Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Chapter 409: Assembling the Team

Cora

When I wake up the next morning the dawn sun is already streaming through the windows, and I am absolutely – hands down – the happiest I’ve ever been. I’m curled up against my mate’s side, my hand still on his chest where I placed it when I fell asleep, and when I look up into his face? I see him already smiling down at me.

My mouth bursts into a smile.

“Well,” he says, turning fully towards me now and nudging my nose with his. “That was an incredible dream, wasn’t it?”

“Do you think it was real?” I whisper, desperately, desperately hoping that it was.

“I do,” he replies, nodding. “I don’t think…well, the things that you made up the beach, the landscape…they were all pretty static, no?”

I gasp a little, offended – “It was not static! It was intricate and there was a breeze I could smell the salt -”

“No, Cora,” he says, laughing, “I mean like, unchanging. The things that changed – you, me, the feeling the baby passed to us, and the wolves? Those all seemed very real.”

“Yeah,” I say, relaxing again and snuggling close, tucking my head beneath Roger’s chin. “I think it was real too.”

“He’s a really cute pup,” Roger murmurs, sleepily kissing my hair. ” Way cuter than Rafe.”

“I know, right?” I mumble, yawning. But we don’t have to tell Ella and Dominic that.”

“No way,” he replies. “No need to hurt their feelings. They’ll find out soon enough. We’re quiet for a moment before I ask my next question. “Did that go…how you thought it would?” I ask, hesitant.

“No,” Roger says instantly, laughing. “Honestly, Cora, I thought we were going to have way more sex -”

And then I burst into laughter too, because that’s what I had expected as well. I don’t know what Sinclair told his brother, but from everything Ella has said? It sounds like the dream state has been a place for them to really explore their relationship in a very physical way – after all, they had sex there first, before they ever did with their real bodies.

And while I can certainly see Roger and I using the dream state for that kind of exploration in the future? A part of me is really, really glad that mine and Roger’s experience brought us closer in a different way.

now, I feel so much more like a family than I did before we went to sleep. And it’s not that

him as my son, and me as his mom, and Roger as his dad, and us – all of us – as a very

finger under my chin and turning my face up to

then, curious. “Wait, how do

down the bond,” he murmurs. “Are you not trying

And the baby. So maybe it just…went.” He

reach out and take Roger’s hand, giving it a little squeeze and passing a curious little pulse down our mating bond to him, seeing if I can do it intentionally. I’m still not used

did,” he murmurs, pleased. ”

also giving a little tap on the bond that I now feel so much more powerfully between me and the baby

the

ask, I see on Roger’s thrilled face that he felt

I laugh, and look down at myself, and

…Happy? I ask.

like a bell. Happy! My boy sends back, and I laugh, and feel myself start to cry again. Happy,

then he curls

Roger says, choked up, taking my face in his hands and kissing me again. “And I don’t think I’ve ever once

it sounds, to say it so simply like that. “Roger, I feel exactly the

Ella

to-go mug of tea in her hands, a big smile on her face. Rafe gives a

seat, in surprise. “Can you tell when your auntie is near?” I ask, curious. But, obviously, he doesn’t

in surprise at the two

and closing her door behind her. “Um, what’s all this?” she asks, a little hesitant before murmuring a hello

I say, giving a chagrined little shrug. “Do you mind?

pulls away from the house. “Actually,” she continues, ” Roger had the same idea. Did they coordinate

eyes and making my sister laugh. I shake my head, thinking that our two

grinning at Cora. “Why are you so

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