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!?”

a step forward, interposing my body

and my brother.

turn away and stalk to the window, looking for Cora, hoping she’ll magically appear in the

better not,” I murmur, leaning back against the mantle.

take Rafe upstairs,” Ella sighs, nodding to

get him down for a

her carry our little boy out of the

gone, I turn my attention back to my

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

he growls, digging his fingers into the windowsill and not turning towards me. “How

hasn’t talked to me for days.

wrong.”

a long pause, considering. “Did you do anything wrong?”

spits, spinning

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

make her question your

Dominic!” he shouts. “I

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

only choice is to keep reaching out, and wait for

nothing you can do now except be

away from me

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

find her, and then sling her over your shoulder so

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

where she was.”

over to him, putting a hand on his shoulder that makes him jump a

he is, anyway. I can take what he

her, Roger,” I say quietly. “She’ll thank you for it, in the end, if you approach this with faith

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

cult problem,”

my advice a little

I say, slipping

it, your reward is

Isn’t that a great prize?”

he sighs, shaking his head and covering his eyes with his hand. “But

“before I’m

my teeth. Because there’s no way I’m letting him

streets looking for Cora when he’s like this.

I turn him, my arm still around his

to sort through the evidence we’ve sorted through

out looking

together to better speculate about

door to

towards the door, only one

of the possibilities and my muscles bunch as I sprint to get in

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

just in case it’s a

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a black–robed figure trapped in their arms with a sack over his head. I think several things at once, the first being

never, ever come through the first

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