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 *** -”

had expected as well. I don’t know what Sinclair told his brother, but from everything Ella has said? It sounds like the dream state has

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 brought us closer in

it’s not that

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 – as a very

says, placing a finger under my chin and turning my

“Wait, how do you know

the bond,” he murmurs. “Are you

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

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 this wolf stuff, and I don’t know how good I am

he murmurs,

little tap on the

shocked pleasure, the baby

flash open and before I can even ask, I see

and send another little nudge, this time with

…Happy? I ask.

it ring through me like a bell. Happy!

curls away again,

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

Ella

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

baby, strapped into his car seat, in surprise. “Can you tell when your auntie is

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 the guard

she asks, a little

say, giving a chagrined little shrug. “Do you mind? I told him

saying her hellos as Conner pulls away from the house. “Actually,” she continues, ” Roger had the same idea.

that our two wolf mates sometimes really do have the same mind, even if

and grinning at Cora. “Why are you

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