Chapter 474 – Sharing the News Ella

“Cora?” I gasp the minute I get the phone to my ear, still scrambling out of bed and tangled in the sheets.

“Hey, Ells,” she says, her voice somehow both tight and bored at once. “Sorry to wake you up – ”

“You didn’t wake me – ” I say quickly, reaching for Rafe in his crib and scooping him up in my arms. Behind me, I hear Sinclair climbing out of bed too, coming to my side.

“I didn’t?” Cora asks. “Why actually.” Her voice goes stony. “Don’t tell me. Knowing you and Dominic, I probably don’t want to know.”

A little laugh bursts from me as I shake my head, trying to get back on track with this conversation. “Cora,” I say, looking down at Rafe’s bright, wide -awake face, “what’s up? Why are you calling? Is the baby -”

“Yeah,” she says on a sigh. “Roger insisted I call. Baby’s on its way!”

“Oh my god!” I shriek, spinning to Sinclair and beaming at him for the second time this morning. “It’s time for the baby! We’ll come right away -”

“No, take your time,” she says on a sigh and I frown at her even though she can’t see me.

“Cora, what is going on? Why are you calling in the middle of the night for us to come but then also telling us not to hurry?”

“Because my stupid mate made me call you,” Cora says, her voice annoyed. She lowers her voice to a whisper. ” He’s completely freaking out, Ells, even though everything is progressing totally normally -”

“Awww,” I say, passing Rafe to Sinclair’s waiting hands and smiling up at him. “Go easy on him, Cora! He’s a first-time dad!”

“And a last time dad,” she mutters, making me laugh again, “if he’s this annoying every time I go into labor.”

Is there any pressing national business that means we need to stay

sigh. “Do you mind? Honestly, Ella, I don’t think my body is anywhere close to ready to push but Roger just wants everything in

to get himself and Rafe dressed. “Honestly, Cora,

talk me out of it – anyway,”

he’s saying. My heart swells a little

as soon as we can. And we’ll let

on a sigh. “See you

skip into the closet in my excitement, going immediately to Sinclair’s side and wrapping my arms around

all right?” he asks, cupping my face in his

say, nodding up at him. “Apparently she’s still got time – Roger’s just

when it comes to things that are completely out of his control. It’s going to drive him crazy to have

quick kiss to his chest before flitting off to my side of the closet and selecting some clothes that I hastily

its place on the shelf and sitting down with him in our little arm chair so he can have something to

way he looks at me when I talk – god, it’s as if

with my son, thinking about how he’s going to

with tears when I realize that

already

see that I was so lost

say, sniffing even as I laugh at my own ridiculousness. “I didn’t even

at me and taking

trying to stand up in his crib today! And now that there’s a Sinclair cousin coming today – and another baby on the way “the tears start to spill down my cheeks and I press my hands to my poor mother’s heart. “Oh, he won’t be the baby anymore! He’s

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