Evenly’s labor went on for so long that Angel began to grow scared, her screams and groans making him believe she was in intense pain. But no matter what, he didn’t move closer, remembering that Evenly had told him to stay back, that she would be fine. When he called her name in worry, she reassured him to remain where he was. Hours passed, and Angel finally lowered himself to sit against the door, knees pulled to his chest, still expecting his father to arrive from that direction with his mother and baby sibling.
After long moments filled with her cries, Angel heard the loud wailing of a baby. His eyes widened as he looked toward the sound, knowing immediately that Enny’s baby had indeed arrived.
Evenly had never expected to go into labor when she was still a month away from her due date. But now, knowing she was no longer human but a vampire, she understood that the process would be different.
Hearing the loud wail of her newborn over the exhausting labor, she lifted her upper body to see the maid holding the small form, kicking tiny feet and flailing hands, crying loudly. Evenly was flooded with emotions too vast for words, but before they could completely overwhelm her, she noticed something: she didn’t feel the relief she had expected. There was still another life inside her, the heavy urge to push urging her body onward. She obeyed instinctively.
"Goodness, Lady Evenly! I believe you are having twins!" exclaimed the maid, kneeling between her legs as she held one small being wailing its lungs out, while the other began to emerge.
Needing assistance, the maid looked around and then her eyes fell on Angel, who was sitting a short distance away.
"Young master, help me with that sheet on the sofa!" the maid called to the boy. Angel quickly got to his feet to obey but froze the moment the fresh smell of blood hit him, striking him sharply.
Angel’s breathing suddenly changed, becoming sharp and guttural, and he couldn’t even move to do what the maid had asked as his body began to act on it’s own.
Angel wanted to move, to hand the sheet over, but that consuming hunger took over his body and he lost himself.
Evenly, struggling to push out the second baby, lifted her head toward the boy and noticed the changes taking over him again. "Angel..." she called softly, breathless, but Angel no longer heard her. His eyes stared at them like he was looking at a meal, the colors of his eyes flashing and shifting.
Before either of them could react, Angel moved with terrifying speed and attacked the maid, who was still holding Evenly’s baby. She let go of the infant as she was knocked back by the young master. The baby hit the floor with an impact that made it wail all the more.
"Angel, stop it!" Evenly cried out as she moved and grabbed the boy’s shirt. He turned on her to attack with a snarl, his large fangs gleaming in his mouth, but as if something swept through the boy all at once, he stopped. His face shifted back to normal, and he fell to the floor clutching his chest, crying out,
"I want my mama... mama!" He stayed like that, crying silently.
"Get him blood," Evenly told the maid, her voice strained as she reached for her wailing baby on the floor, cuddling the little body while she continued to push out the other child.
The terrified maid, who had almost become a meal to a savage hunger, moved shakily and did as she was told, bringing the jug of blood with trembling hands. Though Angel was confused as to why the sound of his own heart aching for his mother had snapped him out of hurting someone, he took the blood and drank it down to the very last drop.
Recovering from the rogue side that had nearly taken hold of him, Angel got up and ran to get the sheet the maid had asked for earlier. Then he came back to crouch beside Evenly, holding it out to her as she scrunched her face, still pushing and holding the other baby. Seeing Angel with the sheet, she looked at him.

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