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 *** -”

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

certainly 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

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

him as my son, and me as his mom,

my chin and turning my face up to his. “I feel exactly the

laugh then, curious. “Wait, how

bond,” he murmurs. “Are

thinking about you. And the baby. So

mating bond to him, seeing if I

murmurs, pleased. ”

reply, smiling happily. And then 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

pleasure, the

open and before I can even ask, I see on Roger’s

and send another little nudge, this time with a question

…Happy? I ask.

ring through me like a bell.

he curls

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

I reply, laughing at how stupid it sounds, to say it so simply like that. “Roger, I feel exactly

Ella

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

at my baby, strapped into his car seat, in surprise. “Can you tell when

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

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

to have extra guards,” I say, giving a chagrined little shrug.

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

rolling my eyes and making my sister laugh. I shake my head, thinking that our two wolf mates sometimes really do have the same mind, even if they’re

leaning forward and grinning at Cora. “Why are you

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