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!?”

I take a step forward, interposing my

and

forcing himself to turn away and stalk to the window, looking for Cora, hoping she’ll magically appear

murmur, leaning back

Ella sighs, nodding to the

him down

little boy out of the

I turn my attention back to my brother.

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

windowsill and not turning towards me. “How can

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

wrong.”

after a long pause, considering. “Did you do anything wrong?”

Rodger spits, spinning on me.

Roger,” I say, shrugging and meeting

question

“I

then there’s your answer,” I reply with a little shrug. “If you didn’t do anything, then

only choice is to keep reaching out, and wait

There’s literally nothing you can do now except be patient.”

he snarls, turning away from

the truth,” I reply, sighing. “Because my answer wasn’t ‘go

her over your

and angry. “Obviously that’s what I would do,

where she was.”

him, putting a hand on his shoulder that makes him jump

– I’m bigger than he is, anyway. I can take

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

in the meantime, let me distract you.”

want me to work harder on this cult problem,” he sighs, closing his eyes and

head, giving into my advice a little bit.

think of it as a puzzle,” I say, slipping my arm around his

squeeze, “and when you finish it, your reward is

that a great prize?”

and covering his eyes with his hand.

continues, “before I’m out

nodding and lying through my teeth. Because there’s no way I’m letting him

when he’s like this.

arm still around his shoulders, towards the door and

through the evidence we’ve sorted through a

hours doing this, wearing ourselves out looking

team together to better speculate about the possibilities, when

front door to the house

his feet and moving towards the

wary, more aware of the possibilities and my

office door together so that I can get into the

case it’s a threat –

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figure trapped in their arms with a sack over his head. I think several

the first door if they didn’t

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