Stable {Book 2 of Living Alone}

Immira POV

"Immira stop with the pacing you are going to harm the baby." Ebenezer says to me sitting on our bed just watching me pace, shes in danger I know it, that horrible death then she leaves out of my protection, I was supposed to protect them and yet one dies! Someone got in our community they should still be here.

"I cant! Ben! I cant calm down I caused of all this to happen! I was supposed to look out for them! I failed!"

"Stop with this nonsence, dont you want our baby to be born ontime and healthy? I have pack buisness to attend to but Im not leaving until I know you are calm and laying soundly in this bed." He says pointing to my spot.

"Im not going to! I am past on time and if you werent so worried about keeping me in bed you would have known that I am a week past due!" I shout, every moment Sloans family is away from me is another moment she is in danger, they all are.

"Well I want you to be comfortable before his birth so you lay down right now and go to sleep."

"Ben! I need you to comfort me not lecture me on laying down and kicking my feet up and acting like nothing is wrong that a woman was not just brutally murdered in Sloans home, for all I know their family is dead and I failed him."

"You didnt, Immira please darling, for me and for our baby lay down and rest, I promise during my meeting I will have some people go and check on Sloan and her family."

"No I need to do it myself, I need to, I need confirmation that they are okay and that her baby is healthy and that it wont die."

"Who are you in love with more Sloan or me? I am sencing you are going lesbian by how much you talk about her, I am feeling neglected."

"Your not, I love you so much and if I didnt love you I would have never had your children and look we had fourteen." He chuckles softly making me do the same, I rub my stomach then agree and crawl back into the bed and lay down getting myself situated, putting a pillow in between my legs and one under my stomach with two under my head.

"All comfortable?" He asks me leaning over and kissing my cheek before petting my stomach softly making me shiver.

"Yeah."

"Are you okay? Feeling okay? Have you had your show? Braxton hixes? Anything?"

"No nothing yet, no labor pains, or labor back pain, no bloody show, nothing, Im fine, if I need you I will call you."

"I dont want to miss this ones birth."

"Last times were accidents they just came, plus I did call you, you just never picked up so they plopped out of me. You saw nine out of the fourteen births, you will be okay." He sighs and I know he wants to continue arguing but he wont win, my moods are too nasty that he knows he wont stand a chance plus Im a week over due, stressing about Sloans family, and worrying about my town that thinks a psycho is out to kill us all."

"See you probably in the morning."

"Take the boys to school please on your way to the meeting, I will have Lilah pick them up from school."

"She has her own baby to worry about, I will figure it out stop worrying and go to sleep, you need it." He says placing a kiss on my forhead before leaving my room and calling for the boys to go to school. I cant protect her all the way over there and shes never coming back, so there is only one answer.

Whatever I just need to sleep, I am feeling horrible, I will sleep it off then lay out the plan to the kids.

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"Immira baby, its time to wake up hunny." I hear Bens voice so soft and he strokes my arm up and down, the baby goes nuts inside me kicking and moving making it so uncomfortable. I groan softly and he hauls me to a sitting position while I stretch my arms. "Oo big stretch! You go girl." He says jokingly making me smile brightly to him, I drop my hands down and he leans down and kisses me softly then bends down farther kissing the top of my stomach. "After this are we having another?"

"No." I mutter, I am done, we have our even number and I am done, especially trying for a girl. "All you can produce are boys." I mutter and I reach my arms up while he hauls me to my large swollen feet. 

"Me? How is it my fault they decide themselves."

"No baby, no they dont,  you do it, everything is inside your sperm, not me, all I have is what holds the baby inside and helps dividing his cells, you do like everything else. Now lets go, Im starving and we need a family meeting."

"But the monthly picnic is today."

"No, no! Its family meeting day." I turn to him giving him my ticking face, its on annoyed then in three seconds it will be on bomb explosion of emotions. 

"We have a new family looking at the homes though." We what now?

"Who!" I bark to him, I dont have time nor energy to show them houses, I am exhausted and what would be super unprofessional would be if my water broke in the middle of the showing. 

"I dont know! Some family, two older sons, no mom and a scarry looking dad. Something smells off with them." 

"Family meeting now! I dont want to wait one more second Ebenezer! Go get them right now!" I scream to him and he hurries scrambling down the stairs, great he left me at the top with no help.

"Mom? Your link is on, do you need help?" Carl comes running up the stairs to my side, he is getting so big!

"Yes please, when did I say my little boy could turn seventeen?" I ask while he helps me walk slowly down the stairs, my feet are on fire, I dont know why but it feels like I am walking on tacks, maybe because this little boy has made me gain sixty pounds extra, I feel so fat.

"A week ago when you threw me that party? And your not fat, your link is still on." I groan but we finish walking down the steps and I sigh, I can breath! The baby is getting ready to come I can finally breathe.

"Nice try Carl but I am, now go find your sibblings as well I need to disguess major problems."

"Okay." He leavs the room like I asked and I smile, my little kids are getting so old and so fast. Derik and Carter are twenty four, Brice is twenty two, Sam is now twenty, Kenny and Boe and almost twenty, where on earth has my time gone? Within seconds the whole family comes piling in the house, all of them and they look exhausted themselves. They make themselves comfortable on the couch, stairs, floor, and recliners. Sage comes in a tad late with Grace in her carrier and hurries shoving Derik out of the recliner and gets herself situated.

"The reason I called this meeting is because I dont feel like its safe for us to be here anymore, so we all are moving to England, bring your girlfriends and what not but we need to leave here."

"Mom you cant go! Your about to have the baby!" Erin shouts, I just shake my head, Ben comes over grabbing my hand and he looks down to me.

"Are you sure about this?"

"We need to go, call the jet, we leave in the morning."