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.”

take her,” Roger says, stepping forward to take Cora

and shoving him back. Though I’m not actually strong

Roger complies, laughing and falling back a bit. “I said

hands up. “I promise,” he says, “I just want to

and then giving Cora a peck on her cheek. “We’ll figure it all out when you wake up, okay?”

she takes Roger’s hand and walks out the door and up the stairs with him.

sight. “I’m so happy,” I say, leaning against his chest and sighing contentedly. He wraps his arms around my shoulders,

him. “They’re idiots for

moment, considering all the things that

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

my neck. “You almost died like,

in his arms and looking sincerely up at him. “We always

that we loved each other, and especially that I was a wolf

least with us, it was always smooth

looking calmly down into my

me. “Like ours. They’re

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

both of them.”

that seeming like a very real possibility.

partially because I keep making up reasons why they can’t go, and it

see the tiny little touches

something in her ear, to see the way she turns her

dark, wry

takes me by the shoulders

go back

back on my neck and

need you!”

”

don’t need me,” she says, taking her hands back

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

something.”

her and

changing

stopping me. “But I have a life. And a boyfriend who I never broke up with. And

go deal with all of that!

down at my shoes. “Did you seriously never break up with

I ask, glancing up at

she says, raising a guilty hand to her forehead and

I need to be

her on the arm in what