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.

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

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

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

this point. 2

me. “Too soon for an early cesarian. The child….it would not

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

to his credit, does

me, his eyes

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Chapter 26

Mate, Covered

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

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 – you will

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

then, but I turn my head to look at her. So small so

that bed –

“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

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

myself that indulgence. If she can endure

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

is in their hands, not mine. And it kills

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

quickly spreads clear jelly on Ella’s stomach.

state.

hear a moan. A

stripping off his bloody gloves and turning to me. Her uterus is torn, leaking blood at the cervix, and her organs are in

growl, focusing my eyes on

me. His voice is apologetic as he utters his next words. “It’s not good, Sir. If it were

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