Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Cora

After a few minutes of this – or maybe an hour, I honestly don’t know how time works here – the baby’s happiness fades away and then into silence. But not in a bad way – more like he just…

“He fell asleep,” Roger murmurs, laughing a little and falling back on the bed, taking me with him since his arms are still wrapped around me.

“It’s too early for the baby to sleep…” I murmur, confused. “That happens around like, the seventh month -”

“All right, Dr. Cora,” Roger mutters, and I can hear him rolling his eyes, even though I can’t see it, which makes me laugh. “Considering that we’re hanging out on a magical dream beach, passing our emotions down a magical bond with our unborn child, I don’t really think that your medical knowledge is coming into play here -”

“Oh shut up,” I murmur, slapping his chest and sighing with contentment. Roger laughs and takes a deep breath of my scent.

“That was amazing,” he whispers. I’ll never forget that as long as I live.”

“Do you think we just felt it because we’re here?” I ask, still likewise thrilled. “Or, will we feel it when we’re awake too?”

“I don’t know,” Roger replies. “But maybe something about being in the dream amplified it. I guess we’ll find out.”

“Yeah,” I say, happy, content. Because as much as I want to feel it all the time, I am also content to wait, to experience all parts of this pregnancy in their own time. “I guess we will.”

And I close my eyes and relax against my mate, little shivers passing through me as he traces his fingers idly over the skin of my back, both of us still marveling in the magic of that incredible first connection with the baby.

But suddenly, something changes. And I open my eyes to see my wolf standing there on the beach, just a short distance away.

He opens his eyes and looks where I’m looking, likewise catching sight of my wolf in the sand,

and holding me close against him. “Wow, Cora…she’s

shades of brown that run through her fur, from

– and I know, instinctually, that Roger hears

of us feel an ounce of fear, even though this is completely bizarre. When we’re standing, my wolf dances in an

walking quickly, both dying to see

the forest and comes bounding towards us. Roger laughs as his wolf dashes over to us and eagerly presses his head to Roger’s chest, nuzzling

murmurs, shooting me a grin before his

and can completely

Roger laughs as well and puts his arm around my shoulder when his wolf dashes off

he was annoying,”

my face up to his for a kiss. But before our lips can meet,

have no idea what is happening,”

I say, peering

my wolf stops beside a little patch of green bushes and again turns in her eager circle. Her

Roger’s wolf stands proudly at her shoulder. We want to show him to

in front of the little bundle of fur sleeping there on the beach in front of me, nestled lovingly into a little soft bed of leaves. Roger almost collapses next to me, his hands hitting the sand hard – I think saving him from falling flat on his

towards the incredibly perfect, incredibly tiny little wolf pup sleeping in front of us.

them – though not completely, as if he’s still half out of the dream – or more

can’t touch him yet, my wolf says, her voice full of love and pride. He

touch the tiny infant pup, and I feel his own shock and disappointment and joy and wonder as he, too, just barely feels the ghost

yet this…this is his wolf, his soul. And