All Chapters of His Human Mate, His Greatest Threat: Chapter 171 - Chapter 180

AVAThe sound of the monitor had changed, and even though I didn't understand all the noises coming from the machines around me, I understood enough from the way Elena and the nurses suddenly started moving faster.Damien was still holding my hand, but his fingers had become painfully tight around mine, and when I looked at him, his face was different. He was trying to hide something, and I was beginning to hate how everybody kept looking at me as though I wasn't actually in the room.Another contraction tore through my stomach.I screamed, grabbing Damien's arm while my body tightened against the mattress. The pain was becoming unbearable, and it seemed to travel from my abdomen into my back, making it difficult to breathe without feeling as though something was being ripped apart inside me."Please make this stop because I cannot keep taking this much pain, and something feels terribly wrong with my body."Damien leaned over me, his forehead almost touching mine."Stay with me, Ava.

DAMIENThe monitor kept making that fucking sound, and every time it changed, another nurse moved towards Ava's bed while Elena tried to keep her expression under control. I had heard men beg for their lives, watched warriors bleed out on battlefields, and stood over bodies that had once belonged to people I loved, but none of that prepared me for watching the woman carrying my child struggle to keep her heartbeat steady."Do something, Elena."My voice came out low, but the entire room heard the threat underneath it.She adjusted the monitor and ordered another nurse to check Ava's blood pressure. The numbers appeared on the screen, and her expression tightened before she reached for the emergency medication. Ava's fingers were still wrapped around mine, although her grip had weakened so badly that I could barely feel it.I bent over her and pressed my mouth against her forehead, trying to keep my wolf from forcing its way through my skin. The creature inside me was clawing, furious

DAMIENElena pushed me away from the bed, but I barely moved before my wolf slammed against my ribs, furious at the hands trying to separate me from Ava. The nurses crowded around her, one checking her pulse while another adjusted the oxygen, and the physician called out numbers that sounded increasingly wrong. Ava's head remained turned towards the pillow, her lips slightly parted beneath the mask, and her hand lay open against the sheet where I had been holding it."Get your hands off me unless you intend to help her."Elena looked up sharply. "Damien, I need room to work, and if you frighten my nurses or interfere with the treatment, you will make this worse."I stared at her, my eyes burning gold, before forcing my claws back beneath my skin. The room smelled of blood, medicine and fear, and beneath it all I could smell Ava, that familiar scent that had become part of my existence until I could recognise it in a crowded room without seeing her face.Except now it was changing.The

"Do it."Her voice came through the bond, faint but unmistakable, and every part of me reacted as though she had reached through my chest and grabbed my heart. I looked down at Ava, whose body lay frighteningly still beneath the medical lights, then towards Elena, who was already watching me with an expression I couldn't bear."She has chosen," I said. "Prepare everything."The room changed immediately. Elena ordered the nurses to clear space around the bed, while the supernatural physician opened his metal case and removed the instruments required to complete the bond. Nobody moved casually anymore, and even the guards outside seemed to understand that something far more dangerous than an ordinary birth was happening behind those doors.I pulled the oxygen mask away from Ava's face just long enough to press my mouth against her forehead, then held her cheek between my hands."You chose this, Ava, and I am going to do everything in my power to bring you and our child through it."Her

AVAI could still feel every wolf in the building, every heartbeat moving beyond the walls, every anxious breath coming from the nurses surrounding my bed, but all of it became meaningless when another contraction ripped through my body.My fingers twisted around Damien's hand, and he immediately moved closer, his dark hair falling across his forehead as he watched Elena prepare for the delivery. His other hand rested against my cheek, and I could feel his wolf pushing against the bond, desperate to protect me even though there was nothing he could fight."Stay with me, Ava. We are almost there, and I am not letting you face the last part of this without me."I wanted to laugh at the way he said it because this stubborn bastard had spent centuries behaving like the entire world was something he could control, yet he couldn't even stop my body from hurting. Instead, another cry escaped my throat, and I squeezed his hand so hard that I was certain I had hurt him.He didn't complain.Ele