Chapter 107 Taking the baby home
107\. Taking the baby home
The mother of that beautiful little girl hastily sat up straight with Damien's help. Her concerned gaze befell on the white towel in which her daughter was wrapped as she desperately rubbed her hands as if wanting to hold her daughter in her hands.
"What's wrong with my baby?" She asked.
From where she laid, she could just see the black hair and one tiny hand sticking out under the chin of the baby. Her tiny mouth dilated as loud cries stronger than an elder's roar rumbled in the room.
From the bed vaje a small mewling cry. Everyone looked at Aura. She was in an urgent need to look after that tiny soul as if it was only her, who could console her cries.
Madam Martha stopped on the other side of the bed and answered, "She seems to be hungry, Aurora."
"Oh," Urgently, she took the baby in her hands and caressed her sprouting black hair. "My little one is hungry? You want Mama to feed your little tummy?"
"Come on everyone, let us move out. We do not have any work here at the moment. Let Aurora feed her baby." Mr. Hunter said but no one so much as moved.
"Aww, I want to have a baby of my own." Ginny pouted, hugging her arms.
Beta Brian let out a breathy sigh of agreement, "She is so gorgeous. I wish I was the father and not this Damien."
Alpha Damien showed his beta a middle finger before he went back to admire his ladies.
They were busy admiring the newly born infant being pampered in the lap of her mother. They wanted to see more. This display of affection was rare. Observing a mother talk to her infant while the infant quietly listened to her was a sight of worth. None of them had a wish to leave the room.
"My daughter's tired of meeting her family already. Let us feed her and revitalize her so she can be introduced to everyone individually, okay?"
As she was talking to her little baby, Luna Celine gestured to everyone to leave the room. She literally had to drag Brian out with his collar because he refused to move on his own. This was a special moment. The alpha and his mate must live it together with no hindrance.
Minutes later Madam Martha had a pillow placed in Aurora's lap. It seemed a mammoth effort for such a tiny creature but when the baby was placed on her pollowed lap, it was all worth it. Alpha Damien's eyes melted as he noticed his daughter's little mouth hungrily latching on Aura's exposed nipple.
He looked down at the baby and then his mate. The way they looked at each other, he couldn't help but shed some trails of tears.
They look so lovely together. Oh goddess, you've made me the happiest man on this earth. I am so happy to have both of them in my life. Damien thanked the goddess in his head.
He was too happy to breathe properly. This baby Aura had harbored in her body for nearly nine months was now in her lap. It was no less than a miracle. From a little ball of cells to becoming a fully grown up baby with developed hands and legs and head, she was gloriously laying in the lap of her mother and drinking her milk. He instantly fell in irrevocable love with her.
She was a miracle child. A child that happened to come in their lives when there was no sign of bonding or relationship between him and Aura. Looking at her tiny hand wrapped around Aura's forefinger while they talked with their gazes with each other, Damien felt his heartstrings coiling around them for stronger protection.
He was suddenly feeling over protective. The baby he had not known about for weeks when she sprouted in the womb of her mother, now he wanted to keep her in front of his eyes forever. He wanted to take all the possible oaths he could that would guarantee fortified protection for her. He wanted to ensure that even the air she would breathe would be pure and pollution-free.
"She's asleep?" He asked as her speed of suckling has reduced.
Aura stroked the pad of her thumb on her little jaw, "Looks like."
She carefully unlatched her mouth from her nipple and handed the baby to Madam Martha so she could put her in the cot to rest. Aura watched as she put the baby in the little mattress and smiled before leaving.
Now that they were alone again, Aura turned to her husband. She fisted the end of Damien's collar to make him come on the bed beside her. She wanted him beside her again. Their family arrived long before she absorbed some of his warmth.
"You must rest a bit, love. I am not going anywhere." Alpha Damien spoke.
"But I want to sleep with you." She was extremely worn out.
It was a good comfortable sleep that she needed at this moment. Thus Damien sucked her dry lips wet and caressed her hands until she agreed and drowned to sleep.
He drank her incomparable beauty with his tired eyes. She was perfect. He had to be the luckiest man to get her. Lowering his mouth he pecked her forehead. While he stroked her hair gently, he thought,
Your return to our mansion would be memorable, Aura. And to ensure that I have to cast out the evil that is inside our mansion.
