#Chapter 329 – Missing
Sinclair
“Where is she,” Roger growls, pacing through our living room as Ella sit on the couch feeding
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Rafe, watching him anxiously. “I’ve been everywhere looking for her – at the clinic, at her
apartment –”
“You must have just missed her, Roger,” Ella says, as worried as he us but wanting to calm him
down. “She calls me every morning and night to fill me in. It sounds like she’s just super busy at
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the clinic it got very overwhelmed when she disappeared with us for a few days.”
“He’s keeping her there,” Roger murmurs suspiciously, his anxiety really doing a number on him.
“She broke up with him, and he pretended to accept it, but he’s keeping her trapped in the clinic
so she’ll agree to give him another shot –”
“You know she’s not doing that, Roger,” I say, leaning against the fireplace mantle and taking a
deep breath. Honestly, I don’t want to be in here handling my brother’s paranoia, but Ella sent me
a little shout down the bond letting me know that she needed some help. He’s been worked up for
days, of course, but really seems to be going off the deep end now. Not that I wouldn’t be too,
honestly, if I was freshly mated to Ella and then she disappeared for five days.
“How do you know,” Roger snaps at me, his eyes flashing with rage.
“Because,” I reply, my wolf responding to the challenge in his voice by raising his hackles. “I
know Cora. She wouldn’t do that. You have to trust her.” I stand up straight, my body language
communicating to Roger that I can take him, and if he needs someone to pin him to the floor, that
I’ll do it. After all, my mate and my infant child are in this room. If he flips out… their safety is my
priority. Not his.
“He’s right, Roger,” Ella says, trying to keep her voice even. “Honestly, she sounds fine, she’s just
really busy. She told me to… tell you she loves you.”
“But why won’t she pick up my calls?” Roger snaps, spinning on her, “why, when I go to the clinic
to see her, is she conveniently not there? Why is she never in her apartment when she says she
is!?”
Instinctually, I take a step forward, interposing my body between my mate and
my mate and my brother.
“Oh back off, Dominic,” Roger growls, forcing himself to turn away and stalk to the window, looking for Cora, hoping she’ll magically appear in the driveway. “I’m not going to hurt anyone.”
“You’d better not,” I murmur, leaning back against the mantle.
“I’m going to take Rafe upstairs,” Ella sighs, nodding to the baby, who has finished eating. “See if I
can get him down for a nap.”
I nod to her, watching her carry our little boy out of the room, my heart surging with love for
them. When they’re gone, I turn my attention back to my brother.
“I need you to come back, Roger,” I say, my voice soft. “We need you here.”
“How,” he growls, digging his fingers into the windowsill and not turning towards me. “How can I
concentrate on anything when she hasn’t talked to me for days. And I don’t even know what I did
wrong.”
“Well,” I say after a long pause, considering. “Did you do anything wrong?”
“What?” Rodger spits, spinning on me.
“It’s just a question, Roger,” I say, shrugging and meeting his furious eyes. “Did you do something
to make her question your mating?”
“NO, Dominic!” he shouts. “I didn’t do anything!”
“Well, then there’s your answer,” I reply with a little shrug. “If you didn’t do anything, then it’s all
with her. And your only choice is to keep reaching out, and wait for her to come to you when she’s
ready. There’s literally nothing you can do now except be patient.”
“You’re ridiculous,” he snarls, turning away from me again, desperate.
“You just don’t like the truth,” I reply, sighing. “Because my answer wasn’t ‘go rip the world apart
until you find her, and then sling her over your shoulder so you can more easily carry her home.“”
“Well, yeah,” Roger replies, arrogant and angry. “Obviously that’s what I would do, if I even knew
where she was.”
I laugh and move over to him, putting a hand on his shoulder that makes him jump a little bit.
But I don’t move away – I’m bigger than he is, anyway. I can take what he throws at me.
“Trust her, Roger,” I say quietly. “She’ll thank you for it, in the end, if you approach this with faith
“You just want me to work harder on this cult problem,” he sighs, closing his eyes and hanging
“Just think of it as a puzzle,” I say, slipping my arm around his shoulder and giving him a
“Fine,” he sighs, shaking his head and covering his eyes with his hand. “But you get maybe three
hours of this,” he continues, “before I’m out there looking for her again.”
My eyes go dark as I see my reconnaissance team forcing their way in, a black–robed figure trapped in their arms with a sack over his head. I think several things at once, the first being that
“Roger!” I shout, my voice deep with the Alpha’s command. “The door! NOW!”
He realizes instantly that it’s not Cora, but he responds ably, seeing the importance of the moment. Roger sprints past the struggling reconnaissance team to slam the door shut behind them while I stride forward, pushing one of my men aside and slipping behind the priest’s back,
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The last couple of chapters have gotten sloppy, confusing her and him for she/her Sinclair is not a her. Isabel has changed her name to Elizabeth too. Making it hard to read. I’m loving this book, but I hope it goes back to its previous high standard!...