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”

must be a tiny imposter,” I

be telling you to get some

a little and grabbing my arm, tugging me closer. “Get your

mate,” he snarls

camping chair he’s sitting in.

werewolf form, let alone both of us.

–

pulling me closer and making me laugh. “Sinclair’s rich

another.”

up and tugging myself out of his grasp

–

out a couple of blankets. He continues to watch as I spread two out before the fire and then

the blankets, pulling me down into his lap as he does so. “Much better, clever little

before bringing my mouth to his and kissing him, letting myself sink into it, hoping quite desperately – that he knows just how much I love

–

we fight,

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love this man. All of him

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

break the kiss after a few moments, resting my head against his chest as he keeps his arms. wrapped tight around me. And we’re quiet for a little bit, staring at the fire, just happy to be here with each other Happy

quietly, thinking back on Ella’s conversation

me to ask whatever question is floating through my

you think I’m

“Yeah, Cora,” he says, as if it’s

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.

little. Then

don’t know?”

frown at him, confused – I hadn’t known there was something to know. “What

about?”

head

rain,

deepens as I start to get frustrated.

a real laugh, a big one that shakes his whole frame. “Cora,” he

smile. “You’re my mate. Truly. Fated, done deal. I’ve suspected it for a while

time, even though…well, I also denied it

But I knew for absolute sure that day when you ran like an idiot

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