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. Or at least…I thought

someone on the ship?” I ask, curious.

being left behind. Sinclair sent me to protect Ella, and there’s frankly nowhere

smile when I hear this, but

it started to grow…brighter and brighter. And at first I thought that I was just

him to focus, and he looks at me again

looking

little breathless, but some

still a little startled by the experience. “Your mother, Cora. Except…at the

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

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

nose, disappointed. Why does she

and brushing my cheek with his thumb. “It’s half of why I didn’t want to

past my

in the temple. Instead, it was just…a vision of sorts,

again, letting him know that it’s okay. That he can tell me. So Roger turns back to me and

was not in war and politics, as my brother’s was – and you have to realize, that that was devastating to hear at the time, considering that we

nothing

phrase it – because it wasn’t

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

I say, blinking with surprise. And then I lean forward, finally getting it. “Oh, so you stopped calling me because…”

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

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she said anything to me I didn’t

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always Dominic who was dying

again, my eyes going

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

want this child, Cora” he tells me, pausing to ensure that I hear him, “and I can’t wait to build

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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

I wanted

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

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so fucking dumb, Cora,” Roger murmurs, 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 was telling me