PERSEFONE POV Pepper was born less than an hour after Poppy, and according to Liam, Penny had threatened to murder him at least fourteen times during the process. Personally, I thought that showed remarkable restraint. I'd threatened to castrate my mates so many times that my aunt had eventually stopped reminding me they were going to need those particular organs if we ever wanted more children. As if. I'd just pushed a whole f*****g person out of my body. The very idea of doing that again was enough to make me want to sew my v****a shut. By the time the medical team finally allowed Penny and me to see each other, I was exhausted, sore in places I hadn't even known could hurt, and fairly certain I'd never look at a hospital bed again without experiencing some form of traumatic flashba

