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

they find endlessly fascinating for some

leave them to it. Cora and I curl up in

spend our time chatting, watching

baby between us.

day in the little sun-soaked room at

and talking with my sister, reconnecting with her and

that I’ve been missing from my life since that

broke through my window.

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

sink to the horizon.

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

honestly. “I think…well, Ella, I think we picked

to have to snatch at moments of

them because the next challenge is always

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

going to try

down at my napping baby, trailing a little finger

” Did we choose wrong? I mean –

picked this…should we

and I look up at her in surprise

smiling and shaking her

Cora, I was a nanny –

mom, to live quietly

waving a hand at me in

always going to be a mom,”

the side, “but…you

think it kind of makes sense that

He opens a door for you to help thousands when

was always

I say, considering what she’s saying. And I

That this was perhaps always the life I wanted,

I

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

fated mate,” she

ask, my eyes going wide. ” But

frowning. “But… Ella,

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

that.”

a mating bond snap into place?”

turning back to me. “But Roger said

– that day when we had to stop at

motel.”

her, knowing what happened that day, and

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

was his mate,” Cora replies, giving a little shrug.

I choose you

impressed, a little jealous. I have no

I know that what’s between us

mate. But still – it’s an experience

you ask him

says, shrugging

“Why not?”

don’t want him to

ask -” I say simply, scooching forward on

she gasps, grabbing