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 by the arm.

I say, putting a hand on his chest and shoving him back. Though I’m not actually

Roger complies, laughing and falling back a bit. “I said sleep.

“I promise,” he says, “I just want to

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

we will.” And then she takes Roger’s hand and walks out the door

leaning against his chest and sighing contentedly. He wraps his

tight against him. “They’re idiots for not doing

considering all the things that held them back in

not going to always be easy for them,” I

Sinclair says, and I can feel him shake his head against the back of my neck. “You almost died like,

say, turning in his arms and looking sincerely up

we figured out that we loved each other, and especially that I

with us, it was always

you mean,” he says, looking calmly down into

he says, nodding to me. “Like ours. They’re going to

my head against his chest and closing my eyes. “That’s

both of them.”

a very real possibility. Cora and

reasons why they can’t go, and it fills my heart with

tiny little touches he places on her back when he

see the way she turns her face up to him and laughs

his dark,

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

must go back

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

need you!”

”

hands

trying to keep me in a little love bubble with Roger

something.”

and giving her

not changing my mind, Ella. I’m in love

but she holds a finger up, stopping me. “But I have a life. And a boyfriend who I never broke up

go deal with

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

ask, glancing

says, raising a guilty hand to her forehead and shading her eyes, embarrassed.

to be a big girl and go…do

her on the arm in

him, all right? I like Doctor Hank.”