Chapter 340 – Reassurance

Ella

We all go a little pale, I think, as we consider the possibility that Cora, too, is an accidental – or not so accidental – surrogate.

“I’m sure that’s not true,” I say suddenly, shaking my head but a little shaken – I admit – by the idea that the baby was conceived during a storm that basically forced Roger and Cora off the road and into an empty room with not much in it besides a bed. It seems…a little too convenient to be chance, didn’t it?

“This is your baby, Cora,” I say with assurance, knowing it to be true.

“She’s right,” Roger says, nodding at Cora without doubt in his eyes. “You are this baby’s mother, and I’m its father, and that’s the end of the story. All right?”

Cora nods, but I can see her hesitate still.

“We’ll get answers, Cora,” Sinclair says quietly. “I agree with Ella and Roger – but if you’d like, we can consult the elders, like we did when we wanted information on how Ella was pregnant.”

“Oh,” she says, her eyebrows going up “Yes, can we do that? That would be great.”

Sinclair nods, giving her a little smile and letting her know that he’ll set it up as soon as can be arranged. I realize something and gasp with excitement, bouncing a little on the bed.

“Maybe you’re a wolf, Cora!” I say, “like me! Maybe you just didn’t realize it! Maybe the same thing happened!”

“No, Ella,” Cora says, laughing at my excitement a little. “Our mother made it very clear to me on the temple steps that day – two daughters, one wolf, one human. I’m the human.”

“Oh,” I say, suddenly disappointed. But I take a deep breath and dismiss the thought, wrapping my arms around my sister’s shoulders and pressing my cheek to hers. “Well, whatever!” I say, cheerful. “Whatever this baby’s genetic makeup is, I’m excited. And we’ll love little ‘it‘ so much.”

hybrid,” Sinclair says, carefully laying down on the bed and putting his head in my lap, resting the baby on the bed next to him, letting Rafe have some tummy time. “The first of its kind. Which is…very

at him, curious. “Why do you think the baby’s a hybrid?”

him in the eye. “If the baby were half human, it maybe makes some kind of logical sense that

murmurs, and then he looks at Cora and smirks. “I have

and I sigh, glad we’re on happier conversational ground again. “I think it’s cool that we don’t know the gender,” I

Rafe’s,” Sinclair reminds me. “I seem to remember you tackling

there’s something good

grinning at the clear disappointment on his face. “You wish you knew,” she guesses with

not usual for wolves to wait to

like someone telling you that it’s Christmas but then

and reaches forward to give him a little shove. “You

grin deepening. “You won’t be able to rest

rueful, but doesn’t deny

my hands flying to my heart. “A lovely

reminds me, laughing as

him a very tiny glare before turning back to Roger. “But I also

girl.”

both?” he asks, confused but laughing anyway.

declare, “you just can!” Everyone is laughing now and I turn

me up

I’m handing it immediately off to Roger,” she declares, though we all know she doesn’t mean it as she

off and be done with

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