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"Keep breathing Nova we will be there soon" Rinus says as he runs Alara and I back to Attor.

"My Queen are you alright" Attor asks.

"Yea the baby is coming so thats great" I manage to say.

"Fly fast Attor, I don't know how long she has been like this" Rinus ordres.

"Please tell me it won't take three days" Alara says.

"I will try my best" Attor responds.

"Hi, my angel. I know I asked you for a month or two and I'm glad you listened and happy to meet you but I need you to wait til we are with daddy okay" I plead with my belly.

"Nova thats not how that works" Rinus says softly.

"Shut the fuck up or I will throw you off Attor" I snap.

"Thats probably better than what awaits us at home" Alara says as she begins to rub my back.

"He is going to kill us probably right after the baby arrives" Rinus mumbles. I try and tune them out by humming to myself. Distractions helped, I finally fell asleep and when I wake up I could see the castle. Thank gawd or not. As we get closer I see a very pissed off Cain.

"On second thought lets just fly over the castle" I mumble.

"Aaaah nope never mind" I scream. As Attor lands Cain storms toward us his eyes black with rage.

"WHERE THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN?! he bellows.

When no one answers he contiunes "A FUCKING MONTH DO YOU KNOW HOW WORRIED I'VE BEEN?

!". "Kinanxto" Alara whispers. "YOU FUCKING TOOK HER TO KINANXTO?

!" "Cain I love you and I know you are pissed but aaaaah ooo okay.

I need you to shut the fuck up this baby is coming right noooowww! " I say.

Cain's eyes change back to normal. "The baby is coming?

Now?" he asks in disbelief. "Yess, it would have been sooner but I asked her to wait for you to be present so unless you want the whole castle to see my vagina we need to go inside" I choke out.

"Cain pick Nova up and take her inside" Ares nudges him.

Cain scoops me up and runs into the first room he sees.

"I'm not having my baby in the kitchen" I snap.

"The room next to yours" Alara says running up ahead to quickly fix the bed.

"Is that comfortable?" Alara fluffs pillows for me.

"Mmmhmm" I nod. "Why does this hurt so much, should it hurt so much? " I ask Rinus.

"Child birth is painful" Rinus states as he rips off my pants. Alara puts me in a loose white dress "I know you wanna look presentable". I do remember me telling her that once. "Why white?" I ask. "All royals wear white during the birthing process" she explains. "Thats odd but okay" I mumble.

"Rinus is my cervix dialated enough?" I question.

I don't know how much of this pain I could stand.

Cain seems to be out of his daze because he comes to sit next to me and holds my hand.

"You are incredible my love" he whispers.

"I want to thank you for doing this for us" he continues.

"Well who the fuck would do it instead?" I snap.

"Its the pain talking Cain it's not you" Rinus informs him.

"Most women have a stronger annoyance with their men when giving birth" he says.

"Oh hmm. Nova how can I help?" he asks instead.

"Is everything ready?" I ask. "Yes my mother has been preparing for a month" he rubs my forehead.

"Coooool owww, I can't do this" I shake my head.

"Rinus isn't there drugs to numb me" I ask.

"I don't know how long you have been in labour but by the look of your cervix its too late for that" he says.

"You know what fuck you! I cry. "My love you are doing amazing" Cain whispers.

Then turns to Rinus "How the fuck don't you know how long she has been like this?

" he growls. "Um she has been unconscious for a month" Rinus states.

"Excuse me?!" Cain snaps. "They were both safe its fine" he nervously laughs.

"Ares bring in Ares he always has idiotic things to say" I breath out.

"Ares!" Cain yells. "I will deal with you later" Cain tells Rinus.

"You called?" Ares peaks in. "Be funny to distract Nova" Cain orders.

"Um I can't just turn it on" he mumbles.

"Fucking useless" I throw a pillow at him.

"Its the pain talking" Rinus tells him. "Why is she so mean?

" Ares frowns. "How about you try and push something from your hole and see if you can stay nice" I glare at him.

"You aren't pushing though" he says. "Your vagina looks like its yawning" he says thoughtfully.

"Ares move that isn't helpful or funny" Cain sighs.

"Oh good you are the right amount dialated to begin pushing.

Its better to take deep breaths than scream through it" he says.

"Breath my love breath" Cain rubs small circles on the back of my hand.

I do just that breath and resist the urge to scream and or cuss everyone the fuck out.

"Is..am I done?" I ask. "No, only push when I say push, I can see the head now" Rinus tells me.

Simple enough, we then hear a whole lot of commotion within the walls.

"Ares trouble" Tariq barges in. "My Queen, My King" he bows.

"What do you mean trouble?" I ask after my second breath out.

