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?”

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 wouldn’t

dreams. Or any dreams.”

asks, still facing

Dominic,” I snap, my own emotions a bit on

“I’m sorry, Ella,” he says, sincere. “I didn’t

mate, leaning my body against him.

my hair. “You

-eight hours…”

going in with her,” Roger says suddenly, striding towards the

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

words from my

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

she needs anything. You two go get some sleep,” he says, his face softening. “The house is guarded – Cora will

to sit with her. It makes sense. Okay?”

arm around my shoulder. “Come on, trouble,” he murmurs to me, nodding to Roger – who disappears into the bedroom – and guiding me towards our

–

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

and closing the door behind us. Then he takes me by the shoulders and moves me towards the bed, taking the sleeping baby from my arms and placing him in his basinet

“Just for a moment,” Sinclair murmurs, 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

now,” he says, kneeling down in front of me, which absurdly brings his head basically

I’d never let anyone hurt

Again, I nod.

to my face and gently cupping my cheek. “Because

so you can be strong for them.”

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 reminder that – at my most basic level – I am cared for, and

sending a 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 pillows and blankets away from

him close.”

Sinclair murmurs, stripping down to his underwear and

Rafe softly on the head before laying his own head

on the pillow.

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

safe, Ella,” he whispers. “We all are. Go to

comforted,