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!?”

step forward, interposing my body between my mate

mate and

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

murmur, leaning

to take Rafe upstairs,” Ella sighs, nodding to the baby, who has finished eating. “See if I

get him down for

her carry our little boy out of the room,

they’re gone, I turn my attention back to my brother.

say, my voice soft. “We need you

his fingers into the windowsill and not

hasn’t talked to me for days.

wrong.”

I say after a long pause, considering. “Did you do

spinning on

Roger,” I say, shrugging and meeting

make her question

shouts. “I

a little shrug. “If you didn’t do anything, then

choice is to keep reaching out, and wait for her to come

can do now except be

away

like the truth,” I reply, sighing. “Because

sling her over your shoulder so you can more easily carry her home.“”

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

where she was.”

laugh and move over to him, putting a hand on his shoulder that makes him jump a little

bigger than he is, anyway. I can take

quietly. “She’ll thank you for it,

in the meantime, let me distract you.”

to work harder on this cult problem,” he sighs,

head, giving into my advice a little bit.

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

“and when you finish it, your reward is that my son doesn’t

Isn’t that a great

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

this,” he continues, “before I’m out there looking for her again.”

and lying through my teeth. Because there’s

streets looking for Cora when he’s like this. He’ll completely

him, my arm still

the office to sort through the evidence we’ve sorted through a thousand

spend hours doing this, wearing ourselves out looking for loopholes that we haven’t

to better speculate about the possibilities,

the front door to the

instantly on his feet and moving towards the door, only

possibilities and my muscles bunch as I sprint

the office door together so that I can get into the

case it’s a

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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,

come through the first door if they didn’t

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