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.”

my head back against

one says another word for the rest of the hour-long ride away from

deep into the forest.

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

me know that we’ve arrived

anywhere.

–

past five minutes have been a very uncomfortable ride and Rafe let us all know that he was not happy

at the

and nods to the driver, who presses a button on the ceiling of the car, one of the buttons usually reserved for a garage door opener. And then my mouth drops open as, in front of us, the earth just…opens, sliding upwards like the jaws of some great creature and revealing

I murmur, my eyes going wide as I

Sinclair corrects, shooting me a little

the entrance and start to drive down a

hide his smirk, “who ripped someone’s throat out

shaking my head and putting a hand on Rafe, who stops screeching and looks around in wonder at the sudden change of color, “so imagine what I

laughs but otherwise we don’t say anything else as the car drives a long way down the tunnel before the passage opens out into a wide space, like a large underground car park. There are a

a little bit of me was expecting another blindside on the ride.

the next free space and Sinclair and I quickly unbuckle our seatbelts and prepare to get out of the car.

the move.

I ask,

of it,” Sinclair replies, “for safety. Though there are some living quarters that peek out

we deem it safe to

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

our two guards through

that the entire structure is very

we pass and note that the walls, floor, and ceiling

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