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

my head, realizing that he’s not going to understand what I’m talking

were getting away they they bound my gift and my wolf,” I say,

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

his eyebrows going up in surprise. “So you can – you can actually like, use it

wounds like that -”

disturbed by his curiosity about the gift

really, is he asking me

says, putting his hands up in a little plea for forgiveness.

medicine like that –

my eyes moving back to Cora,

himself. “It would help Cora, and the

I know a lot about wolf biology, but not a lot about

Is there anyway to get around this? Perhaps one of the priestesses of

her? Ask for her aid

as I realize that –

quickly to my feet and looking around the room.

please?”

the phone in the corner of the room. “Of course,

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

Let’s update each other, if we have

little computer

temple in the center of our city, hopping to hell the priestesses there can

something to help.

Sinclair

in front of him, his

and turning away as the fire burns him,

it gets

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

and searing touch that’s gone after an instant as the

likewise taking the brunt of the

back

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

are left -”

snap, taking another step towards him. “Or else you’d

frustration, I think, in being caught out. Roger, understanding

begins to

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