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.

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

baby is so real to me now, so vividly himself, already, that I can’t help but think of him as my son, and me as his mom, and Roger as his dad, and us – all of us – as a

Roger says, placing a finger under my chin and turning my face

laugh then, curious. “Wait, how do

down the bond,” he murmurs.

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

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

murmurs, pleased. ”

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

to my shocked pleasure, the baby responds,

flash open and before I can even ask, I see

at myself, and send another little nudge, this time with

…Happy? I ask.

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

he curls away again,

face in his hands and kissing me

it sounds, to say it so simply

Ella

she’s already standing outside her door with a to-go mug of tea in her hands, a

at my baby, strapped into his car seat, in surprise. “Can you tell when your auntie is near?” I ask, curious. But, obviously, he

into the car, blinking a bit in surprise at the two extra men in the row

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

us to have extra guards,” I say, giving a chagrined little shrug. “Do you mind?

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

my sister laugh. I shake my head, thinking that our two wolf mates sometimes really

continue, leaning forward and grinning at Cora.

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