mumbled with a whimper that broke his heart.

“It will be over before you know it,” Aidan lied to her as the nurses moved to help her sit up.

“I-I really don’t think I can do this,” Melanie mumbled.

“You’re going to be fine,” Aidan promised her as Roger said, “I need you to start pushing now.”

“I would really rather not do that right now,” Melanie said, sending him a pleading look that nearly fucking destroyed him.

“Cody needs you to push,” Aidan told her, holding her hand as he watched her.

“O-okay,” she whispered with a firm nod as she licked her lips and screamed as she tightened her hold around his hand while a contraction tore through her body.

“Okay, take a deep breath and get ready for the next one,” Roger said as Aidan stood there, unable to look away from Melanie as she struggled to get through the next contraction.

“You’re doing great,” Aidan told her as he kissed her forehead.

“Almost there,” Roger said as Aidan stood there, praying that she made it through this only to close his eyes and release a shaky breath when he heard his son cry a few seconds later.

*-*-*-*

“He’s so sweet,” Mary said with a watery smile as she leaned down and kissed Cody’s forehead.

“Your five minutes are up,” Lucifer said, gesturing for her to hand him back over.

“No, it’s not,” Mary said, smiling down at her newest grandchild.

“It is. I counted,” Lucifer said, once again gesturing for her to hand the baby over.

“Ethan?” was all Mary had to say apparently to get her son to grumble something under his breath and return to his spot by the wall where he stood, glaring at his mother.

“He’s so cute,” Melanie’s mother said, smiling hugely as she reached down so that could run her hand over Cody’s peach-fuzzed head.

“You did great,” Rebecca said as she climbed onto the bed next to Melanie and-

“We’ve decided that we’re going to try to have a baby!” Caitlyn announced with an excited squeal and a huge smile, drawing everyone’s attention and-

“I’m pregnant,” Rebecca said, quickly drawing everyone’s attention back to her, earning a murderous glare from Caitlyn and a hollow, “What?” from Lucifer.

Nodding, Rebecca said, “I’m pregnant,” as she gave Melanie’s shoulder a squeeze as she did her best to bite back a smile.

“Oh, my god! Another grandbaby!” Mary said with a huge smile as everyone began congratulating Lucifer and Rebecca.

Well, everyone except for Caitlyn, who continued to glare for another minute before she stormed out of the room. Adam watched Melanie with that same unreadable expression that he’d had on his face since this all started as he pushed away from the wall and went after Caitlyn, who was probably already in mid-tantrum because she hadn’t gotten the reaction that she wanted.

“Are you really pregnant?” Melanie whispered only loud enough for her best friend to hear.

“Well, I mean, you really didn’t give me much of a choice, did you? I can’t have my godson grow up without his best friend, now can I?” Rebecca said as Lucifer made his way to Rebecca’s side and leaned down so that he could kiss her as he said, “God, I love you,” while Melanie found herself looking at Aidan again.

He hadn’t said anything since Cody was born, and to be honest, it was actually starting to scare her a little. Maybe she was overreact-

“Everyone get out,” Aidan said quietly as he looked at her, but it was enough. Within minutes, everyone that had come to see the baby was gone and-

“Leave my son,” Aidan said, making his mother sigh heavily as she reluctantly placed Cody back in his bassinet with a sadly mumbled, “He’s just so cute,” before his father eventually managed to drag her out of the room and once they were alone…

“Do you have any idea how much I love you?” Aidan asked as he pushed away from the wall and walked over to Cody’s bassinet so that he could pick up their son as she sat there, trying to remember how to breathe.

“No,” she said, mostly because he’d never told her that he loved her before.

“I’m in love with you, Melanie,” Aidan said, smiling down at their