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?”

know,” I say, looking towards the door anxiously. “Leon came back about ten minutes later, offering a sedative so she could sleep. I told him to give it as long as it

dreams. Or any dreams.”

asks, still facing the

him, a little annoyed by his singular focus on information. “You know she’s your sister too now, Dominic,” I snap, my own emotions a bit on edge. “You could show a little more concern for her welfare,

sincere. “I didn’t mean it like that. You know her health and safety are my first

closer to my mate, leaning my body against him. “I’m sorry,” I murmur. “I

he murmurs against my hair.

-eight hours…”

her,” Roger says suddenly, striding

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

words from

bites out, his voice stern but with an undercurrent

In case she needs anything. You two go get some sleep,” he

someone to sit with

on, trouble,” he murmurs to me, nodding to Roger – who

–

my voice shaky, wiping a tear from my face. “How can

Rafe and I into the room and closing the door behind us. Then he takes me by the shoulders and moves me towards the bed,

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

basically eye- level with mine. “You trust me, right?” he asks, and, sniffing, I nod

anyone hurt or take

Again, I nod.

a hand to my face

you can be

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 simple reassurance, the warm

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

him close.”

down to his underwear and climbing into the

forward, kissing Rafe softly on the head

on the pillow.

fall asleep when, scared, I open my eyes again, looking around. But all I see is

safe, Ella,” he

comforted, I