The Mystical Attraction of Alpha

Cora

I blow lightly on my cup of tea, doing my best to cool it and concentrate on the book that’s open in my lap. But even as I try, my eyes continually drift to the picture window in front of me that overlooks the front of our property, including the driveway where Roger’s going to pull in any minute now.

At least, that’s what I’ve been telling myself for the past two hours.

I sigh, frustrated. I sent him a text a while ago asking him to let me know when he’d be home not that I really need to know, I just…wanted to know.

But Roger is notoriously bad at keeping an eye on his phone, and I know that he and Sinclair have had a particularly stressful day today. So, I’do my best to just…exercise my patience.

But I sigh because, even though patience is usually one of my virtues…

Today? I’m finding it a little hard.

Happy!

The baby’s little tap comes skipping down the bond out of nowhere, and I burst into a grin, looking down at myself.

“Oh, so are you liking the ginger tea, little guy?” I ask, laughing a little as I stroke a hand over my belly.

He doesn’t respond because…well, because I asked him out loud, and he can’t hear me, but I smile nonetheless, taking another sip.

Happy? I ask, sending the word and the feeling down the bond to him.

His answer comes back in an instant. Happy happy!

I laugh again, desperately pleased at this, and wondering what’s going to come next with him. Because he’s getting bigger, I can almost feel him growing by the day, and soon he’s going to start feeling all sorts of new things. But will he even have words for them? Will we feel them before he does, and be able to pass the same emotions back and forth, asking questions like we do with happy? Will it be –

But even as I ponder it, excited, headlights flash across the drive and my face bursts into a grin.

down on the coffee table as

every step and continuing to

making

anything

his jokes. God, I love him

behind him and already looking up the stairs, clearly intent on going right up and not

so fast

are you doing in here?” he

lean back a little in surprise, looking him up and down. “I’m sorry,” I say, my voice deep with

again. ” I’m sorry,” he says,

of a

sighs,

say, reaching for him and folding my

glancing up the

a little still.

for a moment. “I just want to go to bed. With

this. Once we broke into Roger’s tough shell, he revealed himself

this side…he must

in a second. “Sure,”

me once, tugging on my hand

quick kiss before heading to the bathroom to take a short shower, washing off the day. I’m silent as I change into my nightgown, laying out a pair of pajama pants on the bed

turn on the fire because I want the warmth and a little light to see by, but otherwise shut off all the lights and climb

later, his face serious and his eyes far-off, thinking through something that I know he’ll tell me about in a few minutes when he’s ready. I can’t help admiring him a little when he drops his towel and reaches for the folded pajama pants

to keep it to myself, Roger raises his head a little and smirks at me.

I supposed to do when he shows up all naked in bedroom, the fire highlighting the

across the mattress, pressing myself to his side, and Roger

fingers through his still-damp hair and cooing softly

great deal of laughter and teasing. But tonight? Tonight, I

his back in a way that I know he likes. And Roger, to my content, starts almost to purr with the pleasure of it. Interestingly, for how much we usually want to tear into each other, there’s not too much that’s sexual about this moment. Instead, it’s simply