Beverly's POV

Labor was intense, the prenatal class or book didn't prepare me for it. Pain erupted through my entire body with each contraction, building and cresting like waves trying to drown me. My Luna blood made everything hypersensitive and I felt each sensation amplified a hundred times beyond what normal women experienced.

Bruce never left my side, his hand gripped mine through every contraction while he breathed with me in the rhythm we had practiced before. "You can do this," he ...