Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate by Caroline Above Story

#Chapter 316 – Safe?

Ella

Forty–five minutes later, I back out of the bedroom, snicking the door shut behind me. Then, I

stand up, closing my eyes and exhaling a long breath.

“Is she all right?” a voice hisses, right behind me.

I leap about a foot in the air, managing to muffle my shriek as I spin to see my mate standing

about six inches from me, looking down with a worried expression. I smack him, hard, against the

chest – more to get my adrenaline out than to actually hurt him – and glare up at him, mad at him

for scaring me like that. Sinclair just blinks at me, waiting, my smack having had no effect on him

at all.

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“Back up,” I whisper, putting my hands on his wide, muscled chest and pushing backwards. “She’s

asleep, finally – where is the baby?”

“He’s here,” Roger says, standing at the end of the hall with his godson in his arms. I smile, a little,

at the sight as I move forward with my arms open. Roger quietly pa*ses my baby to me and I smile

down at my son, something in my body that has been anxious without him in the same room as

me finally coming to rest.

“Seriously, Ella,” Sinclair says, looking back towards the closed door of our guest room. “Is Cora

okay?”

“I don’t know,” I say, looking towards the door anxiously. “Leon came back about ten minutes later, offering a sedative so she could sleep. I told him to give it as long as it wouldn’t give her bad

dreams. Or any dreams.”

asks,

“You know she’s your sister too now, Dominic,” I snap, my own emotions a bit on edge. “You could show a little more concern for her welfare, and not

then he softens “I’m sorry, Ella,” he says, sincere. “I didn’t mean it like that. You know

forward closer to my mate, leaning my body against him.

stressed,” he murmurs against my hair. “You haven’t had any sleep in

-eight hours…”

going in with her,” Roger says suddenly, striding towards the guest

me with his hand on the knob, giving me a look so fierce

words from my

not going to do anything, Ella,” Roger bites out, his voice stern but with

case she needs anything. You two go get some sleep,” he says, his face softening. “The house

someone to sit

around my shoulder. “Come on, trouble,” he murmurs to me, nodding

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face. “How can I sleep when someone is coming for my baby – when

me by the shoulders and moves me towards the bed,

– to my surprise – beginning to undress me, tugging my shirt up over my head and arms and then sitting me down on the mattress, tugging off my leggings. When I’m in my underwear he leaves me for a moment, disappearing into the closet and returning with a

basically eye- level with mine. “You trust me, right?” he asks, and,

you know I’d never let anyone hurt or

Again, I nod.

darling,” he says, lifting a hand to

can be strong for

a child, and resents it, but a larger part of me…god, it needs it. It needs the simple rea*surance, the

down our bond, I turn away from my mate and tuck my feet in underneath the blankets, taking the baby with me. “Tonight he sleeps in the bed with us, okay?” I murmur, laying the swaddled baby down flat on the

him close.”

idea,” Sinclair murmurs, stripping down to

softly on the head before laying his

on the pillow.

asleep when, scared, I open my eyes again, looking around. But

Ella,” he whispers.

comforted,

Cora

awake in an instant, and I sit stark straight in the bed in the strange room looking around – frantic

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