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Prologue

May

The contractions began late that night, and they began hard Marly awoke froasp on her lips as her rounded stohtened painfully Imperatively

She reached for Cade, to awaken him, to warn hi with panic as he flipped on the bedside lamp and stared back at her

“Oh shit” She had never heard that particular tone of voice from him before

Marly blinked at hihter and concern as his wide eyes went to the rippling nant abdomen

“Now, Cade,” she tried to soothe him as she scooted to the end of the bed, “don’t panic”

“Fuck Sam! Brock!” Marly was certain his demented scream rocked the upper level of the house

Da to panic on her now She did not need this

“Da?” Before she could throw her legs over the side of the ripped her arm to keep her in the bed

“Cade August, I refuse to have this child at ho at hiet dressed For that matter, so do you I need the hospital”

Marly hadn’t thought he could have gotten paler But he did In an instant his swarthy cohtly

“Oh shit,” he seemed to wheeze

The door burst open and Saun and a hard-on Brock was just sporting the hard-on Thankfully, Sarah and Heather had thought to drag on robes

Marly closed her eyes helplessly They still hadn’t coripped the the months she, Sarah and Heather had been stalked Annie still haunted them all

“Heather was so right last year,” she sighed “Only you guys would still have a hard-on, no matter the situation,” she nation

Another contraction seized her body, tightening her abdo the flesh convulsively

“Oh hell She’s in labor,” Saly

“I don’t want to have this baby here,” she moaned, more than worried at the suddenly horrified faces of the h she were so, please”

Thankfully, they did Marly wasn’t certain how theyherself, and into the vehicles heading for the hospital She was just thankful they had The contractions were co off, and though she fought to hide her fear from Cade, she couldn’t hide it from herself

She sat in the back seat of the Mercedes, Cade’s ar like a panting dog as she tried to relax through the rapidly building pain God, she was so thankful she opted for drugs for the delivery This was not comfortable Not comfortable at all

“Babe, you doing okay?” Saht, his worried face reflected in the dihts