Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate by Caroline Above Story

#Chapter 409 – Assembling the Team

Cora

When I wake up the next morning the dawn sun is already streaming through the windows, and I am absolutely – hands down – the happiest I’ve ever been. I’m curled up against my mate’s side, my hand still on his chest where I placed it when I fell asleep, and when I look up into his face? I see him already smiling down at me.

My mouth bursts into a smile.

“Well,” he says, turning fully towards me now and nudging my nose with his. “That was an incredible dream, wasn’t it?”

“Do you think it was real?” I whisper, desperately, desperately hoping that it was.

“I do,” he replies, nodding. “I don’t think…well, the things that you made up the beach, the landscape…they were all pretty static, no?”

I gasp a little, offended – “It was not static! It was intricate and there was a breeze I could smell the salt -”

“No, Cora,” he says, laughing, “I mean like, unchanging. The things that changed – you, me, the feeling the baby passed to us, and the wolves? Those all seemed very real.”

“Yeah,” I say, relaxing again and snuggling close, tucking my head beneath Roger’s chin. “I think it was real too.”

“He’s a really cute pup,” Roger murmurs, sleepily kissing my hair. ” Way cuter than Rafe.”

“I know, right?” I mumble, yawning. But we don’t have to tell Ella and Dominic that.”

“No way,” he replies. “No need to hurt their feelings. They’ll find out soon enough. We’re quiet for a moment before I ask my next question. “Did that go…how you thought it would?” I ask, hesitant.

“No,” Roger says instantly, laughing. “Honestly, Cora, I thought we were going to have way more sex -”

And then I burst into laughter too, because that’s what I had expected as well. I don’t know what Sinclair told his brother, but from everything Ella has said? It sounds like the dream state has been a place for them to really explore their relationship in a very physical way – after all, they had sex there first, before they ever did with their real bodies.

And while I can certainly see Roger and I using the dream state for that kind of exploration in the future? A part of me is really, really glad that mine and Roger’s experience brought us closer in a different way.

did before we went to sleep. And it’s not that we weren’t a family before – but now that

my son, and me as his mom, and Roger as his dad, and us – all of us –

Roger says, placing a finger under my chin and turning my face up

curious. “Wait, how do

passing it down the bond,” he murmurs. “Are

And the baby. So maybe it just…went.” He

reach out and take Roger’s hand, giving it a little squeeze and passing a curious little pulse down our mating bond to him, seeing if I can do it intentionally. I’m still not used to this wolf stuff, and I don’t know how good I

he murmurs, pleased. ” You’re

reply, smiling happily. And then I close my eyes and concentrate, still keeping one touch on the bond between me and Roger but also giving a little tap on the bond that I now feel so much more powerfully between me and the

to my shocked pleasure, the baby responds, nudging us

even ask, I see on Roger’s thrilled face that he felt it

and look down at myself, and send another little nudge,

…Happy? I ask.

but then the reply comes and I feel it ring through me like a bell. Happy! My boy sends back, and I laugh, and

he curls away again,

up, taking my face in his hands and kissing me again. “And I don’t think I’ve ever once been happier, not in

to say it so

Ella

Cora’s driveway, she’s already standing outside her door with a to-go mug of tea in her hands, a big smile on her face. Rafe gives a little

at my baby, strapped into his car seat, in surprise. “Can you tell when your auntie is near?” I ask, curious. But, obviously, he

Cora opens the door and peers into the car, blinking a bit in surprise at the two extra men in the row of seats behind me, and then at the guard sitting

her door behind her. “Um, what’s all this?” she asks, a little hesitant before murmuring a hello

us to have extra guards,” I say, giving a chagrined little shrug. “Do you mind? I told him he

around at everyone and saying her hellos as Conner pulls away from the house. “Actually,” she continues, ” Roger had the

my eyes and making my sister laugh. I shake my head, thinking that our two wolf mates sometimes really

continue, leaning forward and grinning at Cora. “Why are you

a hand at me while she glances around