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.”

ask, looking up into Sinclair’s face, a silent question in my eyes. Can we go? Is there any pressing national business that means we need to stay back? Sinclair nods eagerly to me, letting me know

my body is anywhere close

cheerfully, nodding up to Sinclair who gives me a wink and starts to walk away to the closet to get himself and Rafe dressed. “Honestly, Cora, if he’s freaking

he’s trying to talk me out of it – anyway,” she sighs, “will you

hear what he’s saying. My heart swells a little for my secretly-sweet brother-in- law, who I

say, “we’ll be there as soon as we can. And we’ll let Henry know

sigh. “See

and tossing it onto the bed. Then I practically skip into the closet in my excitement, going immediately to

asks, cupping my face in his

think so,” I say, nodding up at him. “Apparently she’s still got time – Roger’s

going to drive him crazy to have to watch Cora have to go through a great

chest before flitting off to my side of the closet and selecting some clothes that I hastily pull on.

shelf and sitting down with him

and I laugh, because the way he looks at me when I talk – god, it’s as

moments with my son, thinking about how he’s going to react when there’s a

quite suddenly my eyes fill with tears when I realize that in

has already passed to my little

and I whip my head up to see that I was so lost in

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

me and taking Rafe

up in his crib today! And now that there’s a Sinclair cousin coming today – and another baby

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