Alpha Dom and His Human 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.

“God damn it, Cora,” he growls, storming past me into the apartment, “don’t you ever check your

pho-

though, the moment he sees Hank standing in the doorway to my bedroom, pulling on his shirt. And then Roger turns slowly and looks at me, taking me in from head to toe in my bathrobe.

are you doing here, Roger?!” I hiss, filling the void that his silence left as I slamming the door shut and stalking forward to give him a shove. “You scared

his attention to me as he blatantly ignores Hank.

hour –”

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and then finally spotting my phone, wedged between the pillows of the couch. I dash to it and grab it and see that Roger is right that Ella has been calling me

1. do.

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grasp the whole situation

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close to me and wrapping his hand around my upper arm, “but they need you. It’s something about the

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let’s go – you can ask

rip my arm from his hand and glare at him as I move towards my bedroom door, giving Hank a not–too–gentle nudge back into the bedroom and closing the

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

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

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

to tie the laces. Then, I stand up,

says softly, rubbing his thumb over my cheek and looking into my eyes. “Are you going

to cover his and shaking my head a little.

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

the door, hate in my eyes, but then I nod towards it. “Come on,” I say, moving away from

to rip it down,” I hear Roger growl, disgruntled, but I just roll my eyes

I ask, breezing past

he snarls, walking swiftly to keep up with me. We pass through the door together and then awkwardly wait for Hank to

a smile as I lean down to

the smile in his voice even as I concentrate on my keys. “You’ll let me know how it