Accidental Surrogate

Ella

“As happy as this is,” Sinclair says, folding his arms over his chest and looking around at the four of us. “And it is happy,” he says, looking at Cora and Roger to let them know that he’s sincere. They nod their understanding. “We do still have a problem on our hands,” he says, nodding to Rafe

in my arms.

“Yes,” I say, looking eagerly up at Cora. “Henry found out some more about the cult – I’ll tell you

all about it. It’s…not good,” I say, with a little grimace.

“Oh,” she says, drawing her brows together. “Okay – yes, I want to hear everything.” I nod, tugging at her waist so that she’ll follow me into the house. Sinclair and Roger come close behind.

“Did you find anything else out?” Sinclair asks Roger.

“No,” Roger replies, a little apologetic. “Just what we sent you from the library. Was it useful?”

“Incredibly,” Sinclair confirms, thankful. “But yes, we found out more…”

”

My mate and I take Roger and Cora into the little office and tell them everything, seating Rafe in

a little swing that we’ve placed there temporarily since we’ve been spending so much time here.

working on this issue. They’re both as horrified as we were to discover that we likely have

someone in our midst who is working for the cult, who either has already betrayed us or will soon.

Though both wrack their minds they, like us, can’t come up with a viable candidate for who it is.

“We need more information,” Sinclair growls, thoughtful, as he flips through what paperwork his

investigators have produced for the case, as if he might find something else there. I nod, agreeing,

but I look at Cora and see her fading a bit.

“You haven’t slept, have you?” I ask, concerned.

She smiles at me, apologetic, but shakes her head. “I’m sorry, Ella,” she says. “I want to help but I

think…”

“Upstairs,” I say, my voice definitive, swatting her on the rear. “Immediately, sleep.”

“I’ll take her,” Roger says, stepping forward to take Cora by the arm.

a hand on his chest and shoving him back. Though I’m not

Roger complies, laughing and falling

“I promise,” he says, “I just want

peck on her cheek. “We’ll figure it

me a steady look. “Really, we will.” And then she takes Roger’s hand and walks out

move to Sinclair’s side as we watch them disappear form our sight. “I’m so happy,” I say, leaning against his chest and sighing contentedly. He wraps his arms around my shoulders, dipping his head to give me a kiss on the cheek.

against him. “They’re

considering all the

going to always be easy for them,” I sigh.

my neck. “You almost died like, four

his arms and looking sincerely up at him.

figured out that we loved each other, and especially that I was a wolf too, then…” I

it was always

you mean,” he says, looking calmly down into my eyes. “But their love is a

to me. “Like ours. They’re going to

so,” I sigh, resting my head against his chest and closing my eyes. “That’s all

both of them.”

five days pass with that seeming like a very real possibility. Cora and

because I keep making up reasons why they can’t go, and it fills my heart with

growing closer. To see the tiny little touches he places

say something in her ear, to see the way she turns her

dark,

Cora takes me by the shoulders and

back

my head back on my neck and groaning. “Just stay

need you!”

”

says, taking her hands back and folding her arms across her

me in a little love bubble with Roger so that I don’t change

something.”

I say, raising my eyebrows at her and giving her a

not changing my mind,

to hear her say it but she holds a finger up, stopping me. “But I have a life. And a boyfriend

deal with all of

my shoes. “Did you seriously never break up

glancing up

raising a guilty hand to her forehead and shading her

be a

stepping forward and rubbing her on the arm in