Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

Chapter 475

#Chapter 475 – Sharing the News Ella

“Cora?” I gasp the minute I get the phone to my ear, still scrambling out of bed and tangled in the sheets.

“Hey, Ells,” she says, her voice somehow both tight and bored at once. “Sorry to wake you up – ”

“You didn’t wake me – ” I say quickly, reaching for Rafe in his crib and scooping him up in my arms. Behind me, I hear Sinclair climbing out of bed too, coming to my side.

“I didn’t?” Cora asks. “Why actually.” Her voice goes stony. “Don’t tell me. Knowing you and Dominic, I probably don’t want to know.”

A little laugh bursts from me as I shake my head, trying to get back on track with this conversation. “Cora,” I say, looking down at Rafe’s bright, wide -awake face, “what’s up? Why are you calling? Is the baby -”

“Yeah,” she says on a sigh. “Roger insisted I call. Baby’s on its way!”

“Oh my god!” I shriek, spinning to Sinclair and beaming at him for the second time this morning. “It’s time for the baby! We’ll come right away -”

“No, take your time,” she says on a sigh and I frown at her even though she can’t see me.

“Cora, what is going on? Why are you calling in the middle of the night for us to come but then also telling us not to hurry?”

“Because my stupid mate made me call you,” Cora says, her voice annoyed. She lowers her voice to a whisper. ” He’s completely freaking out, Ells, even though everything is progressing totally normally -”

“Awww,” I say, passing Rafe to Sinclair’s waiting hands and smiling up at him. “Go easy on him, Cora! He’s a first-time dad!”

“And a last time dad,” she mutters, making me laugh again, “if he’s this annoying every time I go into labor.”

I ask, looking up into Sinclair’s face, a silent question in my eyes. Can we go? Is there any pressing national business that means we need to stay back? Sinclair nods eagerly to me, letting me know we

don’t think my body is anywhere close to ready to push but Roger just wants

to walk away to the closet to get himself and Rafe dressed. “Honestly, Cora, if he’s freaking out

trying to talk me out of it – anyway,” she sighs,

he’s saying. My heart swells a little for my secretly-sweet brother-in- law, who

there as soon as

on a sigh. “See

through the phone before hanging up and tossing it onto the bed. Then I practically skip into the closet in my excitement, going immediately

all right?” he asks, cupping my face in

at him. “Apparently she’s still got time – Roger’s just

great under pressure except when it comes to things that are completely out of his control. It’s going to drive him crazy to have to watch Cora have to go through a great deal of labor and pain and not be

chest before flitting off to my side of the closet and selecting some clothes that I hastily pull on. When I’m ready, I turn to take the half-dressed

little cousin, Rafe?” I coo to him, plucking a little squeeze pouch of baby food off its place on the shelf and sitting down with him in our little arm chair so he can have something to eat while Sinclair finishes getting ready. “And then,

and I laugh, because the way he looks at me when I talk – god, it’s as

few quiet moments with my son, thinking about how he’s going to react when

realize that

has already

I was so lost in my thoughts

I say, sniffing even as I laugh at my own ridiculousness.

says, smiling sympathetically at me and taking Rafe

now that there’s a Sinclair cousin coming today – and another baby on the way “the tears start to spill down my cheeks and I press my hands to my poor mother’s heart. “Oh, he won’t be the baby anymore! He’s

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255