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.

us as 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

many months?” The doctor asks, looking closely at Ella’s face as I lay her down

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

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

his face close to mine. “And she as well. You will do everything –

doctor, to his credit, does

back at me, his eyes angry

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Chapter 26

Covered

him. The doctor takes a step away from 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

“You dare take that tone with me?”

meeting, glaring up into my eyes. “You may be our King, sir, but I am the Alpha in this surgery. And if you want

but I turn my head to look at

that bed –

stepping to the head of her bed. The doctor holds my gaze

Ella has a mask over her face to help her breathe,

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

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

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

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

with an ultrasound machine, plugging it in as another quickly spreads clear jelly 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 own

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

focusing my eyes

hesitates, glancing at 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

taking two instinctual steps forward.