Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

Chapter 410

#Chapter 410 – 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.

a family than I did before we went to sleep. And it’s not that we weren’t a

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

a finger under my chin and turning my face up to his.

curious. “Wait, how do you know

passing it down the bond,” he murmurs. “Are you not

I say. “But…I was thinking about you. And the baby. So maybe it just…went.”

I can do it intentionally. I’m still not used to this wolf

did,” he murmurs, pleased. ”

between me and Roger but also giving a little tap on the bond that I now feel so much more powerfully between me and the baby than I did yesterday. I

the baby responds, nudging

eyes flash open and before I can even ask, I

down at myself, and send another little nudge, this time

…Happy? I ask.

takes a moment, but then the reply comes and I feel it ring through me like a bell. Happy! My boy sends back, and

curls

and kissing me again. “And I don’t think I’ve

stupid it sounds, to say it so simply like that. “Roger, I feel exactly the

Ella

she’s already standing outside her door with a to-go mug of tea in her hands, a big

into his car seat, in surprise. “Can you tell when your auntie

in surprise at

Cora says, climbing into her seat and closing her door behind her. “Um, what’s all this?” she asks,

have extra guards,” I say, giving a chagrined little shrug. “Do you mind? I told him he

at everyone and saying her hellos as Conner pulls away from the house. “Actually,”

sister laugh. I shake my head, thinking that our two wolf mates sometimes really do have the same mind, even if

grinning at Cora. “Why are you so happy

you later,” she says, waving a hand at me

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