Chapter 276-Ella Gets Hungry
Sinclair
1 wake, a few hours later, jumping up straight the moment I realize that Elle n’t next to me
She had drifted off to sleep hours ago after a simple dinner and a movie marathon. While she dozed next to me, I’d spent most of the late hours of the night answered the stack of emails piling up in my inbox and watching her sleep from the corner of my eye. But now, when my eyes peeked open for just a moment after maybe two hours of sleep?
Gone
I hurl the sheets off of me, getting to my feet in a flash, my head whipping around as I search the empty room for her with all of my senses. But my eyes tell me that she’s not here, and my nose
Her scent is dull, but not stale She hasn’t been gone long
A growl starts in my chest as I stalk from the room, looking through the empty hallways for my mate, desperate to find her. She was on bed rest, damn it – where the hell else would she be except bed? Unless
Unless, something had happened – but she’d have woken me –
Or she’d been kidnapped – but there’s no way I’d have slept through that.
I follow her scent quickly, my anger intensifying as I realize that it leads me down stairs. God damn it, the doctor expressly forbid her from stairs. I pound down the staircase hurrying through the hall and slamming open the kitchen door –
at the kitchen table in the dark, surrounded by a pile of
says innocently, knowing she’s been caught and lowering the piece of cold fried chicken back down
storming to her side, relief washing through me like a wave. “What are you doing down here?” She looks up at me with
obvious.
let her off the hook. “The
“I didn’t go far!”
told you not
me. “He told me not to go up stairs. And I slid down
my eyes shut. “Ella,” I whisper between my clenched teeth. “You can’t be
hungry!” she
gaze back to her, glaring. “I could have gotten you food! Anything you wanted! I would
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fallen asleep, Dominic She shakes her gently at me. “You can’t be at my beck and call like this- not for something simple like a trip to
“would you have gotten back upstairs? After your…” “I stare around at the rather shocking amount of food gathered on the kitchen table, “feast?” “You have like six couches, Dominic,” she replies, smiling innocently up at me like a little kid who knows they can get out of trouble if they’re cute enough. Damn it, but it works. Just a little. “I’d have napped on one of those until morning, when you got up, and could lift me in your big strong arms and take
to play with the ends of her lovely rose–gold hair. I’m starting to calm now, realizing that my panic, while not precisely
me a big smile and
myself, sitting next to her. She hasn’t won – not yet but…well, I can’t really
I blurt out, frowning at her selection. It’s absolutely all over the place – fried chicken, pasta salad, cakes,
me food. I didn’t know what I wanted. Turns out, I wanted it all.” I grimace as she takes a bite of the licorice, ripping it off with her teeth as she turns a
just make sure you have a better selection upstairs. Maybe we can hire someone…” I drift off into my thoughts,
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