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.

and shoving him back.

him, Roger complies, laughing and falling back a

his hands up. “I promise,” he says, “I just want to see my mate comfortably

“We’ll figure it all out when you wake up, okay?” I say, giving her a little nudge towards the

And then she takes Roger’s hand and walks out the

I say, leaning against his chest and sighing contentedly. He wraps

he says, holding me tight against him. “They’re idiots

don’t say anything for a moment, considering all the things that held

easy for them,” I sigh. “Not like it was for

the back of my neck. “You almost died like, four times since we’ve been together. How is

sincerely up at him. “We

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

with us, it was always

he says, looking calmly down into my eyes. “But their love is

“Like ours.

his chest and closing my eyes. “That’s all I

both of them.”

seeming like a very real

up reasons why they can’t go, and

them growing closer. To see the tiny little touches he places on her back when he

see the way she turns her face up

of his dark,

me by the shoulders and gives

must go back to

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

need you!”

”

need me,” she says, taking her hands back and

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

something.”

at her and giving her a

head at me. “I’m not changing my mind, Ella. I’m in love

“But I have a life. And a boyfriend who I never broke up with. And a job that requires me to actually

deal with all

shoes. “Did you seriously never break

I ask, glancing

to her forehead and

need to be a big girl and

say, stepping forward and rubbing her on the arm in what I hope