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 by the arm.

a hand on his chest and shoving him back.

stop him, Roger complies, laughing and falling

“I just want

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

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

against his chest and sighing contentedly. He wraps his arms around my shoulders, dipping his head

tight against him. “They’re idiots for

all the things that held

“It’s not going to always be easy for them,” I sigh. “Not

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

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

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

it was always smooth sailing.”

you mean,” he says, looking calmly down into my eyes. “But their love is

he says, nodding to me. “Like ours. They’re going to

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

both of them.”

pass with that seeming like a

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

see the tiny little touches he places on her back when

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

his dark, wry

Cora takes me by the shoulders and gives

back to the clinic.

whine, tiling my head back on my neck and groaning. “Just

need you!”

”

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

bubble with Roger so that I don’t change my mind or

something.”

say, raising my eyebrows at her and

shaking her head at me. “I’m not changing my

a little to hear her say it but she holds a finger up, stopping me. “But I have a life. And a boyfriend who I never broke up with. And a job

deal with all of

petulantly down at my shoes.

glancing up at

hand to her forehead and

to be a big

the arm in what I hope is a