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 left and right. They move quickly, efficiently, bringing forward machines and tools as we approach a

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

could tell him the exact number of days, but frankly

this point. 2

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

mine. “And she as well. You will do everything – you will move mountains, if I command

doctor, to his credit,

his eyes angry as

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Mate, Covered

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 her survive.

as I close the distance between us. “You dare take that

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

the growl rip from my throat then, but I turn my head to look at her. So small so

that bed –

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

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 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.

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

to each other as they work, speaking in a medical language I can’t comprehend. It’s

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

fight knowing that there’s nothing

on Ella’s stomach. Then, they turn

state.

see a heartbeat on the screen. My stomach drops and I hear a moan.

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

I growl, focusing my eyes on him. “Is

“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

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