Filed To Story: Their Bullied and Broken Mate by Teri Petry
He told them both that they were going to deliver my child, and they adamantly refused. I was on my own with this. I started to yell at Jackson. I told him that this baby was coming, whether they liked it or not, and that they were going to have to drop me somewhere or get a doctor for me.
I explained that he was a big baby, and if I didn’t have someone help me through this, I was going to die and so would my son. Then he had nothing to barter with. I guess speaking up pissed him off because he punched me in the face, and I was knocked out.
I would sporadically come to, but would end up passing back out. I don’t know if it was from him hitting me, or from the pain of the labor.
Each time, I could hear fighting in the room. The growls coming from both wolves inside the cabin were terrifying, but so were the ones coming from outside. When you are the only human in a small building on a secluded mountain, and you are surrounded by werewolves trying to kill each other, you are given two options.
1. Play like your dead or asleep.
or
2. Run like hell.
The only option I had going for me was option 1.
I heard Phoenix and George rush into the building, and could hear the two wolves, one I knew was Franz, moving around one another looking for a chance to attack.
Like the idiot he was, Jackson’s wolf attacked first and Franz sunk his teeth into him. Jackson tried to fight him off, and as Phoenix carried me out of the cabin towards a car, I could see Franz fall to the ground.
“Phoenix? Go help him!” I cried. I then saw Melian and Loki enter the cabin, and a doctor climbed into the car with me and Phoenix. The car sped off, and I had no clue what was happening to my mate and his wolf.
I passed back out, and woke up in the hospital. “Riley, I am nurse Harper. I am prepping you for a C-Section. You haven’t been able to push and baby boy is so big he is stuck. Plus, he is very early. The quicker we can get him out, the better off both of you will be,” she said. She had such a friendly demeanor, and all I could do was nod.
I was semi-awake as they cut me open to take my son from my womb, and the second I heard his cries, I started to cry. His father was missing this, and honestly, I wasn’t sure if he was even alive. Alette was with me by this time, and I was thankful she was. I was so afraid of everything right now, and she was the closest person I had to Maddix.
The doctor pulled Alette aside, and the look on her face as he spoke worried me. She came back to me with a small smile on her face and said, “Riley, sweetie. You have lost a lot of blood and are going to need a transfusion. We can all have our blood tested to see if any of us are a match, but there is one problem. We all carry the werewolf gene, and there is a possibility that any of us who are of higher rank are a match could pass that gene on to you. That means, once the gene is passed on through blood, if Selene sees fit, she could send you a wolf, and you would be one of us. It’s a big decision, and with Maddix fighting for his life down the hall, that decision is all yours,” she said.
I tried to take in everything she said, but I started to feel woozy. I assumed it was from all the blood loss, and I knew I needed to make that decision quickly. I nodded my head, and told her I would do it. She hugged me, and went to have her blood checked along with the others in the family.
It wasn’t long before Alette and Loki came back in with the doctor, but it concerned me that Loki was in a wheelchair. “Great news, sis. Dad is a strong match. He has given some blood already to get things started, and after he eats something he will give more. Daddy Liam is giving blood to help clean out the poison in Maddix’s blood. You both have to fight to live, that gorgeous little man needs you both,” she said.
I reached out my hand to Loki and thanked him. He told me not to thank him, because he would do it for any of his kids. He just repeated what Alette said about me fighting to live. He mentioned Sterling, and I started to shed tears. I hadn’t even gotten to see him. I heard him cry, that was it.
They took me into another room for the transfusion, and I was so exhausted I fell asleep. The procedure took about two hours, and when the nurse woke me up, she told me that Maddix was awake. However, I can’t see him yet. My heart was broken. I couldn’t see or hold my son, and now I can’t see my husband yet.
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