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.

–

“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?”

door anxiously. “Leon came back about ten minutes later, offering a sedative so

dreams. Or any dreams.”

asks,

your sister too now, Dominic,” I snap, my own emotions a bit on edge. “You could show a

frustration immediately on his face, but then he softens “I’m sorry, Ella,” he says, sincere. “I didn’t mean it like that. You know her health and safety are my first priority. I was just

my body against him. “I’m

and stressed,” he murmurs against my hair. “You haven’t had any sleep in

-eight hours…”

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

his hand

from my

anything, Ella,” Roger bites out, his voice stern but with

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

She needs someone to 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

–

gasp, my voice shaky, wiping a tear from my face. “How can I sleep when someone is

shoulders and moves me towards the bed, taking the sleeping baby from my arms and placing him in his basinet close

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

his head basically eye- level with mine. “You trust me, right?”

let anyone hurt or take Rafe,

Again, I nod.

to my face and gently cupping my cheek.

can be strong

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, it needs it. It needs the

burst of gratitude down our bond, I turn away from my mate and tuck my feet in underneath the blankets, taking the baby with me. “Tonight he sleeps in the bed with us, okay?” I murmur, laying the swaddled baby down flat on the mattress between where Sinclair and I sleep. I move all of the

him close.”

Sinclair murmurs, stripping down to his underwear and climbing

leans forward, kissing Rafe softly on

on the pillow.

eyes again, looking around. But all I

open, meeting mine calmly. “You’re safe, Ella,” he whispers. “We all are. Go

comforted, I