Accidental Surrogate

Chapter 312: Reinforcements 

Cora

Hank and I are tangled in the sheets of my bed, talking softly to each other about nothing, when suddenly I hear a pounding on my door – a dangerous, feral, fervent sound.

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“What the hell is that,” Hank gasps, sitting up and whipping his head to look towards the front of

my apartment.

“I–I don’t know “I stutter, fear racing through me. The pounding halts for a moment and we both sit there, frozen, not knowing what to do. Then, suddenly, a voice breaks through the silence.

“Cora!” it shouts, and my jaw drops a little because…well, because I know that voice. “Open the

damn door, Cora!”

“Oh my god,” I murmur, standing up and wrapping my naked body in my sheets – weirdly bashful in this moment. As I do, the pounding starts again.

“Do you know who it is?” Hank asks, hurriedly getting out of bed and pulling his pants on

“Yes,” I breathe, quickly switching the sheets for my robe hanging on the back of my door and

then rushing through the living room. “It’s fucking…”

But Hank, standing at the doorway to my bedroom, sees for himself the moment I pull the door

open.

Roger’s fist is still raised as my door flies open, but he drops it as he glares down at me.

past me into the apartment,

pho-

then Roger turns slowly and

his silence left as I slamming the door shut and stalking forward to

turning his attention to me as he blatantly ignores Hank. “It’s a crisis – Ella and Sinclair have been blowing up

hour –”

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I dash to it and grab it and see that Roger is right that Ella has been calling me for the past hour, as well as sending

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suddenly in my throat. I can’t grasp the whole situation – but there’s something about Rafe, and kidnapping, and a note “Is the baby –”

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for now,” Roger growls, moving close to me and wrapping his hand around my upper arm, “but they need you. It’s

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mayo!?

almost yells. “God, Cora, let’s go – you can ask all of these questions

Obviously I’m coming!” I rip my arm from

cool and deliberation. I glance at him, my stomach warming. At least he’s good in a crisis. I hand Hank my phone as I move

ones that he deems less important. Overall I get the gist and my heart wrenches to think of what my sister is going through as I hurriedly pull on some sporty leggings and a t–shirt. After all that she went through with the pregnancy, I had thought this was over for her –

on my door, interrupting one of Hank’s readings. “Seriously!? What’s taking so long! Let’s

shout towards the door, fed up with his impatience. “God damn Alpha bullshit…” I mutter as I pull on my sneakers, not bothering to tie the laces. Then, I stand up, tucking my hair behind my ears as Hank crosses the room to me and hands me my phone, lifting one

of the messages,” he says softly, rubbing his thumb over my cheek and looking into

and shaking my head a little. “Thank

I realize, suddenly, that of course Roger has wolf

on,” I say, moving away from Hank. “We’d better

Roger growl, disgruntled, but I just roll my

ask, breezing past

up with me. We pass through

a smile as I lean down to lock my apartment door. “For the food and…the nice time.”

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