Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

#Chapter 329 – Reconnaissance

Ella

“As happy as this is,” Sinclair says, folding his arms over his chest and looking around at the four of us. “And it is happy,” he says, looking at Cora and Roger to let them know that he’s sincere. They nod their understanding. “We do still have a problem on our hands,” he says, nodding to Rafe

in my arms.

“Yes,” I say, looking eagerly up at Cora. “Henry found out some more about the cult – I’ll tell you

all about it. It’s…not good,” I say, with a little grimace.

“Oh,” she says, drawing her brows together. “Okay – yes, I want to hear everything.” I nod, tugging at her waist so that she’ll follow me into the house. Sinclair and Roger come close behind.

“Did you find anything else out?” Sinclair asks Roger.

“No,” Roger replies, a little apologetic. “Just what we sent you from the library. Was it useful?”

“Incredibly,” Sinclair confirms, thankful. “But yes, we found out more…”

”

My mate and I take Roger and Cora into the little office and tell them everything, seating Rafe in

a little swing that we’ve placed there temporarily since we’ve been spending so much time here.

working on this issue. They’re both as horrified as we were to discover that we likely have

someone in our midst who is working for the cult, who either has already betrayed us or will soon.

Though both wrack their minds they, like us, can’t come up with a viable candidate for who it is.

“We need more information,” Sinclair growls, thoughtful, as he flips through what paperwork his

investigators have produced for the case, as if he might find something else there. I nod, agreeing,

but I look at Cora and see her fading a bit.

“You haven’t slept, have you?” I ask, concerned.

She smiles at me, apologetic, but shakes her head. “I’m sorry, Ella,” she says. “I want to help but I

think…”

“Upstairs,” I say, my voice definitive, swatting her on the rear. “Immediately, sleep.”

says, stepping forward to take Cora by

his chest and

falling back a bit. “I

promise,” he says, “I just want to see

her cheek. “We’ll figure it all out when you wake up, okay?” I say, giving her

a steady look. “Really, we will.” And then she takes Roger’s

leaning against his chest and sighing contentedly. He wraps his arms around my shoulders,

tight against him.

say anything for a moment, considering all the things that held

them,”

shake his head against the back of my neck. “You almost died like, four times since we’ve

I say, turning in his arms and looking sincerely up at him. “We always

out that we loved each other, and especially that I was a wolf

it

calmly down into my eyes. “But their

he says, nodding to me. “Like ours.

chest

both of them.”

days pass with that seeming like a very real possibility. Cora and Roger stay

because I keep making up reasons why they can’t go, and it fills my heart with

see the tiny little

something in her ear, to see the way she turns her

his dark, wry

six, Cora takes me by the shoulders and gives me

back

neck and

need you!”

”

she says, taking her hands back and folding her arms

bubble with Roger so that I don’t change my mind

something.”

and giving her a too–innocent

her head at me. “I’m not changing my mind, Ella. I’m in

And a boyfriend who I never broke up with. And a job that requires me to

deal with all

petulantly down at my shoes.

ask, glancing up at

says, raising a guilty hand to her forehead

be a big

and rubbing her on the arm in what

nice to him, all right?