Chapter Fifty - Final Chapter
Valerie's POV
I was already eight months heavy with child. Two months after our wedding, we found out I was already pregnant. The reaction on Axel's face the moment I told him the good news was priceless. He cried. Atticus Xavier Enrique Lavigne actually cried when he found out I was carrying his child.
Right away, he sold his condo unit. He said condominiums weren't a good place to raise a child, it would be unsafe and inconvenient for a family. He bought a huge four bedroom house in one of the most secured and exclusive villages. I was happy with our new home. It had a huge garden, kaya habang nagbubuntis ako I did a little gardening. The flowers I planted were blooming beautifully in it.
He was nothing short of a caring husband to me. He showered me with all the love and attention I needed. Especially when I was going through a very hormonal phase during my pregnancy. Wala akong hiniling na hindi niya ibinigay. When I wanted mint chocolate chip ice cream at two in the morning, he'd get out of bed and look for one.
This pregnancy had been really hard. I always get emotional but Axel was there to comfort me. I was always moody but he was very patient with me. Whenever I get insecure, he assures me that I was the most beautiful woman for him, he'll tell me the most rational explanations why I should not be insecure and tell me all the good personalities and physical attributes I had.
Pregnancy wasn't as enjoyable as I thought it would be but I was glad Axel was with me all through it.
"Careful." Axel held my hand as I slid into the pool. He pulled me to him and held me by the waist with my back against his chest. He wrapped his hands protectively around my huge stomach. I felt the baby give a hard kick. It probably felt the change of temperature because of the water. This little thing inside me gets more and more active each day. It just wouldn't stop moving. Minsan magigising ako madaling araw dahil sa tadyak niya.
Axel let out a chuckle when he felt it on his hand. "There's my baby again."
"This thing in my stomach is becoming more restless everyday. It's kicking me every five minutes." I complained.
"It's probably getting crowded in their and our baby wants to get out." He said as he rubbed my tummy.
"I can't wait to give birth to this child. I'm desperate to get rid of this belly. Look at me! I'm like a fat bear." I pouted.
"You're a beautiful fat bear." He whispered to my ear.
"Oh so you agree?" I rolled my eyes at him.
"No, that's not what I meant." Axel quickly answered.
"Ewan ko sa'yo!" Kumawala ako sa mga bisig niya. He tried to pull me back but I pushed him away.
"Come on, Val. What I mean is that you're beautiful even with your huge pregnant belly. I don't mind it, not at all." He explained.
But me, being the moody and dramatic pregnant woman I was, got out of the pool and walked away. He sighed and followed me inside the house.
"You are such a moody pregnant brat." He said when he caught me by my waist.
"Ikaw kaya sa posisyon ko. Can you imagine carrying a five pound baby inside you twenty-four seven and your hormones and body are all going crazy? And then you have your husband telling you that you look like a fat bear." I pouted.
"I did not say you look like a fat bear." Dahan-dahan niya akong hinatak paupo sa couch. He pulled me down to sit on his lap.
"Yes you did!"
"You said you look like a fat bear and I told you that you're a beautiful fat bear. I was trying to compliment you." He sighed.
"I'm not flattered." Sumimangot ako.
"I guess what I really want to say is that you're beautiful. You'll always be beautiful to me, baby. Always remember that." He looked at me intently and with full of sincerity in his eyes.
A smile slowly spread across my lips and I wrapped my arms around his neck. "Really?"
"Really." He smiled back at me and kissed me on the lips. "I love you."
"I love you too." I responded, rubbing my nose against his.
I felt lucky for having him an understanding, patient and loving husband. How could I be more blessed than I was now? I had everything I had ever hoped and dreamt about... everything and so much more.
Axel's POV
Valerie was in the bathroom and I was watching tv in our bedroom. The door to the bathroom was open. I tell her to always leave it open when she uses it. Para alam ko kung ano ang nangyayari sa kanya kahit nasa loob siya ng banyo. She might trip or fall down and I wouldn't know.
