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.

to sleep. And it’s not that we weren’t

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

a finger under my chin and turning

“Wait, how do you know

bond,” he murmurs. “Are you not trying

about you. And the baby. So

seeing if 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 you feel that?” I

he murmurs,

also giving a little tap on the bond that

to my shocked pleasure, the baby

flash open and before I can even ask, I see on Roger’s thrilled face that he

look down at myself, and send another little

…Happy? I ask.

comes and I feel it ring through me like a bell. Happy! My boy sends back, and I laugh, and

then he curls

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

reply, laughing at how stupid it sounds, to say it so

Ella

she’s already standing outside her door with a to-go mug of tea in her hands, a big smile on her face. Rafe

“Can you tell when

blinking a bit in surprise at the two extra men in the row of seats behind me,

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

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

saying her hellos as Conner pulls away from the house. “Actually,” she continues,

thinking that our two wolf mates sometimes really do have the

and grinning at

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