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 *** -”

too, because that’s what I 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 been a place for them to really explore their relationship in a very physical way – after all, they had *** there first,

that kind of exploration in the future? A part of me

I feel so much 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

already, that I can’t help but think of him as my son, and me

Roger says, placing a finger under my chin and turning my face

laugh then, curious. “Wait, how do

he

about you. And the baby. So maybe it

down our mating bond to him, seeing if I

murmurs,

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

shocked pleasure, the

ask, I see

down at myself, and send another little nudge,

…Happy? I ask.

through me like a bell. Happy! My

curls away again,

his hands and kissing me again. “And I don’t think I’ve ever once been happier, not in my

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

Ella

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

surprise. “Can you tell when your auntie is near?” I ask, curious. But, obviously, he

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 of seats behind me, and then

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

guards,” I say, giving a chagrined little shrug. “Do

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

shake my head, thinking that

forward and grinning at Cora. “Why

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