The Mystical Attraction of Alpha

Chapter 328 – Reconnaissance

Ella

“As happy as this is,” Sinclair says, folding his arms over his chest and looking around at the four of us. “And it is happy,” he says, looking at Cora and Roger to let them know that he’s sincere. They nod their understanding. “We do still have a problem on our hands,” he says, nodding to Rafe

in my arms.

“Yes,” I say, looking eagerly up at Cora. “Henry found out some more about the cult – I’ll tell you

all about it. It’s…not good,” I say, with a little grimace.

“Oh,” she says, drawing her brows together. “Okay – yes, I want to hear everything.” I nod, tugging at her waist so that she’ll follow me into the house. Sinclair and Roger come close behind.

“Did you find anything else out?” Sinclair asks Roger.

“No,” Roger replies, a little apologetic. “Just what we sent you from the library. Was it useful?”

“Incredibly,” Sinclair confirms, thankful. “But yes, we found out more…”

”

My mate and I take Roger and Cora into the little office and tell them everything, seating Rafe in

a little swing that we’ve placed there temporarily since we’ve been spending so much time here.

working on this issue. They’re both as horrified as we were to discover that we likely have

someone in our midst who is working for the cult, who either has already betrayed us or will soon.

Though both wrack their minds they, like us, can’t come up with a viable candidate for who it is.

“We need more information,” Sinclair growls, thoughtful, as he flips through what paperwork his

investigators have produced for the case, as if he might find something else there. I nod, agreeing,

but I look at Cora and see her fading a bit.

“You haven’t slept, have you?” I ask, concerned.

She smiles at me, apologetic, but shakes her head. “I’m sorry, Ella,” she says. “I want to help but I

think…”

I say, my voice definitive, swatting

take her,” Roger says, stepping forward

a hand on his chest and shoving him back. Though I’m

and falling back a

up. “I promise,” he says, “I just want to see my mate comfortably tucked

eyes and then giving Cora a peck on her cheek. “We’ll figure it all out when you wake up, okay?”

agrees, giving me a steady look. “Really, we will.” And then she takes Roger’s hand and walks out

say, leaning against his chest and sighing contentedly. He wraps his arms around my shoulders, dipping his

holding me tight against him.

don’t say anything for a moment, considering all the things that

easy for them,” I sigh. “Not

the back of my neck.

his arms and looking

and especially

us, it was always

mean,” he says, looking calmly down into my eyes. “But their love

nodding to me. “Like ours. They’re going to work it

resting my head against his chest and closing my eyes. “That’s

both of them.”

next five days pass with that seeming like a very

partially because I keep making up reasons why they can’t go,

the tiny little touches he places on her back

in her ear, to see the way she turns her

of his dark, wry

the shoulders and gives me

must go back to

whine, tiling my head back on my neck and

need you!”

”

hands back and folding her arms across

to keep me in a little love bubble with Roger so that I don’t change my

something.”

and giving her a too–innocent smile. “Is it

laughs, shaking her head at me. “I’m not changing

little to hear her say it but she holds a finger up, stopping me. “But I have a life. And a boyfriend who I never broke up with. And a job that requires me to actually

to go deal with all

my shoes. “Did

glancing up at

a guilty hand to her forehead and shading

to be a big girl and