Accidental Surrogate

Chapter 333: Underground 

Cora picks up the third call and I narrow my eyes at her even though she can’t see me. I can tell she was screening my calls and only picked up because I’d never, ever triple-call her unless something had happened.

“Ella?” I hear her worried voice say, “what’s wrong?”

“Where are you, Cora,” I demand, letting my tone tell her not to fight me.

“What -”

“Where. Are. You.”

“I’m I’m at the clinic -” she says. “What’s happening?”

“We’re sending a car for you at the clinic, now,” I say, glancing at Sinclair, who nods to me to let me know he’s on it. “Get in it immediately, Cora. Don’t speak to anyone else. Don’t ask any questions.”

“Ella,” she hesitates, her voice wavering. “I can’t-

“This is not a request, Cora,” I growl. “They came for him. They tried to take Rafe. We are sending, a car for you, and you are getting in it.”

I hear a sharp intake of breath from her side of the line, and then a moment of hesitation, and then she agrees. “All right,” she says, and I can almost see her nodding anxiously. “Okay. I’ll do it.”

I exhale a deep breath of relief and nod. “Okay. I love you, Cora,” I say, my voice wavering a little.

–

“I love you too,” she replies, with I don’t know what regret? In her voice?

But before I can ask more, she hangs up.

“The car is five minutes from her,” Sinclair murmurs, squeezing my hand again. “We’ll get her. It

will be fine.”

and resting my

says another word for the rest

deep into

little surprised when the car slows down and Sinclair sits up in his

lets me know that we’ve arrived because really, it doesn’t look

anywhere.

–

end of what is basically a dirt trail honestly, the past

around at

one of the buttons usually reserved for a garage door opener. And then my mouth drops open as, in front of us, the earth

god,” I murmur, my eyes going wide as I stare into it.

cool,” Sinclair corrects, shooting me

we drive into the entrance and start to drive down a steep incline into the earth. “But if you’re

my little mate,” Sinclair murmurs, turning to the window to hide his smirk, “who ripped

in wonder at the sudden change of color, “so imagine what I

opens out into a wide space, like a large underground car park. There are a

perhaps a little bit of me was expecting another blindside on the ride. It is good, honestly, to be here, underground, where I hope no one can find

get out of the car. The other car pulls up next to us and

the move.

all underground?” I ask, looking around.

it,” Sinclair replies, “for safety. Though there are

deem it safe to use

Rafe’s carrier with me as I back out of the cat and shut the door

two guards through the entry that leads to the bunker

when I see that the entire structure is

the walls, floor, and ceiling of all of them and the

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