Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Chapter 329

Chapter 329 – Missing

Sinclair

“Where is she,” Roger growls, pacing through our living room as Ella sit on the couch feeding

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Rafe, watching him anxiously. “I’ve been everywhere looking for her – at the clinic, at her

apartment –”

“You must have just missed her, Roger,” Ella says, as worried as he us but wanting to calm him

down. “She calls me every morning and night to fill me in. It sounds like she’s just super busy at

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the clinic it got very overwhelmed when she disappeared with us for a few days.”

“He’s keeping her there,” Roger murmurs suspiciously, his anxiety really doing a number on him.

“She broke up with him, and he pretended to accept it, but he’s keeping her trapped in the clinic

so she’ll agree to give him another shot –”

“You know she’s not doing that, Roger,” I say, leaning against the fireplace mantle and taking a

deep breath. Honestly, I don’t want to be in here handling my brother’s paranoia, but Ella sent me

a little shout down the bond letting me know that she needed some help. He’s been worked up for

days, of course, but really seems to be going off the deep end now. Not that I wouldn’t be too,

honestly, if I was freshly mated to Ella and then she disappeared for five days.

“How do you know,” Roger snaps at me, his eyes flashing with rage.

“Because,” I reply, my wolf responding to the challenge in his voice by raising his hackles. “I

know Cora. She wouldn’t do that. You have to trust her.” I stand up straight, my body language

communicating to Roger that I can take him, and if he needs someone to pin him to the floor, that

I’ll do it. After all, my mate and my infant child are in this room. If he flips out… their safety is my

priority. Not his.

“He’s right, Roger,” Ella says, trying to keep her voice even. “Honestly, she sounds fine, she’s just

really busy. She told me to… tell you she loves you.”

“But why won’t she pick up my calls?” Roger snaps, spinning on her, “why, when I go to the clinic

to see her, is she conveniently not there? Why is she never in her apartment when she says she

is!?”

a step forward, interposing my body

mate and

to the window, looking for Cora, hoping she’ll magically

murmur, leaning back

to the

get him down for a nap.”

watching her carry our little boy out of the room, my

I turn my attention back to my brother.

need you to come back, Roger,” I say, my voice soft. “We need you

fingers into the windowsill and not

when she hasn’t talked to me for days. And I don’t even know what I did

wrong.”

say after a long pause, considering. “Did you do

Rodger spits, spinning on me.

question, Roger,” I say, shrugging and

her question your mating?”

“I

I reply with a little shrug. “If you didn’t

reaching out, and wait for her to

you can do

turning away from me

reply, sighing. “Because my answer wasn’t ‘go rip the world

then sling her over your shoulder so you

“Obviously that’s

where she was.”

and move over to him, putting a hand on

bigger than he is, anyway. I can take what he throws at

say quietly. “She’ll thank you for it, in the end, if

the meantime,

to work harder on this cult problem,”

into my advice a little bit.

I say, slipping

finish it, your reward is that my son

Isn’t that a

and covering his eyes with his hand. “But you

this,” he continues, “before I’m out there looking

reply, nodding and lying through my teeth. Because there’s no way I’m

streets looking for Cora when he’s like this.

him, my arm still around his shoulders, towards

office to sort through the evidence we’ve sorted through a thousand

hours doing this, wearing ourselves out looking for loopholes that

to better speculate about

the front door to the house slams open.

feet and moving towards the door, only one person clear on

possibilities and

office door together so that I

in case it’s

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see my reconnaissance team forcing their way in, a black–robed figure trapped in their arms with a sack over his head. I think several things at once, the first being that

first door if they didn’t have

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