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!?”

take a step forward, interposing my body between my mate and

and my brother.

off, Dominic,” Roger growls, forcing himself to turn away and stalk to the window, looking for Cora, hoping she’ll magically appear in the driveway.

I murmur, leaning back

Rafe upstairs,” Ella sighs, nodding to the baby, who has finished

him down for a nap.”

out of the room, my heart surging with love for

I turn my attention back to my brother.

say, my voice

his fingers into the windowsill and not turning

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

wrong.”

say after a long pause,

Rodger spits, spinning on

a question, Roger,” I say, shrugging and meeting his furious eyes. “Did

question your mating?”

shouts. “I didn’t do

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

is to keep reaching out, and wait for her to come to

literally nothing you can

snarls, turning away from

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

her, and then sling her over your shoulder so you can

Roger replies, arrogant and angry. “Obviously that’s what

where she was.”

putting a hand on his shoulder that makes him

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

you for it, in the end, if you

of suspicion. And in the meantime, let me distract you.”

me to work harder on this cult problem,”

into my advice a little

as a puzzle,” I say, slipping my arm around his shoulder

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

Isn’t that a

his head and covering his eyes with his hand. “But you get maybe three

continues, “before I’m out there looking

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

when he’s like this. He’ll completely freak her out, and it

my arm still around

the evidence we’ve

wearing ourselves out looking for loopholes that we haven’t explored

interrogative team together to better speculate about the

to the house slams open.

moving towards the

and my muscles bunch as I sprint to

pushing behind me as we reach the office door together

in case it’s a threat

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in their arms with a sack over his

never, ever come through the first door if they didn’t have to

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