Accidental Surrogate Chapter 371-Unleashing the Flame

Ella

I fall into a little daze as I watch Hank work, as I hold my sleeping baby in my arms. It’s not that I’m not paying attention –

it’s just that…I don’t really understand what they’re doing or saying, so to me it’s all just quiet repetitive work.

I do pay attention, of course, when Hank deems Cora patched up enough to roll her over onto her side so that they can

perform an ultrasound. Cora gives a low moan when the nurses move her, a sound which at once pains me and gives me

a little thrill of hope. Because as much as I hate to hear my sister in pain –

Damn it, at least it means she’s alive. I watch carefully as the nurses hold her still, as Hank expertly spreads some clear

jelly on her stomach and then begins to search for a heartbeat. Then I bury my head in my hand a few moments later

when he finds it – a fast, faint fluttering of noise. My little niece or nephew, still fighting for life.

I drag my hand away from my face a moment later to see Hank nodding to his nurses and Cora lowered back on her belly.

Then, Hank turns to me, pulling off his gloves as he crosses the room and falls into a crouch so that we can be almost

face-to-face while I stay seated.

“You saw?” he asks, looking up at me a little from his lowered place on the floor. “Yes,” I reply, nodding sharply. “The baby

is alive, but – ”

“Right,” he says, glancing back towards Cora. “It’s – it’s not preferable, obviously, for a mother to be so gravely wounded

so early in a pregnancy. Frequently the body will decide…” he sighs and shakes his head, trying to come up with the right

words. He looks up at me as he finishes his thought, “the body will sometimes decide, Ella, to prioritize the mother.”

“So miscarriage…” I say, looking over at my sister.

“There’s a higher risk of it right now, yes. Ella,” he says again, his voice curious now, drawing my eyes back to him. “Did

Cora ever mention to you the possibility…”

“I can do it, Hank but, the people who hurt us in the woods –

what I’m talking

they they bound my gift and my wolf,”

the car, but I couldn’t

his eyebrows going up in surprise. “So you can – you can actually like, use it to heal people –

wounds like that -”

Hank suddenly, a little disturbed by his curiosity about the gift when we should be concentrating

What, really, is he asking me

for forgiveness. “I’m

being able to wield medicine like that – it’s

a little sigh and nod, my eyes moving back

up to his feet and looking at Cora himself. “It would

about wolf biology, but not a lot about the religion or

Perhaps one of the priestesses of

her? Ask for

to him suddenly as I realize that – that Hank may have stumbled on something

I say, getting quickly to my feet and looking around

please?”

to the computer and the phone in the corner of the room. “Of course, Ella,” he says. “The entire facility

now. “I’m going to run some tests,” he murmurs, taking

update each other, if we

carry Rafe over to the little computer in the corner, where I open a web browser

information of the temple in the center of

something to help.

Sinclair

sweeps a fist out in front of him, his

leap, takes the hit first, yelping and turning away

out before it gets deep enough to actually hurt his

attack turning into one of pain as I

back of my neck – a deep and searing touch that’s gone after an instant

sound of my men behind me likewise taking the brunt of the

back to Roger’s

it again,” the priest says, his teeth gritted as he glares at us. “I will burn you

are left -”

him. “Or else you’d have

in the Priest’s eye – frustration, I think, in

to prowl

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