The last time I checked on her, she was soaking in the tub while reading a book. She had been complaining about the pain in her back since this afternoon. Kanina ko pa siya inaaya magpunta sa doktor pero ayaw niya. She said it wasn't really that painful, I told her that if doesn't get better by tomorrow we'd see her doctor. She had been complaining about it since the second trimester of her pregnancy, the doctor would always tell us that it was normal and we had nothing to worry about. The backpain was just from the weight of the baby in her stomach.
"Axel..." I heard her call me.
I jumped out of bed and ran into the bathroom. "What? Is something wrong?"
"I think the baby wants to get out... NOW!"
"What?!" Panic quickly rose into me. I carefully guided her out the tub and wrapped a robe around her body. "Are you okay? How are you feeling?"
"It... it hurts." She groaned. "My stomach hurts. Oh my god!"
As we were heading towards the bathroom door, a rush of water began to flow down between her legs. Fuck! Her water broke! I swallowed, forcing myself to remain calm.
"Axel..." She winced, gripping my arm tightly. "I can't... walk... masakit talaga..."
"It's going to be alright, I promise." I gently said before lifting her up and carrying her to our bedroom. I laid her down the bed and sat on the edge of it, next to her.
"Axel!" She screamed. "Get this thing out of me! It's breaking me from the inside!"
"Calm down, okay?" I said even though I was starting panic too. It was as if my mind had completely gone blank. I thought I would be prepared when the time comes but I guess I wasn't. "Take a deep breath. Remember how we did it in Lamaze class?" Good thing I was always with her when she was taking Lamaze class. I never missed a single day of it. Kahit paano may alam ako.
She started taking deep, long breaths, she held in the air for a few seconds before breathing it out just like how she was taught. I grabbed my phone and dialed the hospital's number to call an ambulance. I told them to get here as soon as possible.
"Axeeel!" She screamed again and I almost dropped my phone.
"What? What's wrong? Baby, you have to calm down. It's going to be alright, you'll be alright and the baby's going to fine." I gently said. I was telling it to her but it seemed like I was telling it to myself more.
"Oh my god! I could feel the baby..." She said through labored breath. She was already sweating and panting.
I pulled her robe open and pulled her legs apart. I felt like energy had been drained out of me when I saw the crown of the baby's head. I had absolutely no clue on what to do. I didn't know how to get it out.
"Please, please... get it out. Masakit na talaga." She begged, tears flowing down her voice.
"Oh, baby." I cupped her face and kissed her tears away. I felt helpless. I couldn't just sit here and wait for the ambulance to get here. Hindi ko na din naman siya madadala sa ospital dahil hindi niya na daw kaya. The hospital was at least thirty minutes away from us. The baby wanted to get out and I needed to do something. Baka kung mapaano ang anak ko at si Valerie kung wala akong gagawin.
I tried to remember everything they taught us in Lamaze class. The breathing technique, the movement and the position. I decided to take matters into my own hands. I called her OB-GYN, I told her that the baby was ready to come out and I needed her to assist me over the phone. I put the phone on loudspeaker.
"I can already see the top of the baby's head." I told the doctor.
"What? That's dangerous. The baby could suffocate if it stays in the birth canal for too long. You need to make your wife push the baby out. We'll come right there as soon as we can." She said. My heart pounded like mad and my blood rushed through myveins. I didn't want anything to happen to my child or to my wife. Fear took over me but I had to remain calm. Kailangan kong lakasan ang loob ko. I would do everything in my power to get her and the baby through this.
I held Valerie's hand and looked her into her eyes. "Did you hear that? The doctor said you have to push the baby out."
She let out a loud groan. Her hand squeezed mine as she tried to push. Her face turned red and tears flowed down her cheeks.. God, I wished I could something more than holding her hand. I felt faint, it was if I could feel her pain too.
"Take a deep breath, baby." I calmly said. She relaxed, laying her head down the bed. She took in five deep breaths before giving another push.
She groaned and grunted loudly. After awhile, she stopped pushing again to catch her breath. "It's hurting really bad. I feel like it's tearing me apart." She cried.
