"Love in the Great Pine Woods" by Gratiana Lovelace (2015-2016) (Completed)

Ch. 45 (PG-13, D): Baby Love

"Love in the Great Pine Woods", Ch. 45 (PG-13, D): Baby Love,  July 25, 2016 by Gratiana Lovelace  (Post #943)

(An original story copyrighted by Gratiana Lovelace; all rights reserved) [(1) story cover, left]

[From time to time, I will illustrate my story characters with: Richard Armitage as Sam Wakeforest, Marcia Gay Harden as Sam's older sister Tessa Wakeforest Shoop Delaney, and Emily Deschanel as Tessa's sister-in-law Olivia Delaney Wakeforest, Viola Davis as Pauletta Perkins, Cicely Tyson as Nellie Newton, Anna Sophia Robb as Alice Trent, Kevin Spacey as Roger Delaney, Sam Heughan as Todd Wakeforest, Idris Elba as Dominic Perkins, the late Polly Holliday as the Waitress Madge, Donald Sutherland as Aldus Warren, Teri Polo as Lillian Warren, and Ewan McGregor as David Warren, and others as noted.]

Author's Content Note: "Love in the Great Pine Woods" is a mature love story with dramatic themes of love and relationships. It will mostly be at the PG and PG-13 movie levels. Specific chapters or passages may have a further rating of: L for language, D for dramatic emotions, and S for sensual themes. And I will rate the chapters accordingly. If you are unable or unwilling to attend a movie with the ratings that I provide for a chapter, then please do not read that chapter. This is my disclaimer. And as is my habit, I will summarize the previous chapter's events at the beginning of the next chapter.

Author's Recap from the Previous Chapter: The attacking male bear is dead, but the injured mother bear might yet be saved. And Sam discovers that his wife has gone into labor early with their twins while having a baby shower hosted by his sister Tessa at their Hidden Lake Cottage at the base of Wakeforest Mountain.

"Love in the Great Pine Woods", Ch. 45: Baby Love

The blood drains from Sam Wakeforest's face when his niece Alice tells him that his wife Olivia is in labor early for their twins in the cottage. She isn't due to deliver for another five weeks. Then he sprints toward their Hidden Lake cottage where Olivia, his sister Tessa, and the the baby shower guests have taken refuge--still distressed over the almost bear attack.

Sam's worry is further complicate with frustration because the protective barbed wire screen was dropped over the porch, and he has to run around to the back to get inside the house. Sam yells dashing inside his cottage via the kitchen door at the back--his niece Alice is closely upon his heels.

Sam: "Olivia!"

Sam is confronted with a nearly surreal view of some of the baby shower ladies still cowering there by the icebox--from their earlier fear of a bear attack. The ladies are brandishing all manner of wooden and metal cooking utensils as their only means of defense. Sam makes a mental note to upgrade the kitchen accoutrements with a new set of knives. The ladies startle when he enters. Except one well known lady—his and Olivia's Housekeeper--drops her metal soup ladle in relief.

Mrs. Ventura: "Hi Mister Sam. You're going to be a Papa today!" She smiles cheerfully.

Sam latches onto his housekeeper's upper arms as if she is his savior.

Sam: "How is Olivia?" Just then a screeching scream punctuates the air and everyone's conversations stop.

Olivia in bedroom: "Aaaaarrrrggggg!"

Mrs. Ventura: "Ah me, such is the fate of women—to suffer in childbirth." She crosses herself.

Sam: "Is she suffering?" Sam asks worriedly.

Nine pairs of female eyes turn to Sam and knowingly nod their heads. Having heard a commotion in the kitchen and recognizing that deep voice, Sam's sister Tessa Wakeforest Shoop Delaney opens the bedroom door to the kitchen.