Accidental Surrogate

Chapter 341: A Quiet Night 

Ella

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We had dinner a little later, and Henry got to give Cora his shocked congratulations on her pregnancy. His eyes were wet, a little, at the thought of his second grandchild, but it was all for joy. It was a wonderful evening that we all spent together surprising after such a horrible morning.

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Tomorrow, I know, we have a lot to think about and decide. But tonight? Tonight I just want to sleep in my mate’s arms and get some rest under the knowledge that nobody is going to attack us and try to take my baby.

I’m tired, then, when Sinclair and I head back to our room with little Rafe in my arms, already asleep. A’s Sinclair opens the door for us I give a little wave to my sister and Roger, who are sleeping a few doors down.

“Aw,” I say, looking up at Sinclair as we walk into the room. “I’m jealous. I want to get knocked up.”

“What!?” Sinclair exclaims, laughing as he moves across the room to the little table where we’ve unpacked our clothes, eager to get ready for bed.

I pout as I move to the little makeshift cradle waiting by our bed that Henry instructed Sinclair’s men to make for us this afternoon, laying my sleeping baby down on the thin, firm mattress waiting there for him.

“I’m just a little jealous!” I declare, laughing a little.

at him. “You do realize that you just gave birth to our

up at him. “That’s not what I said. I don’t want to be pregnant – at least,

at me so broadly that it brings out all the little crinkles around his eyes that I love. “Please explain, then,

shrug, “not be trying to get pregnant, and then one day poof! Surprise!” I look up into his eyes, still smiling, “suddenly knocked

But he wants to hear more. “And why, Ella,” he asks,

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situation. But there was so much that

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feel him nodding. “Yes,” he agrees. “I see. A little,…less romantic and intimate than

something beautiful about them making that little miracle baby because

Sinclairs knuckles graze my face and

as many children as you want, Ella,” he murmurs softly, “and they will all be conceived in love. Rafe

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happen one day.” And a memory flashes in my mind of the prophecy the priests showed me, of our little family of four. Could that really be possible? I mean, the eldest child in

eager to get knocked up I’m right here and there is a bed – I am

his. But then I hesitate. Let’s wait, a little,” I say quietly, “before we think about a second child. Until all of

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