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

pho-

his shirt. And then Roger turns slowly and looks at me, taking me in from head to toe in my bathrobe. He doesn’t say a word, rendered, apparently, speechless.

are you doing here, Roger?!” I hiss, filling the void that his silence left as I slamming the door

as he blatantly ignores Hank. “It’s a crisis – Ella and Sinclair have been blowing up your phone for

hour –”

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of the couch. 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 texts. I quickly

  1. do.

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suddenly in my throat. I can’t grasp the whole situation – but there’s something about Rafe, and kidnapping,

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my upper arm, “but they need you. It’s something about the sperm bank, they think

up at 1, SIUCkEU. Vildt? ne

mayo!?

let’s go – you can ask all of these questions in

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

least he’s good in a crisis. I hand Hank my phone as I move to my dresser. “Can you give me a summary of Ella’s texts as I get dressed? I can’t do both at once.”

skipping through the 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

of Hank’s readings. “Seriously!? What’s taking so

bothering to tie the laces. Then, I stand up, tucking my hair

and looking into my eyes. “Are you going to be all right? Is there any way

lifting my hand to cover his and shaking my

pound comes again and I realize, suddenly, that of course Roger has wolf hearing and is using

towards it. “Come on,” I say,

hear Roger growl, disgruntled, but I just roll

I ask, breezing

to keep up with me. We pass through the

as I lean down to lock my apartment door. “For the food and…the

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