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 the RV as much. The

and

things. they find endlessly fascinating for some weird boy

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

time chatting, watching movies, and

baby between us.

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

my sister, reconnecting with her and

missing from my life

broke through my window.

it’s all really over?” I ask her

sink to the horizon.

to ask me what I’m talking about – she already

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

we’re going to have to snatch at moments of

we have them because the next challenge is

have to fight to make that peace in

always going to try to steal

looking down at my napping baby, trailing a

Did we choose wrong?

We picked this…should we have chosen simpler

a simpler life,” Cora laughs, and

shaking her

was a nanny –

live quietly

me in dismissal.

you were always going to be

“but…you were never going to

think it kind of makes sense that you ended up

Dominic. He opens a door for you to help thousands when

that was always your

considering what she’s saying.

was perhaps always the

that I wanted a

adds, her voice dropping

fated mate,” she

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

“But… Ella, this thing

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

that.”

mating bond snap into place?” I ask,

back to me. “But Roger said it first,

that rainstorm – that day

motel.”

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

eagerly,

giving a little shrug. “But the

definitive. Not I choose you as my

little jealous.

what’s

own fated mate. But still – it’s an

you ask him about

says,

“Why not?”

idea. I don’t want him to tell me that

go ask -” I say simply, scooching forward on the

gasps, grabbing my