Accidentally Pregnant By My Alpha Best friends (Madeline) novel Chapter 501

Graham:

"No," I snapped, louder this time, my voice echoing in the room.

"They are alphas. They are my sons. They should be fine," I shouted.

I stepped closer, my hand trembling as I reached out, but I could not touch them. I did not want to, because if I did, it would become real.

"Graham," my father and Penny called from behind me, their voices heavy with something I did not want to name.

"They are just not crying," I said quickly, turning around to look at them.

I saw tears in Penny’s eyes, and even my father looked shaken.

"That is all. They are just quiet. They are alpha’s children. They are not going to cry," I insisted, trying to explain it, and the worst part was that no one corrected me, but no one agreed with me either.

I turned back and reached out again, finally touching one.

It was cold. The skin was cold in a way it should not have been.

The world suddenly did not feel the same. It felt as if I had stopped breathing, as if everything around me had begun to close in.

Everything went quiet.

They looked too small for what they were supposed to be. Their skin was pale, with a faint bluish tint, as if life had been taken from them long before they were brought into the world.

I kept staring, tears blurring my eyes.

Their bodies were limp, their chests still. There was no rise or fall, no sign of breathing.

My father approached me and placed a hand on my shoulder, but my body started to shake violently.

There was something wrong in the way my children were lying there. They were just too empty.

Their features were formed, complete, but lifeless. They had never felt warmth, not a father's kiss, not a mother's embrace.

I turned to my father and pointed at them.

"What is wrong with them?" I asked, my voice visibly shaken.

My father pulled his hand away and buried his face in his hands, sobbing, while Penny stepped forward with tears in her eyes and wrapped her arms around him.

My eyes shifted to the doctor, who took a deep breath and stepped forward, looking like he was carrying sorrow.

"They were gone before they were born. There was no heartbeat," the doctor said, stopping when he noticed a tear rolling down my eye.

As my posture started to shake, the doctor began again.

"I am really sorry for your loss, Your Highness," he said in a soft, sorrowful voice. "Your mate has suffered a severe placental abruption. The placenta separated from the uterine wall before delivery. That caused a sudden loss of oxygen supply to the babies."

The doctor paused again as he watched my jaw tighten and my fist clench.

"Her condition became critical. To save her life, we had to perform an emergency hysterectomy."

For a second, I did not understand.

I turned to look at Penny, who seemed to understand, because she looked more shocked than I did. Then I looked at my father, and he seemed just as confused.

"What does that mean, doctor?" my father asked.

"It means we had to remove her uterus," the doctor said. "She will never be able to carry a pregnancy again."

The words landed hard, and I stumbled backward until my father caught me.

This time, they did not pass through me. They settled, and they hit me in a way that made it feel like I had lost everything in a single second.

"She is stable for now, but she has lost a significant amount of blood. She will remain under close observation," the doctor continued.

But I was no longer listening.

I stepped away, moving toward the corner of the room, slowly lowering myself against the wall.

I wrapped my arms around my head as I started to break down.