Promise

chapter 90

15 years ago
Elijah
I paced up and down the hospital ward. Sarah had gone into labour, I was quickly rushed out the room by doctors after a monitor started going off. I was beyond nervous, hoping that my child would make it.

My parents had yet to arrive so I was all alone waiting and hoping both my child and Sarah would be ok.
My family would soon be complete. I had told Sarah about the mafia and she had accepted it, this was even better because now there was no secrets between us.

We wanted the gender not to be known until birth so we had created a beautiful neutral nursery which I already planned to add stuff too. My child was definitely going to be spoilt.
We were still undecided on baby names.
My favourites were Avery if it was a girl and Theo if it was a boy.
Sarah's favourites were Amanda and Clay.
If I'm being honest I prefer my options over Sarah's and I was just hoping we could go with one of my name's.

A doctor came out of the room and I was in front of her in seconds "congratulations Mr West, it's a healthy baby girl"
A smile automatically appeared on my face and it only grew.
I had a daughter.
I walked into the room and my heart just melted. Sarah was sat holding our daughter. She was wrapped a grey baby blanket and her small features looked adorable.
"Meet Avery" Sarah whispered looking up at me. I smiled further as I approached. I carefully picked her up from Sarah's arms and as I looked down at her I  knew in that moment there was nothing I wouldn't do for her. I would protect her with my life and sheild her from the cruility of this world.

A month later

I had started working less, I wanted to spend as much time with my daughter as possible. She was everything to me.  Everytime I entered the room she would reach her arms up wanting to be picked up, I gladly complied. I noticed Sarah was starting to get annoyed at how much time I spent with Avery. She was always in my arms when I wasn't at work, there was even times were I did meetings from my home office with Avery sleeping in my arms. She was my whole world.
My parents adored her too. When I first told them about Sarah being pregnant they both had very different reactions.
Mum was excited and she instantly started shopping for baby stuff.
Dad he was less excited, he did nothing but lecture me for days, after all I was only 19, apparently i was too young but once he saw Avery for the first time his attitude changed, he loved her just like everyone did.

Sarah Pov

I loved Avery I really did. We were a family, Elijah, Avery and I. I was happy at first, I had everything I wanted in life but  things started to change. Elijah was always with her, she could do no wrong in his eyes, I saw the truth though. She had become an annoying brat, the first few weeks were great. I had an amazing daughter but now she was a little bitch, always crying, always needing feeding. I had enough of her but I had to keep her around.
Elijah was out getting some shopping so I was stuck with Avery. She was in her crib  but she had begun to cry I had tried to ignore her but I couldn't any longer. God I wish she would just shut up. I decided to make sure she wasn't dying, after all Elijah would kill me if anything happened to her. She looked at me with a grin when I came in. Fucking brat was crying on purpose. I couldn't hold my anger anymore and my hand found itself connecting with her body. "Shut the fuck up" I say and walk out, ignoring her cries.

Elijah came back with the shopping, he said a quick hello and went to put away the food. I followed him to the kitchen were he was just finishing up. I went to kiss him, although he kissed back it didn't last long as he pulled away "I need to go see my Princess, Ive been gone way to long" he was obsessed. "You haven't even been an hour" I say not liking how he puts her first."yeah but for her it will seem longer" he says. "But babe, you don't show me love anymore" I try again which seems to get his attention. "I'm sorry babe, it's just Avery needs us, she's only a month old. I do love you Sarah" 

I'll hopefully be updating more often again. This is just a quick filler.

A side note...Sarah took Avery when she was about 4/5 months old.