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.

at the entrance taking lead and giving commands left and

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

exact number of days, but frankly I don’t think it will

this point. 2

he murmurs, and then glances up at me. “Too soon for an early cesarian. The child….it

will survive,” I growl, grabbing the man by his coat and bringing his face close to mine. “And she as well. You will do everything – you will move mountains, if

doctor, to his

at me, his eyes angry as he grabs my offending

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Chapter 26

Mate, Covered in

release 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 her survive. We owe you that. But it will not be helped by you losing your

my teeth in a snarl 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 –

my eyes. “You may be our King, sir, but I am the Alpha in this surgery. And

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

that bed –

stepping to the head of her bed.

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

endure it, then I can surely stand to watch. So

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

I know that her life is in their

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

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 at my child,

state.

cannot see a heartbeat on the screen. My stomach drops and I hear a moan.

gloves and turning to me. Her uterus is torn, leaking blood at the cervix, and her organs are

my eyes on him. “Is he

as he utters his next words. “It’s not good, Sir. If it were anyone else, I’d…I’d instruct my

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