Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Chapter 470: War

Ella

The next day, Cora and Roger come over early. Roger and Sinclair head out, their faces solemn, to speak with their aids and their advisors regarding how to respond to the news we know is inevitably coming. Our reconnaissance teams told us that the Atalaxian delegation did indeed return home last night and were apparently in council until dawn.

Which suggests that at any moment now, they’ll declare war.

Sinclair, I know, is spending a great deal of time deciding how to publicly respond. I think that he and Roger right now are recording a message that will go out to the nation as soon as the war is declared. But Cora and I?

Well.

We’re just…being moms.

“Ella,” she says, sighing and holding Rafe out towards me in my closet, wrinkling her nose. “I think you precious future King needs to be changed.”

I sigh, my sweater only half over my head. “So? Go change him.”

When I pull my sweater down and settle it neatly over my stomach, I see her grinning at me, my baby still outstretched in her arms. “Nope,” she says, shaking her head. “Your baby, your diaper.”

“You’re going to regret that policy,” I say, taking Rafe from her with raised brows, “in juuuuust about three and a half months, Cora.”

“And for three and a half months, I will be diaper free!” she calls after me with a laugh as I carry my smelly baby over to his changing table in the bedroom.

Rafe grins at me, looking honestly a little proud of himself, and I can’t help but laugh as I lay him down and quickly change him. “Little Rafe,” I coo, smiling down into his perfect face and tickling his belly, “getting so big! Do you want to try an apple today? Or some avocado?”

As I finish changing Rafe, Cora comes out of the closet, changed into a comfortable set of my clothes. She came to the palace today in more formal clothing, but as soon as Sinclair let her know that she probably wouldn’t be required to appear or speak she immediately expressed her intention to change.

baby, my eyes going to where her little

says, rolling her eyes and laughing as she comes over

the living area through the next door and settle onto the

look down at her feet as she tucks them up beneath her on the couch, her hands going to either side of her belly. “It just goes so fast, these wolf pregnancies,”

eyebrows. “I didn’t even make it to

her belly, smiling down at her little baby-to-be.” No way of

baby close to my chest, turning him a little so he can look at his auntie. Rafe giggles a little, the sweetest

laugh at her displeased tone.

And with children – and this family?” I shake my head a little. “Maybe it’s better to just lean into

Cora sighs, looking up at me now. “With war on the horizon? And Roger looking like he’s going to be in the midst of it all?” she shakes her head. “Forgive me, Ella, if I lean

shockingly empty of tablets, phones, paperwork – any of the usual accoutrements of running the nation that I’m so used to

mate as he comes to stand behind me. ” All done work

more we can do,” he murmurs.

across the couch to make room for him to sit down behind me. Cora wordlessly makes more room, going to sit on Roger’s lap and draping her legs over the side of the armchair on which he settles. I lean back against my mate, pleased when he slips an arm around me. My smile grows when I see Roger press a kiss to Cora’s jaw, and then another on the mating mark he placed

at Sinclair, finding his eyes already on me. “Is

a little sigh. Then he reaches for the remote and presses a few buttons, turning on the television that hangs on the

WAR DECARED

the details he already knows, Sinclair presses mute and wraps his arms more tightly around me. I sigh, pressing myself against him, and then I dip my head again to press another kiss to

tried so hard to avoid it,” I

can feel him shake his head, feel his disappointment down the bond. “It’s a gamble –

hard to take it,” Roger sighs.

down at the top of Rafe’s head,

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