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…”

going with this. “I can do it, Hank but, the people who hurt us in the woods –

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

they

heal her in the car, but I couldn’t

in surprise. “So you can – you can actually like,

wounds like that -”

narrow my eyes at Hank suddenly, a little disturbed by his curiosity about the gift

sister. What, really, is he asking

a little plea for forgiveness. “I’m

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

nod, my eyes moving back to Cora, wanting

Hank says, standing up to his feet and looking at Cora himself. “It would help

lot about wolf

Perhaps one of the priestesses of the Goddess,

touch with her? Ask

that

Hank,” I say, getting quickly to my feet and

please?”

the room. “Of course, Ella,” he says.

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

Let’s update each other, if we

then carry Rafe over to the little computer

of the temple in the center of our city,

something to help.

Sinclair

his teeth bared in

and turning

it gets deep enough to actually

of pain as I turn

searing touch that’s gone after an instant as the

behind me likewise taking the brunt of the flame, I turn back to the priest

back to

do it again,” the priest says, his teeth gritted as he glares

are left -”

another step towards him. “Or else you’d have

flashes in the Priest’s eye – frustration, I think, in being

begins to

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