Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Chapter 274

Chapter 274 – Bonded

Ella

My head feels…so heavy. I groan, trying to move my hands up so I can press them against my temples, but I can’t move them.

“Easy,” I hear him say beside me and instinctually I turn towards his voice. Where –

“Easy, Ella,” he murmurs, his words thick with emotion. “It’s all right…”

I peel my eyelids apart, then, confused at the effort. It’s like I haven’t opened my eyes for weeks…

My vision comes back to me slowly, the room around me coming into focus with effort. I blink rapidly, looking around at Sinclair, and Cora, and Roger all standing around me, peering at me with worried faces. I feel very suddenly like Dorothy, when she wakes up from her trip to Oz.

“What?” I murmur, my voice thick and my throat scratchy. Suddenly anxious, I try to sit up, pushing at the bed beneath me but –

What the hell were all these wires, tied to my arms?

“Easy, trouble,” Sinclair whispers, pressing his hand to my shoulder, keeping me down. My body responds to his command, relaxing backwards as I look up at him. But…

“Where am I?” I ask, staring at him, and then I press my eyes closed. It’s all just too much.

“You’re in the hospital,” I hear my sister explain. “After the gift, at the temple…”

But her voice fades, almost as if I can’t hear it. I feel my heart start to pound, my breath ratchet up as my memories start to come back to me. Of being on the temple steps of Cora there, and what we learned about each other of Sinclair’s warm arms around me –

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And then, nothing – and then clouds – and Sinclair again, and my baby –

Oh my god, where was my baby?

“Rafe?” I gasp, spinning towards Sinclair as my eyes fly open, desperate. “Where is Rafe?” Then I start to look all around me, searching for him – he’s here, he has to be, I remember him, my little baby, wrapped in white swaddling, holding him in my arms

hurriedly, “it was a dream, Ella – we

then, drawing my attention to it, reminding

my baby. Then I close my eyes, resting my head

My bond with my baby. I reach out to him, sending all the love I have in

again, feeling my whole body relax. I open my eyes again, feeling a rush of

rush of air, grasping one of my hands and lowering his head

for a long minute as tears start to slide down my

It’s all just…it’s a lot to take in in just a few minutes. To come flying back to reality after such a hard

where else I’d want to

hear Roger murmur, and then his

room.

her. Sinclair straightens at my side, letting us have our moment as I take her hand.

she huffs, laughing through the tears

down at my poor beat up little body. “Um, I think so?” I feel so weak but there is also…a warmth, a stillness in me that feels… I frown, looking up at her.

a little and running her hand through her hair. “Yeah? I gave you back mom’s the Goddess’s – the gift, I gave it back to you,” she stumbles, not really knowing how

working to sit up straighter in my bed. “Cora!” I scold. “Why?! I gave it to you – it’s

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were dying – of course I gave it back to you I didn’t even want

frankly a little mad now. “It’s a gift from a Goddess – from our mom – I worked so hard to get it here, the least you could do is take

”

my sister like this in front of him, especially when I’m clearly so sick. I look up at him, my eyes apologetic, and I see his face instantly soften. “Please, Ella,” he begs.”

and then turning to Cora. “Okay,” I repeat, raising a finger to point

terms, wiping the tears off of her cheeks. “Whatever you

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hot on his heels. It’s a man I haven’t

to me. He quickly scans my face, his expression worried. “I have to say, I’m shocked to see you awake –” He quickly grasps my wrist, feeling for a pulse and turning towards the monitors behind them, scanning them

up at Sinclair. “Not precisely a medical

Goddess, if you will,” he observes, a little humor in

to the monitors.

working to sit up further and wincing as a sharp pain spikes through my back. Sinclair starts at my grimace, leaning closer to me,

to himself. “Better, if anything, than he was the last time I was in here.” “Good,” I say, almost under my breath, pleased to have

scolds, turning towards me and frowning. “You’re still incredibly weak. You have days yet

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