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 *** -”

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

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

I did before we went to sleep. And it’s not that we weren’t a family before

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 real

under my chin and turning my face up to his.

then, curious. “Wait, how do you know what I’m

it down the bond,” he murmurs. “Are you

you. And the baby.

out and take Roger’s 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 this wolf stuff,

did,” he murmurs, pleased. ” You’re

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

pleasure, the baby responds,

can even ask, I see on Roger’s thrilled face that he felt it

at myself, and send another little nudge,

…Happy? I ask.

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

curls away

face in his hands and kissing me again. “And

I feel exactly the same.”Books

Ella

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

my baby, strapped into his car seat, in surprise. “Can you tell when your auntie is near?” I

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

her door behind her. “Um, what’s all this?” she

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

as Conner pulls away from the house. “Actually,” she continues,

thinking that our two wolf mates sometimes really do have the same

and grinning at Cora. “Why are you

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