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…”

with this. “I can do it, Hank but, the people

to understand what I’m

we were getting away they

the car, but I couldn’t access the

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

wounds like that -”

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

my sister. What, really, is he

up in a little plea for forgiveness.

medicine like that –

sigh and nod, my eyes moving back to Cora, wanting

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

gift? I know a lot about wolf biology, but not a lot about the religion or the

around this? Perhaps one of

with her? Ask for her aid

that – that Hank

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

please?”

the room. “Of course, Ella,” he says. “The entire facility is

back towards Cora now. “I’m going to

Let’s update each other,

Rafe over to the little computer in

in the center

something to help.

Sinclair

in front of him, his teeth bared in determination as he sends a sheet of

and turning away as the fire burns him, singing

burning out before it gets deep enough to actually

of attack turning into one of pain as I turn my back to the

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

at the sound of my men behind me likewise taking the brunt of

coming back to Roger’s

teeth gritted as he glares at

are left -”

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

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

begins to

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