Hysterical and panicked, Gareth tried not to look down at the beddings soaked in blood that his wife was laying in, he tried hard not to crumble as her screams of agony filled the chamber. He wished he could take away her pain, he really did, he wanted to be the one to suffer not her, but all he could do was hold her hand and let her squeeze it as much as she needed when the pain was too much.
The king turned to look at the head midwife who had instructed Melissa to push yet again, wasn't there a quicker perhaps less painful way to do this. "Is there a problem?!" Gareth finally asked the woman who was helping his wife deliver, he couldn't just stand there and watch his wife go through this, if something had gone wrong he wanted to know.