" A small army is approaching, a messenger was sent ahead.

They are here for the Queen" Tariq says. "The Queen is busy" Alara states.

"I apologise they want to take her, like Zaros did except not return her" Tariq clarifies.

As if summoning him Zaros appears. "Cain how do you want me to deal with this?

" he asks. "You are doing a wonderful job my Queen" he says when he notices me.

"Fuck off!" I snap. "As charming as ever" he replies.

"Push" Rinus instructs. "I will go deal with it" Cain sighs.

"No please stay" I hold his hand tighter.

"Of course my love" he kisses my forehead.

"Tell Ares and Vato to kill anyone who tries to enter the castle the same goes for all the men" he says.

"Push" Rinus instructs. "How long is this baby?

" I moan. "You are almost there" he replies.

"You can do this my little fawn you are a warrior" Cain smiles at me.

"If you get me pregnant again I'm going to kill you" I growl before I push.

"I love you too" he chuckles. "One big push" Rinus says.

I take a deep breath and push as I exhale.

When I hear the baby cry I sigh in relief.

"Meet your...". "Ares? You are covered in blood" Alara exclaims. "The castle is breached, there were a lot more men than initially reported. " he says before running out again.

"My love I need to go" Cain tries to say softly.

His eyes were already shifting to black.

"Rinus what meet your what?" I ask. "Daughter" Rinus says handing me my baby.

"Hi, my angel" I sob. I look up at Cain and the rage is momentarily gone as he stares at our creation.

He gently touches her hand and she hold on to a finger. "That's your daddy, angel" I coo.

"I love you both so much" Cain kisses her head and then mine.

"Rinus, Alara protect them with your lives and all is forgiven" he runs out of the room.

"She is so cute" Alara squeals. "Alara focus the castle is breached" Rinus gets up and stands by the door.

"This is your Auntie Alara and over there is your Uncle Rinus" I tell her.

Her eyes weren't even open but I knew she was paying attention.

"Rinus I feel like I need to push" I say.

Please don't be a second baby, there is too much going on right now.

"Its just the placenta you can push after you cut the cord" he says as he peeks through the crack of the door.

Alara gets up and hand me a knife, "Can you do it?

" I ask. She nods and cuts the cord and then I take a breath and push.

"Much better" I sigh. Alara hands me a blanket and I wrap it around my baby girl.

"Well there goes Ares" Rinus sighs. "What does that mean?

" Alara asks. "He was thrown against a wall, struggling to get up" he says.

"Go help him" I say. "I'm not leaving your side" Rinus answers.

"Um it doesn't look good outside" Alara says walking away from the window.

Why couldn't anything be simple? Couldn't this army come for me on a different day. Its like the universe knows I have an important event and is like ha you thought bitch. Cause honestly I should be resting but now I have to get out of the castle. "Rinus, we have to get out of here" I tell him.

"If they are in we need to go out..." I say.

"Absolutely not!" Rinus snaps. "Fuck, they are coming from all directions, remind me to kill Emmett after this, he better be in the dungeon when this is over" he says.

"Wait they found him?" no one had told me.

Okay worrying about the wrong thing I need to get out.

Rinus is now my obstacle and I need someone to remove the obstacles outside the door.

Fuck he is going to hate me for this but the safety of my child comes first.

"Alara we are leaving the castle to find Attor" I whisper as softly as I can.

Rinus was distracted assessing the situation.

Alara nods and grabs some stuff she thinks we might need.

I start to hum the forbidden song. "Nova stop" Rinus growls.

I open my mouth and the words start pouring out.

Rinus turns around eyes black and the black veins on his face.

"Nova" he growls. The baby makes an annoyed sound. "Rinus you are agitating my baby stop growling and listen" I snap. "I need you to remove the obstacles outside that door all those who do not fight for us, understand?" I ask. "You did this on purpose?" he questions.

"Yes, I will go to Attor with Alara and then Cain can find us where its hot" I thought if he got captured or something he wouldn't know the location.

"Take this, a poisoned dagger. It will only activate in your hand, try and touch the skin and make Alara hold the baby" He says.

"Thank you for doing this" I whisper. "My niece and you are the most important thing to me, no offense Alara" he says.

Rinus walks out the door and I hear the predatory noise he made last time and hear a bunch of pained screams. "Stay close" I whisper to Alara.

As we tip toe through the halls we try not to look at the carnage Rinus left, he was not kidding around.

The baby starts fussing which draws attention to us.

Alara thinks quick and throws a cup in the opposite direction.

Running into the secret passage way I found with Ares we end up right next to the forest. I turn and see the men fighting. Cain catches my eye and when he sees me I mouth I love you and then Alara and I take off running into the woods.