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

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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.

entrance taking lead and giving commands left and right. They move quickly, efficiently, bringing forward machines and tools as we approach a bed at the back of

The doctor asks, looking closely at Ella’s face as I lay her down on the bed

of days, but frankly I don’t think it will

this point. 2

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

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

doctor, to his credit,

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

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Chapter 26

Mate, Covered

a step 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 low. “I will

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

me, then, our chests almost meeting, glaring up into my eyes. “You may be our King, sir, but I am the Alpha in this surgery.

but I turn my head to look at her. So

that bed –

stepping to the head of her bed. The doctor holds my gaze for a moment more and then does as I say, getting down to the business of saving my mate’s

to help her

endure it, then I

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

their hands, not mine. And it kills me to

knowing that there’s nothing I can

it in as another quickly spreads clear jelly on Ella’s stomach. Then, they turn towards a screen, murmuring

state.

drops and I hear a moan. A moment

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

focusing my

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,

steps forward. “You will