Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate by Caroline Above Story

#Chapter 338 – Choices

Cora

“It’s all right,” Roger says, his eyes going wide as he takes in my pale face, my scared expression and realizes that he’s freaked me out for the third or fourth time today. “It’s not – it’s not bad, I was just kind of a dick – it was a misunderstanding –”

“What?” I ask, more confused now than ever.

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“Listen,” he says, leaning in towards me. “Just let me tell you, all right? II was going to tell you at some point, definitely not like this but…” he sighs, looking into my face and then down at my stomach, and then back up into my eyes. “I think that… if we’re going to start on this new part

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of our lives – this parent thing – well,” he says, giving me a charming little half–smile and a

shrug. “We should be on the same page, right?”

I nod, agreeing, but looking at him a little askance. “Did you not think that we should…go into our mating? On the same page?”

He sighs and runs a hand through his hair. “It’s a little different, Cora – because it didn’t matter – I didn’t think we could have kids

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I frown at him – not mad or angry, but confused…

“Listen, let me just tell it,” he says, leaning forward and looking at me with pleading eyes.

“Okay,” I say, quite simply, taking his hands and leaning even closer to press a kiss to his mouthr letting him know that I’m listening with an open heart.

“Okay,” Roger says again, taking a deep breath before he begins. “Do you remember… when you and Ella went into the desert with her mother, Regina?”

“Reina,” I correct softly, and he laughs.

“Right,” he says, shaking his head. “Those names are so easy to mix up. Anyway – you three were out on your girls trip, and my choice was either to hang out with those priests in the temple, or go back on to the ship all alone.”

Ismirk at him, knowing precisely which one he chose. He sees my smile and laughs a little.

at me. “I chose solitude.

on the ship?”

– honestly, a little pissed off at being left behind. Sinclair sent me to protect Ella, and there’s

I hear this, but I don’t

to grow…brighter and brighter. And at first I thought that I was just crazy or drunk I mean, the captain gave me a little of his whiskey when he saw how upset I

to

says, his voice faltering a little, looking down at our joined hands, “she

little breathless, but some part of

eyes wide and still a little startled by the experience. “Your mother, Cora. Except…at

that night in the temple with Ella – Roger met her, and me, but she had only spoken to Ella beyond a brief introduction that Ella insisted on giving us. And at the time it had made sense – Ella was her daughter, the one she

know that she’s my mother too? And that she only spoke to Ella in the

through my nose, disappointed. Why does she

“It’s half of why I didn’t want to tell you, Cora,” he continues, his face all sympathy. “I knew

pushing past my jealousy and truly wanting

he says, “like she did in the temple. Instead, it was just…a vision of sorts, more like the baptism but…not quite.” He shakes his head a little, at a loss to explain it. “But her message was perfectly

squeeze his hands again, letting him know that it’s okay. That he can tell me.

chasing the wrong destiny. That my future was not in war and politics, as my brother’s was – and you have to realize, that that was devastating to hear

understanding, concentrating on nothing

it – because it wasn’t precisely words – but that

dad, and raising my kids well

lean forward, finally getting it. “Oh,

could have kids, Cora…” he whispers, clutching my hands tightly. “And it fucking broke my

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said anything to me I didn’t even

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always Dominic who was dying to be a dad, not me

again,

murmurs, apologetic, “I’m fucking it all up, Cora – I’m thrilled that you’re pregnant, and not just because the goddess told me to be. I want –” He pauses He pauses his confused language for a moment and steadies himself,

this child, Cora” he tells me, pausing to ensure that I hear him, “and

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I do. I really get it. Honestly, I’m kind of in the same boat – I was likewise unsure if I wanted kids. But the moment I

else I

I whisper, “because you thought…my

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didn’t want to, but when a goddess tells you to do something you feel compelled to do it – and I thought she was telling me to run from you, when she probably was telling me to run to you to take you directly to my stupid tiny bunk

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