Accidental Surrogate
Chapter 117
Ella
When Sinclair and Hugo finally leave for the pack headquarters, Henry and I move
into our favorite sitting room, returning to the puzzle we began solving together earlier
this week. Seated across from the older wolf, I pretend to scan the scattered puzzle
pieces for matches, while really sneaking peeks up at him. “So what do you make of
all this?”
I ask curiously. “Lydia and the Prince?”
Henry grimaces, “I never liked that woman. But trying to argue with headstrong young
Alphas’ convinced they’ve found their mate is like beating your head against a wall.”
He offers me a tender smile. “You’ll see soon enough. You can do everything in your
power to try and teach your pups the important lessons and prepare them for the real
world – but at the end of the day you have to let them make their own mistakes – it’s
the only way they learn.”
“Does it ever hurt any less? Or get any easier to watch them go down the wrong
path?” I inquire softly.
“Not a damn bit.” Henry shares grimly. However despite his grim look, his eyes
sparkle when he looks over at me. “Luckily, that doesn’t seem to be despite his grim
look, his eyes sparkle when he looks over at me. “Luckily, that doesn’t seem to be a
problem for me anymore. Lydia is out of the picture, my boys are friends again for the
first time since losing their mother, and Dominic is on his way to being King.”
“Dominic just told me how his mother died this morning.” I confess, reaching for the
old wolf’s gnarled hand. “Im so sorry you went through that.
It must have been terrible for you to be left alone with a pack to rule and two young
boys to raise on your own, in the midst of all your grief.”
He nods, “looking back I don’t have the first idea how I survived it. The grief almost
destroyed me… and I’m ashamed to say I let it destroy Dominic and Roger’s
relationship.” Henry sighs. “I haven’t always been the best father, but I can tell you
right now that it was a hell of a lot easier to be one when I had my mate.”
I know what he means. When I thought I was going to be bringing this baby into the
world alone, I’d been terrified. Very few people who plan for children expect to end up
alone with the responsibility, and though Id been one of the rare few – it certainly
hadn’t been by choice. I was thrilled to finally succeed, but the stakes seemed a
higher without a partner. I’m still afraid of course,
be part of a team. I know that as long as Sinclair is
and my pup will have
world.
never Would have believed I could do it without her, and I’m proud that
quavering line. “but I will never
that the wrong
if Juliet had been here
feeling tears in my eyes for
hours.
shrugs, his dark eyes shining. “There’s no use
way. You’ll see that too – nothing humbles you like
parent.”
an argument, not because I want to invalidate his feelings,
my heart that losing any parent is never
conversation with Juliet?” I finally ask, “before the
before everything
“No, not
to get the details right, I repeat the story Sinclair shared with me
morning.
to ignore what
at the end.”
you provided to guide him. He was only six,
have remembered those words because they were her last, but he
you. He is the Alpha he is today because
every day how to walk
happened right here?” Henry
“I moved the boys to a new home
up and made his fortune, he rebuilt the
honor.”
looking around the huge mansion. “Was it always
even grander in my day – Dominic isn’t the only one who
for himself, you
snatching up a distinctive puzzle piece belonging to my
I think I got us distracted.
day, diversions are a
arms of his wheelchair. “The first
a lovely young she-wolf to distract me from the
like you might be
but it’s the defeated laugh of a man who knows the game is
are too clever for your
tell me, Henry.” I request gently. “Whatever is worrying you
reliving your mate’s death.”
flashes his fangs in agreement. “It’s just that
before”
happens when there’s this kind
it never ends
caring that I might
shifter politics.
Alphas
on the campaign trail, the people vote and
points return to
Alphas competing
to choose sides and form alliances rather than competing
all the pressure and all the danger on the one or two men who actually
to win.”
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