Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate by Caroline Above Story

Accidental Surrogate for Alpha by Caroline Above Story Chapter 197

Ella

I pace back and forth outside Gabriel’s chambers, absolutely beside myself over Phil!ppe’s fate. I have the worst feeling that Sinclair is going to fire or demote the guard because of my actions, and I’m already preparing a furious speech to deliver to my mate if he does so. I can’t hear a single word of their conversation because the King’s chambers are soundproofed – a luxury I decide Sinclair and I should definitely invest in when we return home.

The waiting is horrible, but eventually my faithful guard emerges, looking thoroughly dejected. I can’t stop myself from racing up to him with man energy. “Did he demote you? Is he still on the call –I’ll talk to him-“

“Woah,” He catches me by the shoulders. “It’s okay, Ella. He didn’t demote me, he just did a lot of yelling”

“Im so sorry.” I profess wringing my hands.

“Don’t be.” Phil!ppe says evenly, staring me straight in the eye so I can see the honesty in his expression. “You were right. Being someone’s guard is a really intimate relationship. You have to trust me with your very life, with all your secrets

He sighs, shaking his head. “Most people get to choose their guards but you didn’t pick me, you didn’t even know who I was when Dominic a.ssigned me to you.”

“So?” I protest, still feeling indignant on his behalf.

“So it’s right that I should have to prove myself to you.” He chuckles. “Trust has to be earned.”

Phil!ppe pauses, giving me an a*sessing look. “But I have to tell you that if it had gone on much longer. I don’t think I could’ve kept it up.. part of protecting you means looking out for your health and well-being even when you don’t want me to do it. You weren’t doing well and I’m glad Dominic got through to you. I don’t want to be in that position again.”

sudden urge to explain myself is actually to help him understand, or to make myself feel better. I have a terrible sense that

such a whirlwind. My entire life is

I’m à wolf and I’m going to be a mother, and I have a mate and a pack, and I’m in charge of a world I didn’t know existed, and I’m in the middle

his heels, pursing his l!ps. “Is that part of why

inquire, not even sure about all the words I

realized you’d been left with the humans and that the Goddess was involved, but I think maybe we were so distracted by how amazing it all is that we didn’t consider what it might mean for a woman who probably spent her entire childhood praying that her parents might turn up one day and tell her

and suddenly I feel very vulnerable. I wrap my arms around myself. “What orphan doesn’t

us together so we wouldn’t have to be alone.” I smile at the bittersweet memory. “But we grew up… and we realized that we just weren’t wanted. We weren’t any more special than

“Ive been saying I have to find out where I came from – which is true. But in my brain finding out where I

out of it too.. because for the first time since I was eight, I feel like

funny the things that can motivate us without us even

why therapy is

on.” I gr0an, thinking of my mate’s

“Not you too!”

in self defense, “hey, I’m just following my

deride, throwing my arms up. “That’s what they all

back in the sitting room with

me in private for the therapy session following today’s ether trip – a fact the therapist was only too smug about- but for now they’ve

is already taking hold of me, but this time I don’t need any guidance from Leon to travel into the past. As soon

six years old, and for the first

late at night, but she’s the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. The strange thing is that I find it hard to take in all of

has long gold hair, so starkly metallic and luminous that it looks like strands of pure starlight. Her eyes are wide and dark, and if I look closely enough, I swear there are whole galaxies swirling