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

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

not,” I murmur, leaning

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

down for

boy out of the

I turn my attention

need you to come back, Roger,” I say,

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

to me for days.

wrong.”

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

spits, spinning on

question, Roger,” I say, shrugging and

her question your mating?”

he shouts. “I didn’t

little shrug. “If you didn’t do anything, then it’s all

to keep reaching out, and wait for her to come to

can do now except

snarls, turning away

reply, sighing. “Because

over your shoulder

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

where she was.”

laugh and move over to him, putting a hand on his

bigger than he is, anyway. I can take what he throws

quietly. “She’ll thank you for it, in the end,

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

this cult problem,” he sighs, closing his eyes and

my advice

say, slipping my arm

when you finish it, your reward is that my

Isn’t that a great prize?”

shaking his head and covering his eyes with his hand.

of this,” he continues, “before I’m out there

my teeth. Because there’s no way

when he’s like this.

arm still around his shoulders, towards the door

to the office to sort through the

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

interrogative team together to better speculate

the front door to the house slams open.

is instantly on his feet and moving towards the door,

and my muscles bunch as I sprint to get in

office

in case 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 think

the first door

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