Within Their World

Angelica Leaves the Baby Wing

After this, all extras that have to do with the kids and babies will be on the second page. One will be posted tonight.

Cody's POV

      "Come on baby. We have to get up now." James is trying to coax me out of bed but I'm perfectly okay with sleeping the day away and cuddling him into next year without a problem. 

       But apparently that's not acceptable.

        "No. Let's stay in bed." I grumble into the pillow, holding on tighter to my papa bear, not ready to get form under the warm sheets. I went to sleep late last night because I found Zee sitting on the couch with a cup of tea waiting for me. We talked well into the morning and now that I found myself comfy, I'm not quite ready to move.

         "Baby bean you cant sleep the day away." James tells me and I snort softly before lazily bringing up my hand to smack him in the face.

"Stop trying to taint me with lies. Shhhh." I tell him, wanting him to shut his sexy mouth so that I can get to sleep faster and do just as he said: sleep the day away.

"You'll be upset if you sleep the whole day away." He tries to tell me and I still away form his body in a tantrum but roll back because he's too warm and cuddly not to be pressed against. I begin jumping his legs with little sound effects, trying to distract him from talking but it only works for a second before he laughs and he repeats his sentence.

"I could never be upset with sleep. It was supposed to be my Mate. I just know it." I tell him and he snorts before pulling me up on the bed to look me in the eye.

"Baby, Angelica is leaving the wing today. And her family isn't staying in the pack." He says and the smile wipes right off of my face. Ever since I started working with the babies in the wing two months ago, Angel and I have had a special connection. Her sweet baby blue eyes and her red hair beautiful as she fell asleep in my arms. Apparently I was the only one she went to sleep with without a fuss.

She's the first baby I go and see and the last one I say goodbye to. She's become such a permanent fixture in my life I never considered her leaving the wing. Much less the pack.

Which means that this is goodbye.

Looking into James' green gaze, I find myself tearing up, my eyes blurry my vision as I think about having to let go the baby that has begin to make me feel a little bit better about not being able to have my own. And now she's leaving, the closest thing I had to a daughter.

       Once James sees the tears in my eyes he sighs and pulls me into his chest, his lips coming to rest against my temple as I begin to sob.

       There's no words spoken between us but rather a mutual sense of sadness as I mourn for the closest thing I had to a daughter and him, because he knows how much she means to me. We just lay there for a few minutes as I cry, before James speaks up.

      "Come on. Let's go see her one last time before she has to leave today." He says and I shake my head, making him frown in confusion before I clarify.

       "Can we go somewhere first? I want to get her a gift. Something that she can take with her even if she's too young to remember me." I ask softly and he looks at me with a soft gaze and a smile.

        "Of course, bean. Come on." He agrees and it makes me tears slow down a little bit even if my hands can't stop fluttering about in nerves and anxiety, knowing that as much as I want to give her a present, it's just an excuse to give myself a little more time. I'm not ready to say goodbye to her. But I know if I don't, I would hate myself forever.