"I'm sorry, baby." I said, kissing her hand. "Konting tiis na lang. You've got to keep pushing."
She pushed again and I looked in between legs. Blood oozed out around the tight circle of her skin as it opened up. The head of the baby slowly came out.
"Konti na lang. Take a deep breath and push out." I told Valerie. My eyes started to water. She pushed again and I supported the baby's head with my hand. The head was already out and tears fell from my eyes when I saw my child's face. The circle of blooded skin settled around the baby's neck.
"Val, our baby's almost out. You have to push harder." I said.
She gave one last, hard push and I pulled the rest of the baby's body out. I carefully carried my child into my arms. Kinuha ko ang kumot mula sa kama at pinunasan ang dugo sa mukha nito. Valerie's body limped tiredly against the bed. The baby cried and I started to cry too. She felt so fragile and soft. There was not a single word in any language I know that could describe how I was feeling as I held my baby in my arms. I didn't have the right words to tell how perfect it was I was in complete bliss, a state of perfect tranquility and happiness.
"It's a girl." I smiled with tears in my eyes. I instantly fell in love with her. She was pink and tiny and beautiful. "Hi, baby. I'm your daddy." Mahinang sabi ko habang pumapatak ang luha sa mga mata ko.
I looked at Valerie. She was still awake, looking at me with hooded eyes. Inilapit ko sa kanya ang anak namin. I laid our crying daughter on her chest. She looked at her with tears in her eyes before looking up at me. I tucked the loose strands of her hair behind her ear and gave her a kiss on the forehead.
"Thank you, Val. Thank you for giving me a beautiful daughter. I love you and our baby." I whispered against her skin.
My daughter's mouth found its way to her nipple and latched on it hungrily. We both fell silent as we watched our baby in awe. Our beautiful baby was worth the pain.
"Anais Rebecca." Valerie said, out of the blue. "I want to name her Anais Rebecca." She got the Rebecca from her mother. She always tells me that if our baby turns out to be a girl, she would name it after her late mother.
"It's beautiful, the name fits her perfectly." I smiled.
Anais grew up to be as beautiful as Valerie. She had my dark eyes, her mother's straight and slightly upturned nose, and pouty lips. She was as bratty as her mother but also as lovable as her too. Smart and clever but cunning. She had a natural charm and a personality that you just have to love.
Valerie was a great mother to our daughter. Nothing had changed since the day we got married. If anything I love her even more than I did before, if that was even possible. And after all those year, the passion between us never faded or subsided.
Oh God, how I love this woman. I thought to myself as I breathed into her hair. I couldn't imagine a life without her and our daughter.
I began giving her small kisses on the hair and my lips trailed down to the side of her head, her cheeks and her jaw. She moaned, half-asleep. I pulled her closer to me and grinded my morning wood on my sleeping wife's ass.
"Axel..." She moaned.
My lips went down to her neck and my hands went up to her breasts. I felt her roundness and stroked her nipples with my thumb through her satin nighties.
"Mmm..." She whimpered.
"You like that?" I asked huskily.
"Yeah..." She breathed out.
"What do you want?" My lips lifted in devious smile.
"Your cock." She answered.
"Where do you want it?"
"Inside me."
"Then what?" I pinched both her nipples with my fingers.
"Then I want you to fuck me." She groaned.
"How do you want me to fuck you?"
"You're teasing me." She muttered.
A small chuckle escaped my throat. One of my hands went down to her stomach and down to her...
"Mommy! Daddy!" Anais ran into our room and jumped over the bed. Our little ball of energy bounced up and down the bed like she was jumping on a trampoline.
Valerie and I quickly sat up. I took the pillow beside me and covered my hardness with it. I groaned quietly. Great! I just got cock blocked by my own daughter before I could make a move on her mother.
"Hi, good morning, sweetheart." Valerie grabbed her silk robe and slipped it on.
"Good morning. What are you doing here, sweety?" I asked.
"Sabi mo kahapon we'll go fishing today." She stopped jumping and sat in between me and Valerie.
"Yeah, I did."
