Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate by Caroline Above Story

#Chapter 328 – 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.”

“I’ll take her,” Roger says, stepping forward to take Cora by the arm.

hand on his chest and shoving him back. Though I’m not

laughing and falling back a bit. “I

he says, “I just want to see my mate comfortably

cheek. “We’ll figure it all out

giving me a steady look. “Really, we will.” And then she takes Roger’s hand and walks out the door

happy,” I say, leaning against his chest and sighing contentedly. He wraps his arms around my shoulders, dipping

against him. “They’re idiots for not doing

considering all the things that

to always be easy for them,” I

the back of my neck. “You almost died like, four times since we’ve been together. How is

and looking sincerely up at him. “We always

and especially that I was a wolf too,

with us, it

looking calmly down into my eyes. “But their love

nodding to me. “Like ours. They’re going to work

my head against his chest and closing my

both of them.”

that seeming like a very real possibility. Cora and Roger stay

they can’t go, and

to see them growing closer. To see the tiny little touches he places

in her ear, to see the way she

his dark,

on day six, Cora takes me by the shoulders and

go back to

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

need you!”

”

says, taking her hands back and folding her arms across

a little love bubble with Roger so that

something.”

raising my eyebrows at her and giving her

not changing my mind, Ella. I’m

have a life.

with all of that! Okay?”

mumble, looking petulantly down at my shoes. “Did you seriously

ask, glancing up

says, raising a guilty hand to her forehead and

I need to be a big girl and go…do

the arm in what

all right? I

she says, shaking her head. “I feel terrible,

Okay?”