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 *** -”

told his brother, but from everything Ella has said? It sounds like the dream state has been a place for them to really explore their relationship in a very physical way – after all, they had *** there first,

and I using the dream state for that kind of exploration in the future? A part of me is really, really glad that mine and Roger’s experience brought us closer

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

now, 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

know,” Roger says, placing a finger under my chin and turning my face up

“Wait, how do you know what

down the bond,” he murmurs. “Are you not

I say. “But…I was thinking about you. And the baby. So maybe it just…went.” He nods,

a curious little pulse down our mating bond to him, seeing if I can do it intentionally. I’m still

did,” he murmurs, pleased.

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

the baby responds, nudging us

ask, I see on Roger’s thrilled face that

and send another little nudge, this time

…Happy? I ask.

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

he curls away again,

up, taking my face in his hands and kissing me

simply like that. “Roger, I feel exactly

Ella

hands, a big smile on her

down at my baby, strapped into his car seat, in surprise. “Can you tell when your auntie is near?” I ask, curious. But, obviously, he doesn’t

today,” I say when Cora opens the door and peers into the car, blinking a bit in surprise at the two extra men in the row of seats behind

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

say, giving a

from the

making my sister laugh. I shake my head, thinking that our two wolf mates sometimes

forward and grinning at Cora. “Why are you

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