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.

I say, putting a hand on his chest and shoving

him, Roger complies, laughing and falling

“I just want to see my mate comfortably tucked

cheek. “We’ll figure it all out when you wake up, okay?” I say, giving her

will.” And then she takes Roger’s hand and walks out the door and

say, leaning against his chest and sighing contentedly. He wraps his arms around my shoulders, dipping his head to give me a kiss on the cheek.

against him. “They’re idiots for

a moment, considering all the things

them,” I

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

I say, turning in his arms and looking sincerely

figured out that we loved each other, and especially that I was a wolf too, then…” I shrug, ”

least with us, it was

what you mean,” he says, looking calmly down into my eyes. “But

to me. “Like ours. They’re going to

chest and closing

both of them.”

days pass with that seeming like a very

why they can’t

see them growing closer. To see the tiny

to say something in her ear, to see the way she turns her face

his dark, wry

six, Cora takes me by the shoulders and gives me a little

must go back to

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

need you!”

”

hands back and folding her arms across her chest.

me in a little love bubble with Roger so that I don’t change my mind or

something.”

my eyebrows at her and giving her a too–innocent smile. “Is it

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

say it but she holds a finger up, stopping me. “But I have a life. And a boyfriend who I never

with all

looking petulantly down at my shoes. “Did you seriously never break

I ask, glancing

to her forehead

need to be a big

forward and rubbing her on the arm in what