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.

chose

the ship?”

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

I hear this, but

I thought that I was just crazy or drunk I mean, the captain gave me a little of his whiskey

his hands a little, begging him to focus,

faltering a little, looking down

a little breathless, but some part of me knowing

still a little startled by the experience. “Your mother,

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 Ella beyond a

now? Now that I know that she’s my mother too? And that she only spoke to

little through my nose, disappointed. Why does she want

his thumb. “It’s half of why I didn’t want to tell you,

ask, pushing past my

temple. Instead, it was just…a vision of sorts, more like the baptism but…not quite.” He shakes

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

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

understanding, concentrating on nothing else

said,” 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

dad, and raising my kids well to be leaders of

with surprise. And then I lean forward, finally getting

broke my heart to do it because I loved you I was obsessed with you, you know that I

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

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who was dying to be a dad, not me –”

again, my eyes going wide.

pregnant, and not just because the goddess told me to be. I want –” He

to ensure that I hear him, “and

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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

else I wanted in

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

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his eyes going wide as he again runs his hand through his 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 it – and I thought she