Accidental Surrogate

Chapter 410

Chapter 410 – Assembling the Team

Cora

When I wake up the next morning the dawn sun is already streaming through the windows, and I am absolutely – hands down – the happiest I’ve ever been. I’m curled up against my mate’s side, my hand still on his chest where I placed it when I fell asleep, and when I look up into his face? I see him already smiling down at me.

My mouth bursts into a smile.

“Well,” he says, turning fully towards me now and nudging my nose with his. “That was an incredible dream, wasn’t it?”

“Do you think it was real?” I whisper, desperately, desperately hoping that it was.

“I do,” he replies, nodding. “I don’t think…well, the things that you made up the beach, the landscape…they were all pretty static, no?”

I gasp a little, offended – “It was not static! It was intricate and there was a breeze I could smell the salt -”

“No, Cora,” he says, laughing, “I mean like, unchanging. The things that changed – you, me, the feeling the baby passed to us, and the wolves? Those all seemed very real.”

“Yeah,” I say, relaxing again and snuggling close, tucking my head beneath Roger’s chin. “I think it was real too.”

“He’s a really cute pup,” Roger murmurs, sleepily kissing my hair. ” Way cuter than Rafe.”

“I know, right?” I mumble, yawning. But we don’t have to tell Ella and Dominic that.”

“No way,” he replies. “No need to hurt their feelings. They’ll find out soon enough. We’re quiet for a moment before I ask my next question. “Did that go…how you thought it would?” I ask, hesitant.

“No,” Roger says instantly, laughing. “Honestly, Cora, I thought we were going to have way more *** -”

laughter too, because that’s what I had expected as well. I don’t know what Sinclair told his brother, but from everything Ella has said? It sounds like the dream state has been a place for

the dream state for that kind of exploration in the future? A part of me is

a family than I did before we went to sleep. And it’s not that we weren’t a family before –

so vividly himself, already, that I can’t help but think of him as my son, and me as his mom, and Roger as his dad, and us –

a finger under my chin and turning my face up to his. “I feel

curious. “Wait, how do you know what I’m

bond,” he murmurs. “Are you not trying

you. And the baby. So maybe

and passing a curious little pulse down our mating bond to him, seeing if I can do it intentionally. I’m still not used to this wolf

murmurs, pleased. ”

I reply, smiling happily. And then I close my eyes and concentrate, still keeping one touch on the bond between me and Roger but also giving a little tap on the bond that I now feel so much more powerfully between me and the baby than I did yesterday. I

my shocked pleasure, the

ask, I

laugh, and look down at myself, and send another little nudge, this

…Happy? I ask.

through me like a bell. Happy! My boy sends back, and I laugh, and feel

he curls away again,

kissing me again. “And I don’t think I’ve ever once been happier, not

that. “Roger, I feel exactly the same.”Books

Ella

with a to-go mug of tea in her hands, a big smile on

baby, strapped into his car seat, in surprise. “Can you tell when your auntie is near?” I ask, curious. But,

blinking a bit in surprise at the two extra men in the row of seats

door behind her. “Um, what’s all this?” she asks, a little hesitant before murmuring a hello to Rafe and leaning

guards,” I say, giving a chagrined little shrug. “Do you mind? I told him

as Conner pulls away from the house. “Actually,” she

rolling my eyes and making my sister laugh. I shake my head, thinking that our two wolf mates sometimes really do have

continue, leaning forward and grinning at Cora.

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