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.”

her,” Roger says, stepping forward to take Cora by the

I say, putting a hand on his chest and shoving him

Roger complies, laughing and falling back a bit. “I said sleep. Not

he says, “I just want to see

and then giving Cora a peck on her cheek. “We’ll figure it all out when you wake up, okay?” I say, giving her

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

I say, leaning against his chest and sighing contentedly. He wraps his arms around my shoulders, dipping his head to give

against him. “They’re

the things

“It’s not going to always be easy for them,”

and I can feel him shake his head against the back of my neck. “You almost died like, four times since we’ve been together. How is

say, turning in his arms and looking sincerely up at him.

figured out that we loved each other, and especially that I was a wolf too, then…” I shrug, ”

it

looking calmly down into

to me. “Like ours. They’re

head against his chest

both of them.”

pass with that seeming like a very real possibility. Cora

reasons why they can’t go, and it fills

them growing closer. To see the tiny little touches he places

the way she turns her

his dark,

six, Cora takes me by the shoulders and gives me a little shake, insisting that

must go back to the clinic.

tiling my head back on my neck and

need you!”

”

says, taking her hands

me in a little love bubble

something.”

eyebrows at her and giving her a too–innocent smile. “Is it working?”

shaking her head at me. “I’m not changing my

finger up, stopping me. “But I have a life. And a boyfriend

with all

shoes. “Did you seriously never

ask, glancing up

guilty hand to her forehead and shading her eyes, embarrassed.

be a big girl

forward and rubbing her on the arm in what I

him, all right?