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.

chest and shoving

stop him, Roger complies, laughing and falling back a bit.

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

eyes and then giving Cora a peck on her cheek. “We’ll figure it all

will,” she agrees, giving me a steady look. “Really, we will.” And then she takes Roger’s hand

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

holding me tight against him. “They’re idiots for not

a moment, considering all the things that held them

them,” I sigh. “Not like it was for us.”

says, and I can feel him shake his head against the back of my neck. “You almost died

turning in his arms and looking sincerely up at him. “We always had

each other, and especially that I was a wolf too, then…” I

with us, it was

calmly down into my eyes. “But their love is a big love,

ours. They’re

head against his chest

both of them.”

pass with that seeming like a very

making up reasons why they can’t go, and it fills my

them growing closer. To see the tiny little touches he places on her back when he

the way she turns her face up

dark, wry little jokes.

on day six, Cora takes me by the shoulders and gives me a little shake, insisting that

back to the clinic.

whine, tiling my head back on my neck and groaning. “Just stay here with

need you!”

”

her hands back and folding her arms across her

love bubble with

something.”

say, raising my eyebrows at her and giving her a too–innocent

shaking her head at me. “I’m not changing my mind, Ella. I’m in love with him.” I

little to hear her say it but she holds a finger up, stopping me. “But I have a life. And a boyfriend who I never broke up with. And a job that requires me to actually help people.

with all of

shoes. “Did you seriously never break up

glancing up

she says, raising a guilty hand to her forehead and shading her

But I need to be a big girl and go…do

her on the arm in what I hope is a comforting way.