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.

“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-

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. He doesn’t

the void that his silence left as I slamming the door shut and stalking forward to give

as he blatantly ignores Hank. “It’s a crisis – Ella and Sinclair have been

hour –”

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

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this all about “I stutter in fear, my heart suddenly in my throat. I can’t grasp the whole situation – but there’s something about Rafe, and kidnapping, and a note “Is

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

SIUCkEU.

mayo!?

you can ask all of these

ten seconds! Obviously I’m coming!” I rip my

Hank asks, all steady cool and deliberation. I glance at him, my stomach warming. At least he’s good in a crisis. I hand Hank my phone as I move to

think of what my sister

Roger shouts, banging on my door, interrupting one of Hank’s readings.

laces. Then, I stand up, tucking my hair behind

cheek and looking into my eyes. “Are you

lifting my hand to cover his and shaking my head a little. “Thank you, Hank, but

The yell and a single pound comes again and I realize, suddenly, that of course

eyes, but then I nod towards it. “Come on,” I say, moving away from Hank.

disgruntled, but I just roll my eyes and

ask, breezing past

with me. We pass through the door together and then awkwardly wait

smile as I lean down to lock

he replies, and I can hear the smile in his voice even as I concentrate on my keys. “You’ll let me

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