Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Chapter 382: Cora’s Decision

Ella

“What?” Cora asks, laughing a little as if it’s a ridiculous notion. “What on earth could I have to

pick and choose from?”

“Let’s back up a little,” Roger says, tugging her into the room and gesturing towards one of the chairs around the table. As she settles herself into a seat Sinclair pulls over the little armchair that I’ve been using when I feed Rafe, and I murmur my thanks to him as I settle down in it. As Roger begins, Sinclair swiftly hands me all of the things I need to feed Rafe a burp cloth, a little

–

blanket to throw over my shoulder, etc. – and I smile to myself at his consideration in anticipating my needs without me having to ask.

My Alpha is a warrior, but he’s also a sweetheart. And I’m grateful for him every day.

Everyone waits for me to get settled, but then once Rafe is happily eating Henry begins.

“We discovered,” Henry begins, his eyes moving between me and Cora, “that Xander has fled east to Adalaxia.”

“Shit,” Cora sighs, slumping down in her chair. My emotions match hers. We knew that Xander was on the run that we’d largely decimated any of his martial forces in taking out his priests. But our great fear was that in the time it took us to regroup, that he’d leave the country and find allies who might help him.

And it looks, now, like he did precisely that.

“Is Adalaxia…a good place for him to go?” I don’t know a lot about the neighboring kingdom, especially as I was raised as a human and hadn’t known that overlying the map of the human world there was a hidden world of wolf kingdoms with its own wars and politics. Of course, ever since Damon broke the secret of the of the wolves to the human world those have

maps

increasingly combined to become one, but still – what I don’t know about wolf politics could probably fill its own book.

Which, considering that I’ll likely soon be Queen, is…unfortunate.

But I force myself to pay attention to Henry’s answer

“Adalaxia is a notoriously ruthless wolf nation,” he sighs “They stick even more strictly to what they perceive as the traditions of wolf kind even more than we do In comparison to them we are. nidiculously liberal”

“What does that nean?” Cora asks, crossing her arms over her chest, her face worried and confused

wolves and humans are equal and deserve to be treated with the same respect. They would also,” he continues, hesitating now and looking between me and

Adalaxians, women

finishes

my eyes going wide. “Seriously? Are they also a nation that’s been frozen in

not a bad way to think of it,” Roger says,

to read or write, they have almost a completely separate culture and stay strictly within their homes. It is…not

clearly displaying her disgust.

considering how he tried to

Sinclair says, nodding along with

to respect Rafe’s

And, as such, would see Xander’s claim to the role of regent

legitimate.”

as I look down at my baby,

whom so

a comforting hand on my shoulder. “It’s

to get there so fast. This would all be much easier if we had caught him at

to prosecute him here without having to go through a foreign

do it.”

ask. “Can’t we just…demand that they give him back? Extradition, or

down at me. “If

not.”

a second, confused, and then put all of the pieces

within our country have. been disposed of, and it’s

done it yet Which means, technically, that

allow him to make

straight and looking easily at Sinclair Can we do like some kind of quick and duty coronation? Slap a

by morning?

all laugh a little at the idea of this, but there’s no real cheer in

that,” Sinclair says, running a hand through his hair. First, I have to claim it, and then my claim has to be ratified

the kind of bureaucratic nonsense that the

country, I’d have been king the

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