Accidental Surrogate

Chapter 393: Family Reunited Ella

I get tenser and tenser as the minutes pass, and I can feel Sinclair behind me

likewise desperate to know what’s going on behind that closed door. A priestess

comes by after a little while, offering us tea or seats, but we decline both

because we’re very aware that we’re definitely not going to be able to relax until

that door opens. Which it doesn’t do for a very, very long time.

“What are they even doing in there?” I ask, especially when I hear a little muffled

shout come through that makes me go quite still. Sinclair chuckles a little and I

spin to look up at him, not understanding what he means –

But then, when I see his raised eyebrow and the smirk on his face, I realize…

“Oh, EW!” I say, swatting at him with my free hand, the one that’s not holding the

sleeping baby. “They are so not-”

“Roger would,” he murmurs, smiling at me and still laughing lightly.

“Cora would not,” I say, vehement. “ This is mom’s house.”

“She didn’t seem to mind about such activities outside the RV, where dad could

have seen, were he to glance out the window.”

“Yeah, but that’s your dad,” I say, rolling my eyes and returning my focus to the

door. “It’s different.”

“The Goddess is all-seeing,” Sinclair says, and I can feel him shrug. “She’ll spy

if she wants to – what’s the difference between having s3x in her temple as

opposed to anywhere else -”

But I hiss at him to shut up, looking around anxiously to make sure he wasn’t

overhead. Chuckling, wrapping his arms around my waist again, Sinclair pulls

me back against him. “If the baby weren’t here,” he murmurs low into my ear,

pulling my hips back against him…

“Enough out of you,” I chide, though I can’t help the smile that tugs at my lips.

very difficult to resist. Even in an

space dedicated to

the door opens then, and Cora and

their faces as they speak

oblivious to our tense

cry, thrilled and excited. Her head spins to

But as I get within

that? I stop dead in my tracks, raising my nose

can’t –

coming up behind me, likewise goes stiff and then starts to laugh.

and I glance back to see a wide

face. “Looks like you’re a

completely shocked and throwing an arm around my

holding the baby to my side

Are you?” And then

her and sensing

Yes – yes –

may not have been able to smell it months ago,

sister has a wolf, and it’s awake in her, and

“Yes, Ella,” she says, nodding

my hand. “I have a wolf. Um, I’m still human, so I can’t

her head still in disbelief, “I have always had

from mom. I just…never knew. She helped

say, squeezing her hand and staring at her, baffled and

amazing – I mean, I think it’s

sister nods and then takes

mate. “I do. We both do.” And then she puts a hand on her

me. “The

again, laughing and stumbling

if I could feel the baby too. “You

“I can feel him through

eyes snap up to her and

echo in my mind.

begins to nod.”

shout, estatic, and my mate wisely slips

before I hurl myself at my sister, wrapping her

incredibly excited for her,

and for Rafe to have a best friendBecause it’s not optional anymore Rafe and the baby

friends –

and shaking her head. “It’s all

choking me!”

her go, so my sister

back and forth,

a little and wipe

around his brother’s

down at Rafe in Sinclair’s arms, probably