Accidental Surrogate Chapter 383-Cora’s Decision Ella

“What?” Cora asks, laughing a little as if it’s a ridiculous notion. “What on earth could I have to pick and choose from?”

“Let’s back up a little,” Roger says, tugging her into the room and gesturing

towards one of the chairs around the table. As she settles herself into a seat Sinclair pulls over the little armchair that I’ve been using when I feed Rafe, and I

murmur my thanks to him as I settle down in it. As Roger begins, Sinclair swiftly hands me all of the things I need to feed Rafe – a burp cloth, a little blanket to throw over my shoulder, etc. – and I smile to myself at his consideration in anticipating my needs without me having to ask. My Alpha is a warrior, but he’s also a sweetheart. And I’m grateful for him every day. Everyone waits for me to get settled, but then once Rafe is happily eating

Henry begins.

“We discovered,” Henry begins, his eyes moving between me and Cora, that

Xander has fled east to Adalaxia.”

“Shit,” Cora sighs, slumping down in her chair. My emotions match hers. We

knew that Xander was on the run we’d largely decimated any of his that martial

forces in taking out his priests. But our great fear was that in the time it took us to regroup, that he’d leave the country and find allies who might help him. And it looks, now, like he did precisely that.

“Is Adalaxia…a good place for him to go?” I don’t know a lot about the

neighboring kingdom, especially as I was raised as a human and hadn’t known

that overlying the map of the human world there was a hidden world of wolf

kingdoms with its own wars and politics. Of course, ever since Damon broke the

secret of the of the wolves to the human world those maps have increasingly

combined to become one, but still – what I don’t know about wolf politics could

probably fill its own book.

Which, considering that I’ll likely soon be Queen, is…unfortunate. But I force

myself to pay attention to Henry’s answer.

“Adalaxia is a notoriously ruthless wolf nation,” he sighs. “They stick even more

strictly to what they perceive as the traditions of wolf kind even more than we

do. In comparison to them we are…ridiculously liberal.”

“What does that mean?” Cora asks, crossing her arms over her chest, her face

worried and confused.

“It means,” Roger explains, “that Xander has likely found allies with a group who

would not be on board with our own nation’s current policy, which is that wolves

and humans are equal and deserve to be treated with the same respect. They

also,” he continues, hesitating now and looking between me and

fact that we’re having this conversation with

Adalaxians, women are…”

best,” Sinclair finishes for him. “And at

property.”

wide. ” Seriously? Are

in time for five hundred

a bad way to think of it,” Roger says, tilting

not taught to read or write, they have almost

stay strictly within their

rights.”

face clearly displaying her disgust. “Though,

how he tried to use

broodmare.”

Sinclair says, nodding along with her. “And

They’re likely to respect Rafe’s claim

grandson, not as my son.

the role of

say, sighing as I look down at my baby, this

person around whom

out to place

able to get there so fast.

him at the border, had been

having to go through a foreign government

we just…demand that they give him back? Extradition,

whatever?”

could,” Sinclair replies, looking seriously down at me.

currently, I am not.”

up at him for a second, confused,

Because while all of the other

within our country have been disposed of, and

mate will take

Which means, technically, that he doesn’t yet have

which would allow him

Cora says, sitting up straight

some kind of

you on a throne

little at the idea of this, but there’s

“It’s

” First, I have to claim it, and

the governors. It’s…all a

nonsense that the Atalaxians

been king the

“That’s what we get for wanting to live in a nation in

lives. It’s a better process – but it takes

at him.

down at me. “But

Cora,” he says, shifting his gaze

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