Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Chapter 316 – Safe?

Ella

Forty–five minutes later, I back out of the bedroom, snicking the door shut behind me. Then, I

stand up, closing my eyes and exhaling a long breath.

“Is she all right?” a voice hisses, right behind me.

I leap about a foot in the air, managing to muffle my shriek as I spin to see my mate standing

about six inches from me, looking down with a worried expression. I smack him, hard, against the

chest – more to get my adrenaline out than to actually hurt him – and glare up at him, mad at him

for scaring me like that. Sinclair just blinks at me, waiting, my smack having had no effect on him

at all.

–

“Back up,” I whisper, putting my hands on his wide, muscled chest and pushing backwards. “She’s

asleep, finally – where is the baby?”

“He’s here,” Roger says, standing at the end of the hall with his godson in his arms. I smile, a little,

at the sight as I move forward with my arms open. Roger quietly passes my baby to me and I smile

down at my son, something in my body that has been anxious without him in the same room as

me finally coming to rest.

“Seriously, Ella,” Sinclair says, looking back towards the closed door of our guest room. “Is Cora

okay?”

know,” I say, looking towards the door anxiously. “Leon came back about ten minutes later, offering a sedative so she could sleep. I told him to give it as

any dreams.”

Sinclair asks, still facing

frown up at him, a little annoyed by his singular focus on information. “You know she’s your sister too now, Dominic,” I snap, my own emotions a bit on edge. “You could show a little more concern for her welfare, and not just see her as a source of information.”

face, but then he softens “I’m sorry, Ella,” he says, sincere. “I didn’t mean it like that. You know her health and safety are

leaning my body against him. “I’m

tired, and stressed,” he murmurs against my hair. “You haven’t had any sleep in about

-eight hours…”

going in with her,” Roger says suddenly, striding towards the guest

turns to me with his hand on the knob, giving me

words from my

Roger bites out,

go get some sleep,” he says, his face softening. “The house is guarded –

someone to sit with

an arm around my shoulder. “Come on, trouble,” he murmurs to me, nodding to Roger – who disappears into the bedroom – and

–

sleep,” I gasp, my voice shaky, wiping a tear from my face. “How can

sleep,” Sinclair murmurs, ushering Rafe and I into the room and closing the door behind us. Then he takes me by the shoulders and moves me towards the bed,

“Just for a moment,” Sinclair murmurs, turning back to me and – to my surprise – beginning to undress me, tugging my shirt up over my head and arms and then sitting me down on the mattress, tugging off my

which absurdly brings his head basically eye- level with mine. “You trust me,

you know I’d never let anyone hurt or take

Again, I nod.

darling,” he says, lifting a hand to my

can be

like a child, and resents it, but a larger part of me…god, it needs it.

my mate and tuck my feet in underneath the blankets, taking the baby with me. “Tonight he sleeps in the bed with us, okay?” I murmur, laying the swaddled baby down

him close.”

murmurs, stripping down to his underwear and climbing

leans forward, kissing Rafe softly on the head before laying his own head

on the pillow.

my eyes again, looking around.

Ella,” he whispers. “We all are. Go to

so, comforted, I