Chapter 33

Chapter 33

November 25th

Williams Mansion

“Ican’t do this,” Kara rushed out only to gasp in pain, squeeze her eyes shut and-

“Push!” Noah said firmly while Drew stood there, struggling to remember how to breathe as he looked across Kara to find Samantha and Cloe, the two Pytes who’d been nurses when they were human, comforting his mate while her grandfather paced the room behind them, looking more nervous than a Sentinel had any right to be.

“I can’t!” Kara cried as her grip around his hand tightened and her eyes flashed silver, letting them know just how badly she wanted to shift to get away from the pain, but that wasn’t an option at the moment.

“You can,” Drew assured her, giving her hand a comforting squeeze as he leaned down and kissed her forehead. “You’ve got this, baby.”

There was a sniffle and then came the sadly mumbled, “I would really like it if you knocked me out now.”

“I know you would,” Drew said, pressing one last kiss against her forehead as he glanced at Noah and couldn’t help but regret his decision to turn down Michael’s help when the Sentinel doctor offered to stay here to help them with this.

If this had been any other day, Drew would have demanded that the Sentinel doctor stay to help with the birth of his children, but this wasn’t just any other day. Today, ten Sentinel babies, five boys and five girls, were due to be born and that meant the Sentinels were going to need all the help that they could get to find them before it was too late.

All over the world, vampires, demons, and shifters were searching for those babies, hoping to find them before the Sentinels could. Some were hoping to use the Sentinel children as their own personal mercenaries, while others were hoping to sell them to the highest bidders, and the rest just wanted a chance to kill them.

Sentinels were stationing allies at hospitals and clinics all over the world, checking every baby that was born for the small cross and crescent moon birthmark beneath their navel that marked them as Sentinels. The problem was, so was everyone else and they outnumbered the Sentinels a thousand-to-one. There were hundreds of demon species on earth, thousands of shifters and vampires, who had thousands of minions, human servants, at their disposal while there were less than a hundred and sixty Sentinels alive, ten of which were only children.

There should have been a hundred and ninety Sentinels, but unfortunately for the Sentinels, more than thirty of them had been killed before their time, which meant that they had to rely heavily on allies made up of humans, vampires, demons, and shifters that had sworn allegiance to them to get the job done. Thankfully, this time the Sentinels had a secret weapon up their sleeve.

Tattletale.

The program was Izzy’s pride and joy. Before she found out that she was a Sentinel, Izzy had been a computer programmer specializing in security. She’d created Tattletale, a program designed to break into other programs, learning as it went, which apparently made it stronger and faster with every program that it encountered. She used it to help the Sentinels and on occasion, she used it for them when they needed a favor.

A month ago, Drew had been curious about something and asked Izzy to use Tattletale to help him figure something out, only to regret that decision when he got the answer that he hadn’t expected. Right after he’d discovered that Kara was his mate, someone had targeted her, destroying the life that she’d carefully built, leaving her on the street without a penny to her name.

At the time, he’d just assumed it was one of the other Packs vying for control of Boston, but now, he realized just how far his Pack had been willing to go to destroy him. If it had been anyone else that tried to bring him down, he would have already killed her, but the problem was, she wasn’t just anyone. She was his Beta’s mate.

Ryan was going to fucking kill him, but Drew didn’t have a choice, not when the bitch was still trying to take them down. When he found out that his best friend’s mate had been the one behind all the bullshit that they went through, he hadn’t believed it, but then he saw the bounty on Kara…

Tattletale was now watching her every move. She wouldn’t be able to so much as check her messages without Tattletale knowing about it, which is why the Sentinels were counting on it to help find those children before it was too late. They had Tattletale searching for twins since Sentinels required a human sibling’s help surviving the birth, the Sentinel birthmark, and unfortunately, for twins that died during the birth since most human twins didn’t survive. Drew was counting on them to find his son’s mate.

“That’s it,” Noah murmured as he gestured for Samantha to get ready and-

“Oh, god…” Drew mumbled hollowly as he stood there, watching as his son came into this world, screaming.

“He’s beautiful,” Samantha said with a warm smile as she took the baby from Noah and wrapped him in a blanket while Drew stood there, unable to look away as he watched his son.

He had a son…

Slowly exhaling, Drew felt his lips pull up into a smile as Samantha carried the little boy that was going to change everything closer so that he could see him. He was so beautiful, Drew thought, reaching out with a trembling hand to cup his son’s face in his hand as green eyes matching his mother’s narrowed on the move. Definitely going to take after Kara, Drew thought, chuckling as he leaned down and kissed his son’s forehead before Samantha took him to the table they’d set up to clean him so that she could introduce him to his mother.

“Are you ready?” Noah asked solemnly as his smile slowly disappeared as Drew’s attention was brought back to his mate and-

He was about to lose his daughter.

He’d told himself that he could handle it, that it was normal for mated couples to lose children this early in the mating, that it had to happen since his son needed a human twin to survive the birth, and every fucking line of bullshit that he could think of, but he couldn’t do this. He wasn’t going to be able to handle losing his little girl, Drew realized numbly as he stood there watching as Noah helped his little girl into the world.

“I need you to push one more time,” Noah said as Kara’s hand tightened around his, letting him know that this was tearing her apart.

Releasing a shaky breath, Drew stood there, watching as his little girl came into the world as the scent that her brother’s Alpha and Sentinel blood had covered became stronger, confirming that she was human.

Please, God, don’t do this to us…

“Shit!” Noah muttered as the smallest, most beautiful baby girl that Drew had ever seen made her way into the world and-

She wasn’t crying or moving.

“Please,” Kara said, sobbing as she struggled to sit up and go to her.

“Shift,” Drew said hollowly as he stood there, feeling his heart break as he watched Samantha hand his son over to Cloe so that she could help Noah try to save his daughter.

Please…

“You’ve gotta shift for them,” Drew said, already moving to help his mate off the bed while John went to take his grandson so that Cloe could help save his granddaughter.

With a reluctant nod, Kara slowly climbed off the bed while Drew stood there counting the seconds, praying that she took her first breath before it was too late. Giving Kara’s hand one last reassuring squeeze, he stepped back so that she could shift. In a matter of seconds, she shifted, forcing her body to heal.

She was so tiny, Drew thought, watching as Samantha grabbed oxygen while Noah pressed his fingertips against his baby girl’s tiny chest and began compressions and-

Drew’s legs gave out, dropping him to his knees as the realization that his daughter was about to die slammed into him. As soon as Kara shifted back to human, she was climbing onto his lap and burying her face against his chest as he struggled to hold it together.

Closing his eyes, Drew wrapped his arms around her as they waited for the words that would destroy them only to end up chuckling when he heard it, a small gasp and then, the loudest, most pissed-off baby scream that he’d ever heard. Releasing a shaky breath, Drew opened his eyes and pressed a kiss against the top of his mate’s head as they took in the adorable little girl that owned the last piece of his heart.