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.

doctor who first met us at the entrance taking lead and giving commands left and right. They

many months?” The doctor asks, looking closely at Ella’s face as I lay

number of days, but frankly I don’t think

this point. 2

me. “Too soon for an early cesarian. The child….it would not

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

his

me, his eyes

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Chapter 26

Mate, Covered in

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 low. “I will do everything I can to help her survive. We owe you that. But it will not be helped by you losing your temper.

pull back from my teeth in a snarl as I close the distance between us. “You dare take that tone with me?” I ask, my voice low with warning. “I am your King

King, sir, but I am the Alpha in this surgery. And if you want me to save her life,

throat then, but I turn my head to look at her. So small so fragile,

that bed –

away. “Do your work,” I snarl, folding my arms across my chest and stepping to the head

IV’s and tanks of oxygen. They work quickly. Almost before I can comprehend it, Ella has a mask over her face to help her breathe,

can endure it, then I can surely stand to watch. So I

as they work, speaking in a medical language I can’t comprehend. It’s almost more than I can do to stand still, helpless.

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

that there’s nothing I can do.

quickly spreads clear jelly on Ella’s stomach. Then, they turn towards a screen, murmuring as they try to look

state.

I hear a moan. A moment later, I

in,” The doctor commands, stripping off his bloody gloves and turning to me. Her uterus is torn, leaking blood at the cervix, and her organs are in failure – she needs

growl, focusing my eyes on

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 next words. “It’s not good, Sir. If it were anyone else, I’d…I’d instruct my team to let the child go, to concentrate

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