Surrogate For Alpha Dom

Ella

Sinclair and I wake up late the next morning and frankly I’m grateful that everyone let us sleep in. We had to get up to feed Rafe, of course, but even with that? It’s the most sleep I’ve gotten in a long time.

“Morning,” I murmur, turning over to Sinclair and slinging a leg up over his hip, feeling just… ridiculously relaxed for someone who fought off a pack of kidnappers in her bedroom yesterday.

Sinclair doesn’t say anything, just growls a hungry little greeting and pulls my naked body closer to his, rolling over me a little so that I can feel the delicious weight of him on top of me as he kisses my neck, my shoulder, and then my mouth. “We’re skipping breakfast,” he murmurs, sliding his hand leisurely down the length of my body, “I have different idea for how we can spend

the time

”

“Noooo,” I moan in protest, my stomach audibly growling in support. “I need fooooood!”

Sinclair laughs and pulls away from me then. “Am I not sustenance enough for you?” he asks

pretending to be offended. “Here,” he says, offering his arm, bulging with muscles, “take a bite. It

will keep you going.”

I bare my teeth and lean forward towards it, making my mate laugh, but then I just press a quick kiss to the arm and push him away, reaching for the baby who is starting to fuss in his cradle at

the sound of our voices.

“As delicious as you are,” I call over my shoulder to Sinclair as I lean down to scoop Rafe into my arms, “the baby and I need pancakes.”

“Then pancakes you shall have,” Sinclair murmurs, yawning and crossing to the little metal

bathroom door in the corner of the room. “But I hope that you are aware that these will be bunker

pancakes,” he adds, twisting the nob and pushing his way through, “by which I mean plain toast.”

I laugh, nodding to indicate that that’s fine by me, and then I spend a few sweet minutes alone

with my son, talking softly to him while I feed him his own breakfast, taking my time looking

over, admiring his little face and his thick thatch of black hair, mussed from sleep.

a little, thinking that this will surely be a busy, complicated day. But with sweet starts like

can it

Sinclair

we gather in the conference room

I’m proud of them. Many worked through the

sleep, while I was relaxing and…well, doing a bit more than relaxing

of being in charge – even if my constant instinct is to work, and to push, and to keep going. Ella and Rafe

he rolls up to my side, his

I ask, surprised.

dad gives me a little smirk, just for a moment, before placing some paperwork on the table and beginning to sort through it. “You think I can’t read the emotions on your face, even

to keep it clear? I’m your father, boy. We still have a bond, even

gives us a sharp little nod, which we both return, and then I laugh a little bit as I realize how

movements we all have in common. My dad laughs a

asks, a little out of the loop, but I shake my head at him a little

he just shrugs it off, leaning in front of me to look at the

came up

when Cora and Ella come

they encounter, Ella showing off the baby to anyone who wants to come

out little cups of coffee that they thoughtfully made.

wide as he looks

between Roger and our mates, trying to figure

not see the issue here?” he gestures towards

that I don’t,

sighs, scrubbing his hand down his face swiftly in a

this, since you’ve been a little…hypnotized by Ella since the

walked into your life

start, but Roger gives me a significant look and I shut my mouth, frowning and

chest but letting him continue.

Dom,” he continues, speaking quickly, “Ella’s amazing, and I love her, but you let her get away with things that you

I protest, but he continues speaking, cutting

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calling your judgement into doubt – but I have had the privilege of getting to know both Ella and Cora without being in love with one of

at Roger, but he