Beverly's Rebirth (A novella) (Six Saviors Series Book 4) Read Online Free Page B

touched the side of Beverly’s face. His eyes stung with tears. He simply couldn’t lose her.
    Sometimes he woke at night, his heart tight. Beverly would hopefully live to be eighty or ninety, and he would be alone again. And he would be alone for a very long time , as he still had another few hundred years to kick it around. That thought alone was hard enough to take, but this? To have her possibly leave him now? He couldn’t imagine that a deity would be so cruel to take her from him. They had been together just over a year, and those days had been the happiest in his long, long existence. He gazed down at his sleeping boy. He was determined to make sure that his child grew up with both parents.
    Beverly simply couldn ’t leave them now.
    Hudson looked up at Cohen, who had a stethoscope pressed against Beverly’s chest. His purple eyes burned brightly, his brow furrowed in concentration as he absently pushed the hair off his forehead.
    “ Her heartbeat is strong,” he mumbled.
    That was good. A strong heartbeat was good. Beverly was one of the strongest people he had ever met. He took a deep breath and renewed his faith that she would pull through.
    “Okay, I’m going to go in and heal her,” Cohen said, setting the stethoscope aside.
    He pulled the blanket up to Beverly ’s shoulders and laid his hands on her stomach. Taking a deep breath, he closed his eyes.
    Hudson sat still. Cohen had never healed a human before, and they didn ’t know what would happen. He could kill her. Hudson realized that one of his last memories of his lovren might be her calling him a selfish cocksucker.
    Please don ’t take her , he prayed as he watched Cohen. It was hard to believe that Cohen’s energy was in his Beverly, and both of them were working together to heal whatever had gone wrong during the birth and caused the hemorrhaging.
    “ No,” Cohen muttered. “No.”
    “ What’s wrong?”
    Cohen opened his eyes. “Damn it!” he yelled, “Beverly, don’t you dare do this!” He frantically looked around the room, his breathing heavy. “Beverly!”
    Hudson felt his gut clench and his throat constrict. “What happened?” he whispered, although he had a good idea.
    Cohen looked down at Beverly, and then around the room again. Finally, he met Hudson’s gaze. “Her energy is gone, Hudson. She was working with me to heal her, and then her energy just disappeared.”
    Hudson looked around the gym. If Beverly’s energy had left her body, she was now in that place between life and death.
    No. He couldn ’t let her go. As he held his baby, he felt the desperation well up in him.
    “ We have to get Rayner back here. Now,” he said.

Chapter 8
    Beverly opened her eyes and looked to her right. Twisting her head a little more, she saw Cohen standing next to her with his eyes closed. How odd.
    Turning to her left, she saw the top of Hudson’s head, and she wondered why the bed was so elevated. Then she saw a scrunched-up face and a head full of black hair peeking out from a swaddle of white towels.
    She reached over to them. “Hudson,” she said, “he’s beautiful.”
    She didn ’t know if it was a “he” for certain, but every fiber in her body told her that the darling wrapped in white towels was male. In fact, the facial features looked a lot like Hudson.
    “ Damn it!” Cohen yelled, “Beverly, don’t you dare do this!”
    Startled, she looked to her right again. How dare she do what?
    Except this time, she saw nothing but the open space of the gym. Not understanding what was going on, she panicked and twisted and turned.
    She was now looking down on her body, Cohen, Hudson , and their baby. The first thing she noticed was her body lying on the hospital bed. Her torso was covered with a white blanket, and her legs stuck out from under it. The lower half of the hospital bed was stained crimson with her blood. Cohen looked frantically around the room. Hudson sat next to her, a tube running from his arm to hers.