Accidental Surrogate

Accidental Surrogate Chapter 383-Cora’s Decision Ella

“What?” Cora asks, laughing a little as if it’s a ridiculous notion. “What on earth could I have to pick and choose from?”

“Let’s back up a little,” Roger says, tugging her into the room and gesturing

towards one of the chairs around the table. As she settles herself into a seat Sinclair pulls over the little armchair that I’ve been using when I feed Rafe, and I

murmur my thanks to him as I settle down in it. As Roger begins, Sinclair swiftly hands me all of the things I need to feed Rafe – a burp cloth, a little blanket to throw over my shoulder, etc. – and I smile to myself at his consideration in anticipating my needs without me having to ask. My Alpha is a warrior, but he’s also a sweetheart. And I’m grateful for him every day. Everyone waits for me to get settled, but then once Rafe is happily eating

Henry begins.

“We discovered,” Henry begins, his eyes moving between me and Cora, that

Xander has fled east to Adalaxia.”

“Shit,” Cora sighs, slumping down in her chair. My emotions match hers. We

knew that Xander was on the run we’d largely decimated any of his that martial

forces in taking out his priests. But our great fear was that in the time it took us to regroup, that he’d leave the country and find allies who might help him. And it looks, now, like he did precisely that.

“Is Adalaxia…a good place for him to go?” I don’t know a lot about the

neighboring kingdom, especially as I was raised as a human and hadn’t known

that overlying the map of the human world there was a hidden world of wolf

kingdoms with its own wars and politics. Of course, ever since Damon broke the

secret of the of the wolves to the human world those maps have increasingly

combined to become one, but still – what I don’t know about wolf politics could

probably fill its own book.

Which, considering that I’ll likely soon be Queen, is…unfortunate. But I force

myself to pay attention to Henry’s answer.

“Adalaxia is a notoriously ruthless wolf nation,” he sighs. “They stick even more

strictly to what they perceive as the traditions of wolf kind even more than we

do. In comparison to them we are…ridiculously liberal.”

“What does that mean?” Cora asks, crossing her arms over her chest, her face

worried and confused.

“It means,” Roger explains, “that Xander has likely found allies with a group who

would not be on board with our own nation’s current policy, which is that wolves

and humans are equal and deserve to be treated with the same respect. They

he continues, hesitating now

like the fact that we’re having this conversation with our

Adalaxians, women are…”

citizens, at best,” Sinclair finishes for

property.”

gasp, my eyes going wide. ” Seriously?

time for five

of

not taught to read or write, they have

strictly within their homes. It

rights.”

clearly

how he tried to use Ella as

broodmare.”

Sinclair says, nodding along with her.

well. They’re likely to respect

not as my son. And, as such, would

role of

sighing as I

person around whom so much

out to place a

he was able to get there so fast. This would all

him at the border, had been able to prosecute him

having to go through a foreign

I ask. “Can’t we just…demand that they give

whatever?”

down at

currently, I am not.”

a second, confused, and then put all of the

say, my eyes going wide. Because while all of the other

our country have been disposed of, and it’s rather

that my mate will take

hasn’t done it yet. Which means, technically,

allow him to make any

Cora says, sitting up straight and looking

like… some kind of quick and dirty coronation?

and get you on

a little at the idea of this, but there’s

know the answer. “It’s more complicated than

First, I have

be ratified by the governors. It’s…all a bunch of bureaucratic

the kind of bureaucratic nonsense that the Atalaxians don’t

have been king

get for wanting to live in a nation

people have a say in their lives. It’s a better process – but

looking up at him. “Can

at me. “But

Cora,” he says, shifting his