The Mystical Attraction of Alpha

Ella

I see a yawn stretch over Cora’s face and immediately start to get to my feet. “You’re exhausted,” I say, “we’ll let you get some rest – ”

“No,” Roger says, suddenly a little frantic again. “You guy can’t leave what if – what if the baby cries and Cora sleeps through it – I have no idea what to do ”

I laugh at my brother-in-law and shake my head at him. “We’re not going far, Roger,” I say, pressing myself to Sinclair’s side as he, too, stands up. “We’re going to sleep across the hall after we make sure Henry gets home safe. You’ll be able to shout if you need anything.”

“Oh, thank god,” Roger murmurs, slumping back against the pillows and putting a weary hand over his face.

“So dramatic,” Cora says, rolling her eyes but laughing anyway. I grin at my sister and then move to her side, pressing a kiss to her cheek and blowing one to the sleeping Jesse, my new perfect nephew.

“You guys sleep tight, all right?” I say. “And really – we’re here if you need us. Or even if you want us to take the baby in the rolling bassinet – he can sleep in our room – ”

“We’ll be fine, Ella,” Cora says, rolling her eyes at me now.

“They do this all the time in hospitals, take the baby to the nursery so the mom can get some sleep! I could

“Stop trying to steal my baby,” she laughs, flapping a hand at me, “just because you miss having a newborn.”

“I do,” I sigh, again clutching my hands beneath my chin. “They’re so cute and tiny then…”

“Come and take your meatball, Ella,” Sinclair says on a laugh, holding out my perfect little Rafe to me. And I laugh too, taking Rafe in my arms and holding him tight against my chest.

“You’re perfect too, Rafe,” I say, kissing his head, “no matter how big you get.”

over our shoulder and close the door behind us as we pass out of the room, letting my

we’re alone in the hall, I fall back against the wall with an excited little

is it this time,” Sinclair says, stopping and grinning at me as I

to do that again in what, six months!? I love the newborn stage! I love the first night, when you can’t sleep because you

running his hand over my hair. I grin up at him, nodding fervently. “Luckily,” he says, raising an eyebrow at me. “I do not at all mind the process of knocking you up. Not

swatting at him a little and covering one of Rafe’s ear with

as I start down the hall. “We have sex in front of

more bothered than I am as I open the door to the guest room. “Baby Rafe doesn’t need to hear all of your lewd

close to me in the dark of the room and

we have competition now for best Sinclair parents. And I am not

his dark little laugh. “We’ve got them

my mate kisses me swiftly before

bed, I’ll make sure dad gets home?” He asks, heading

got it,” I say, giving him a quick thumbs up and a wink. Sinclair nods to me, smiling, and heads out the door,

baby up over my head, making him give a tiny shriek of joy. ” You got a new cousin today,

over to the little changing table

his pajamas on. “But if you like your new cousin more than your new little sister, just because you have some weird

grins at me, babbling as I pull up his tiny

smiling as I pull him up into my

wrapped up as he plays with some of his soft blocks and I lay quietly by his side,

starting to pull off his blazer as he comes

I say, sitting up a

comes immediately to bed, pulling off his shoes and slipping into the bed fully dressed so he can be with his little family sooner. I smile when I see his eagerness, knowing he feels precisely the way that I feel: that this is our happy place,

you sleepy?” he asks.