The sterile smell of antiseptic filled the hospital room clashing with the primal energy crackling in the air. Audrey lay pale and trembling her cries mingling with the distant hum of machines.
Doctors and nurses buzzed around her their urgent voices a blur to Adam who stood at the edge of the bed torn between his humanity and the beast clawing at his insides.
“Push Audrey! Just one more!” the doctor urged his tone strained as the heart monitor beside her blipped erratically.
Audrey’s nails dug into Adam’s hand her sweat-drenched face twisted with pain. “I can’t… Adam I can’t!”
“You can” Adam whispered his voice trembling with a rare fragility. “I’m here Audrey. Just hold on.”
With one final scream the room filled with a tiny wailing crysharp and piercing. For a split second
