Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

#Chapter 481– A New Family

It takes a little over two hours, but finally the last of the doctors leaves, the door clicking shut behind them.

“Finally,” Roger sighs, falling back into the linens of the freshly-changed bed. “Now we just have to get our stupid family to leave and we’ll get some sleep – ”

“Excuse me,” I say, glaring over at him. “If you think you’re tired -”

“Fine fine,” he sighs, turning his head to grin at me. “You’re right. What can I get you, my love? Do you want anything?”

The doctor officially gave me and Jesse a clean bill of health after I delivered the placenta and Jesse had his first feeding and full check-up. It was, of course, a relief to have everything turn out right and relatively easy -especially in comparison to Ella’s experiences – but now that they’re all gone?

Honestly, it all feels very real.

Like now I have to be a mom, and Roger has to be a dadall by ourselves.

“I don’t know,” I say, laughing a little and looking between Roger and our little baby. “Honestly, it’s all kind of weird, isn’t it? All of this fuss and then they just…leave you alone with a baby. To do what you will.”

“I know,” he says, looking at me with wide eyes. “I’m glad you know what to do. I’m totally lost.”

“I don’t know what to do!” I protest, laughing and shaking my head.

“What!?” he breaths, sitting up sharply.

“I’m just a doctor, Roger!” I say, laughing harder now and feeling a little hysterical as well as exhausted. “People come to me pregnant, but then I send the babies home with them! I don’t know what to do with a kid – that’s Ella’s department.”

“Well then,” he says, looking anxiously towards the door. “I take back my previous words. Ella has to stay – for like, ever.”

“Or at least until this kid is six -”

“Can we push to seven?” Roger asks, looking at me with real anxiety that just makes me laugh harder.

There’s a little knock on the door but suddenly Roger and I are laughing too hard to answer it. It cracks open anyway and Ella again peeks her head in.

of new parents,” she says, shaking her head at us and smiling as she comes into the room. “Are you

his eyes. “What are we supposed to like…do with him?” he asks, gesturing to the

the baby, which I gladly hand off to her.

and Sinclair pulls a chair up to the bedside, completing our little group

who yawns and looks around at us sleepily, a little confused. “They sleep a lot their first couple of weeks. And then, after that, they find ways to

looking dubiously between Rafe and Jesse. “Yours

me like she’s considering the idea but I just laugh and shake my head. “You can’t

Roger murmurs,

him as his own gaze fastens on his cousin, his eyes going wide like he’s noticing him for

mean, he honestly

forward so that Rafe can meet Jesse face-to-face for the

and delight when my sweet nephew really does lean forward to see Jesse, his face very curious.

god,” Sinclair murmurs, looking down at his son with a fascinated and pleased expression. “He really does want to go to

Jesse,” Ella says, laughing a little as she beams at her own baby. ” He’s your new cousin! And I think you’re going

lot. It’s going to be very inconvenient if they don’t

giving him a light smack on the chest. “They will. Besides, shut up, I

Sinclair sits Rafe on the bed, letting him lean forward and

her voice a little awed,

“What?” Sinclair asks.

almost beyond herself, as if she’s speaking from instinct. “Let’s

fine with it if Ella is. I don’t see Roger’s response, but I don’t

blankets, and Ella very gently, very tentatively

my shock, the usually rambunctious Rafe stays very, very still for a moment as he stares at

the moment they touch, when Rafe’s fingers brush against

parents take a sharp intake

feel it – each and every one

and then all of our eyes dart back to our kids, who are still touching, just

to his new cousin, who just sighs and closes his

for a split second before she reaches down and gathers Jesse back up

head to see him staring wide-eyed at Ella. “Yeah, I think it’s