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.

says, grinning at me. “I chose solitude.

on the

the bow looking out at the desert – honestly, a little pissed off at being left behind. Sinclair sent me to protect Ella, and there’s frankly nowhere I wanted to be except at

smile when I hear this,

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

squeeze his hands a little, begging him to focus, and

suddenly,” he says, his voice faltering a little, looking down at

little breathless, but some

by the experience. “Your mother, Cora. Except…at the

her, and me, but she had only spoken to Ella beyond a brief introduction that Ella insisted on giving us. And at the time it had made sense – Ella was her daughter, the one

Now that I know that she’s my mother too? And that she only spoke to Ella in the

through my nose, disappointed. Why does she want

didn’t want

she do?” I ask, pushing past my jealousy and truly wanting to know.

as he continues his story. “She didn’t come in her bodily form,” he says, “like she did in the temple. Instead, it was just…a vision of sorts, more like the baptism

letting him know that it’s okay. That he can tell me. So

says, “that I was chasing the wrong destiny. That my future was not in war and politics, as my brother’s was – and you have to realize, that that was devastating to hear at

nod, understanding, concentrating on nothing else

it – because it wasn’t precisely words – but that for the future of the world, I had to focus on family.

mate, and having children, and being a dad, and raising my

lean forward, finally getting it. “Oh, so you stopped calling me because…”

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

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

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who was dying to

my eyes going wide.

to be. I want –” He

this child, Cora” he tells me, pausing to ensure that I hear him, “and I can’t wait to build a family with you.”

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I nod, because I do. I really get it. 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 –

nothing else I wanted in the world.

you stopped calling me,” I whisper, “because you thought…my mom told

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hair. “I was totally freaked out I didn’t want to, but when a goddess tells you to do something you feel compelled to do