Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Chapter 267 – My Mate, Covered in Blood

Sinclair

I roar as I stumble through the doors of the hospital, my bleeding mate clutched in my arms.

Everyone in the emergency room freezes doctors, nurses, patients. Everyone. The noise that comes from me is unending, a demand, a plea, a threat. I am halfway between states now – my eyes filled with the wolf’s flame, my hands ending in razor-sharp claws.

She breathes against my chest, barely. Blood drips from her.

The bond I can barely feel it, between she and I-

And my child-

I take a breath, then, glaring around the room, and open my mouth to shout again, “DOCTOR,” I cry.

“Get me a doctor! NOW!”

The room collectively jumps at this, patients clearing away from the desk and heading towards the sides of the room, the nurses leaping to their feet. A doctor strides forward – one I don’t recognize but he’s here, damn it, he’d better be good –

“Come,” he commands, stopping a few feet from us and then gesturing backwards towards the door to the treatment rooms. He doesn’t need to look any closer to know that she needs immediate

care. “This way, fast.”

I stride after him as he shouts out commands on his way. In my arms, Ella is deathly pale, passed out, hardly breathing. I glance down at her, at her beautiful face, her rose-gold hair falling across

1. it.

She’s strong I know she’s strong –

But she’s given so much. I grit my teeth, growling, livid with the universe for asking this much of

her. I will not lose her to this.

around us as we move down the hall, the doctor who first met us at the entrance taking lead and giving commands

Ella’s face as I

him the exact number of days, but frankly I don’t

this point. 2

and then glances up at me. “Too soon for an early cesarian. The child….it would not

his coat and bringing his face close to mine. “And she as well. You will do everything – you will move mountains, if I

his

his eyes angry

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Chapter 26

Mate, Covered in

away from me and brushes off his coat, keeping his eyes on mine. “I will move mountains for her, sir,” he bites out, his voice still

us. “You dare take that tone with me?” I ask, my voice low with warning. “I am

sir, but I am the Alpha in this surgery. And if

I turn my head to look

that bed –

folding my arms across my chest and stepping to the head of her bed. The doctor holds my gaze for a moment more and then does as I say,

Almost before I can comprehend it, Ella has a mask over her face to help her breathe, wires and tubes plugged into her arms. The nurses cut the clothes from her poor fragile body, strip her

refuse myself that indulgence. If she can endure it, then I can surely stand to watch. So I stare, following

work, speaking in a medical language I can’t comprehend. It’s almost more

but I know that her life is in their hands, not mine. And it kills me

there’s nothing I can do. As I watch,

clear jelly on Ella’s stomach. Then, they turn towards

state.

a heartbeat on the screen. My stomach drops and I hear a moan. A moment later, I realize that the noise dropped

me. Her uterus is torn, leaking blood at

child,” I growl, focusing my

hesitates, glancing at her, and then quickly nods. “There’s a heartbeat,” he says, turning back to me. His voice is apologetic as he utters his

snar! at him, taking two instinctual steps forward. “You will save them both,” I demand, my