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.

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 approach a bed at the back

closely at Ella’s face as

tell him the exact number of days, but frankly

this point. 2

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

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

to his credit, does not

he barks back at me, his eyes angry as he

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Covered in

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

from my teeth in a snarl as I close the distance between us. “You dare take

to 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. And

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

that bed –

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

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 tubes plugged into her arms. The nurses cut the clothes from her poor fragile body, strip her naked so that I can see the blood thickly coating her thighs.

flinch away at the sight, but I refuse myself that indulgence. If she can endure it, then I can surely stand to watch. So I stare,

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,

in their hands, not mine. And it kills me to realize that,

watch her fight knowing that there’s nothing

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

state.

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

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

growl, focusing my

he utters his next words. “It’s not

at him, taking two instinctual steps forward. “You will save them