Equinox

CH. 28

CH. 28 (Emmett)

Since I don't sleep my days and nights run together, but now that my wife is fixing to have surgery to have our sons taken out. Well, my days and nights are limited.

Don't get me wrong, I love my wife and I'm so grateful that she's giving me sons.

But after hearing her cry over the daughter she will never have nearly broke my already dead heart.

I wish I could give her a daughter, I wish we could keep trying until she has her daughter.

But with a vampire as a husband, she only gets one shot.

And unfortunately she is getting two sons.

Sure she will love our boys with her whole heart, they will mean the world to both her and I, but knowing that I can't give my wife something that she wants, well it hurts.

I started thinking about a cute little red headed girl, Katrina Elise, the daughter I would never have.

I put a hand on my wife's growing belly and kissed her soft cheek, I silently thanked God for this gift.

I stepped back and looked at my wife's beautiful sleeping face.

"I wish I could give you the world my love." I said knowing fully well she couldn't hear me.

"It sucks when we can't give them what they want." Edward said walking into the room.

"Yeah." I agreed.

"May I ask what it is Elle wants?" He asked.

I sighed, "a daughter."

It's times like these I wish I could cry, I wouldn't even care of I looked like a pansy, I bet it would feel good to just cry it out and get over it.

"I'm sorry." Edward said, realizing the impossibility of my situation.

"It's fine, just something we will have to overcome." I said.

"I'm Also sorry for being mad at you," Edward confessed. "I was mad at you for allowing your wife to risk her body by getting pregnant. I don't know, it's just when I found out she was pregnant it took me back to when Bella was pregnant and I started thinking of all the bad things. All of the broken bones, how Nessie was literally sucking Bella's life away, and then the horrible delivery, I almost lost both of them that night, but by some miracle I managed to save both of them."

He paused and then continued. "I see now that since Carlisle knows a bit more what to expect this time around, Elle has been in good health, her number of pregnancy related injuries is far less than Bella's and you guys have an actual birth plan. I hope this works out with no bumps at all."

"Me too brother." I said.

"I can't wait to meet my nephews." He said smiling at me.

"We're giving them yours and Jasper's names as their middle names." I confessed.

Edward beamed with happiness and then we hugged.

"Forgive me if I favor one over the other." He said jokingly.

"Yeah yeah, don't get too big of an ego over it. We can always change our minds." I said laughing as his face fell.

"Elle wouldn't let you." He said.

I nodded "that's true, she's already got her mind set on those names." I confessed.

Edward left the room and I sat with my wife until she woke.

As the days went by Carlisle had filled me in on the step by step of the procedure.

"So I have to bite it?" I questioned as he explained how we would get the babies out.