hapter 204 – Boom
Sinclair
“Where are you now?” Ella asks, her beautiful face looking up at me from my phone screen.
“We’re headed to the Storm Forest pack, but we’ve got quite a few hours on the road before we get there.” I sigh, wishing we hadn’t needed Gabriel’s planes for the refugees, so that we might have flown these long distances.
“Storm Forest.” Ella murmurs, her eyes lighting up, “Does that mean you’re going to get to see some trees at last?”
Chuckling, I turn my phone towards the window, so she can see the rolling salt flats flying by in the distance. “No, unfortunately they chose their name to honor the ancestral lands they left before coming to the hidden territories. I’m afraid that the only trees here are the ones planted in Gabriel’s gardens.”
Ella’s face falls, and her lips form an adorable pout, just begging to be kissed. “I don’t know how they can stand it.”
“My poor little forest wolf.” I purr in sympathy, “our dream forest isn’t enough, is it?”
She shakes her head. “It’s not the same, just like being with you there isn’t the same as being with you in reality.”
“I know, baby.” I share honestly, “I feel it too.” I don’t add that it drives me crazy; that getting to hold her and love her in that secret place only our wolves can find, is nothing compared to actually having her with me. Every morning I wake up aching for her – in more ways than one.
“How many days?” Ella asks, giving me a sultry look that tells me she knows exactly how badly I’m longing for her. How I wish I wasn’t in the back of a car surrounded by my men, and that she wasn’t currently cuddled up with the pups in the nursery.
off into the distance and have her do the
I respond, not liking it any more than he does. We need to keep moving, and she needs her rest. “Five.” I eventually answer, resisting the urge to adjust my trousers. “Five more days and we’ll be together
in my head, Naughty mate, tempting me this way. Doesn’t she know
love seeing my sweet mate squirm with anticipation and desire. She drops her gaze in submission, and
too.” She confirms, flushing. “Though, there is something I need to talk to you
not liking the sudden somber
talking to Henry, and he offered to help track down
course, we’ll all help you sweetheart. As soon as Damon
problem.” Ella admits with a grimace. “I don’t think it should wait. I think I need to find her as
searching with her, which means she wants to do it alone. My wolf positively rails against this idea, and I’m not any happier about it. Still, I don’t want to shut her down without consideration for her feelings. “Ella, are you sure that this is what we need, and not simply what you want?” I ask. “I understand that you feel compelled to find her, but I have to
you don’t want to let me run off on my own, even though you
mean you’re entering the final stage of your pregnancy and we’re at war. If you want me to even consider letting you
defiant mate. She simply glowers at me, “Based on my memory, my mother met the Goddess – she spoke with her and was convinced to give me up. I think there’s
trying to keep in mind that she’s been waiting to have a mother for more than thirty years. I hate the idea of keeping Ella from anything she wants, especially this, but I can’t abide the thought of her taking
and mights that could turn the tide in this
follow? Somewhere so far away that it will take months to find her?” I ask sharply. “How far are
to fight this war. I didn’t ask for any of this – the only thing I did ask for was our baby,
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have suggested that.” I’m desperate to put a smile back on her face – to ease the pain I can see in her
“Ha – as if I enjoy
hear the way your heart races
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