Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
While I was running I was taking the stairs in leaps. I was moving up them by at least half a flight at a time. I was thankful though that we were only going up to the third floor. We made it up there in no time at all. In fact, by the time that we rushed out of the stairwell I saw that the elevator doors were just sliding open so that Griffin and the others could wheel my Little Bunny out of the car.
The entourage of medical staff was wheeling my wife down the hallway toward a door that was standing open. There was another nurse waiting near the door and I could already tell that she was a wolf as well.
The group made it inside before I did and I watched as they slid the top sheet from that gurney onto the bed that was waiting in the room for them. The nurse from the hallway came in to move it out of the way and looked at me with worried eyes.
“Don’t worry, Alpha King. We will do everything we can.” I recognized her. She was someone from Riley’s pack, I didn’t know her name but I knew where she was from at least.
“Thank you.” I nodded at her as I walked into the room.
The group of doctors had already hooked up a lot of machines to my Little Bunny. She had an oxygen mask over her mouth and nose, a blood pressure cuff on her arm, an IV in her arm that was giving her clear liquids, and heart monitors all over her chest.
I saw that they had cut away all of her clothes and left her in just her bra and panties. I wanted to be upset about that but I couldn’t be. I knew they had to do it, this was just part of their job after all.
While I watched I saw them wrap a few different elastic bands around her waist. There were big white circles on the bands that were pressing into Riviana’s belly pretty hard. After they were in place someone flipped a switch and I could hear the sound of heartbeats.
“Is that my babies’ heartbeats? Are they OK? Is Riviana OK?” I was too worried to keep quiet. I saw the doctors look at me then and it was clear they wanted to tell me to leave. Let them try. I will buy this hospital and fire their asses. I wasn’t going anywhere.
Apparently they could tell that I wasn’t going to go anywhere too. They looked annoyed at first but they didn’t say anything and all my questions were answered by Griffin.
“Yes, that is the sound of their heartbeats. They are doing fine. So whatever is wrong it is only affecting Riviana right now.” He didn’t sound very happy and that didn’t make me very confident either.
“What is going on?” I asked him. “What is happening to her, Griffin?”
“I don’t know yet. I have never seen this happen to a shifter during pregnancy before. This is strange.”
“Could it be because she is half witch?” Noah asked from his place near the door.
“It’s possible. I mean, witches and warlocks are supposed to be nearly as impervious to disease as we wolves are, but that doesn’t make any of us immortal. As you all know there are still a number of diseases that can affect our kind. And the weaker the person or the wolf inside of them then the more at risk they are.” He was doing his best to explain with an even voice but he was just as worried as I was.
“She’s the Luna Queen for crying out loud. How could you say that her wolf is at all weak?” Vincent hadn’t liked anyone saying his Luna was not powerful, even if they were a doctor.
“I am not actually saying that her wolf is weak. I am saying that those of us that are usually susceptible to getting sick are weak. I don’t know for sure what is going on right now but I will figure it out as soon as I can.”
Griffin had sounded upset and defensive when Vincent had yelled at him just as Vincent had sounded offended when someone had insulted his Luna. If we didn’t keep this situation calm then everything was going to devolve into chaos.
“Enough.” I silenced them with a firm word. “I don’t care who said what, just take care of my wife.”
I saw that the two men looked apologetic after they realized that they had been on the verge of squabbling. We were here for something very specific and they weren’t being very helpful right now.
As Griffin turned back to help my Little Bunny I felt a weight settle in my stomach. It was like I was suddenly too grief stricken to stand. I was too worried about my wife and my babies. Riviana, Reagan, Rika, they were my family and they were all in trouble right now.
I just felt like everything I had, everything there was in my life, was slipping away. If I lost my Little Bunny then I would be lost. She was my rock, my guiding light, my reason for being.
“Please, Goddess, let her be OK. Please, don’t take her or my babies away from me.”
I felt both Noah and Vincent stiffen next to me. They probably hadn’t thought of that as a possibility yet. Be it from not wanting to or just not thinking it was that bad, but the moment they heard those words I felt the worry inside the both of them double.
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Joaquin
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As I sat there in the chair in the corner of the room I watched on as the doctors tried to figure out what was wrong with my wife. I was watching the monitors as Riviana was hooked up to all of them. They had the babies and her both being monitored so they could check everything. There were wires going just about everywhere.
The monitors for the babies were fine. One of them had a heart rate of one hundred and forty beats per minute and the other had one hundred and thirty-five beats per minute. They were doing just fine.
Riviana’s monitors were sounding alarm after alarm. Her heart rate was way too fast. I could see the lines spiking by myself so I didn’t even need to see that the numbers said it was beating at one hundred and forty-five beats per minute. That was not normal for her.
Her blood pressure was way too high as well. Instead of the usual one hundred and ten over eighty it was now one hundred and ninety over one hundred and twenty. What was going on with her? What was causing all of this?
Despite not being a medical professional I knew that this was wrong. I knew that there was something majorly wrong with my Little Bunny.
Another thing I could see that was wrong on the monitor was the oxygen levels. They were way too low. We may be stronger, faster, and a lot harder to kill than humans but we still needed a beating heart and oxygen to live.
A grim looking nurse came over toward us then, I knew exactly what she was going to say to me. She wasn’t the same one who had spoken to me earlier and I didn’t know who she was.
“We’re going to need you gentlemen to wait outside.” She tried to usher us all toward the door.
“They will wait outside but I will wait right here.” She didn’t look happy at my rebuttal.
“I am sorry, Mr. Gray, but hospital policy states-.”
“You can shove your fucking hospital policy up your fucking ass. That’s my wife and I am the Alpha King. I would like to fucking see you make me leave this goddamn room.” She stiffened in fear at my words. She knew who I was and what I was capable of, that was clear to see by the fear in her eyes.