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

movement of the RV as much.

up front, studying maps and discussing ridiculous

they find endlessly

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

time chatting, watching movies, and napping

baby between us.

a wonderful day in the little sun-soaked room at

laughing and talking with my sister, reconnecting with her and

from my life since that terrible day

broke through my window.

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

sink to the horizon.

I’m talking

telling me honestly. “I

think we’re going to

them because the next challenge is always coming. And

to have to fight to make that peace

to try to steal

napping baby,

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

We picked

and I look up at her in

and shaking

up straight, ” Cora, I was

live quietly alone with

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

were always going to be

to the side, “but…you

that you ended

for you to help

was

she’s saying. And

That this was perhaps always the life I wanted, even if I

sometimes that I wanted a

she adds, her voice dropping

my fated mate,” she

wide. ” But

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

I don’t…know how

that.”

bond snap into place?” I

back to me. “But Roger said it

rainstorm – that day when we had

motel.”

knowing what happened that day, and she blushes a little

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

giving a little shrug. “But the way he

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

say, impressed, a little jealous. I have

know that what’s between

with his own fated mate. But still – it’s an experience I’ll never have. “Well,”

ask him about

she says,

“Why not?”

the idea. I don’t want him to tell

ask -” I say simply, scooching forward on

gasps,