The Mystical Attraction of Alpha

Chapter 316 – Safe?

Ella

Forty–five minutes later, I back out of the bedroom, snicking the door shut behind me. Then, I

stand up, closing my eyes and exhaling a long breath.

“Is she all right?” a voice hisses, right behind me.

I leap about a foot in the air, managing to muffle my shriek as I spin to see my mate standing

about six inches from me, looking down with a worried expression. I smack him, hard, against the

chest – more to get my adrenaline out than to actually hurt him – and glare up at him, mad at him

for scaring me like that. Sinclair just blinks at me, waiting, my smack having had no effect on him

at all.

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“Back up,” I whisper, putting my hands on his wide, muscled chest and pushing backwards. “She’s

asleep, finally – where is the baby?”

“He’s here,” Roger says, standing at the end of the hall with his godson in his arms. I smile, a little,

at the sight as I move forward with my arms open. Roger quietly passes my baby to me and I smile

down at my son, something in my body that has been anxious without him in the same room as

me finally coming to rest.

“Seriously, Ella,” Sinclair says, looking back towards the closed door of our guest room. “Is Cora

okay?”

know,” I say, looking towards the door anxiously. “Leon came back about ten minutes later, offering a

dreams. Or any dreams.”

she…say anything?” Sinclair asks, still facing the

snap, my own emotions a bit on edge. “You could show a little more concern for her welfare, and not just

“I didn’t mean it like that. You know

leaning my body against

hair. “You haven’t had any sleep in about

-eight hours…”

with her,” Roger says suddenly, striding towards the guest room

start, but he turns to me with his hand on the knob, giving me a look so

from

to do anything, Ella,” Roger bites out, his voice stern but

going to…be there, all right? In case she needs anything. You two go get some sleep,” he says, his face softening. “The house is guarded – Cora will

sit with her.

at the sweet sincerity of my brother–in–law and, seeing them, Sinclair wraps an arm around my shoulder. “Come on, trouble,” he murmurs to me, nodding to Roger – who disappears into the bedroom – and guiding me towards our own room. “You’re overwrought – let’s get you down

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tear from my face. “How can I sleep when someone is coming for my

takes me by the shoulders and moves me towards the bed, taking the sleeping baby

turning back to me and – to my surprise – beginning to undress me, tugging my shirt up over my head and arms and then sitting me down on the mattress, tugging off my leggings. When I’m in my underwear he leaves me for a moment, disappearing into the closet and returning with a soft nightgown, which he slides gently over my head. That done, he quickly dips down, lifting Rafe and returning him

in front of me, which absurdly brings his head basically eye- level with mine. “You trust me, right?” he asks,

I’d never let anyone

Again, I nod.

a hand to my

you can be strong for them.”

lip trembles a little in overwrought exhaustion then. A little part of me knows that Sinclair is talking to me like a child, and resents it, but a larger part of me…god,

in the bed with us, okay?” I murmur, laying the swaddled baby down flat on the mattress between where

him close.”

idea,” Sinclair murmurs, stripping down to his

kissing Rafe softly on the head before laying

on the pillow.

scared, I open my eyes again, looking around. But

Ella,” he whispers. “We all are.

so, comforted,