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.

so much more like a family than I did before we went to sleep. And it’s not that we weren’t a family before – but now that we’ve…we’ve felt him?

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

under my chin and turning my face up to his. “I feel

laugh then, curious. “Wait, how do you know what I’m

it down the bond,” he

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

pulse down our mating bond to him, seeing if I can do

murmurs, pleased.

and Roger but also giving a little tap on the

my shocked pleasure, the baby responds, nudging

open and before I can even ask, I see on Roger’s thrilled face that he felt

down at myself, and send

…Happy? I ask.

me like a bell. Happy! My boy sends back, and I laugh, and feel myself start to cry again. Happy,

then he curls

taking my face in his hands and kissing me again. “And I don’t think I’ve

sounds, to say it so simply like that.

Ella

with a to-go mug of tea in her hands, a big smile on her face. Rafe gives a little squeal of anticipation when the car stops and Cora starts to walk

“Can you tell when your auntie is near?” I ask, curious. But, obviously, he doesn’t

into the car, blinking a bit in surprise at the two extra men in the

“Um, what’s all this?” she asks,

I say, giving a chagrined little shrug. “Do you mind? I

away from the house. “Actually,” she continues,

and making my sister laugh. I shake my head, thinking that

forward and grinning at Cora. “Why are you so happy this

me while she glances

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