Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

#Chapter 482 – New Baby Cousin

Ella

I see a yawn stretch over Cora’s face and immediately start to get to my feet. “You’re exhausted,” I say, “we’ll let you get some rest – ”

“No,” Roger says, suddenly a little frantic again. “You guy can’t leave what if – what if the baby cries and Cora sleeps through it – I have no idea what to do ”

I laugh at my brother-in-law and shake my head at him. “We’re not going far, Roger,” I say, pressing myself to Sinclair’s side as he, too, stands up. “We’re going to sleep across the hall after we make sure Henry gets home safe. You’ll be able to shout if you need anything.”

“Oh, thank god,” Roger murmurs, slumping back against the pillows and putting a weary hand over his face.

“So dramatic,” Cora says, rolling her eyes but laughing anyway. I grin at my sister and then move to her side, pressing a kiss to her cheek and blowing one to the sleeping Jesse, my new perfect nephew.

“You guys sleep tight, all right?” I say. “And really – we’re here if you need us. Or even if you want us to take the baby in the rolling bassinet – he can sleep in our room – ”

“We’ll be fine, Ella,” Cora says, rolling her eyes at me now.

“They do this all the time in hospitals, take the baby to the nursery so the mom can get some sleep! I could

“Stop trying to steal my baby,” she laughs, flapping a hand at me, “just because you miss having a newborn.”

“I do,” I sigh, again clutching my hands beneath my chin. “They’re so cute and tiny then…”

“Come and take your meatball, Ella,” Sinclair says on a laugh, holding out my perfect little Rafe to me. And I laugh too, taking Rafe in my arms and holding him tight against my chest.

“You’re perfect too, Rafe,” I say, kissing his head, “no matter how big you get.”

us as we pass out of the

soon as we’re alone in the hall, I fall back against the

stopping and grinning at me as I hold Rafe close to

I say, smiling up at him. “I get to do that again in what, six months!? I love the newborn stage! I love the first night, when you can’t sleep because you can’t bear to close your eyes and stop looking at them! I’m so excited. I’m not going to be able to

my sweetheart mate says, stepping forward and running his hand over my hair. I grin up at him, nodding

at him a little and covering one of Rafe’s ear with my spare hand.

at me as I start down the hall. “We have sex in front

I am as I open the door to the guest room. “Baby Rafe doesn’t need to hear

wasn’t even an inuendo,” Sinclair murmurs, stepping close to me in the dark of the room and pulling me to him, a little more roughly than he needs to, just the way

I murmur, my voice low and throaty. ” Because we have competition now for best Sinclair parents. And I am not losing

laughing his dark little laugh. “We’ve got

right?” I say, wrinkling my nose at him. And my mate kisses me swiftly before giving me a

for bed, I’ll make sure dad gets home?” He asks, heading for the

wink. Sinclair nods to me, smiling, and heads out

give a tiny shriek

to the little changing table I set up a few hours ago, starting to get him ready for

diaper and start to put his pajamas on. “But if you like your new cousin more than your new little

just grins at me, babbling as I pull up his tiny

into my arms. “And I’m holding you to it, even though you don’t even really speak

are cozily settled on the bed, each of us warmly wrapped up as he plays with some of his soft blocks and I lay quietly by his side, talking to him and giving him a cuddle whenever he looks for it. But I grin when my

to pull off his

up a little. ” We missed

and slipping into the bed fully dressed so he can be with his little family sooner. I smile when I see his eagerness, knowing he feels precisely the way that I feel: that this is our happy place, when we’re all cozy together with no great pressures or problems weighing

sleepy?” he asks.

But, we should wait until Rafe falls asleep to attend