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!?”

forward, interposing

mate and my

Dominic,” Roger 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 going to hurt

better not,” I murmur, leaning

Rafe upstairs,” Ella sighs, nodding to the baby, who has

him down for a

out of

they’re gone, I turn my attention

say, my

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

she hasn’t talked to me for days. And I don’t even know what I did

wrong.”

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

spits, spinning on me.

a question, Roger,” I say, shrugging and meeting his furious

make her question your mating?”

“I didn’t

answer,” I reply with a little shrug. “If you

her. And your only choice is to keep reaching out, and wait for her to come to you

you can do now except be patient.”

ridiculous,” he snarls, turning away from

I reply, sighing. “Because my answer wasn’t ‘go rip the world apart

and then sling her over your shoulder so

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

where she was.”

on his shoulder that makes him jump a

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

it, in the end, if you approach this

the meantime, let me distract you.”

cult problem,” he

giving into my advice a little

as a puzzle,” I say, slipping my arm

finish it, your reward is that my son doesn’t get

a great prize?”

sighs, shaking his head and covering his eyes with

“before I’m out there looking for her again.”

I reply, nodding and lying through my teeth. Because

the streets looking for Cora when he’s like this. He’ll completely

So I turn him, my arm still around his shoulders,

to sort through the evidence we’ve sorted through

out looking for loopholes that we

team together to better

front door to

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

possibilities and my muscles bunch as I sprint to

pushing behind me as we reach the office door together so that

just in case it’s a threat

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dark as I see my reconnaissance team forcing their way in, a black–robed figure trapped in their arms with a sack over his head. I think several things at once, the

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

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