Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Chapter 474: Sharing the News

Ella

“Cora?” I gasp the minute I get the phone to my ear, still scrambling out of bed and tangled in the sheets.

“Hey, Ells,” she says, her voice somehow both tight and bored at once. “Sorry to wake you up – ”

“You didn’t wake me – ” I say quickly, reaching for Rafe in his crib and scooping him up in my arms. Behind me, I hear Sinclair climbing out of bed too, coming to my side.

“I didn’t?” Cora asks. “Why actually.” Her voice goes stony. “Don’t tell me. Knowing you and Dominic, I probably don’t want to know.”

A little laugh bursts from me as I shake my head, trying to get back on track with this conversation. “Cora,” I say, looking down at Rafe’s bright, wide -awake face, “what’s up? Why are you calling? Is the baby -”

“Yeah,” she says on a sigh. “Roger insisted I call. Baby’s on its way!”

“Oh my god!” I shriek, spinning to Sinclair and beaming at him for the second time this morning. “It’s time for the baby! We’ll come right away -”

“No, take your time,” she says on a sigh and I frown at her even though she can’t see me.

“Cora, what is going on? Why are you calling in the middle of the night for us to come but then also telling us not to hurry?”

“Because my stupid mate made me call you,” Cora says, her voice annoyed. She lowers her voice to a whisper. ” He’s completely freaking out, Ells, even though everything is progressing totally normally -”

“Awww,” I say, passing Rafe to Sinclair’s waiting hands and smiling up at him. “Go easy on him, Cora! He’s a first-time dad!”

again, “if he’s this annoying every time

Sinclair’s face, a silent question in my eyes. Can we go? Is there any pressing national business that means we need

my body is anywhere close to ready to push but Roger just wants everything in

wink and starts to walk away to the closet to get

now he’s trying to talk me out of it – anyway,” she sighs,

yelling something in the background, his voice thick with anxiety though I can’t hear what he’s saying. My heart swells a little for my secretly-sweet brother-in- law, who I know has his whole heart wrapped up in

say, “we’ll be there as soon as we can. And we’ll let Henry know

sigh. “See

hanging up and tossing it onto the bed. Then I practically skip into the closet in my excitement, going immediately to Sinclair’s side and wrapping my arms around

all right?” he asks, cupping my face

nodding up at him. “Apparently she’s still got time

are completely out of his control. It’s going to drive him crazy to have to watch Cora have to go through a great deal of labor and

off to my side of the closet and selecting some clothes that

its place on the shelf and sitting down with

at me and I laugh, because the way he looks at me when I talk – god, it’s as if

about how he’s going to react when there’s a little

suddenly my eyes fill with tears when I realize that in my mind I’ve already stopped

has already passed to my

and I whip my head up to see that I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn’t even notice

anymore,” I say, sniffing even as I laugh at my own ridiculousness. “I

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