Chapter 410 – Assembling the Team

Cora

When I wake up the next morning the dawn sun is already streaming through the windows, and I am absolutely – hands down – the happiest I’ve ever been. I’m curled up against my mate’s side, my hand still on his chest where I placed it when I fell asleep, and when I look up into his face? I see him already smiling down at me.

My mouth bursts into a smile.

“Well,” he says, turning fully towards me now and nudging my nose with his. “That was an incredible dream, wasn’t it?”

“Do you think it was real?” I whisper, desperately, desperately hoping that it was.

“I do,” he replies, nodding. “I don’t think…well, the things that you made up the beach, the landscape…they were all pretty static, no?”

I gasp a little, offended – “It was not static! It was intricate and there was a breeze I could smell the salt -”

“No, Cora,” he says, laughing, “I mean like, unchanging. The things that changed – you, me, the feeling the baby passed to us, and the wolves? Those all seemed very real.”

“Yeah,” I say, relaxing again and snuggling close, tucking my head beneath Roger’s chin. “I think it was real too.”

“He’s a really cute pup,” Roger murmurs, sleepily kissing my hair. ” Way cuter than Rafe.”

“I know, right?” I mumble, yawning. But we don’t have to tell Ella and Dominic that.”

“No way,” he replies. “No need to hurt their feelings. They’ll find out soon enough. We’re quiet for a moment before I ask my next question. “Did that go…how you thought it would?” I ask, hesitant.

“No,” Roger says instantly, laughing. “Honestly, Cora, I thought we were going to have way more *** -”

know what Sinclair told his brother, but from everything Ella has said? It sounds like the dream state has been a place for them to really explore their relationship in a very physical way – after all, they had *** there first, before they

see Roger and I using the dream state for that kind of exploration in the future? A part of me is really, really glad that mine and Roger’s experience

more like a family than I did before we went to sleep. And it’s not that we weren’t a family before – but now that we’ve…we’ve felt him? Met

is so real to me now, so vividly himself, already, that I can’t help but think of him as my son, and me as his mom, and Roger as his dad, and us

says, placing a finger under my chin and turning my face up to his. “I feel exactly

how do you know what I’m

the bond,” he murmurs. “Are you not

“But…I was thinking about you. And the baby. So maybe

a curious little pulse down our mating bond to him, seeing if I can do it intentionally. I’m still not used to this wolf stuff,

murmurs, pleased. ”

a little tap on the bond that I now feel so much more powerfully between me and the baby than I did yesterday. I give it just a

shocked pleasure, the baby

eyes flash open and before I can even ask, I see on Roger’s thrilled face

and look down at myself, and

…Happy? I ask.

and I feel it ring through me like a

curls away again,

my face in his hands and kissing me again. “And I don’t think I’ve ever

how stupid it sounds, to say it so simply like that. “Roger, I feel exactly the same.”Books Chapters Are Daily Updated

Ella

door with a to-go mug of tea in her hands, a big smile on her face.

surprise. “Can you tell

when Cora opens the door and peers into the car, blinking a bit in surprise at the two extra men in the row of seats behind me, and then at

door behind her. “Um, what’s all this?” she asks, a little hesitant before murmuring a hello to Rafe and leaning down

to have extra guards,” I say, giving a

away from the house. “Actually,” she continues, ”

sister laugh. I shake my head, thinking that our two wolf

grinning at Cora. “Why are you so

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