"Then you need to get up. I've been waiting for you to wake up for like a hundred hours!"
I looked at the clock on the side table and the clock says it was already nine twenty in the morning. I took a one week leave from the office so I could spend time with the two beautiful girls in my life. The family tradition went on, every summer we go to our lake house just like how me and my parents did when I was little. This time it was with my wife and my daughter.
"I'm sorry, sweety, we overslept." Sabi ni Valerie.
"Why don't you wait for us outside? We'll just take a shower so we could go fishing." I said.
"Make it quick, okay?" She bossily said. "Kanina ko pa kayo hinihintay."
I laughed. "I'm sorry, ma'am. It will be really, really quick. I promise. Now, give daddy a morning kiss."
She leaned over to me and gave me a peck on the cheek.
"What about me?" Valerie pouted. She gave her mother a kiss too before jumping out of the bed and running out of the room. We both looked at each other and shook our heads with smiles on our faces. We headed to the bathroom and there we continued what we had started.
The sun was up and bright. Anais was sitting on my shoulders with her head resting on top of mine and Valerie was walking beside me in her two piece bikini. She maintained a gorgeous body even after giving birth to this mini her sitting on my shoulders. We were walking on the dock, heading towards the motorboat that was parked at the end of it.
"Daddy?" Anais said.
"Yeah?"
"Will we catch a lot of fishies?" She asked.
"We'll try." I answered.
"Big ones?" She excitedly asked.
"If we're lucky."
"Mommy can catch big fishies, right mommy?"
"Yeah, I'm a better fisher than your dad." She smiled confidently.
"You just got lucky." I arched a brow at her.
"Two years in a row, Axel. Admit it, I'm better at fishing than you." Her lips lifted in a smirk. Every year when we go out fishing, we'd have a competition over who caught the biggest fish. For the past two years, she'd been winning.
"Yeah, and mommy's a better horse rider too." Sabi ni Anais.
"Well, I can't argue with that sweetheart. That's her field." I smiled. "She is good... and not just with horses."
"Axel!" Valerie laughed, playfully hitting me on the arm.
We got on the motorboat and Valerie slipped a life jacket on Anais. I drove the motorboat while they sat at the back, chatting and enjoying the sun and the view. My baby sure was growing up too fast. It was as if it was only yesterday when I first held her in my arms. I could still remember how soft she felt, how warm she was, how loud she cried. Now my baby girl was almost four years old. Before I know it she'd be a beautiful young lady with a lot of young boys drooling at her feet. They'd have to go through me first and I would never let anyone of them touch even the tip of her finger. I always tell Anais that she wasn't allowed to love any other guys but me. No crushes or likes on any guys whatsoever. Mabuting maaga pa lang, alam niya na.
I stopped the boat in the middle of the lake and took out the fishing rods. I gave one to Valerie and we sat on the edge of the boat and started fishing.
"Mommy, daddy, bakit kayo nagplay without me last night?" Anais asked, as she sat on my lap.
"Played what?" Valerie asked.
"Yaya said you were playing last night! I heard you two in your room! I even hear mommy shouting 'harder Axel'." Anais frowned.
Nagkatinginan kami ni Valerie, her eyes wide open in pure shock and embarrassment. I had to bite my tongue to keep myself from laughing.
"Mommy is loud, isn't she?" Natatawang sabi ko.
"Yeah..." Anais nodded her head.
"Oh my god, Axel. Stop it!" Pinandilat niya ako ng mata.
I burst into laughter and Valerie's face crumpled in annoyance.
"What's funny?" Takang tanong ni Anais.
"Nothing, sweety." I answered, still chuckling.
"Don't listen to your daddy." She said to Anais.
The only thing better than having her as my wife was our daughter having her as her mommy.
I wrapped my arm on the small of Valerie's back and pulled her closer to me. I kissed her on the lips. The feel of her skin and to the taste of her lips on mine, everything about her reminds me why I was so in love with her. She was my one true love, my heart's desire and my most beautiful woman I had ever been given the priviledge to love and spend the rest of my life with.
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