Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

#Chapter 339 – Choices

Cora

“It’s all right,” Roger says, his eyes going wide as he takes in my pale face, my scared expression and realizes that he’s freaked me out for the third or fourth time today. “It’s not – it’s not bad, I was just kind of a dick – it was a misunderstanding –”

“What?” I ask, more confused now than ever.

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“Listen,” he says, leaning in towards me. “Just let me tell you, all right? II was going to tell you at some point, definitely not like this but…” he sighs, looking into my face and then down at my stomach, and then back up into my eyes. “I think that… if we’re going to start on this new part

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of our lives – this parent thing – well,” he says, giving me a charming little half–smile and a

shrug. “We should be on the same page, right?”

I nod, agreeing, but looking at him a little askance. “Did you not think that we should…go into our mating? On the same page?”

He sighs and runs a hand through his hair. “It’s a little different, Cora – because it didn’t matter – I didn’t think we could have kids

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I frown at him – not mad or angry, but confused…

“Listen, let me just tell it,” he says, leaning forward and looking at me with pleading eyes.

“Okay,” I say, quite simply, taking his hands and leaning even closer to press a kiss to his mouthr letting him know that I’m listening with an open heart.

“Okay,” Roger says again, taking a deep breath before he begins. “Do you remember… when you and Ella went into the desert with her mother, Regina?”

“Reina,” I correct softly, and he laughs.

“Right,” he says, shaking his head. “Those names are so easy to mix up. Anyway – you three were out on your girls trip, and my choice was either to hang out with those priests in the temple, or go back on to the ship all alone.”

Ismirk at him, knowing precisely which one he chose. He sees my smile and laughs a little.

“Yeah,” he says, grinning at me. “I chose solitude. Or at least…I thought I did.”

someone on the

– honestly, a little pissed off at being left behind. Sinclair sent

smile when I hear this, but I don’t interrupt.

at the sky, staring at the moon, it started to grow…brighter and brighter. And at first I thought that I was just crazy or drunk

focus, and he looks

suddenly,” he says, his voice faltering a little, looking down

ask, a little breathless, but some part of

eyes wide and still a little startled by the experience. “Your

all met the goddess that night in the temple with Ella – Roger met her, and me, but she had only spoken to Ella beyond a brief introduction that Ella insisted on giving us. And at the time it

only spoke to Ella in the temple, and then went to Roger later that night for a little

disappointed. Why does she want to talk to everyone

know,” Roger murmurs, reaching forward and brushing my cheek with his thumb. “It’s half of why I didn’t want to tell you, Cora,” he continues, his face

I ask, pushing past my jealousy and

sighs, looking off into the distance a little as he continues his story. “She didn’t come in her bodily form,” he says, “like she did in the temple. Instead, it was just…a vision of sorts, more like the baptism but…not quite.” He shakes his head a little, at a loss to explain it.

letting him know that it’s okay. That he can tell me. So Roger turns back

and politics, as my brother’s was – and you have to realize, that that

nothing else but his

his mouth a little, concentrating. “It’s hard to know how to phrase it – because it wasn’t precisely words – but that

finding my mate, and having children, and being a dad, and

say, blinking with surprise. And then I lean forward, finally getting it.

fucking broke my heart to do it because I loved you I was obsessed with you,

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me I didn’t even care about kids – didn’t even really want

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it was always Dominic who was dying to be

I say again, my eyes

told me to be. I want –” He pauses He pauses his confused language for a moment and steadies himself, choosing his next words carefully to make sure

Cora” he tells me, pausing to ensure that I

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Honestly, I’m kind of in the same boat – I was likewise

wanted in the

stopped calling me,” I whisper, “because you

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Cora,” Roger murmurs, his eyes going wide as he again runs his hand through his hair. “I was totally freaked out I didn’t want to, but when a goddess tells you to do something you feel compelled to do it – and I thought she was telling me to run from you, when she probably was telling me to run

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