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 and looking between

we’re having this conversation

Adalaxians, women are…”

citizens, at best,” Sinclair finishes for him.

property.”

I gasp, my eyes going wide. ”

time for

not a bad way to think of it,” Roger says, tilting his head

are not taught to read or write, they have almost a

within their homes. It is…not

rights.”

Cora says, her face clearly

go there, considering how

broodmare.”

Sinclair says, nodding along with her. “And

They’re likely to

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

the role of regent as…

as

around whom

to place

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

the border, had been able to prosecute him

through a

“Can’t we just…demand that they give him back?

whatever?”

Sinclair replies, looking seriously down at me. “If I was

currently, I am not.”

confused, and then

say, my eyes going wide. Because while all of

our country have been disposed of, and

mate will take

done it yet. Which means, technically, that he doesn’t yet have

would allow him to

Cora says, sitting up straight and looking

we do like… some kind of quick and dirty coronation?

on you and get you on a throne by

a little at the idea of this, but there’s no

know the answer. “It’s more complicated than that,” Sinclair

hand through his hair. ” First, I have to

by the governors. It’s…all

bureaucratic nonsense that the Atalaxians

have been king the moment I killed Damon.

we get for wanting

in their lives. It’s a

looking up at him. “Can we

says, nodding down at me.

he says,