The Pack Rebel

20. Distant

**TRIGGER WARNING: MENTION OF MISCARRIAGE!!! READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED!!!**

Axel's P.O.V.

When we got to the hospital, the medical team rushed Cleo to the operating room. I was escorted to a waiting room. As the time ticks by, I anxiously wait for news on if the team was able to stop the bleeding and save both Cleo and the baby. None of the others in the pack have made it to the hospital. I get anxious and walk up to the nurses desk.

"Do you need something, young one?" The nurse looks up from her book at me through her eyelashes. I straighten up my posture, and put on a stern face.

"Is there any news on my sister, Cleo Pierce." When her name leaves my mouth, the nurses eyes go wide and she jumps up from the desk and bolts through the door that leads toward the operating rooms. I stand and wait for the nurse to come back, as I wait the elevator dings and the door opens. I watch as Parker, Julian, and Prince Declan all exit the elevator.

"Any news?" Parker blurts as he gets off the elevator and rushes up to me, I put my head down and shake it.

"The nurse just rushed through the doors. We'll see if there is news when she comes back." I explain, I individually look at the three of them, and see they are each holding on to the tiniest shred of their humanity. Parker's eyes are red and puffy, Julian balls and un-balls his fists to control the shakes that are happening in them, and Prince Declan is barely holding on, leaning on Julian, keeping his head down, and quietly wheezing.

"They are just about done with the surgery. Once she comes out, she'll be transferred to the i.c.u, and will need to be under strict supervision to make sure she does not hemorrhage again." The nurse explains, I turn to her and nod my head.

"What about the Placental Abruption?" I ask, and feel the others look at me. The nurse slightly smirks, and looks down at me.

"The doctor will be out soon, to discuss everything that they had to do. Until then, have a seat, and they will be out when they are finished." I nod my head, then walk back to the chair I had been sitting in. Prince Declan, Julian, and Parker slowly follow behind me, and sit in the chairs that are close to the one I'm sat in.

"What took you guys so long? It's been close to four hours since Cleo was brought in." I question, Prince Declan drops his head into his hands and shakes it.

"We were trying to figure out, what could have caused this. Plus, we checked the bed Cleo was resting in, to see if she had bled before you called for help." Parker explains, I look between the three of them and shake my head as I hear a bit of a lie behind his words.

"Was that all, or were you getting plans in place for if she and the baby pass?" I ask, Prince Declan's head shoots up, and the next thing I know he's standing in front of me, towering over me.

"How dare you! That's your own sister, and you think of something like that. I should have you put back in the dungeon." Prince Declan screams as he takes hold of the front of my shirt and hoists me out of my chair.

"Deck, let him go. He didn't mean it." Julian tries to calmly say. I look at him, then back at Declan.

"I would think twice before you do that, because I wasn't the one asking." I exclaim, Declan gasps and drops me, he falls to his knees, and I hear Julian gasp.

"Are you saying, that Cleo was the one asking that?" Parker shakily asks, I look at him and nod my head.

"She knows she lost more than enough blood to have possibly bled out. Hell, the last thing that was told to me, as I sat here waiting on you three, was that Cleo had to receive multiple bags of O-Negative blood to replace what she lost back at the manor." I scream the last part, then shake my head. As I get the ending of what I say out, the doctor comes into the waiting room.