Chapter 150: Always Watching

Vaughn’s POV

Cleo was born at 3:47 in the morning, and she screamed the whole way into the world.

We’d been at it for sixteen hours by then. I’d held Sylvie’s hand through all of it; she’d nearly broken three of my fingers, and I never said a word about it. Once Cleo was cleaned up and swaddled and placed into Sylvie’s arms, though, everything went quiet.

The nurses cleared out. The doctor finishe