Surrogate For Alpha Dom

Chapter 329: Missing

Sinclair

“Where is she,” Roger growls, pacing through our living room as Ella sit on the couch feeding

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Rafe, watching him anxiously. “I’ve been everywhere looking for her – at the clinic, at her

apartment –”

“You must have just missed her, Roger,” Ella says, as worried as he us but wanting to calm him

down. “She calls me every morning and night to fill me in. It sounds like she’s just super busy at

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the clinic it got very overwhelmed when she disappeared with us for a few days.”

“He’s keeping her there,” Roger murmurs suspiciously, his anxiety really doing a number on him.

“She broke up with him, and he pretended to accept it, but he’s keeping her trapped in the clinic

so she’ll agree to give him another shot –”

“You know she’s not doing that, Roger,” I say, leaning against the fireplace mantle and taking a

deep breath. Honestly, I don’t want to be in here handling my brother’s paranoia, but Ella sent me

a little shout down the bond letting me know that she needed some help. He’s been worked up for

days, of course, but really seems to be going off the deep end now. Not that I wouldn’t be too,

honestly, if I was freshly mated to Ella and then she disappeared for five days.

“How do you know,” Roger snaps at me, his eyes flashing with rage.

“Because,” I reply, my wolf responding to the challenge in his voice by raising his hackles. “I

know Cora. She wouldn’t do that. You have to trust her.” I stand up straight, my body language

communicating to Roger that I can take him, and if he needs someone to pin him to the floor, that

I’ll do it. After all, my mate and my infant child are in this room. If he flips out… their safety is my

priority. Not his.

“He’s right, Roger,” Ella says, trying to keep her voice even. “Honestly, she sounds fine, she’s just

really busy. She told me to… tell you she loves you.”

“But why won’t she pick up my calls?” Roger snaps, spinning on her, “why, when I go to the clinic

to see her, is she conveniently not there? Why is she never in her apartment when she says she

is!?”

forward, interposing my body between my mate

and

forcing himself to turn away and stalk to the window, looking for Cora, hoping she’ll magically appear in the

leaning

going to take Rafe upstairs,” Ella sighs, nodding to the baby, who has

get him down for a

her, watching her carry our little boy out of

turn my

say, my voice soft. “We

into the windowsill and not turning

anything when she hasn’t talked to me for days. And I don’t even know what I

wrong.”

I say after a long pause, considering.

spits, spinning on me.

question, Roger,” I say, shrugging and meeting his furious eyes. “Did you

her question your

shouts. “I didn’t do

there’s your answer,” I reply with a little shrug. “If you didn’t

out, and wait for her to come to you when

you can do

away

truth,” I reply, sighing. “Because my answer wasn’t ‘go rip the

over your

Roger replies, arrogant and angry. “Obviously that’s what I

where she was.”

putting a hand on his shoulder that makes him jump a little bit.

away – I’m bigger than he is, anyway. I can take what he throws at me.

quietly. “She’ll thank you for it, in the end, if you

the meantime, let

work harder on this cult problem,” he sighs,

giving into my advice a little bit.

as a puzzle,” I say, slipping my arm around

it, your reward is that my

Isn’t that a great prize?”

and covering his eyes with his hand. “But you get maybe three

continues, “before I’m

my teeth. Because there’s

for Cora when he’s like this. He’ll

So I turn him, my arm still

to sort through the evidence we’ve sorted through a

doing this, wearing ourselves out looking for loopholes that we

our interrogative team together to

door to the house slams

on his feet and moving towards the door, only one person clear on his

I’m more wary, more aware of the possibilities and my muscles bunch as I

the office door together so that I can get into the

case it’s a threat

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go dark as I see my reconnaissance team forcing their way in, a black–robed figure trapped in their arms with a sack over his head. I think several things at once,

ever come through the first door if they didn’t have

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