Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate by Caroline Above Story

Chapter 370

#Chapter 370 – 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 – ”

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,

looking over

now, yes. Ella,” he says again, his voice curious now, drawing my eyes

about if I start babbling on about priests in dark robes and the God of Darkness. “As we were getting away they they bound my gift and my wolf,” I say, giving a little shrug. “T tried to heal her in the car, but I couldn’t access

Hank says, his eyebrows going up in surprise. “So you can – you can

my eyes at Hank suddenly, a little disturbed by his curiosity about the gift when we should

I really do, try to

sigh and nod, my eyes moving back to Cora, wanting

“It would help Cora, and the baby, a lot, if you were able to…I don’t know, Ella, unbind the gift? I know a lot about wolf biology, but not a lot about the religion or the magic of it all. Is there anyway to get around this? Perhaps one of the priestesses of the Goddess, your mother? Could they help you get…in touch with her? Ask for her aid

eyes flash to him suddenly as I realize that

idea, Hank,” I say, getting quickly to my feet and

phone in the corner of the room. “Of course, Ella,” he says. “The entire facility is at your disposal.” He glances back towards Cora now. “I’m going to run some tests,” he murmurs, taking a

then carry Rafe over to the little computer in the corner, where I open a web browser and begin to search for the contact information of the temple in the center of our city, hopping to hell the priestesses there can do something

Sinclair

in determination as he sends a sheet of flame racing towards us. Roger, in mid- leap, takes the hit first, yelping and turning away as

back to the fire but feel it curling at my clothes, my

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

glares at us. “I will burn you until your charred skeletons are

another step towards him. “Or else you’d have

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