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.”

stepping forward to take Cora

his chest and shoving

laughing and falling back a

up. “I promise,” he says, “I just want to see my mate comfortably tucked in. All right?”

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

then she takes Roger’s hand and walks out the door and up the stairs with him.

form our sight. “I’m so happy,” I say, leaning against his chest and sighing contentedly.

him. “They’re idiots for not doing it

a moment, considering all the things that held them back in

to always be easy for them,” I sigh. “Not like it was for us.”

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

looking sincerely up at him. “We always

out that we loved each other, and especially

it

you mean,” he says, looking calmly down into my eyes. “But their

nodding to me. “Like ours.

head against his chest and closing my eyes.

both of them.”

a very real possibility. Cora and Roger stay

I keep making up reasons why they can’t go, and it fills

the tiny little touches he places on her back

to say something in her ear, to see the way she turns her face up to him

his dark,

the shoulders and gives me

back to the clinic.

I whine, tiling my head back on my neck and groaning. “Just stay

need you!”

”

hands back and folding her

bubble with Roger so that

something.”

and giving her a too–innocent smile. “Is it

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

a life. And

go deal with all of that!

mumble, looking petulantly down at my shoes. “Did you seriously never

ask, glancing up

a guilty hand to her forehead and shading her eyes, embarrassed. “I kind

be a big girl and go…do it.”

stepping forward and rubbing her on the arm

nice to him, all right? I