Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

#Chapter 268 – 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 it.

She’s strong – I know she’s strong –

so much. I grit my teeth, growling, livid with the universe for asking this much of her. I will not lose her

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 machines

at Ella’s face as

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

and then glances up at me. “Too soon for

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

doctor, to his

barks back at me, his eyes

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

teeth in a snarl as I close the distance between us. “You dare

our chests almost meeting, glaring up into my eyes. “You may be our King, sir, but I

but I turn my head to look at her. So

her sacrifice. I glare at the doctor but step away. “Do your work,” I snarl, folding my arms across my chest and stepping to the head of her

cut the clothes from her poor fragile

murmur to each other as they work, speaking in a medical language I can’t comprehend. It’s almost more than I can do to stand still, helpless. I have basic medic experience, of course, but I know that her life is in their hands, not mine. And it kills me to realize that, to stand

screen. My stomach drops and I hear a moan. A moment later, I realize that the noise dropped from my

to take her in,” The 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

child,” I growl, focusing my eyes on him. “Is he

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 let the child go, to concentrate on saving

him, taking two instinctual steps forward. “You will save them both,”

“I will fight for both of them, as my Queen and my Prince. Trust me, Sir.”