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…”

“I can do it, Hank but,

that he’s not going to understand what I’m talking about if

and the God of Darkness. “As we were getting away they they bound my gift and my wolf,” I

to heal her in the car, but I couldn’t

“So you can – you can actually like, use it

wounds like that -”

little disturbed by his curiosity about the gift when we should be

my sister. What, really, is he asking me

putting his hands up in a little plea for forgiveness. “I’m I’m just a

of being able to wield medicine like that – it’s

sigh and nod, my eyes moving

feet and looking at Cora himself. “It would help Cora, and

don’t know, Ella, unbind the gift? I know a lot about wolf biology, but

this? Perhaps one of the priestesses

touch with her? Ask for her aid or

that – that Hank may have

to my feet

please?”

in the corner of the room.

He glances back towards Cora now. “I’m going to run some tests,” he murmurs, taking

himself.” Let’s update each

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

the center of our city, hopping to hell the

something to help.

Sinclair

out in front of him, his

and turning away as the fire burns

before it gets deep enough to actually hurt

pain as I turn my back to the fire but feel it

and searing touch that’s

my men behind me likewise taking the

coming back to Roger’s

the priest says, his teeth gritted as he glares at us. “I will burn you until your charred skeletons

are left -”

him. “Or else you’d have done it by

think, in being caught out. Roger, understanding my

begins to prowl

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