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.

like a family than I did before we went to sleep. And it’s not that we

can’t help but think of him as my son, and me as his mom, and Roger as

finger under my chin and turning my face up to his.

laugh then, curious. “Wait, how do you

bond,” he murmurs.

“But…I was thinking about you. And the baby. So maybe

if I can do it intentionally. I’m still not used

he murmurs, pleased. ”

Roger but also giving a little tap on the bond that I

to my shocked pleasure, the baby

open and before I can even ask, I see

laugh, and look down at myself, and send

…Happy? I ask.

I feel it ring through me like a bell.

curls

hands and kissing me again. “And I don’t think I’ve ever once been happier, not

to say it so simply like that.

Ella

the car turns into Cora’s driveway, she’s already standing outside her door with a to-go mug of tea in her hands, a big smile on her face. Rafe gives a little squeal of anticipation when the car stops and Cora

car seat, in surprise. “Can you tell when your auntie is near?” I ask, curious. But, obviously, he

door and peers into the car, blinking a bit in surprise at the two extra men in the row of seats behind me, and then at the guard sitting beside Conner in the passenger

all this?” she asks, a

a chagrined little shrug. “Do you

pulls away from the house. “Actually,”

head, thinking that our two wolf mates sometimes really do have

continue, leaning forward and grinning at Cora. “Why are you so happy this

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