The Mystical Attraction of Alpha

Chapter 409: Assembling the Team

Cora

When I wake up the next morning the dawn sun is already streaming through the windows, and I am absolutely – hands down – the happiest I’ve ever been. I’m curled up against my mate’s side, my hand still on his chest where I placed it when I fell asleep, and when I look up into his face? I see him already smiling down at me.

My mouth bursts into a smile.

“Well,” he says, turning fully towards me now and nudging my nose with his. “That was an incredible dream, wasn’t it?”

“Do you think it was real?” I whisper, desperately, desperately hoping that it was.

“I do,” he replies, nodding. “I don’t think…well, the things that you made up the beach, the landscape…they were all pretty static, no?”

I gasp a little, offended – “It was not static! It was intricate and there was a breeze I could smell the salt -”

“No, Cora,” he says, laughing, “I mean like, unchanging. The things that changed – you, me, the feeling the baby passed to us, and the wolves? Those all seemed very real.”

“Yeah,” I say, relaxing again and snuggling close, tucking my head beneath Roger’s chin. “I think it was real too.”

“He’s a really cute pup,” Roger murmurs, sleepily kissing my hair. ” Way cuter than Rafe.”

“I know, right?” I mumble, yawning. But we don’t have to tell Ella and Dominic that.”

“No way,” he replies. “No need to hurt their feelings. They’ll find out soon enough. We’re quiet for a moment before I ask my next question. “Did that go…how you thought it would?” I ask, hesitant.

“No,” Roger says instantly, laughing. “Honestly, Cora, I thought we were going to have way more sex -”

And then I burst into laughter too, because that’s what I had expected as well. I don’t know what Sinclair told his brother, but from everything Ella has said? It sounds like the dream state has been a place for them to really explore their relationship in a very physical way – after all, they had sex there first, before they ever did with their real bodies.

And while I can certainly see Roger and I using the dream state for that kind of exploration in the future? A part of me is really, really glad that mine and Roger’s experience brought us closer in a different way.

I feel so much more like a family than I did before we went to sleep. And it’s not that we

so vividly himself, already, that I can’t help but think of him as my son, and me as his mom, and Roger as his

my chin and turning my face up

then, curious. “Wait, how

bond,” he murmurs. “Are you not trying

And the baby. So maybe it just…went.” He nods, agreeing,

giving it a little squeeze and passing a curious little pulse down our mating bond to him, seeing if I can do it intentionally. I’m still not used to this wolf stuff, and I don’t know how good I

murmurs, pleased. ” You’re

touch on the bond between me and Roger but also giving a little tap on the bond that

my shocked pleasure, the baby responds, nudging us

before I can even ask, I see on Roger’s thrilled face

down at myself, and

…Happy? I ask.

through me like a bell. Happy! My boy sends back,

he curls away again,

face in his hands and kissing me again. “And I don’t think I’ve ever once been happier, not in my

reply, laughing at how stupid it sounds, to say it so simply like

Ella

outside her door with a to-go mug of tea in her hands, a big smile

at my baby, strapped into his car seat, in surprise. “Can you tell when your auntie is near?” I

when Cora opens the door and peers into the car, blinking a bit in surprise at the two extra men in the row of seats behind me, and then at the

seat and closing her door behind her. “Um, what’s all this?” she asks, a little hesitant

extra guards,” I say, giving a chagrined little

Conner pulls away from the house.

eyes and making my sister laugh. I shake my head, thinking that our two wolf mates sometimes really do have the same mind, even if they’re such

leaning forward and grinning at Cora. “Why are you

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