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

front, studying maps and discussing ridiculous things like terrain

mileage things. they find endlessly fascinating for some

it. Cora and I curl up in

time chatting, watching movies,

baby between us.

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

sister, reconnecting with

from my life since

broke through my window.

over?” I ask her in a

sink to the horizon.

I’m talking

“I think…well, Ella, I think

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

next challenge is always coming. And

fight to

always going to try

sigh, looking down at my napping baby, trailing

quietly. ” Did we choose wrong? I

We picked

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

shaking her head

I was a nanny – I was ready

to live quietly alone with my

she says, waving a hand at me in dismissal.

were always going to be a

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

I think it kind of makes sense that you ended up

door for you to help thousands

that was always your

she’s saying. And I

was perhaps always the life I wanted, even if I want

that I wanted a simple

her voice dropping

isn’t my fated mate,” she

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

frowning. “But… Ella, this thing

really big. I

that.”

bond snap

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

out in that rainstorm – that day

motel.”

happened that day, and she blushes a

forward eagerly, wanting to know. “What did he

giving a little shrug. “But

you as my

I say, impressed, a little jealous.

I know that what’s between us is far beyond anything

still – it’s an experience I’ll never have. “Well,”

“did you ask him about

she says,

“Why not?”

I don’t want him to

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

gasps, grabbing