He then flew out of the room. His entire family was present in the corridor either sitting on the bench or leaning against the wall. Damien smiled contentedly for their lips sang the songs of his magical baby's innocence. His pride elevated high and no matter how much he hated it, he had to drag Brian out of the discussion even though he was the biggest fan of his girl.
"Now what do you want, Damien Hunter?" Brian snorted. "Can't you see that we are talking about our little baby's arrival at the mansion?"
"I can see that, dumbass." Damien slapped his head only to get one returned to him.
"Don't disturb me, Damien. I need to arrange so many things before Aura's discharge." Brian said as he urged to get away.
But his alpha friend caught his arm in a strained hold and pulled him behind, "I think you forgot we have a foe locked within the mansion and the air inside is totally corrupted."
"Oh , I totally forgot."
"Now that you remember it, listen to me carefully," Damien put a hand around his shoulder and led him inside an elevator.
Before he exposes his daughter to the world, he must destroy every possible possibility that could hurt her.
When Damien and Brian returned to the hospital, the stars twinkled over their heads as though welcoming them back.
"Look at that," Brian remarked with a lightning bolt of happiness jolting his heart.
Aura was sitting up straight with her daughter in her arms with everyone surrounding her. Her baby was awake and unlike the afternoon, she was grinning and looking them in the eye. She was given a bath and now wrapped in a pink blanket that made her look like a little doll.
She looked so cute that Brian could not hold himself and cut through the crowd forcibly by pushing and elbowing them, and sat closer to Aura on the edge of the bed.
"This is so inappropriate, Brian. Can't you see we are all sitting in a queue and waiting for our turn to hold the baby?" Ginny dramatically snorted.
"You've already held her in your arms in the afternoon, beta Brian." Oscar glowered given that Brian blocked his view of the baby. "I didn't even get to see her properly earlier and even now you are blocking my view. Would you just get up and go behind? We are sitting in a line and waiting for our turn to meet the baby."
But Brian didn't listen and leaned forward towards the baby on the bed and kissed her forehead.
"Hey baby! You look all energized and excited now. Come to your godfather." Everyone reacted angrily but Damien enjoyed seeing his Beta dominating everyone's wishes.
He forcibly took the baby in his arms and rose on his feet. "This is so wrong, Brian. We've been waiting here for so long to hold her." Rosario's lips thinned in anger.
He also rose to his feet and tried to take the baby in his arms. Except he was glared at angrily by the beta before he brought her towards Damien and both the guys met the little baby girl happily. He transferred her into her father's arms and turned to the crowd.
"Aura is getting discharged in the early morning so I believe you will have plenty of time to meet the baby in the mansion." Though they were pissed, this brought a bright grin on their lips.
"Right now we have several formalities to fulfill. So I request you all to cooperate with us." Damien took the baby away with him and Brian remained in the room to instruct others.
"Where is he taking her?" asked Aura.
"As I previously stated, it's all part of the formalities." Brian gave a reassuring grin. "Why don't you people make yourself useful for other things while Damien and I take care of the hospital formalities?"
"Like what?" That was Rosario eyeing Brian murderously.
"Like arranging for the baby's welcome and leaving Aura to rest for the starters?" A sense of realization swept over others and they nodded in agreement.
"Great then, so may I know what everyone is doing?"
Later it was decided that Rosario and Ginny will look after the welcome of the baby in the mansion. Oscar will stay back with Aurora's guards as they might need another male's assistance here and there. Madam Martha would be here in the ward with Aurora to take charge of her needs until the morning. Lastly, Damien's parents would go back to their respective hotels for some much needed slumber.
"That sounds good to everyone, doesn't it?" They nodded in acknowledgement before Brian added, "Okay then, let's meet again tomorrow morning."
Indeed they met as they had decided once the sun glowed over the horizon to take Aurora and the baby home.
"Carefully, dear," While Oscar held the steering wheel, all set to drive his mistress and her daughter home, Madam Martha assisted Aura in sitting in the backseat as she held her infant to her chest.
"Thanks, Ma." Aura beamed before she looked out at Damien.
"I'll see you right at the mansion, love. Take care of the baby." Damien sent her flying kisses for he was coming in another car with Brian.
When Aura's car was in motion, she put a hand to her chest as her whole being seemed to be filled with nostalgia.
She cast a glance at her snoring daughter's face and regarded, 'I still can't believe you are in my arms from my belly, dear daughter. I've waited for this moment for so long. Aren't you excited to go home and meet all your family members?'
Tbc…