Accidental Surrogate

Chapter 371

Accidental Surrogate Chapter 371-Unleashing the Flame

Ella

I fall into a little daze as I watch Hank work, as I hold my sleeping baby in my arms. It’s not that I’m not paying attention –

it’s just that…I don’t really understand what they’re doing or saying, so to me it’s all just quiet repetitive work.

I do pay attention, of course, when Hank deems Cora patched up enough to roll her over onto her side so that they can

perform an ultrasound. Cora gives a low moan when the nurses move her, a sound which at once pains me and gives me

a little thrill of hope. Because as much as I hate to hear my sister in pain –

Damn it, at least it means she’s alive. I watch carefully as the nurses hold her still, as Hank expertly spreads some clear

jelly on her stomach and then begins to search for a heartbeat. Then I bury my head in my hand a few moments later

when he finds it – a fast, faint fluttering of noise. My little niece or nephew, still fighting for life.

I drag my hand away from my face a moment later to see Hank nodding to his nurses and Cora lowered back on her belly.

Then, Hank turns to me, pulling off his gloves as he crosses the room and falls into a crouch so that we can be almost

face-to-face while I stay seated.

“You saw?” he asks, looking up at me a little from his lowered place on the floor. “Yes,” I reply, nodding sharply. “The baby

is alive, but – ”

“Right,” he says, glancing back towards Cora. “It’s – it’s not preferable, obviously, for a mother to be so gravely wounded

so early in a pregnancy. Frequently the body will decide…” he sighs and shakes his head, trying to come up with the right

words. He looks up at me as he finishes his thought, “the body will sometimes decide, Ella, to prioritize the mother.”

“So miscarriage…” I say, looking over at my sister.

“There’s a higher risk of it right now, yes. Ella,” he says again, his voice curious now, drawing my eyes back to him. “Did

Cora ever mention to you the possibility…”

say, nodding, knowing where he’s going with this. “I can do it, Hank but,

realizing that he’s not going to understand what I’m talking about if I start babbling on

Darkness. “As we were getting away they they bound my

her in the car, but I couldn’t access the

surprise. “So you can – you can

wounds like that -”

suddenly, a little disturbed by

really, is he asking

a little plea for forgiveness. “I’m I’m just a doctor, Ella. It’s all I

able to wield medicine like that – it’s a dream. But please

and nod, my eyes moving back to Cora, wanting

himself. “It would help Cora, and

about wolf biology, but not a lot about the religion

around this? Perhaps one of the

Ask for her aid

to him suddenly as I realize that – that Hank may have stumbled on

I say, getting quickly to my feet and looking around the room. “Can I

please?”

nods to the computer and the phone in the corner of the room. “Of course, Ella,” he says. “The entire

to run some tests,”

himself.” Let’s update each other, if we have

the little computer in the corner, where I open a web

the contact information of the temple in the center of our city,

something to help.

Sinclair

a fist out in front of him, his teeth bared in determination

yelping and turning away as the fire burns him,

burning out before it gets deep enough to actually hurt his

pain as I turn

neck – a deep and searing touch that’s gone after an instant as the

me likewise taking the brunt of the flame, I

back to

he glares

are left -”

him. “Or else

in the Priest’s eye – frustration, I think, in being caught out. Roger,

to prowl forward

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