The Mystical Attraction of Alpha

Chapter 276

Chapter 276-Ella Gets Hungry

Sinclair

1 wake, a few hours later, jumping up straight the moment I realize that Elle n’t next to me.

She had drifted off to sleep hours ago after a simple dinner and a movie marathon. While she dozed next to me, I’d spent most of the late hours of the night answered the stack of emails piling up in my inbox and watching her sleep from the corner of my eye. But now, when my eyes peeked open for just a moment after maybe two hours of sleep?

Gone

I hurl the sheets off of me, getting to my feet in a flash, my head whipping around as I search the empty room for her with all of my senses. But my eyes tell me that she’s not here, and my nose. Her scent is dull, but not stale She hasn’t been gone long

A growl starts in my chest as I stalk from the room, looking through the empty hallways for my mate, desperate to find her. She was on bed rest, damn it – where the hell else would she be except bed? Unless Unless, something had happened – but she’d have woken me –

Or she’d been kidnapped – but there’s no way I’d have slept through that.

I follow her scent quickly, my anger intensifying as I realize that it leads me down stairs. God damn it, the doctor expressly forbid her from stairs. I pound down the staircase hurrying through the hall and slamming open the kitchen door –

then, she’s suddenly there. Seated alone at the kitchen table in the dark, surrounded by

innocently, knowing she’s been caught and lowering the piece of cold fried chicken back down to its plate. “Do you want

“What are you doing down here?” She

and I don’t let her off the hook. “The doctor told you to stay in bed – “I

you not to go down stairs.” She holds up a corrective finger at me. “He told me not to go up stairs. And I slid down on my butt to be extra

pressing my eyes shut. “Ella,” I whisper between my clenched teeth. “You

I snap my gaze back to her, glaring. “I could

She shakes her

replies, smiling innocently up at me like a little kid who knows they can get out of trouble if they’re cute enough. Damn it, but

all planned out?” I murmur, relenting and raising a hand to play with the ends of her lovely rose–gold hair. I’m starting to

a big smile and reaching for an Oreo, popping

help laughing at this and pull a chair out for myself, sitting next to her. She hasn’t won – not yet but…well, I can’t really resist the sight of my pregnant mate happy, healthy, and hungry.

you even eating,” I blurt out, frowning at her selection. It’s absolutely all over the place –

she takes

a laugh, shaking my head. “No, Ella,” I insist. “You can’t move into the pantry like a mouse. We’ll just make sure you have a better selection upstairs. Maybe we can hire someone…” I drift off

real ideas. I sigh, running a hand down my face and rubbing my eyes with my thumb and my forefinger, thinking longingly

“See?” she insists, shaking her head and studying my tired face. “I was

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