Surrogate For Alpha Dom

Accidental Surrogate Chapter 386-The Long…Long Road

Ella

It takes me just a little over an hour to realize that…I hate road trips.

“Oh my god,” I murmur to Cora as the vibrations of the gigantic RV continue to

shake through us, making poor Rafe grumble uncomfortably. “Is it night yet?

Can we stop?”

“You’re being a baby, Ella,” my sister replies, looking up at me with a smirk,

jumping her red king over three of Roger’s black checkers and capturing them.

“It’s fun!”

“You’re only having fun because you’re kicking Roger’s ass for the third time at

that game,” I murmur, sighing as I glance out the window.

“Seriously,” Roger sighs, leaning back against the white leather of the

kitchenette’s booth. “You should quit that, Cora. For Ella’s sake – she’s trying to

enjoy herself.” He runs a frustrated hand through his hair, staring at the board.

“Yes,” Cora replies, laughing. “For Ella’s sake, I’ll go easy on you.”

“I just thought it would be prettier,” I sigh, looking out the window at the endless

highway miles. “Like, purple mountains majesty. Fruited plains. Etcetera.”

Instead, it’s just hour after hour of looking at cars, and asphalt, and the sad little

pine scrub that borders the highways.

“Maybe when we get further out,” Cora offers, hopeful. “Nah,” Roger replies,

making his next move on the checker’s board. “After the forest it’s all corn for

days.”

I groan, leaning my head back. “I hate corn.”

“No, you don’t,” Cora chides, instantly making her next move on the board and

capturing two more of Roger’s pieces. He gasps in protest and then slumps

back again.

“How are you doing this,” he murmurs, studying the board. “Are you a witch?”

“Maybe,” she says with a shrug.” Guess we have to ask mom.”

I smile at her then, bouncing my fussy baby in my arms. And I inhale a deep

breath, silently ordering myself to cheer up because even if I decidedly do not

like riding in the RV, I’m still excited to take this trip for my sister, to get her the

answers she so desperately wants.

Eventually Cora and I retire with the baby to the bedroom where Sinclair

might not feel the movement of the

front, studying maps and discussing

endlessly fascinating

it. Cora and I curl up in

our time chatting, watching movies, and napping lightly with

baby between us.

day in the little sun-soaked

and talking with my sister, reconnecting with her and with

that I’ve been missing from my life since that

broke through my window.

really over?” I ask her in a quiet moment as

sink to the horizon.

what I’m

she sighs, telling me honestly. “I think…well,

lives. I think we’re going to have to snatch at

them because the next challenge is always coming.

going to have to fight to make that peace in

always going to try to steal

sigh, looking down at my napping baby, trailing a little finger down his

we dumb?” I ask quietly. ” Did we choose wrong? I mean – neither

our fated mates. We picked this…should we have

and I look up at

shaking her head

straight, ” Cora, I was a nanny – I was ready

live quietly alone with my

a hand at me

were always going to be a

head to the side, “but…you were

sense that you ended up being

a door for you to

that was always

I say, considering what she’s saying. And I guess…well,

perhaps always the life I wanted,

sometimes that I wanted a

adds, her voice dropping lower. “I’m actually…I’m not sure

fated

ask, my eyes going wide. ” But you’re a

says, frowning. “But… Ella, this thing between us,”

her head. “It feels really big. I don’t…know how to explain it

that.”

bond snap into place?”

turning back to me. “But

– that day when

motel.”

what happened that day, and she blushes a little and

lean forward eagerly, wanting to know. “What did

his mate,” Cora replies, giving a little shrug. “But the way he said

Not I choose you as my mate. Just…that I

impressed, a little jealous. I have no hesitations

I know that what’s between us is far

– it’s an

“did you ask him about

says, shrugging

“Why not?”

“I…like the idea. I don’t want him to tell me that I’m

go ask -” I say simply, scooching forward on

she gasps, grabbing my