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?”

back about ten minutes later, offering a sedative so she could sleep. I told him to give it as long as it wouldn’t give her

dreams. Or any dreams.”

asks, still facing

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

on his face, but then he softens “I’m sorry, Ella,” he says, sincere. “I didn’t mean it

forward closer to my mate, leaning my body against him.

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

-eight hours…”

with her,” Roger says suddenly, striding towards the

hand on the knob,

words from

Ella,” Roger bites out, his voice

some sleep,” he says, his face softening. “The house is guarded – Cora will be all

She needs someone to sit with her.

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

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

takes me by the shoulders

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

brings his head basically eye- level with mine.

know I’d never let anyone hurt or take Rafe,

Again, I nod.

he says, lifting a hand to my face and

can be strong for them.”

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, it needs it. It needs the simple reassurance, the warm reminder that – at my most basic

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

him close.”

to his underwear and

softly on the head before laying

on the pillow.

open my eyes again, looking around. But

safe, Ella,” he

comforted,