Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Chapter 306

Chapter 306 – Old Friends

Ella

Two hours later, Sinclair and I welcome our friends back to our house for a casual breakfast and coffee

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or mimosas, according to preference to celebrate Rafe’s moonlight baptism. I can tell our guests are dragging – they’ve been up all night, after all – but spirits are high.

“Wow,” I say, leaning back against Sinclair’s chest with a croissant in one hand, a cup of coffee in the other. Rafe, thankfully, is asleep in his little recline stroller. Usually I’d put him to bed in his crib, but I want people to be able to say goodbye if they have to leave. “I can’t believe everyone I still up,” I say, peering around at our friends and family. “I mean, I know we’re on baby time so normal hours mean nothing anymore, but everyone else…”

“It’s a special occasion,” Sinclair murmurs; lowering his face to my hair and taking a long sniff of my scent. “We’re used to it. In wolf culture shifter children are rarer than we’d like, so we take the time to celebrate them when they’re born.”

“That’s so nice…” I say, sniffing a little, my eyes filling with tears.

“What?” Sinclair asks, pulling away from me a little, shocked. “Are you – why are you crying –

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I swat at him, laughing a little. “What! Hormones! I’m tired! Leave me be.” Then I brush the tears off my cheeks, smiling despite them. I’m just overwhelmed and grateful, honestly, for all the love that our family has shown our baby. “It really is a beautiful tradition,” I murmur, and Sinclair kisses my cheek before moving away to talk to some of the Alphas who have come to see their new prince.

Sinclair moves away, Isabel quickly moves to my side to take his place. “Hi, mama,” she says, giving me a warm smile as she wraps an

around her again, “how

at her mate across the room lets me know that her words are an understatement.

the guest rooms?” I ask Isabel quickly, taking her hand and squeezing it. “You can stay as

and meet the baby – but we both want to get home. We have…a lot of work to do there.” Her face changes, then, and I feel my stomach twist to

to a little love seat in the corner and I follow her there, Rafe’s

everyone and as private as we

Isabel says, her voice soft and a little sad, “I know that you’ve been distracted – and there’s nothing wrong with that you’ve had such a hard pregnancy, and I know that the birth wasn’t

hold on her hand, “please just tell me –“My stomach is

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think that Sinclair has told you absolutely everything,” she says, “about how bad the refugee problem is now, after the last days of the war when you were away on the boat. It’s nothing that he’s done wrong – Sinclair has made so many strides –

him by war – just, had no idea where he was,

to where Sinclair is standing. “I’m sorry maybe I

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know, Isabel -I’m getting strong, I need to do this sort of work. If Sinclair intends to lead these people, I don’t intend to stay home and

That’s why I told you – not because …well, Ella, if you’re still healing, you need to focus

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a little smile. “I’ll take care of myself, and my family. But I’m going to help too. Can you tell me? Who is the

lowering her voice and looking around

her the space to work through her

that the right side won this war. That Damon would have worked to disenfranchise the humans completely, to enslave them if he could.

during the war when even

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