Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate by Caroline Above Story

#Chapter 421- Bath Time

Ella

“Cora,” I scold, frowning, “you know I don’t’ feel that way – ”

“Well I know you’d never say it,” she protests, sighing. “But I do get that this union between a wolf and a human that, symbolically, it’s important. And even if you’re not disappointed that it could be…disappointing.”

“I want you to have the mating ceremony you want, Cora,” I reply, steady in my truth here. “Especially in the case of something as important as this.” I give her hand a little squeeze before pulling mine away. “But if you’d like to consider a middle path…maybe you could let me show you what I was thinking?”

She turns her head to look up at me, surprised. “You’ve been…planning?”

“Just a little,” I say, unable to keep the eagerness out of my voice. “Just late at night when Sinclair is asleep and I can’t sleep, or I get up to feed Rafe – ”

“You’ve been loosing sleep over this!?”

“No!” I protest, but then I hesitate. ” Well, not much.”

“Ella!”

“Just – can I show you what I was thinking!?” I plead, “sister to sister!? And then, if you hate it, you can say no.” A wide grin comes to my face then. “But I think you’re going to like it.”

Cora gives a big sigh, leaning back into her seat and closing her eyes. ” Fine, Ella,” she says. “But this is not a yes.”

“I didn’t think it was!” I say, newly excited. Because honestly…it’s gorgeous, and I can’t wait to show her my plans.

our rooms that evening, Sinclair immediately looks up at me from his casual position on the bed – looking down at his

ask, frowning, my baby strapped sleeping to my chest. I put my hands on my hips. “What’s

his hands into his pockets and smirks as he looks me up and down. “I just didn’t

ask again, confused, and Sinclair, laughing, nods towards the bathroom. Both irritated and interested at once, I hurry in and gasp when I see myself in the mirror. “Oh my go d,” I murmur, leaning in to get a good look at the very real layer of dusty dark brown grime that’s covering me from head to

mirror – him the perfect Alpha King, clean-sha ved and pressed – and me, a messy ball

“Oh my go d!” I exclaim again, immediately beginning to ruffle his hair and moaning as a little puff of dust explodes into the air. “Ohhh, little baby! Mommy’s

to unstrap the baby from me. “Dirty in those camps, is

him take the baby from my arms. “Honestly, if this is what we look like after just an afternoon, imagine how

little as he carries him over to his little baby bath. “Hopefully all of the people will

waking a little now that he’s away from the warmth of my body, starts to cry a little in

wondering if I should just take him and let him sleep dirty honestly, I can’t stand to hear him cry like

going, Ella,” Sinclair murmurs, smirking at me and laying the baby down in his bath. “Let him cry a little for once he’s the happiest baby in the world, it doesn’t mean you’re doing anything wrong.” Then, as I begin to strip out of my clothes, Sinclair takes off Rafe’s little outfit as well, tossing it into the

pieces of baby clothing disappear into the basket, “he’ll probably be

belly, proud, as he turns on the warm water and prepares to start bathing him. Rafe still

together, before I turn and start the water in the shower for myself. I continue

over my shoulder, starting to shampoo my hair. “I don’t think she’s into it, Dominic.

” But yeah, Roger told me

turning to see his reaction, and Sinclair

I’m not mad,

hair. “That’s not what I mean I know that you’d never be mad at them for wanting a different kind of mating ceremony. But…does it mess up your plans at all? For the coronation, and

him taking a washcloth and using it to gently clean the baby, making soft, warm noises to little Rafe as he does. Rafe, tired, lets his father know his protest, but my heart swells with the patience I see in my mate as he washes his baby, explaining softly to him that he’s sorry he has to take a bath so late at night, but mommy got him all

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