Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

#Chapter 364 – Trouble, Trouble, Trouble

Ella

Cora and I stand silently in the garage of the bunker, watching our mates pack their cars in preparation for their assault. Rafe is in my arms, fussing unhappily, and Henry has rolled his chair up on Cora’s other side, likewise watching tensely.

“It will be finished tonight,” Henry says, nodding confidently. “I know it. The boys will finish this.”

“I hope you are right, Henry,” I sigh. “I don’t know how much longer I can keep sending him off like this.”

Henry looks up at me, sympathy in his eyes, but I can’t return his gaze – I’m too overwhelmed. Instead, I look down at my little red baby, who is now crying unhappily in my arms.

Minutes – I know we’ve got minutes left until Roger and Sinclair leave. And I can barely take it.

“Come here, mini trouble,” Sinclair murmurs, and I jump a little as I realize that he’s close to me now, reaching out for the baby. I was too lost in my thoughts. I look up at my mate, my eyes filled with tears, and silently hand over the baby in to his waiting arms.

He doesn’t turn his attention to Rafe, though, instead putting out his other arm to wrap around me. I rest my head against his chest, looking away from him. But my eyes just fall on Cora and Roger, saying their own goodbyes next to me, and I can’t take that either.

So I turn my head in the other direction, pressing my eyes shut.

“It will be okay, Ella,” Sinclair whispers to me, the baby going quiet in his arms, as he always does, “I promise you, it will be okay.”

“I know you’ll do everything you can, Dominic,” I whisper. “I trust you – it’s just the rest of the world, and what it has in store, that I can’t trust.”

kiss to my hair, pulling away too

strap of his bullet-proof vest and keeping him

up to him with a touch of his fingers beneath y chin. And I stare up at him, my my beautiful, tender, ferocious

narrowing my eyes at him. “Or I am going to be very

he presses a kiss to my mouth, tells me he loves me, and turns towards his car. Cora moves close to me

is it, Ella,” she says. “The big push. After

a lot, Cora,” I say as I turn to look at her,

twitching a little towards a smile as she holds the hope for both of us. “At some point, it’s got

and their team pull out of the garage and drive away. Predictably,

Cora asks as the three of us file into the little kitchen and sink down around the table. The bunker isn’t totally quiet – there’s still a good

are still too ill to join the assault team, or those

the three of us feel like we’re the only people in the world right now, so united are we in our misery. Or, well, four people, if we’re including Rafe. But I sigh as I look

into the pocket of his wheelchair and coming out

quips. I smile at her, knowing that Cora loves cards. She’s clever and precise enough with them to be a bit of a card sharp. That’s

the boys are gone, let’s gamble away all their money,” I say, perking up myself at the idea.” Show them what they get for

murmurs as he shuffles and we sit, a little smile playing at his lips. “What shall the buy in

not both?” I ask,

both to shame and earned not only

you go,” I sigh, pretending to hand the sleeping baby off to him. ” He’s all

puts up a hand. “I’ll let you maintain ownership for now,” he laughs, pulling the cards towards him to put them neatly back

the side and smirks at Henry. “Should we agree on a lay-away plan for this one