Accidental Surrogate

Accidental Surrogate Chapter 378-Rebuild Ella

“Hey, handsome,” I say again, in the real world this time. A little smirk pulls on

my lips as Sinclair’s eyes flutter open. We’re laying pressed quite close together

in the little hospital bed, so I can see every twitch of his eyelash as he begins to

focus on me.

He doesn’t say anything at first, just stares at me while he takes a couple of

deep breaths. And then, quite slowly, he lifts a hand close to my face, sliding the

knuckle of his index finger slowly down the length of my cheek. “Hey, trouble,”

he murmurs, his voice scratchy after so many days of disuse.

I burst into a happy grin, so thrilled to see him awake and aware that I can

barely contain myself. But I force myself to stay still, to not grab him, to…. let

him get used to consciousness again in his battered body..

“Rafe?” he asks, his eyes worried as his memories of his last conscious

moments come back to him.

“He’s fine,” I say softly, gesturing with my chin behind my mate, hoping that he

understands that the baby is here in the room with us, asleep. “He missed you,”

I whisper. “He doesn’t like it when he doesn’t have his dad around to hold him.” I

wrinkle my nose and playfully glare at my mate. “He likes you better.”

A little laugh shudders from Sinclair’s mouth. “Does not,” he murmurs, staring at

me steadily, as if he can’t get enough of the sight of my face. “You feed him, and

sing to him. When you leave the room, he looks for you.”

“Really?” I ask, surprised and pleased. I hadn’t known this before.

“Well, he’s not alone,” Sinclair smirks, shifting forward to press his forehead

against mine, a gesture that makes me grin with pleasure, joy pulsing through

me at a ridiculous rate to have him back. “You’re the center of the world, Ella.

We all turn to you.”

“Good,” I sigh, content. “I like all my boys obsessed with me. Makes it easier to

boss you around.”

Sinclair chuckles a little and then pulls back a bit, frowning. I sigh again, but in

resignation this time because I know our little stolen moment of peace is over

that he needs to know about the world and what’s happened since he’s been

gone from it.

“The priestess?” he asks.

“Dead,” I say solemnly. “Roger killed her the moment after you knocked her

down.”

“And Rafe is…”

unable to keep the

more about how you caught him in

on him, Dominic

smug shrug that makes

he continues. “Cora?

say, raising my eyebrows

on Cora, patching her up, and then the slightly

terribly battered needing quite a bite of

I say with a sigh, but they’re both fine now. And so

giving him a little push on the shoulder, wondering

asked about. “Seriously? Not curious at all about

going on with you?”

I think I knew that,” he

and glancing down at himself, or at least

tiny bed with me. I’m not in

for

his eyebrows in surprise. “But you…healed me?

the gift?”

him carefully. “I

when we got to you, and then Hank

him, giving him a

laugh.

I asleep?” my mate asks me, smiling a

say, ” but

the worry of the past three days

was really bad, Dominic. If I hadn’t been there, if I

still been bound…” into

close so that my body

tucked neatly under his chin. “You saved me,

can…never thank you. I’m so

my voice shaking a little as

We can’t keep doing this –

of our lives – I don’t want to do

I can feel him nodding,

again. You’re right it’s not worth

this. Peace,

hell that he means it –

in the world. My mate, my baby, and

he says. “I swear it,

I say, clenching my jaw shut against

I want to believe

that this isn’t finished. That

to be tied up.

still holding me tight when we hear the soft creak

my head a little, peering over Sinclair’s arm. I

peering through. the dim light of the room at us.

drawn the blinds

Hank,” I say, working

me and then blinks in surprise at Sinclair. “Is he up?” Hank

for him in the dream finally

nodding happily as I lean forward and smile at

sit up behind

mate murmurs, looking a little ruefully at him, which

laugh. “How’s your jaw?”

mate a

end of the bed, flipping through it. “Roger

it very much.

and takes