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

mate and my

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

leaning back against the mantle.

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

get him down for

watching her carry our little boy out of the room, my heart surging with

they’re gone, I turn my attention back

Roger,” I say, my voice soft. “We

growls, digging his fingers into the windowsill and not

hasn’t talked to me for days. And I

wrong.”

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

spits, spinning on

I say, shrugging and meeting his furious eyes.

make her question

“I didn’t

answer,” I reply with a little

only choice is to keep reaching out, and wait for her to come

nothing you can do now except

ridiculous,” he snarls, turning away from me again,

the truth,” I reply, sighing. “Because my

over your shoulder so you can more easily carry her home.“”

replies, arrogant and angry. “Obviously that’s what I would do, if I even knew

where she was.”

over to him, putting a hand on

– I’m bigger than he is,

I say quietly. “She’ll thank you for it, in

in the meantime,

harder on this cult problem,” he sighs, closing his eyes and hanging

into my advice a

I say, slipping my arm around his shoulder and

it, your reward is that

that a

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

“before I’m out there looking

and lying through my teeth. Because there’s

looking for Cora when he’s like this. He’ll completely freak her out, and

my arm

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

spend hours doing this, wearing ourselves out looking for

to better

to

instantly on his feet and moving towards the door, only one person clear on his

and my muscles bunch as I sprint to get in

office door together so that I can get into

in case it’s a threat –

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in their arms with a sack over

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

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