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.

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

face as I lay her

the exact number of days, but

this point. 2

at me. “Too soon for

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

doctor, to his

at me, his eyes angry as

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Chapter 26

Mate, Covered in

“I will move mountains for her, sir,” he bites out, his voice still low. “I

I close the distance between us. “You dare take that tone with

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

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

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 then does as I say, getting down to

face to help her breathe, wires and tubes plugged into her arms.

but I refuse myself that indulgence. If she can endure

to each other as they work, speaking in a medical language I can’t comprehend.

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

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

Ella’s stomach. Then, they turn towards a screen, murmuring as they try

state.

cannot see a heartbeat on the screen. My stomach drops and I hear a moan. A moment later, I realize that the

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

my eyes on him. “Is he

“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,

two instinctual steps forward. “You will