Rejected by Her Mate Claimed by Four Alphas novel Chapter 131

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CHAPTER 114

Alpha Jaden’s POV

She screamed, the sound tearing through me like claws. I could see the strain on her face, body trembled with exhaustion. This was killing her, and our child was still trapped.

the way her

“The baby’s not moving down at all,” one of the nurses whispered to another, but I heard every word. “The head is engaged, but nothing else is progressing.”

“Is there anything else we can try?” I asked desperately, my voice hoarse from Frours of stress.

Dr. Hendricks looked up at me, sweat beading on his forehead. “I’m running out of options. The baby is simply too large for this to work naturally.”

But with each failed attempt, I could see the hope draining from the doctor’s face. And with each passing minute, Liana grew weaker.

“Please,” she begged during a brief pause between contractions. “Please don’t let them cut me. I can do this. I know I can.”

I pressed my forehead against hers, breathing in her scent, trying to give her whatever strength I had left. “I’m here. I’m not going anywhere.”

The next contraction hit like a freight train, and Liana’s scream tore through me like a physical blow. I’d seen warriors injured in battle, had heard cries of pain that would haunt most people’s nightmares. But nothing had prepared me for watching the woman carrying my child suffer like this.

“That’s it,” Dr. Hendricks said suddenly, his voice tight with urgency. “We’re going to surgery. Now.”

“No,” Liana gasped. “Please, just a little longer-”

“There is no longer!” the doctor snapped, his professional calm finally cracking. “Your baby is too large to pass through safely, and the stress is affecting both of you. If we don’t move to surgery right now, we’re going to lose both of you.”

But even as the nurses rushed to prepare the operating room, I could see it in Dr. Hendricks‘ eyes. The damage from trying to force a delivery that was never going to work naturally had already been done.

The surgery was a blur of bright lights and urgent voices. I stood beside Liana’s head, holding her hand as they worked behind the blue surgical curtain. She was awake but groggy from the local anesthesia, her eyes unfocused and scared.

“Is the baby okay?” she kept asking. “I can’t hear crying. Why isn’t the baby crying?”

I couldn’t answer her because I didn’t know. The silence from the other side of the curtain was deafening.

When Dr. Hendricks finally appeared around the curtain, his scrubs stained and his face grave, I knew before he said a word.

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“I’m an sony, he said quietly “The baby was too large to pass through the birth canal safely. The prolonged labor, the stress on both mother and child from attempting a delivery that was physically impossible… the trauma was too much for such a small system.

The words hit me like a physical blow. Our child. Our son. Gone.

Liana’s hand went limp in mine. “No,” she whispered. “No, that’s not… check again. Check again!”

“Liana,” I said softly, my voice breaking. “I’m so sorry.”

“This is your fault!” she screamed suddenly, turning on me with wild eyes. “You should have made them try harder! You should have believed in me!”

I stared at her, too shocked to respond. She was blaming me for listening to her wishes? For supporting her decision to try natural birth when every medical professional had advised against it?

“If you had been a better mate, if you had been stronger, this wouldn’t have happened,” she continued, her voice getting higher and more hysterical. “A real alpha would have saved his child!”

The accusation cut deeper than any physical wound. I had lost my son, and now she was making it my fault for not overriding her stubborn insistence on doing things her way.

Dr. Hendricks stepped between us. “Both of you need to stop. Grief makes people say things they don’t mean. This was a medical complication, not anyone’s fault.”

But I could see in Liana’s eyes that she meant every word. In her mind, I had failed as an alpha and as a mate. Our child was dead because I hadn’t been strong enough to save him.

I thought about Clara suddenly, unbidden. Clara would never have put her child at risk because of pride or stubbornness. Clara would have listened to medical advice, would have made the hard decisions for the

greater good.

Clara, who I had rejected and cast aside for this woman who was now blaming me for the loss of our son.

Clara, who was dead because of my decision to have her killed instead of simply banishing her.

The irony was bitter and devastating. I had destroyed my true mate to be with someone who blamed me

r for everything that went wrong.

I released Liana’s hand and stepped back from the bed. “I need some air.”

“Don’t you dare leave me,” she said, but there was no strength behind the words anymore. Just exhaustion and grief and misplaced anger.

“I’ll be back,” I said, though I wasn’t sure I meant it.

In the hallway, I pulled out my phone and saw several missed messages from Ryan about the council meeting. Updates about other packs‘ achievements, political maneuvering, alliance discussions.

Life was moving on while my world had just collapsed.

I thought about calling him, about getting an update on how our pack was being represented at the most

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