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

not feel the movement of the RV as much. The

and

mileage things. they find endlessly

Cora

watching movies, and

baby between us.

day in the little sun-soaked room at the

sister, reconnecting

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

broke through my window.

really over?” I ask her in

sink to the horizon.

to ask me what I’m talking about –

“I think…well,

lives. I think we’re going to

them because the next challenge is always coming. And

to make that peace in our lives,

always going to try

baby, trailing a little finger

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

We picked

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

smiling and shaking her head

up straight, ” Cora, I was a nanny – I was ready to

single mom, to live quietly alone with

waving a hand at me in dismissal. “That

always going to

side, “but…you were never going to

it kind of makes sense that you ended up being such a

door for you to help

that was always

I say, considering what she’s saying.

the life I wanted, even if I

I wanted

she adds, her voice dropping lower. “I’m actually…I’m

fated mate,” she

ask, my eyes going wide. ” But

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

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

that.”

bond snap

says, turning back to me. “But Roger said

rainstorm – that day when

motel.”

what happened that day, and she blushes a little

But I lean forward eagerly, wanting

Cora replies, giving a little shrug. “But

definitive. Not I choose you as my mate.

jealous. I have no hesitations

I know that what’s between us is far

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

you ask him about

says,

“Why not?”

don’t want him to tell me that I’m

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

she gasps, grabbing my