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 my

door opens then, and Cora and Roger come striding out,

their faces as they

oblivious to our

and excited. Her head spins to me and her smile

her. But as I get within three feet of

my tracks, raising my nose to

can’t –

me, likewise goes stiff and then

I glance back to see

like you’re a

shocked and

her to me and holding the baby to my side so that he

then I back off

her and

Yes – yes –

may not have been able to smell it months

wolf, and it’s awake

Ella,” she says,

“I have a wolf. Um, I’m still human,

still in disbelief,

from mom. I just…never knew. She helped me

squeezing her hand and staring at her, baffled and thrilled. ”

I mean, I think

and then takes her

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

me. “The baby does

stumbling forward, putting

as if I could feel the baby too. “You can feel the baby

says, happy. “I can feel him through the

her and I feel my eyes instantly

in my mind.

Cora begins to nod.”

and my mate wisely slips my own

hurl myself at my sister, wrapping her up

– so incredibly excited for her, and for

it’s not

friends –

holding me tight and shaking her head. “It’s

choking me!”

time letting her go, so my sister just laughs and holds

and forth,

I am able to pull back a little and wipe my

mate with his arm around his

Rafe in Sinclair’s arms, probably