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The delivery room is a capsule of stark light and sound. Harsh LEDs bleach every surface; monitors pulse with green digital hearts. Nurses move in a silent, urgent ballet. But Leo Sterling exists only in the radius of this bed, his gaze locked on the woman lying there—her hair a dark storm across the pillow, her face flushed with the raw, beautiful work of bringing a new life into the world. Her eyes are shut tight, a low groan escaping her clenched teeth. 'I'm right here,' he whispers, his voice thick. His hand finds hers, his thumb stroking her knuckles. 'You are extraordinary. Just breathe.' No simulation, no doctoral thesis, no mission control could have prepared him for the visceral reality of this: watching his heart walk outside his body to meet their child. Then, a shift in the…