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 mate and

mate and

looking for Cora, hoping she’ll magically appear in the driveway. “I’m

leaning

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

him down for a

boy out of the room,

When they’re gone, I turn my attention

say, my voice soft. “We need

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

me for days. And

wrong.”

after a long pause, considering. “Did

spits, spinning on me.

say, shrugging and meeting his furious eyes. “Did you do something

make her question your

Dominic!” he shouts. “I didn’t do

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

keep reaching out, and wait for

you can do now except

turning away from

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

you find her, and then sling her over your shoulder so you can more easily carry her home.“”

“Obviously that’s what I would

where she was.”

and move over to him, putting a hand on

than he 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

the

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

into my advice a little

slipping my arm around his shoulder and giving

when you finish it, your reward

that a great prize?”

eyes with his hand. “But

this,” he continues, “before I’m out

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

he’s like this. He’ll completely

already. So I turn him, my arm still around his

office to sort through the

doing this, wearing ourselves out looking

our interrogative team together to better speculate about the possibilities,

to the house slams open.

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

of the possibilities and my

reach the office door together so that I can get into the

case it’s a

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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

come through the first door if they

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