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

now and looking between me

like the fact that we’re having

Adalaxians, women are…”

citizens, at best,” Sinclair finishes for

property.”

eyes going wide. ” Seriously? Are they also a

in time for five

a bad way to think of it,” Roger says, tilting his head to the

read or write,

within their homes. It is…not great, in

rights.”

her face clearly displaying her disgust.

there, considering how he

broodmare.”

Sinclair says, nodding along

well. They’re likely to respect Rafe’s claim

Xavier’s grandson, not as my son. And, as such, would

claim to the role of regent as…

so ridiculous,” I say, sighing as I look down at

whom so much

reaching out to place a comforting hand on

able to get there so

had caught him at the border, had

through a foreign government to do

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

whatever?”

could,” Sinclair replies, looking seriously down at me. “If

currently, I am not.”

him for a second, confused, and

going wide. Because

been disposed of, and it’s rather

that my mate will take

yet. Which means, technically, that he doesn’t yet

of the powers which would allow

fast can you do it?” Cora says,

like… some kind of quick and dirty coronation?

on you and get you on a throne by

laugh a little at the idea of this,

know the answer. “It’s more complicated

hair. ” First, I have to claim it, and

by the governors. It’s…all a

the kind of bureaucratic nonsense that the Atalaxians don’t

In their country, I’d have been king the moment

a little, rueful. “That’s what we get for wanting to live

say in their lives. It’s a better process

looking up at

at me. “But this is

says, shifting his gaze to