#Chapter 327 – Back to the Real World

Ella

I’m sitting anxiously by Rafe’s basinet, watching him sleep, while my mind wanders impatiently

elsewhere. It’s been twenty–four hours since we heard from Cora and Roger and I feel, just a tiny

little bit, that every pa*sing minute is a knife in my heart.

Where is my sister? I wonder to myself, sighing as I look down at my baby and honestly barely

seeing him. 1

It’s okay, my wolf says to me, rubbing her body warmly against my poor aching heart, nuzzling

me with her snout. Roger will take care of her – I know it. He can’t not.

But what if he couldn’t, I think anxiously, my mind turning inevitably to that freak storm that

they hit – the storm which separated them from their guards, which seemed….just, too precise.

Too convenient. To perfect to be coincidence. What if the cult trapped them? And hurt them both?

I wail, inwardly, my wolf giving in a little and sitting back on her haunches to raise her nose to the

sky and howl a little along with me. She still believes, but she’s overwhelmed, a little, by my

despair, even though inwardly she keeps the faith.

“Ella!” I hear Sinclair shout from downstairs. I jump a little, turning towards the door, but I freeze,

not allowing myself to hope. If it was bad news – he wouldn’t be shouting from downstairs –

But something very urgent could be happening so he can’t come up –

“Ella!” he calls again. “Come down! There’s a car in the drive!”

I gasp, leaning down to quickly scoop Rafe up into my arms. He gives a little half–hearted cry of

protest and I know that I should leave him here to sleep more – but damn it, with the cult out

there looking for him, there’s no way I’m leaving him out of one of his parents‘ sight for an instant.

Not until I know he’s safe.

I dash out of the room and pound down the stairs, looking anxiously into my mate’s face as he

a hand raised to take mine. I slip my hand into his

“Is it “I

he doesn’t know he came to

we both stride to

I give a little moan of relief, sinking against Sinclair as my knees weaken, just a

towards her and saying a few words before they both open their doors and

cry, tears filling my eyes as

tossing my arm around her neck. Cora takes too steadying steps backwards at the force of me, but

baby,” I

in this moment, all I care about is that I have my sister back, safe. “Where were you?” I demand, stepping back and wiping at my eyes, shifting Rafe again so

all, of course –

at me. “We were in the storm for a

didn’t have a charger?”

didn’t plan to stay so

charging cord in the

wasn’t one –”

“at a gas station to buy

forward and looking into my eyes with her own wide

We were fine. – we are fine! We didn’t want to

home, we just wanted to get

little and wiping my

lose you, Cora. I

a warm arm around me.

“You’re right we should have called, or texted, or sent

fault. We were…” she hesitates here, but

smirking smugly at me and sinking

confused, looking between the two

Cora blushes –

Blushes?!

My mouth drops open.

smiling a little at Roger, explains. “The storm was bad – we stopped…at a little motel. Just to weather it out.” She doesn’t say anything else but the big smile that creeps across

sitting here, for hours, worried to death, and you’re out there having

it sometime, Ella,” Roger quips, and when I turn to him I see that he’s smirking at me again. “There’s

implications of this. “Oh my god,” I repeat, taking a step forward to shove Roger for his comment for good measure and then turning to Cora. “Does this mean – are you two

awe.

together,” Roger says smoothly, ignoring my little shove and closing the

and Cora to take her

shock, for so long that Cora’s

my eyes.

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