Surrogate For Alpha Dom

Chapter 302: Moonlight Baptism

“Well,” Henry answers, hesitating. “Cora and Roger will see the prophecy.”

My face falls a little when I realize the implications of this. “Really? Unfair,” I declare, pouting.

Henry laughs a little along with me. “It will bring them closer to him, give them a bond.”

“Well,” I sigh, “I want them to have that. What sort of things do you learn, though? Do you share them with the parents?”

“If you choose,” Henry shrugs. “I always did. And Sinclair and Roger’s godparents shared with me, for which I was grateful.”

“What did they tell you?” I ask, curious.

“That Sinclair would be a great leader of men,” Henry says, looking down at the baby again, clearly remembering his baby who looked so like this one. “That was no surprise. But Roger, that was…”

I pause, curious, suddenly fascinated. “What did they say?”

He hesitates and then meets my eye. “I never even told Roger about it. But they told me that his destiny laid less with who he was, and more with the children he would sire. The many children, who would be…” he looks away a bit, trying to sort his thoughts, “it was hard to understand. But something about a set of extraordinary children who would bring much joy to the world.”

at this, though I work hard to keep it off my face.

Cora was

can’t give him children… Henry meets, my eyes, perhaps understanding the direction of my thoughts. He takes

many mysteries, Ella,” he says quietly. “Don’t think too hard on her messages they often present

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who’s staring up at me with

at him again. “And his future

to see all of them – especially Isabel, James, and Sadie, who I think I hugged for a solid fifteen

as much as I wanted to, as I have to greet all of our guests and introduce Rafe around to his new friends and family. But still, Isabel and I make plans to have a good long talk

picked expressly for the occasion. It’s perhaps too much for a trip to

it right? God, I don’t know. I’ve never held a midnight

tuxedo. He rests two reassuring hands on my shoulders. “Everything is in order,

mind in more ways than one. “I just want everything to go

everyone, trouble. They’re here to help you. You could have come down in pajamas ten minutes before the ceremony, with baby vomit streaked down your shirt, and no one would have cared.”

would have cared,” I say, turning on him with wide

drawing me in for a quick kiss. “What I mean, Ella, is that you should just calm down and enjoy the night. It’s for us, as much as for him. The guests are just happy to

then looking down at my happy baby

door. “It’s good that you figured that out now, because it’s

entrance, towards the two vans waiting to take us all out in the

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