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

movement of the

front, studying maps and discussing ridiculous

they find endlessly fascinating for some

Cora

time chatting, watching movies, and napping lightly with

baby between us.

ends up being a wonderful day in the little sun-soaked room

my sister, reconnecting with her

life since that terrible day when those

broke through my window.

you think it’s all really over?” I ask her in a quiet moment as the sun

sink to the horizon.

bother to ask me what I’m talking about

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

I think we’re going to have to snatch

have them because the next challenge is

going to have to fight to make that peace in our lives,

to try to

down at my napping baby, trailing a little finger down

dumb?” I ask quietly. ” Did we choose

picked this…should

laughs, and I look up at her

her smiling and shaking her head at

I ask, sitting up straight, ” Cora, I was a nanny

to live quietly alone with my

says, waving a hand at me in dismissal. “That was

always going to

the side, “but…you

makes sense that you ended up being such a

He opens a door for you to help thousands when

was

what she’s saying. And I guess…well,

That this was perhaps always the life I wanted, even if I want

I wanted

also,” she adds, her voice dropping lower. “I’m

my fated

going wide.

she says, frowning. “But… Ella, this thing

really big. I don’t…know how to explain

that.”

mating bond snap

don’t know,” she says, turning back to me.

– that day when we had to stop

motel.”

that day, and she blushes a little and

I lean forward eagerly, wanting to know. “What did he

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

Not I choose you as my mate. Just…that

I say, impressed, a little jealous. I have no

and I know that what’s between us is

But still – it’s an experience I’ll never

ask him about

says,

“Why not?”

idea. I don’t want

say simply, scooching forward on the bed, ready

she gasps, grabbing