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.

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

as I lay her down on the

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

this point. 2

“Too soon

will survive,” I growl, grabbing the man by his coat and bringing his face close to mine. “And she as well. You will do everything –

to his credit,

me, his eyes angry as he grabs my

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Mate, Covered in

sir,” he bites out, his voice still low. “I will

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

our chests almost meeting, glaring up into my eyes. “You may be our King, sir, but I am the Alpha in this surgery. And if you want me to save her life,

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

that bed –

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

later, the room is swarming again with people, with 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

she can endure it, then I can

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

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

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

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

state.

I hear a moan. A moment later, I realize that the noise dropped from my own

need to take her 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

my eyes on

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 on saving the

forward. “You will save them both,” I