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.

at the entrance taking lead and giving commands left and right. They move quickly, efficiently, bringing forward machines and

at Ella’s face as I lay her down on the bed as gently

I say. I could tell him the exact number of

this point. 2

at me. “Too soon for an early cesarian. The child….it would

his coat and bringing his face close to mine. “And she as

to his

he barks back at me, his eyes angry as he grabs

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he bites out, his voice still low. “I will do everything

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

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

growl rip from my throat then, but I turn my head to

that bed –

sacrifice. I glare at the doctor but step away. “Do your work,” I snarl, folding my arms across my chest and stepping to the head of her bed. The doctor holds my gaze for a moment more and

beeping machines and 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, wires and tubes plugged into her arms. The nurses cut the clothes from her poor fragile body, strip her naked so that I can see the blood thickly coating

can endure

can’t comprehend. It’s almost more

is in their hands, not mine. And it kills me to realize that,

fight knowing that there’s nothing I can do. As

stomach. Then, they

state.

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

take her in,” The doctor commands, stripping off his bloody gloves and turning to me. Her uterus is torn, leaking blood at the cervix,

growl, focusing my eyes on him. “Is

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 on saving

instinctual steps forward. “You will save them