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 *** -”

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 ever did with their

using the dream state for that kind of exploration in the future? A part of me is really,

before we went to sleep. And it’s not that

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 – all of us

know,” Roger says, placing a finger under my chin and turning my face up to his. “I feel exactly the same

curious. “Wait, how do you know

it down the bond,” he murmurs.

“But…I was thinking about you. And the baby. So maybe it just…went.” He nods, agreeing,

hand, giving it a little squeeze and passing a curious little pulse down our mating bond to him, seeing if I can do it intentionally. I’m still not used to

he murmurs, pleased. ”

I close my eyes and concentrate, still keeping one touch on the bond between me and Roger but also giving 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

shocked pleasure, the baby responds,

eyes flash open and before I can even ask, I see on

look down at myself, and send another

…Happy? I ask.

then the reply comes and I feel it ring through me like a bell. Happy! My boy sends back, and

curls

happy,” Roger says, choked up, taking my face in his hands and kissing me again. “And I don’t think I’ve ever

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

Ella

of tea in her hands, a big smile on her face. Rafe gives a little squeal of anticipation when the car stops and Cora starts to walk towards

his car seat, in surprise. “Can you tell when your auntie

you’re very bright and chipper today,” I say when Cora opens the door and peers into the car, blinking a bit in surprise at the two extra men in the row

her seat and closing her door behind her. “Um, what’s all this?” she asks, a little hesitant before murmuring

to have extra guards,” I say, giving a chagrined little shrug. “Do you mind? I

at everyone and saying her hellos as Conner pulls away from the house. “Actually,” she

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

grinning at

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