Accidental Surrogate

Chapter 329: Missing 

Sinclair

“Where is she,” Roger growls, pacing through our living room as Ella sit on the couch feeding

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Rafe, watching him anxiously. “I’ve been everywhere looking for her – at the clinic, at her

apartment –”

“You must have just missed her, Roger,” Ella says, as worried as he us but wanting to calm him

down. “She calls me every morning and night to fill me in. It sounds like she’s just super busy at

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the clinic it got very overwhelmed when she disappeared with us for a few days.”

“He’s keeping her there,” Roger murmurs suspiciously, his anxiety really doing a number on him.

“She broke up with him, and he pretended to accept it, but he’s keeping her trapped in the clinic

so she’ll agree to give him another shot –”

“You know she’s not doing that, Roger,” I say, leaning against the fireplace mantle and taking a

deep breath. Honestly, I don’t want to be in here handling my brother’s paranoia, but Ella sent me

a little shout down the bond letting me know that she needed some help. He’s been worked up for

days, of course, but really seems to be going off the deep end now. Not that I wouldn’t be too,

honestly, if I was freshly mated to Ella and then she disappeared for five days.

“How do you know,” Roger snaps at me, his eyes flashing with rage.

“Because,” I reply, my wolf responding to the challenge in his voice by raising his hackles. “I

know Cora. She wouldn’t do that. You have to trust her.” I stand up straight, my body language

communicating to Roger that I can take him, and if he needs someone to pin him to the floor, that

I’ll do it. After all, my mate and my infant child are in this room. If he flips out… their safety is my

priority. Not his.

“He’s right, Roger,” Ella says, trying to keep her voice even. “Honestly, she sounds fine, she’s just

really busy. She told me to… tell you she loves you.”

“But why won’t she pick up my calls?” Roger snaps, spinning on her, “why, when I go to the clinic

to see her, is she conveniently not there? Why is she never in her apartment when she says she

is!?”

step forward, interposing my body between my mate

and my brother.

growls, forcing himself to turn away and stalk to the window, looking for Cora, hoping she’ll magically appear in the driveway. “I’m not

leaning back

to take Rafe upstairs,” Ella sighs, nodding to

down

our little boy out of the room, my heart surging

they’re gone, I turn my

need you to come back, Roger,” I say, my voice soft. “We need you here.”

into the windowsill and not turning towards me. “How can I

when she hasn’t talked to me for

wrong.”

I say after a long pause, considering. “Did you do

spinning on

question, Roger,” I say, shrugging and meeting his furious eyes. “Did you

make her question your mating?”

he shouts. “I didn’t

I reply with a little shrug. “If you didn’t do anything,

only choice is to keep reaching out, and

can do now except be

ridiculous,” he snarls, turning away from

truth,” I reply, sighing. “Because my answer wasn’t

and then sling her over your shoulder so you can more easily carry

that’s what I would do, if I even knew

where she was.”

hand on his shoulder that makes him

I don’t move away – I’m bigger than he is, anyway. I can take what he throws at

her, Roger,” I say quietly. “She’ll thank you for it, in the end,

the meantime, let me

work harder on this cult problem,”

my advice a

as a puzzle,” I say, slipping my arm around his shoulder

your reward is

Isn’t that a great prize?”

his head and covering his eyes with his hand. “But you get maybe

he continues, “before I’m out

my teeth. Because

like this. He’ll completely freak her out,

So I turn him, my arm still

office to sort through the evidence we’ve sorted through

hours doing this, wearing ourselves out looking for loopholes that we haven’t

interrogative team together to better speculate

door to the house

moving towards the door,

possibilities and my muscles bunch as I sprint to get

office door

it’s a

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see my reconnaissance team forcing their way in, a black–robed figure trapped in their arms with a sack over his head. I

ever come through the first door if they didn’t have to

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