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.”

closing my eyes and resting my head back against the leather of my

one says another word for the rest of

into the forest.

Sinclair sits up in his seat, looking around

arrived because really, it doesn’t

anywhere.

–

the car comes to the end of what is basically a dirt trail honestly, the past five minutes have been a

ask, looking around at the trees on every side.

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 beneath it a metal tunnel filled with orange

murmur, my eyes going wide as I stare into

shooting me a

the entrance and start to drive down a steep incline into the

window to hide

putting a hand on Rafe, who stops screeching and looks around in wonder at the sudden change of color, “so

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

but, 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

space and Sinclair and I quickly unbuckle our seatbelts and prepare to get out of the car. The other car pulls up next to us and I see Sinclair’s men likewise on

the move.

underground?” I ask, looking around.

“for safety. Though there are some living quarters that

forest, if we deem it

with me as I back out of the cat and shut the

guards through the entry that leads to the bunker itself

grimace when I see that the entire structure is

we pass and note that the walls, floor, and

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