Surrogate For Alpha Dom

Chapter 419 – The Threat of War

Ella

Cora and Roger stay in the meeting room for a little breakfast as Henry escorts Sarah and Jessica from the room, wheeling beside them as they discuss some preliminary plans for Jessica’s schooling and Sarah’s own desires and ideas about her future life. I smile as Sinclair and I walk slowly behind them, Rafe curled protected in the curve of his father’s arm. I wave to my new friends as they and Henry take a left when Sinclair and I have to go right, towards our rooms.

And then, as we make the turn and are finally on our own, I huff a little sigh. Sinclair, as always, notices.

“What’s wrong, little queen?” he murmurs, moving closer to me as we walk. “I thought you’d be happy with the result of that. You did a good thing for her and, I imagine, will keep doing so. Plus, we got some very useful information about Xander.”

“Was it anything we didn’t already know?” I ask, looking up at him with a frown.

“A few things,” he murmurs, giving a shrug. “But more importantly, she’s a witness we will be able to charge Xander, formally, with…well, I guess we’d need a lawyer to spell out specifically which crimes he committed in switching sperm at a sperm bank and then attempting to kidnap the resulting child.”

Rafe gives a little burble right at that moment, making me laugh and smile over at him – my sweet baby, almost as if he knew he was being talked about.

“Well, that’s something,” I murmur, considering it. “Will we charge him, though?”

“I’m not sure,” Sinclair says. “Not that I want to let him off the hook for everything he’s done – we just…need to figure out the best way to go about it, especially as he’s now with the Atalaxians.”

and allowing me to enter first. I head immediately to our gigantic walk-in closet to

the closet, sitting down on a chaise lounge that I had placed in here

I put it back on its hanger. “It’s…it’s the Atalaxians I’m worried about,” I say, giving him a

chaise and listening carefully. I give him a little smile and a pulse of gratitude down the bond. It means so much to me that he

I mean – you heard everything that Sarah said today about what life in Xander’s household was like – it was an absolute nightmare for her, and for Jessica, and her mother.

head and look at my mate, my eyes full of sorrow. “The idea that Xander would go

“It makes me really uncomfortable, Dominic. I…I don’t

supplication. ” Part of ruling is dealing with people whom you intensely dislike. Atalaxia is a powerful nation no matter how

his dark hair as I look down into his face, and then down

which we have no real proof, my love –

woman in a refugee camp, and we have testimony against Xander now. If abuse is as widespread in Atalaxia as

Sinclair murmurs, looking seriously up at me. “What would you have us do

into anything, Dominic, or persuade you one way or another. I just…I know that to not oppose tyranny is in some ways to accept it, support

as to want to go to war over it?” he asks, quiet but genuine. I go pale at the idea, because I am

life, and raise my child, and live

expense of others? Would I allow innocents to suffer so that I can

wasn’t a fair question – you have all good points, and I gave you the one ultimatum

head and covering his hand with mine. “It’s…it’s the reality though, isn’t it?

be war either way,” he says, his voice soft

ask,