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.

his chest and shoving him back. Though

Roger complies, laughing and falling

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

eyes and then giving Cora a peck on her cheek. “We’ll figure it all out when you wake up, okay?” I

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

leaning against his chest and sighing contentedly. He wraps his arms around my shoulders, dipping his head

against him. “They’re idiots for not doing it

a moment, considering all the things that

“It’s not going to always be easy for

head against the back of my neck. “You almost died

in his arms and looking sincerely

each other, and especially that I

it was always smooth

calmly down into my

says, nodding to me. “Like ours.

against his

both of them.”

that seeming like a very real possibility. Cora and

they can’t go, and it fills

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

say something in her ear, to see the way she turns her

his dark, wry little

by the shoulders and

must go back to the

on my neck and

need you!”

”

don’t need me,” she says, taking her hands back and folding her

trying to keep me in a little love bubble with Roger so

something.”

raising my eyebrows at her and giving her a too–innocent smile. “Is it

head at me. “I’m not changing my mind, Ella. I’m in love with him.”

little to hear her say it but she holds a finger up, stopping me. “But I have a life. And a boyfriend who I never broke up with. And a job that requires me to actually help

to go deal with all

petulantly down at my

I ask, glancing up

she says, raising a guilty hand to her forehead and shading her eyes, embarra*sed.

But I need to be a

stepping forward and rubbing her on the arm

him, all right?

too,” she says, shaking her head. “I feel terrible, Ella. But…I’ve got to go set it

Okay?”