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 –

there. Seated alone at the kitchen table in the

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

you doing down here?” She looks up at me with her eyes still wide and then gestures at all the food as if

snarl deepens and I don’t let her off the hook. “The

at me. “He told me not to go up stairs. And I

shut. “Ella,” I whisper between

to her, glaring. “I could have gotten you

asleep, Dominic She shakes her gently at me. “You can’t be at my beck and call like this- not for something simple like a trip to

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 it works. Just

of her lovely rose–gold

smile and reaching for an Oreo, popping it in

next to her. She hasn’t won – not yet but…well, I can’t really resist the sight of my pregnant mate

her selection. It’s absolutely all over the place

I wanted it all.” I grimace as she takes a bite of the licorice, ripping it off with her teeth as she turns a curious gaze to me. “Any

we can hire someone…” I drift off into my thoughts,

come up with much though. I’m too tired for real ideas. I sigh, running a hand down my face and

shaking her head and studying my

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