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.

chose solitude. Or at least…I thought I

someone on the ship?” I ask,

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

I hear this,

to grow…brighter and brighter. And at first I thought that I was just crazy

little, begging him to focus, and he

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

breathless, but

and still a little startled by the experience. “Your mother, Cora. Except…at the time, I didn’t know

– Roger met her, and me, but she had only spoken to Ella beyond a brief introduction that Ella insisted on giving us.

she only spoke to Ella in the temple, and then went to Roger later that night for a little

nose, disappointed. Why does she want to talk

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

I ask, pushing past my jealousy and truly

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

hands again, letting him know that it’s okay. That he can tell me. So Roger turns back to me and

he says, “that I was chasing the wrong destiny. That my future was not in war and politics, as my brother’s was – and you have to

on

concentrating. “It’s hard to know how to phrase it – because it wasn’t precisely words – but that

and having children, and being a dad,

I lean forward,

think we could have kids, Cora…” he whispers, clutching my hands tightly. “And it fucking broke my heart to do it because I loved

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

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was dying to be a dad, not me –”

say again, my eyes

you’re pregnant, and not just because the goddess told me to be. I want –” He pauses He pauses his confused language

to ensure that

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

I

calling me,” I whisper, “because you thought…my

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something you feel compelled to do it – and I thought she was telling me to run from you, when she

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