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

might not feel the movement of the RV

front, studying maps and discussing ridiculous

find endlessly fascinating for some weird boy

them to it. Cora and I curl up in the incredibly

time chatting, watching movies, and napping

baby between us.

being a wonderful day in the little sun-soaked room at the

and talking with my sister, reconnecting with

I’ve been missing from my life since that terrible day

broke through my window.

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

sink to the horizon.

what I’m talking about – she already knows.

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

we’re going to

next challenge

to make that peace in our lives,

is always going to try to steal it

at my napping baby, trailing a

I ask quietly. ” Did we

fated mates. We picked this…should we have

simpler life,” Cora laughs, and I look up at

her smiling and shaking her

up straight, ” Cora, I was a nanny

mom, to live quietly alone with

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

you were always going to be a

to the side, “but…you were

of makes sense that you ended up

Dominic. He opens a door for you to help thousands when he is king, and

that was always your

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

That this was perhaps always the

that I wanted a

she adds, her voice dropping lower.

isn’t my fated mate,”

going wide. ” But

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

“It feels really big. I don’t…know how to

that.”

mating bond snap into

to me.

day

motel.”

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

eyes. But I lean forward eagerly, wanting

replies, giving a little

I choose you as my

I say, impressed, a little jealous. I

and I know that what’s between

– it’s an experience

ask him

says,

“Why not?”

the idea. I don’t want him

ask -” I say simply, scooching forward on the bed, ready

she gasps,