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.

says, grinning at me. “I chose solitude. Or at least…I thought

on the ship?”

being left behind. Sinclair sent me to protect Ella, and there’s frankly

when I hear this, but I don’t

I thought that I was just crazy or drunk I mean, the captain

his hands a little, begging him to focus, and he looks at me

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

a little breathless, but some part of me knowing

up at me now, his eyes wide and still a little startled by the experience. “Your mother, Cora. Except…at the time, I didn’t

Roger met her, and me, but she had only spoken to

now? Now that I know that she’s my mother too? And that she only spoke to Ella in the temple, and then went to

nose, disappointed. Why does

I didn’t want

what did she do?” I ask, pushing past my jealousy and truly wanting to

story. “She didn’t come in her bodily form,” 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

That he can tell me. So Roger turns back to me and looks at me

politics, as my brother’s was – and you have to realize, that that was devastating to

on nothing else

how to phrase it – because it wasn’t precisely words –

a dad, and raising

lean forward, finally getting

it fucking broke my heart to do it because

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said anything to me I didn’t even care about kids – didn’t even

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dying

I say again, my

“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

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

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

else I

me,” I whisper, “because you thought…my mom told

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his hair. “I was totally freaked out I 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,

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