Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Chapter 387: What Kind of Mate?

Cora

“They think they’re being subtle,” I whisper, smiling as Sinclair closes the RV’s door behind him,

the last to “disappear” from our little circle around the fire.

“I’m not complaining,” Roger murmurs, slipping an arm around my shoulder. “Are you, little

mate?”

I laugh lightly at the nickname, shaking my head at him. “It still doesn’t work, Roger,” I say, leaning closer to him, though the camping chairs make it hard to get as close as I’d like to be. “I’ve

told you before – I’m not little.”

“Sure you are,” he replies, grinning at me.

“I’m not!” I say, laughing. “Ella’s the little one,” I continue, “I’m tall – I’m not

–

“You’re little to me,” he interrupts, moving his chair closer so that he can tuck his face between. my neck and my shoulder, breathing deeply in -I think savoring the way that I smell, which sends a little thrill through me. I lower my own head and breathe in Roger’s own unique scent, letting it flood my senses.

–

God, does he even know how good he smells? Though he probably does his sense of smell far outstrips mine.

“What do you mean?” I ask. “Little to you?”

He lifts his head so he can look into my face, only inches from me now. “You’re little to me, Cora,” he replies, “in that you’re…I don’t know. Quite precious. The way I think of you I don’t know, I don’t want you to be insulted, but I think of you as…very small.”

“What?” I ask, confused, “why?”

“Because,” he says seriously, shrugging a little, “you’d have to be very tiny, to make a home out of my heart,” he says, tapping lightly at his chest. “As you have done.”

A broad smile stretches across my face and I laugh a little, even though I’m deeply touched at what he’s said “Really?” I ask. “That’s what you think of me?”

“Mmhmm,” he says, turning his head a little and considering me from different angles “My little mate, who I carry around all day in my heart Even when you’re not physically around I keep you in here I talk to you, send you all kinds of messages. Tell you little jokes ”

Ignin “Do I think they’re funny?”

He nods, smiling at me “Always”

head. “Then it must be a tiny

you

arm, tugging me closer. “Get

mate,” he snarls

flimsy camping chair

form, let alone both of us.

–

he murmurs, still pulling me closer and making me

another.”

of his

–

move to the camping supplies and pull out a couple of blankets. He continues to watch as I

he concedes, standing up for a moment and then sitting gracefully down in the middle of the

a second, looking seriously at him before bringing my mouth to his and kissing him, letting myself sink into it, hoping quite desperately – that

–

we fight, and

–

–

god, god how I love this man. All of him every arrogant, swaggering,

does so like he’s finally home, like he’s been waiting to do this all day. And I smile, thinking that…perhaps he knows, a little bit. Even if we don’t have a mating bond that we can both feel, that we can pass messages along, like

And we’re quiet for a little bit, staring at the fire, just happy to be here with each

quietly, thinking back on Ella’s

he says, inviting me to ask whatever question is floating through

think

“Yeah, Cora,” he says, as if it’s

say, turning to look up at him a little, to let him know that I’m serious. “Do you think I’m your..your mate mate. Like…fated mate.

a little. Then he grins

don’t know?”

I hadn’t known there was

about?”

head and watching me curiously. “That day out in

the rain,

I start to get frustrated.

laugh, a big one that shakes his whole

Truly. Fated, done deal. I’ve suspected it

a long time, even though…well, I also denied it for a long time, because I

absolute sure that day when you ran like an idiot out of

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