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

I might not feel the movement of the

up front, studying maps and discussing ridiculous things like

mileage things. they find endlessly fascinating for some weird

to it. Cora and I curl up in

watching movies, and

baby between us.

the little sun-soaked room

and talking with my sister,

been missing from my life

broke through my window.

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

sink to the horizon.

I’m talking about – she

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

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

next

to have to fight to make that peace in our

going to try

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

I ask quietly. ” Did we choose

We picked this…should we have chosen simpler

want a simpler life,” Cora laughs, and I

smiling and shaking her

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

single mom, to live quietly alone with

me in dismissal. “That was just the

Ella, always. Yes, you were always

the side, “but…you were never

makes sense that you ended up being such

door for you to help thousands when he

that was always

she’s saying.

this was perhaps always the life

that I wanted a simple

dropping lower. “I’m actually…I’m not

isn’t my fated mate,” she

my eyes going wide. ” But you’re a human

Ella, this thing between us,” she

big. I don’t…know

that.”

you feel a mating bond snap

don’t know,” she says, turning back to me. “But Roger said it

– that day when we

motel.”

at her, knowing what happened that day, and she blushes a little and

But I lean forward eagerly, wanting

mate,” Cora replies, giving a

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

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

that what’s between us is far beyond

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

ask him about

says,

“Why not?”

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

-” I say simply, scooching forward

gasps, grabbing my