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 *** -”

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 them to really explore their relationship in a very physical way –

I can certainly see Roger 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

feel so much more like a family than I did before we went to sleep. And it’s not that we weren’t a family before

him as my son, and me

turning my face up to his. “I feel exactly the same

curious. “Wait, how do you

he

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

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 stuff, and I don’t know how good I am at it. “Did you

murmurs, pleased. ” You’re

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 give it just a little

my shocked pleasure, the baby responds, nudging

ask, I see on

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

…Happy? I ask.

then the reply comes and I feel it ring through me like a bell. Happy! My boy sends back, and I

then he curls away again,

happy,” Roger says, choked up, taking my face in his hands and kissing me again. “And I don’t think I’ve ever once

simply like that. “Roger, I

Ella

standing outside her door with a to-go mug of tea in her hands, a big smile on her face. Rafe gives a little squeal

surprise. “Can you tell

in surprise at the two extra men in the row of seats behind me, and then at the guard sitting beside Conner in the

her seat and closing her door behind her. “Um, what’s all this?” she asks,

I say, giving a chagrined

after smiling around at everyone and saying her hellos as Conner pulls away from the house. “Actually,” she continues, ” Roger had the same idea. Did

that our two wolf mates sometimes really do have the same mind, even if they’re

and grinning at Cora. “Why are you so

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