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 my

window, looking for Cora, hoping she’ll magically appear in the driveway. “I’m not going to hurt anyone.”

I murmur, leaning back

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

get him down

boy out of the room, my heart surging

they’re gone, I turn my attention back to

to come back, Roger,” I say, my voice soft. “We need

fingers into the windowsill and not

talked to me for days. And I don’t even know what I did

wrong.”

long pause, considering. “Did

spits, spinning on

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

question your

shouts. “I

your answer,” I reply with a little

keep reaching out, and wait for her to come to you when she’s

can do now

ridiculous,” he snarls, turning away from me again, desperate.

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

find her, and then sling her over your shoulder so you can

“Obviously that’s what I would do,

where she was.”

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

don’t move away – I’m bigger than he is, anyway.

thank you for it, in the

the meantime, let me distract

want me to work harder on this cult problem,” he sighs, closing

head, giving into my advice

say, slipping

your reward is that my son

Isn’t that a

shaking his head and covering his eyes with his hand. “But

I’m out there looking for her

lying through my teeth.

when he’s like this. He’ll completely freak her out, and

So I turn him, my arm still around his shoulders, towards the door and

to sort through the evidence we’ve sorted

wearing ourselves out looking for loopholes that

team together to better speculate about the

to

the door, only one person

possibilities and my muscles

behind me as we reach the office door together so that

it’s

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forcing their way in, a black–robed figure trapped in their arms with a sack over his head. I think several things at once, the first being that

never, ever come through the first

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