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!?”

interposing my

mate and my

Dominic,” Roger growls, forcing himself to turn away and stalk to the window, looking for

not,” I murmur, leaning back against

upstairs,” Ella sighs, nodding to the baby, who has finished eating. “See if

get him down for a

little boy out of the

When they’re gone, I turn my attention

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

his fingers into the windowsill and

me for days. And I don’t even

wrong.”

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

Rodger spits, spinning on

shrugging and meeting his furious eyes. “Did

make her question your mating?”

he shouts. “I didn’t do

then there’s your answer,” I reply with a little shrug. “If you didn’t do anything,

reaching out, and wait for her to come to you

nothing you can do now except

turning away from

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

her over your shoulder

“Obviously that’s what I would do, if I

where she was.”

move over to him, putting a hand on

than he is,

for it, in the end, if you approach this with

of suspicion. And in the meantime, let me distract you.”

cult problem,” he sighs, closing

head, giving into my

I say, slipping my

when you finish it, your

a

covering his eyes with his

this,” he continues, “before I’m

reply, nodding and lying through my teeth. Because there’s no

this. He’ll completely freak her out, and it

spooked already. So I turn him, my arm still around his shoulders,

office to sort through the evidence we’ve sorted through a

doing this, wearing ourselves out

our interrogative team together to better speculate about the possibilities,

door to

on his feet and moving towards the door, only

possibilities and my muscles bunch

pushing behind me as we reach the office door together so that I can get into

in case it’s

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figure trapped in their arms with

first door if they didn’t

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