Vanessa's POV

Vanessa wasn’t prepared for how much this kind of pain could strip a person down, she never imagined that the pain could be this much.

Real contractions, medically induced contractions, were nothing like the harmless tightening she’d been faking over the phone, or the false contractions she had from taking the teas. These ones clawed through her abdomen in deep, rolling waves that made her grip the bed rails as though the room might tilt away and drop her.

She hated the ...