Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Chapter 328 – Reconnaissance

Ella

“As happy as this is,” Sinclair says, folding his arms over his chest and looking around at the four of us. “And it is happy,” he says, looking at Cora and Roger to let them know that he’s sincere. They nod their understanding. “We do still have a problem on our hands,” he says, nodding to Rafe

in my arms.

“Yes,” I say, looking eagerly up at Cora. “Henry found out some more about the cult – I’ll tell you

all about it. It’s…not good,” I say, with a little grimace.

“Oh,” she says, drawing her brows together. “Okay – yes, I want to hear everything.” I nod, tugging at her waist so that she’ll follow me into the house. Sinclair and Roger come close behind.

“Did you find anything else out?” Sinclair asks Roger.

“No,” Roger replies, a little apologetic. “Just what we sent you from the library. Was it useful?”

“Incredibly,” Sinclair confirms, thankful. “But yes, we found out more…”

”

My mate and I take Roger and Cora into the little office and tell them everything, seating Rafe in

a little swing that we’ve placed there temporarily since we’ve been spending so much time here.

working on this issue. They’re both as horrified as we were to discover that we likely have

someone in our midst who is working for the cult, who either has already betrayed us or will soon.

Though both wrack their minds they, like us, can’t come up with a viable candidate for who it is.

“We need more information,” Sinclair growls, thoughtful, as he flips through what paperwork his

investigators have produced for the case, as if he might find something else there. I nod, agreeing,

but I look at Cora and see her fading a bit.

“You haven’t slept, have you?” I ask, concerned.

She smiles at me, apologetic, but shakes her head. “I’m sorry, Ella,” she says. “I want to help but I

think…”

“Upstairs,” I say, my voice definitive, swatting her on the rear. “Immediately, sleep.”

Roger says, stepping forward to

a hand on his chest and shoving him back. Though I’m

complies, laughing and falling back a bit.

up. “I promise,” he says, “I just want to see my mate

it all out when you wake up, okay?” I say, giving her a little

will.” And then she takes Roger’s hand and walks out the door and

say, leaning against his chest and sighing contentedly. He wraps his

he says, holding me tight against him.

all the

always be easy for them,” I sigh. “Not like it was for us.”

says, and I can feel him shake his head against the back of my neck. “You almost died like, four times since we’ve been together.

turning in his arms and looking sincerely up at

we loved each other, and especially that I was a wolf too, then…” I shrug,

us, it

into

to me. “Like ours. They’re going

so,” I sigh, resting my head against his chest and closing my eyes. “That’s all I want.

both of them.”

seeming like a very real possibility. Cora and Roger stay

keep making up reasons why they can’t go, and it fills my heart with

To see the tiny little touches he places on

something in her ear, to see the way she turns her face up to him and

dark,

takes me by the shoulders and gives me a little shake,

must go back to the clinic.

tiling my head back on my neck and groaning.

need you!”

”

taking her hands back and folding her arms across her chest.

just trying to keep me in a little love bubble with Roger so that I don’t change

something.”

at her and giving her a too–innocent smile. “Is it working?”

me. “I’m not changing my mind, Ella. I’m

but she holds a finger up, stopping me. “But I have a life. And

to go deal with all

down at my shoes. “Did you seriously never break

glancing up at her.

guilty hand to her forehead and shading

him. But I need to be a big

I say, stepping forward and rubbing her on the arm in what I