Accidental Surrogate for Alpha
My hands are dusty, and I’m sick of the smell of musty old pages, and they’re just so boring –
Page after page of history regarding shifter worship practices – who genuflected to this god, and how, and where, and for how long, and the minute changes in the practices…
I groan, pushing my twentieth book away from me and looking dourly at the stack of about fifty still left in my pile.
“Come on, Cora,” Roger says, sitting comfortably across from me, smirking at me over the edge of a neat little green text. “You’re supposed to be the smart one in the family. I thought you’d have more staying power than this.”
“Ella’s smart,” I reply, immediately defensive. He nods, conceding the point. “But you