Surrogate For Alpha Dom

Ella

“As happy as this is,” Sinclair says, folding his arms over his chest and looking around at the four of us. “And it is happy,” he says, looking at Cora and Roger to let them know that he’s sincere. They nod their understanding. “We do still have a problem on our hands,” he says, nodding to Rafe

in my arms.

“Yes,” I say, looking eagerly up at Cora. “Henry found out some more about the cult – I’ll tell you

all about it. It’s…not good,” I say, with a little grimace.

“Oh,” she says, drawing her brows together. “Okay – yes, I want to hear everything.” I nod, tugging at her waist so that she’ll follow me into the house. Sinclair and Roger come close behind.

“Did you find anything else out?” Sinclair asks Roger.

“No,” Roger replies, a little apologetic. “Just what we sent you from the library. Was it useful?”

“Incredibly,” Sinclair confirms, thankful. “But yes, we found out more…”

”

My mate and I take Roger and Cora into the little office and tell them everything, seating Rafe in

a little swing that we’ve placed there temporarily since we’ve been spending so much time here.

working on this issue. They’re both as horrified as we were to discover that we likely have

someone in our midst who is working for the cult, who either has already betrayed us or will soon.

Though both wrack their minds they, like us, can’t come up with a viable candidate for who it is.

“We need more information,” Sinclair growls, thoughtful, as he flips through what paperwork his

investigators have produced for the case, as if he might find something else there. I nod, agreeing,

but I look at Cora and see her fading a bit.

“You haven’t slept, have you?” I ask, concerned.

She smiles at me, apologetic, but shakes her head. “I’m sorry, Ella,” she says. “I want to help but I

think…”

“Upstairs,” I say, my voice definitive, swatting her on the rear. “Immediately, sleep.”

“I’ll take her,” Roger says, stepping forward to take Cora by the arm.

a hand on his chest and shoving him back. Though I’m

him, Roger complies, laughing and falling back a bit. “I

up. “I promise,” he says, “I just want to see my mate comfortably

then giving Cora a peck on her cheek. “We’ll figure it all out when you wake up,

look. “Really, we will.” And then she

as we watch them disappear form our sight. “I’m so happy,” I say, leaning against his chest and sighing

says, holding me tight against him. “They’re

moment, considering all the things that held them back in the first

not going to always be easy for them,” I sigh. “Not like

shake his head against the back of my

say, turning in his arms and looking sincerely up at him. “We

out that we loved each other, and especially that I was a

with us, it was

looking calmly down into my eyes.

says, nodding to me. “Like ours. They’re

chest and closing my eyes. “That’s all I

both of them.”

seeming like a very real possibility. Cora and Roger stay

partially because I keep making up reasons why they

To see the tiny

in her ear, to see the way she turns

dark, wry little jokes.

then, on day six, Cora takes me by the shoulders and gives me a

must go back to the

head back on my neck and groaning. “Just stay here

need you!”

”

hands back and folding her arms across

trying to keep me in a little love bubble with Roger

something.”

at her and giving

me. “I’m not changing my mind, Ella.

a life. And a boyfriend who I never broke up with. And a job that

go deal with all

down at my shoes. “Did you seriously never

I ask, glancing up

guilty hand to her forehead and shading

be

forward and rubbing her on the arm in what I