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 brother.

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

leaning

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

down for a

to her, watching her carry our little boy out of

I turn my attention back to my brother.

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

windowsill and not turning towards

anything when she hasn’t talked to me for days.

wrong.”

say after a long pause, considering. “Did you

Rodger spits, spinning

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

her question your mating?”

he shouts. “I

little shrug. “If you didn’t

reaching out, and wait for her to come to you when she’s

There’s literally nothing you can do

turning away

sighing. “Because my answer

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

that’s what I would do, if I even knew

where she was.”

on his shoulder that makes him jump a

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

you for it, in the end, if you

in the meantime, let me distract

this cult problem,” he sighs, closing his

into my advice

slipping my arm around his shoulder and giving

you finish it, your reward

a great

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

continues, “before I’m out

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

the streets looking for Cora when he’s like this. He’ll completely freak her out,

So I turn him, my arm still around

the office to sort through the evidence we’ve

spend hours doing this, wearing ourselves out looking for

to better

to

towards the door, only

possibilities and

the office door together so that I can get

just in case it’s a threat –

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eyes go dark as I see my reconnaissance team forcing their way in, a black–robed figure trapped in

ever come through the first door if

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