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.

he says, grinning at me. “I chose solitude.

on the ship?” I ask, curious.

off at being

when I hear this,

at first I thought that I was just crazy

to focus,

says, his voice faltering a little, looking down at our joined hands, “she was there.”

breathless, but some part of me knowing

the experience.

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 Ella beyond

she only spoke to Ella in the temple, and then went to Roger

disappointed. Why does she

forward and brushing my cheek with his thumb. “It’s half of why I didn’t want to tell you, Cora,” he continues, his face all sympathy. “I knew that it would…

pushing past my jealousy and truly wanting to know.

“like she did in the temple. Instead, it was just…a vision of sorts, more like the baptism but…not quite.” He shakes his head a little,

his hands again, letting him know that it’s okay. That 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, considering that we were in a war – and Dominic had just made me

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 to focus

-on finding my mate, and having children, and being a dad, and

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

it fucking broke my heart to do

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before she said anything to me I didn’t even care about kids – didn’t even

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dying to be a dad, not me –”

say again, my eyes

be. I want –” He pauses He pauses his confused language for a moment and steadies

very much want this child, Cora” he tells me, pausing to ensure that I hear him, “and I

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Honestly, I’m 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

else I wanted in the

me,” I whisper, “because you thought…my

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something you feel compelled to do it – and I thought she was telling me to run