Surrogate For Alpha Dom

Ella

“I can’t wait any longer” I say, two hours, one shower, and three sandwiches later. I stand up in the tiny steel kitchen, accidentally scattering the bag of chips I was picking at all over the counter. Honestly, I wasn’t even eating because I was hungry. I was just trying to distract myself.

“Ella,” Sinclair sighs, reaching for my wrist.

“No!” I say, moving away from his grasp. “They’re being selfish! They know I’m dying to know!”

“Let them take their time!” Sinclair urges, standing up with me. I turn to glare at him and see him looking longingly at the hallway as well.

“See?” I say, pointing at him and narrowing my eyes. “You want to go too.”

Caught, he looks at me and grimaces a little. “Well, obviously I want to go talk to them, Ella,” he says, rolling his eyes. “He’s my brother as much as she’s your sister – I want to know as badly as you do –”

“Then let’s go!” I laugh, slapping my hand on the table and grinning down at the baby, who looks at me curiously. I laugh again at his expression and coo down at him. “Let’s go see your auntie and your Roger and your new cousin!”

“Ella,” Sinclair warns, stoic. “It’s not right. They’re entitled to their time alone!”

“Oh whatever,” I say, waving a hand to dismiss the Idea as I grabbing the half–empty bag of chips off the table. “She’s probably hungry. She’s a pregnant woman! She needs sustenance!”

And then, before he can stop me, I’m charging down the hall, determined to see my sister and learn everything.

“No, stop!” Sinclair calls half–heartedly behind me, and grin over my shoulder at him, because I know he could catch and stop me if he wanted to. I laugh then, hurrying towards the door to our room and reaching for it, thinking that my mate is just as nosy as I am – he just has more qualms about indulging in it.

rap lightly on the door before pushing it open. “Hello!” I sing, sweeping into the room, my heart swelling with happiness when I see Cora laying down on the bed, her head propped up against the pillows, her shirt pushed up a little and Roger pressing his ear low against her stomach.

she says, her face breaking out into a huge smile that

as I cross to her

まず

falls as I remember that we were attacked this morning – that I killed a man, ripped

bedroom…

her voice suddenly worried. Suddenly alert, Roger sits up, likewise

bed and doing my best to smile at them as Sinclair comes to the door.

my morning in the excitement of this afternoon, and she opens her arms to me so I can come in for a hug. Sinclair closes the

against his arm. All right? he asks me, with a little concerned

poking her with my elbow. “Cheer me up, then, distract me from the fact that my baby was almost kidnapped this morning by telling

complies with my request, looking down at her bare flat stomach and giving a little shrug. “There’s nothing much to say yet, Ella,” she says. “I’m barely pregnant. If a woman came to me in this condition, just hardly having missed her period, I would honestly advise her not to tell any family or friends that she’s pregnant yet. A lot can happen in

brushing his hair away from his face. “Because,” he says, smug, “the child has incredible genes – the paternal line is especially

head a little, making him sit up

towards his brother, curious. “Do you

then, and his face drops a little, making my stomach twist. Cora

says softly. “I remember

at Sinclair. “But it feels….different to

I say eagerly, leaning forward, wanting it to be all right. Sinclair slides his hand over

“All bonds are different, it doesn’t have to be exactly like what I felt with Rafe. If you feel it, it’s real. But what do you mean when

“You could… communicate with the baby, from very early on. And you said that you knew

sex?” I ask, leaning forward

“I feel the link, for sure. But I’m getting…” he sighs and opens his eyes, looking over at Sinclair. “Less information, I guess,

and puts a hand on his brother’s shoulder,