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.

we move down the hall, the doctor who first met us at the entrance taking lead and giving commands left and right. They move quickly, efficiently, bringing forward machines and tools as we

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

I say. I could tell him the exact number of days, but frankly I don’t think it will

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murmurs, and then glances up at me. “Too soon for an

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

doctor, to his credit, does not

at me, his eyes

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Mate, Covered

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

my teeth in a snarl as I close the distance between us. “You dare take that tone with me?”

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

I turn my

that bed –

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

a mask over her face to help her breathe, wires and tubes plugged into her arms. The nurses cut the clothes from

myself that indulgence. If she can endure it, then I can surely stand to watch.

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

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

her fight knowing that there’s nothing I can do. As I watch, a nurse

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

state.

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

me. Her uterus is torn, leaking blood at the cervix, and her organs are in failure

focusing my eyes on him.

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

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