Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

Chapter 386

#Chapter 386 – The Long…Long Road

Ella

It takes me just a little over an hour to realize that…I hate road trips.

“Oh my god,” I murmur to Cora as the vibrations of the gigantic RV continue to shake through us, making poor Rafe grumble uncomfortably. “Is it night yet? Can we stop?”

“You’re being a baby, Ella,” my sister replies, looking up at me with a smirk, jumping her red king over three of Roger’s black checkers and capturing them. “It’s fun!”

“You’re only having fun because you’re kicking Roger’s ass for the third time at that game,” I murmur, sighing as I glance out the window.

“Seriously,” Roger sighs, leaning back against the white leather of the kitchenette’s booth. “You should quit that, Cora. For Ella’s sake – she’s trying to enjoy herself.” He runs a frustrated hand through his hair, staring at the board.

“Yes,” Cora replies, laughing. “For Ella’s sake, I’ll go easy on you.”

“I just thought it would be prettier,” I sigh, looking out the window at the endless highway miles. “Like, purple mountains majesty. Fruited plains. Etcetera.” Instead, it’s just hour after hour of looking at cars, and asphalt, and the sad little pine scrub that borders the highways.

“Maybe when we get further out,” Cora offers, hopeful. “Nah,” Roger replies, making his next move on the checker’s board. “After the forest it’s all corn for days.”

I groan, leaning my head back. “I hate corn.”

“No, you don’t,” Cora chides, instantly making her next move on the board and capturing two more of Roger’s pieces. He gasps in protest and then slumps back again.

“How are you doing this,” he murmurs, studying the board. “Are you a witch?”

shrug.” Guess we have

fussy baby in my arms. And I inhale a deep breath, silently ordering myself to cheer up because even if I decidedly do not like riding in the RV, I’m still excited to take this trip for my sister, to get her the answers she

mileage things. they find endlessly fascinating for some

sun-soaked room at the back of the RV, laughing and talking with my sister, reconnecting with her and with the peace that

I ask her in a quiet moment as the sun starts to sink

think we picked mates with big lives. I think we’re going to have to snatch at moments of peace whenever we have them because the next challenge is always coming. And that we’re going to have to fight to make

a little finger down his belly. “Are we dumb?” I ask quietly. ” Did we choose wrong? I mean – neither of

simpler life,” Cora laughs, and I look up at her in

up straight, ” Cora, I was a nanny – I was ready to be a broke single mom, to live quietly alone with my

your story, Ella, always. Yes, you were always going to be a mom,” she says, cocking her head to the side, “but…you were never going to stop helping people. I think

saying. And I guess…well, I guess I think she’s right. That this was perhaps always the life I wanted, even if I want to pretend sometimes that I wanted a simple

actually…I’m not sure

going wide. ” But you’re a

between us,” she says, shaking her

bond

turning back to me. “But Roger said it first, when we were out in that rainstorm – that

her, knowing what happened that day, and she blushes a little and rolls her eyes. But I lean forward eagerly, wanting to

mate,” Cora replies, giving a little shrug. “But the way he said it so definitive. Not I choose you as

beyond anything he had with his own fated mate. But still – it’s an

she says,

“Why not?”

to tell me that I’m not.” “Well, I’ll go ask

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