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!”

laugh again, “if he’s this annoying

eyes. Can we go? Is there any pressing national business that means we need to stay

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

away to the closet to get himself and Rafe dressed. “Honestly, Cora, if he’s freaking out this much how did

me out of it – anyway,” she sighs, “will

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-

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

a sigh.

practically skip into the closet in my excitement, going immediately to Sinclair’s

asks,

say, nodding up at him. “Apparently she’s still got time – Roger’s just freaking

pressure except when it comes to things that are completely out of his control. It’s going to drive him crazy to have to

selecting some clothes that I hastily pull on. When I’m ready, I turn to take the

Rafe?” I coo to him, plucking a little squeeze pouch of baby food off its place on the shelf and sitting down with him in our little arm chair so he can have something to eat while

me and I laugh, because the way he looks at me when I talk – god,

a few quiet moments with my son, thinking about how he’s

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

the title has already passed to

I whip my head up to see that I was so

I say, sniffing even as I laugh at my

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