Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Chapter 354

Chapter 354 – The Problem

Ella

Cora blinks rapidly in disbelief and my own mouth falls open. I see Roger go tense in his chair and feel Sinclair do the same beside me.

“Wha- what?” Cora asks, aghast, leaning forward to stare more closely at Henry. “The problem that is HankJ; FJA

Hank? What the hell kind of problem is Hank?”

I grimace a little when I see her get defensive and dart my eyes to Roger, seeing him rankle at it, just a little bit. Roger, I know, is jealous of Hank – not very jealous, not in a bad way. Just…as much as he doesn’t blame Cora for her previous hesitations, or hold them against her…

…well, he’s not going to be thrilled about Cora’s ex’s continued presence in our lives, is he? Especially when he sees Cora defend Hank like that..

“Please, Cora,” Henry says, putting a peaceful hand out towards her. “Just… hear me out.”

“What is wrong with Hank,” she insists, continuing to be angry, which just upsets Roger more. I glance at Sinclair, worried. His face is a mirror of my own.

“Please “Henry says again, leaning forward and staring at Cora only at Cora intensely. “I mean no insult. I just want to…discuss.”

giving in yet, Cora leans back against her chair and crosses her arms over her chest again, not

am just concerned,” Henry continues, “about this man’s continued

mutters, his face turned down towards the table. Cora shoots Roger a dirty look he pretends he doesn’t

he’s our doctor – he did such

and call. He was very

figure it out. “No,” Cora says, breaking in and shaking

frightened hand

but Henry speaks as if

good at infiltrating lives,” Henry says to me and to Sinclair. “We also know that they tend to place their people in high-powered positions – lawyers, bankers, doctors. We also know that Xander, if he is

and I turn to see him again covering his face with his hand. “How

up now. “Hank is not

we built, Cora,” Roger points out, clearly working hard to keep his temper even. “At a clinic that we pay for. This man is…very suddenly very involved in our

wonderful things for this family. I know him. I know that he only has good things in his heart, and wants to

need to be careful, especially because we know that the Cult has a history of deploying sleeper agents. But Hank himself? He hasn’t

me. Instead, they just quietly look away from Cora, not

she got so close to him. That if he tricked all of us, then he tricked her the most.

all ridiculous,” Cora growls, and when I look up at her I see that she intuits what we’re all thinking. Without another word Cora seals her mouth shut and strides from the

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