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

studying maps and discussing

things. they find endlessly fascinating

it. Cora and I curl up

chatting, watching movies, and napping

baby between us.

being a wonderful day in the little

my sister, reconnecting with her and with

I’ve been missing from my life since that

broke through my window.

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

sink to the horizon.

bother to ask me what I’m

sighs, telling me honestly. “I

think we’re going to have to snatch

we have them because the next challenge is always coming. And

to make that peace

is always going to try to steal

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

quietly. ” Did we choose wrong? I mean

fated mates. We picked

don’t want a simpler life,” Cora laughs, and I

shaking her head

straight, ” Cora, I was a nanny

mom, to live quietly alone with my

says, waving a hand at me

always. Yes, you were always going to be a mom,” she

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

kind of makes sense that you ended up being such a

a door for you to help thousands when he

that was always your

considering what she’s saying. And I

perhaps always the life I wanted,

sometimes that I wanted a

voice dropping

isn’t my fated mate,” she

wide. ”

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

really big. I

that.”

bond snap into place?” I

she says, turning back to me. “But Roger said it

in that rainstorm – that day when we had to stop at

motel.”

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

eagerly,

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

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

a little jealous. I have

know that what’s between

mate. But still –

you ask

says,

“Why not?”

don’t want him to tell me that

say simply, scooching forward on the

she gasps,