Accidental Surrogate

Chapter 268: My Mate, Covered in Blood

Sinclair

I roar as I stumble through the doors of the hospital, my bleeding mate clutched in my arms.

Everyone in the emergency room freezes – doctors, nurses, patients. Everyone. The noise that comes from me is unending, a demand, a plea, a threat. I am halfway between states now – my eyes filled with the wolf’s flame, my hands ending in razor-sharp claws.

She breathes against my chest, barely. Blood drips from her.

The bond – I can barely feel it, between she and I –

And my child –

I take a breath, then, glaring around the room, and open my mouth to shout again. “DOCTOR,” I cry. “Get me a doctor! NOW!”

The room collectively jumps at this, patients clearing away from the desk and heading towards the sides of the room, the nurses leaping to their feet. A doctor strides forward – one I don’t recognize – but he’s here, damn it, he’d better be good –

“Come,” he commands, stopping a few feet from us and then gesturing backwards towards the door to the treatment rooms. He doesn’t need to look any closer to know that she needs immediate care. “This way, fast.”

I stride after him as he shouts out commands on his way. In my arms, Ella is deathly pale, passed out, hardly breathing. I glance down at her, at her beautiful face, her rose-gold hair falling across it.

She’s strong – I know she’s strong –

But she’s given so much. I grit my teeth, growling, livid with the universe for asking this much of her. I will not lose her to this.

as we move down the hall, the doctor who first met us at the entrance taking lead and giving commands left and

closely at Ella’s face as I lay

of days, but frankly

he murmurs, and then glances up at me. “Too soon for an

mine. “And she as well. You will do everything – you will move mountains, if I

his

me, his eyes angry as he grabs my offending

“I will move mountains for her, sir,” he bites out, his voice still low.

snarl as I close the distance between us. “You dare take that tone with

be our King, sir, but I am the Alpha in this surgery. And

rip from my throat then, but I turn my head to look at her. So small – so fragile, in

across my chest and stepping to the head of her bed. The doctor holds my gaze for a moment more and then

and tubes plugged into her arms. The nurses cut the clothes from her poor fragile body, strip her naked so that I can see

course, but I know that her life is in their hands, not mine. And it kills me to realize that, to stand here and watch her fight knowing that there’s nothing I can do. As I watch, a nurse comes forward with an ultrasound machine, plugging it in as another quickly spreads clear jelly on Ella’s stomach. Then,

I hear a moan. A moment later, I

take her in,” The doctor commands, stripping off his bloody gloves and turning to me. “Her uterus is torn, leaking blood at the cervix, and her organs are in failure – she

I growl, focusing my eyes on

“There’s a heartbeat,” he says, turning back to me. His voice is apologetic as he utters his next words. “It’s not good, Sir. If it were anyone else, I’d…I’d instruct my team to let the child go, to concentrate on saving

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