"Never hide things from hard-core thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths."
Tough beta cop, Wang Yibo, wakes up one morning with a hangover and some very vague memories of the previous night. One o...
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ZHAN POV
After I pulled up to the emergency room entrance and got out of the car, I grabbed a wheelchair, then grabbed Yibo. I knew there was no way he was going to be able to get out of that low car seat on his own, so I picked him up.
"What the hell are you doing?" he said through gritted teeth.
"Will you put me down, Zhan?"
I set Yibo down in the wheelchair, then kicked the car door shut.
"I told you, I've got this. All you need to do from this point onward is push. I'll take care of everything else."
I didn't care if Yibo was rolling his eyes at me. I didn't care if I was acting like a typical alpha. I was about to have a baby and there was nothing he or anyone else could do to stop me from doing thing my way from here on out.
"We're having a baby!"
I yelled to no one in particular as I pushed Yibo into the ER reception area. There were a number of people sitting and standing around and they all looked over at us and smiled. I couldn't believe how calm everyone was, but I figured maybe they hadn't heard me, so I yelled a little louder.
"We need to get him into a room! The baby is coming now!"
"XIAO ZHAN!"
Yibo said as he grabbed one of my hands.
"They heard you."
"Then why aren't they doing anything? We need to get you into a room!"
"There are people in line in front of us. We can't just barge up to the beginning of the line."
"Oh, yes we can," I said as I wheeled Yibo past some clearly less urgent cases. The nurse behind the counter took one look at Yibo and smiled, waving the two of us to the front of the line.
"It's okay, dear. We'll take care of everything. Now, what's your name?"
she asked Yibo as she typed something into her keyboard.
"We don't have time for that," I said.
No one seemed to be taking this seriously.
"We need to get him into a delivery room right now! I'm a police officer and this is an emergency!"
Both the nurse and Yibo looked at me, and then they both started laughing.
"It's okay, Zhan. The baby's not coming out this very second," Yibo said, grabbing my hand again.
"We have time."
"Just take a deep breath, Mr. ..."
The nurse glanced back and forth between the two of us waiting for a name.
"He's Xiao and I'm Wang," Yibo said, and even though I knew it wasn't that important—especially with all the advances we'd made as a society—I kind of wished our names were the same.
