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!?”

take a step forward, interposing my body between my

and

himself to turn away and stalk to the window, looking for Cora, hoping she’ll

I murmur, leaning back against

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

get him down for a

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

When they’re gone, I turn my attention back to my brother.

say, my

fingers into the windowsill and

hasn’t talked to me for days. And I don’t

wrong.”

pause, considering. “Did you do

spits, spinning on

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

her question

Dominic!” he shouts. “I didn’t do anything!”

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

to keep reaching out,

you can do

turning away from me again,

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

you find her, and then sling her over your shoulder so

and angry. “Obviously that’s what I would

where she was.”

and move over to him, putting a hand on

is, anyway. I can take what he throws at me.

Roger,” I say quietly. “She’ll thank you for it, in the end, if you

of suspicion. And in the

to work harder on this cult problem,” he sighs, closing his

giving into my advice a

think of it as a puzzle,” I say, slipping my arm around his shoulder

“and when you finish it, your

that a great

eyes

this,” he continues, “before I’m out

through my teeth. Because there’s no way

this. He’ll completely freak her out, and

him, my arm still around his shoulders, towards the

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

ourselves out looking

together to

the front door to

moving towards the door, only one person

more aware of the possibilities and my muscles bunch as I sprint to

we reach the office door together so that I

case it’s a threat

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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

through the first

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