Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Chapter 338 – Choices

Cora

“It’s all right,” Roger says, his eyes going wide as he takes in my pale face, my scared expression and realizes that he’s freaked me out for the third or fourth time today. “It’s not – it’s not bad, I was just kind of a dick – it was a misunderstanding –”

“What?” I ask, more confused now than ever.

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“Listen,” he says, leaning in towards me. “Just let me tell you, all right? II was going to tell you at some point, definitely not like this but…” he sighs, looking into my face and then down at my stomach, and then back up into my eyes. “I think that… if we’re going to start on this new part

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of our lives – this parent thing – well,” he says, giving me a charming little half–smile and a

shrug. “We should be on the same page, right?”

I nod, agreeing, but looking at him a little askance. “Did you not think that we should…go into our mating? On the same page?”

He sighs and runs a hand through his hair. “It’s a little different, Cora – because it didn’t matter – I didn’t think we could have kids

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I frown at him – not mad or angry, but confused…

“Listen, let me just tell it,” he says, leaning forward and looking at me with pleading eyes.

“Okay,” I say, quite simply, taking his hands and leaning even closer to press a kiss to his mouthr letting him know that I’m listening with an open heart.

“Okay,” Roger says again, taking a deep breath before he begins. “Do you remember… when you and Ella went into the desert with her mother, Regina?”

“Reina,” I correct softly, and he laughs.

“Right,” he says, shaking his head. “Those names are so easy to mix up. Anyway – you three were out on your girls trip, and my choice was either to hang out with those priests in the temple, or go back on to the ship all alone.”

Ismirk at him, knowing precisely which one he chose. He sees my smile and laughs a little.

at me. “I chose

someone on the ship?” I

standing at the bow looking out at the desert – honestly, a little pissed off at being left behind. Sinclair

when I hear this, but I don’t

at the sky, staring at the moon, it started to grow…brighter and brighter. And at first I thought that I

hands a little, begging him to focus, and

he says, his voice faltering a little, looking down at our joined hands, “she

ask, a little breathless, but some

looks up at me now, his eyes wide and still a little startled by the experience. “Your

keep my face steady but honestly…some part of me is a little jealous. We all met the goddess that night in the temple with Ella – Roger met her, and me, but she had only spoken to

she’s my mother too? And that she only spoke to Ella in the temple, and then went to Roger

disappointed. Why does she want

why I didn’t want to tell

do?” I ask, pushing past my jealousy and truly

in her bodily form,” he says, “like she did in the temple. Instead, it was just…a vision of sorts, more like

he can tell me. So Roger turns back to me and looks at me directly, not holding anything back.

brother’s was – and you have to realize, that that was devastating to hear at the time,

understanding, concentrating on nothing else

he twists his mouth a little, concentrating. “It’s hard to know how to phrase it – because it wasn’t precisely words – but that for the future of the world, I had

a dad, and raising my kids well to be leaders of

then I lean forward, finally getting it. “Oh, so you stopped

my hands tightly. “And it fucking broke my heart to do it because I loved you I was obsessed with you,

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didn’t even care about kids – didn’t even really

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Dominic who was dying

again, my eyes going wide.

“I’m fucking it all up, Cora – I’m thrilled that you’re pregnant, and not just because the goddess told me to be. I want

tells me, pausing to ensure that I hear him, “and I can’t wait

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kind of in the same boat – I was likewise unsure if I wanted kids. But the moment I really understood that this was our child – mind and

wanted in

I whisper, “because

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a goddess tells you to do something you feel compelled to do it – and I thought she