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.

we went to sleep. And it’s not that we weren’t a family before – but now that we’ve…we’ve felt him?

that I can’t help but think of him as my son, and me as his

a finger under my chin and turning my face up to his. “I feel exactly the same

laugh then, curious. “Wait, how do you know

down the bond,” he murmurs. “Are you

was thinking about you. And the baby. So maybe it just…went.” He

I can do it intentionally. I’m still not used to this wolf stuff, and I don’t know how good I am at it. “Did

murmurs, pleased.

me and Roger but also giving a little tap on the bond that I now feel so much more powerfully between me and the baby than I did yesterday. I give it just a

the baby responds, nudging us

I can even ask, I

I laugh, and look down at myself, and send another little

…Happy? I ask.

the reply comes and I feel it ring through me like a bell. Happy! My boy sends back, and I laugh, and feel myself start to cry again. Happy,

curls away again,

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

sounds, to say it so simply like that.

Ella

hands, a big smile on her face. Rafe gives a little squeal of anticipation when the car

car seat, in surprise. “Can you tell when your auntie is near?” I

Cora opens the 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

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

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

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

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

I continue, leaning forward and grinning at Cora. “Why

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