Surrogate For Alpha Dom

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…”

can do it, Hank but, the people who hurt us in

that he’s not going to understand what I’m talking about if I start babbling on about

away they they bound

in the

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

wounds like that -”

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

my sister. What, really, is he asking me

says, putting his hands up in a little plea for forgiveness. “I’m I’m just a doctor, Ella. It’s all I

like that – it’s a

my eyes moving back to

feet and looking at Cora himself. “It would help Cora, and the baby, a

Ella, unbind the gift? I know a lot about wolf biology, but not a lot about the religion

anyway to get around this? Perhaps one of the priestesses of the Goddess, your mother? Could they

with her? Ask for her

I realize that – that Hank may

quickly to my feet

please?”

the computer and the phone in the corner of the room. “Of course, Ella,” he

going to run some tests,” he murmurs, taking

each

Hank and then carry Rafe over to the little computer in the corner, where I

contact information of the temple in the center of our city, hopping

something to help.

Sinclair

us sweeps a fist out in front of him, his teeth bared in determination as he

in mid- leap, takes the hit first, yelping and turning away as the fire burns him, singing

gets deep enough

crouch defensively, my roar of attack turning into one of pain as I turn my back to the fire but

skin, the back of my neck – a deep and searing touch that’s gone

the sound of my men behind me likewise taking the brunt of the flame, I turn back to the priest

back

the priest says, his teeth gritted as he glares at us. “I will burn you until your charred skeletons are all

are left -”

him. “Or else you’d have

– frustration, I think, in being caught out. Roger,

and begins to prowl forward