Chapter 8 - Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Chapter 8 -CompromiseEllaUp until this point of my life, I’ve hated a handful of people. At the moment Mike and Kate are at the top of my list, but they aren’talone. However Dominic Sinclair is very quickly rising through the ranks and making a play for the top spot. Mike and Kate’sbetrayal hurt so much because I cared for them both, but Sinclair might be the first person I’ve encountered who I dislike thisstrongly after so short a time.He’s looking me up and down with the bearing of a wolf deciding how to devour the rabbit in its claws, and I realize that’s all I amto him. All those intense looks over the last couple of years, every encounter, every smile – the entire time he’s been thinking I’msome lesser being, the prey to his predator. Maybe he’s like Mike and thought I was a particularly attractive specimen, but in theend they’re the same sort of monster.“There is no offer you could ever make me that would convince me to give you my child.” I tell him sharply. “I am not for sale, andneither is my baby.”“Now you’re just being stubborn.” Sinclair sighs, “digging in your heels because you don’t like me.”“What gave it away?” I deride. For the second time, it seems like he wants to smile despite his better judgment, but again heholds back.“Use your head, Ella.” He instructs patronizingly. “Let’s say I believe you didn’t do this just to cash in on a big pay day.”“You obviously don’t!” I interrupt, earning myself a look so stern a shiver runs down my spine.“Let’s say I do. What are your options? How are you going to raise this child? If you try to abort it I will take you to court and Iguarantee the judge will prevent you from going through with it – which means you can either keep the baby and try to get by onyour own, or let me have it.”“Take me to court if you like.” I challenge, even though my will to go through with terminating the pregnancy has gotten weakerand weaker from the moment I learned it was real. “You forget it’s my body.”“Which you intentionally inseminated. It’s not like you got knocked up after a one night stand or were assaulted. I’m offering achild a good life and I have more political sway than you can imagine.” He flashes his teeth at me, teeth that look alarmingly like

fangs. “Not to mention I’m a donor at every hospital in the city, no physician will perform the procedure and risk me defunding

I don’t know what I think of that possibility. I’d love to see my precious charges again, but I don’t know if I can get past theirmother’s cruelty. “Money can’t fix everything.” I reply, “and all your promises – what good is having everything I need if I’ll neverhave the thing I want most?”

then blinking them open and trying to clear my vision, which is suddenly very blurry. The blood is rushing in my ears.“How long have we been in this room?” I ask, feeling as if my body is being slowly doused in warm water. All my senses arefuzzy, and it’s not until Sinclair appears at my side that I realize I slurred my words. “Are you alright, Ella?”My legs give out, and I suddenly find myself slumping into a very large, very hard wall of concerned werewolf. Powerful armscome around me, and Sinclair’s scent fills my nose. It’s deep and rich, like being deep in the forest on a moonlit night. “You smellnice.” I murmur, sounding completely drunk, before the world goes black for the second time in as many hours.However this time, I hear an odd grumbling noise as I sink into the darkness. At first I think it’s Sinclair, but the sound isn’tcoming from his chest, it almost sounds like it’s coming from... inside me?