Accidental Surrogate

Chapter 150 - Flight Ella

"Ella, Ella wake up."

Sinclair’s urgent voice invades my dreams, just as the ground begins to tremble beneath my feet.

As I’m wrenched awake, I realize the ground wasn’t trembling at all, instead my sleeping body was being shaken by my mate.

Sinclair’s handsome face hovers above my own, his eyes glowing as his hand rests on my shoulder.

"Come on baby, we've got to go."

"I— what? What do you mean?" I mumble groggily.

"We're under attack, we have to go, sweetheart." Sinclair explains, pulling me up.

"There's no time to take anything with us, just get dressed."

"But I don’t understand, under attack from who?" I ask, feeling as though my mind is dragging.

When we went to bed tonight we’d been overjoyed with our victory at the press conference, thinking we were out of the woods at long last.

We made love and I passed out to the blissful sound of Sinclair’s contented purrs.

What he’s saying simply doesn’t make any sense.

"The Royal Army, I promise I'll explain everything later, but right now I need you to just do as I say."

He strides to the closet in a flash, returning with my warmest sweater and a pair of fleece lined leggings, as well as my coat and a pair of boots.

Clearly sensing that I’m too shocked and drowsy to keep up with the crisis threatening us, he dresses me with cool efficiency, only pausing to retrieve a pair of thick wool socks from the dresser before lacing up my boots.

Sinclair returns to the closet to dress himself while I sit on the edge of the bed in a daze, belatedly realizing he forgot to provide me with underwear.I open my mouth to tell him as much, but he simply scoops me up in his arms, "We'll buy you some once we're safe, trouble."

He promises, then sweeps me out of the room.

Sinclair carries me down to the mansion's basement level, surrounded by guards.

Hugo comes running up to us just before we enter an evacuation tunnel I didn’t know existed.

"I got word to Roger and your father.They’ll meet us there."

"Where's there?"

wolf reaching out to Sinclair’s to try to get

blocking off his emotions from me, only this time he’s not letting the good things shine through.I can’t get any

"We're leaving the continent."

Sinclair informs me tightly.

continent?"

is unfathomable to me, I’ve never been off the continent in my entire life, and the idea

out of Moon Valley, why wouldn’t we just

"Things are bad

slowing his pace as we continue through the tunnel

a collection of jeeps reinforced to

constant communication with his men, going over our route and making

not until the logistics have all been sorted out that he finally turns to

rumbles with concern and drags me into his

a deep breath, then

has taken over the united packs, Ella.The King is dead, the Alpha council are all dead.It would seem our decision to call him out and the threat of losing his position pushed him over the edge.He’s deployed the royal army to lock down Moon Valley, and likely sent assassins to take out the betas of the other packs so they can’t coordinate against him

"Oh my Goddess."

in my

we'd been afraid of,

shifters and humans left in the Valley would

We have to take

picking her up on their way out of

purring to try and ease

be okay, and she’ll be with us

so grateful for my mate in this moment that I could kiss him, but he’s holding

him profusely as he cuddles me like a human security

my thanks, I’m able to turn my

what are we

go west, to the hidden

full just trying to suppress the unrest his coup will cause that he won’t be able

I ask, trying to imagine which points on the human maps might align

and the Veran continent." Sinclair shares, confusing

isn’t anything between here and Vera." I remind him, trying to figure out if he’s lost his

"Only the ocean."

they’re hidden, trouble." Sinclair explains, pressing a few kisses to my

natures secret - they wanted to live away from humans, so they formed a federation of shifter-only societies.Shifters have always had more advanced technologies, so this all happened before the human populations began exploring the world, and when they

and cross the oceans in airplanes and everything." I say, not entirely understanding how this could

shifters right under my nose and