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

not feel the movement of the RV as

maps and

they find endlessly

I shrug and leave them to it. Cora and I curl up

and spend our time chatting, watching movies, and napping lightly

baby between us.

the little sun-soaked room at the back of

laughing and talking with my sister, reconnecting with her

I’ve been missing from my life since that

broke through my window.

really over?” I ask her in a quiet moment

sink to the horizon.

doesn’t bother to ask me what I’m talking about – she already knows.

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

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

we have them because the next challenge is always

to make that peace in

is always going to try to

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

we dumb?” I ask quietly. ” Did we choose wrong? I mean

fated mates. We picked this…should we have chosen

Cora laughs, and I look

smiling and shaking her head at

up straight, ” Cora, I was a nanny –

to live quietly alone

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

always. Yes, you were always going to be a

head to the side, “but…you were never going to

think it kind of makes sense that you ended up being such

you to

that was always

she’s saying. And I guess…well, I guess I

was perhaps always the life I wanted, even if I

that I wanted a simple

adds, her voice dropping lower.

isn’t my fated mate,” she

wide. ”

Ella,

really big. I don’t…know how

that.”

feel a mating bond snap into place?” I ask,

turning back to me. “But Roger said

– that day when we had to stop at the

motel.”

happened that day, and she

forward eagerly, wanting to know. “What did

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

I choose you as

jealous.

I know that what’s between us is far beyond anything

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

“did you ask him about

she says, shrugging

“Why not?”

she sighs. “I…like the idea. I don’t want him to tell me

say simply, scooching

gasps, grabbing