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-

then Roger turns slowly and looks at me, taking me in from head to toe in my

as I slamming the door shut and stalking forward to

out of his shock and turning his attention to me as he blatantly ignores Hank. “It’s

hour –”

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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 for the past hour, as well as

1. do.

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in fear, my heart suddenly in my throat. I can’t grasp the whole situation – but

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

up at 1, SIUCkEU. Vildt? ne spe

mayo!?

– you can ask all of these questions

defiance. “Fine!” I shout.” God, Roger, give me ten seconds! Obviously I’m coming!” I 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

a crisis. I hand Hank my phone as I move to my dresser. “Can you give me a summary of

deems less important. Overall I get the gist and my heart wrenches to think of what my sister is going through as

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

impatience. “God damn Alpha bullshit…” I mutter as I pull on my sneakers, not bothering to tie the laces. Then, I stand up, tucking my hair behind my ears as Hank crosses the room to me and hands me my phone, lifting

over my cheek and looking into my eyes.

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

The yell and a single pound comes again and I realize, suddenly, that of course Roger has wolf hearing and

my eyes, but then I nod towards it. “Come on,” I say, moving away from Hank. “We’d better get moving before he rips it down.”

not going to rip it down,” I hear Roger growl, disgruntled, but I just roll my eyes and

breezing past him.

swiftly to keep up with me. We pass

lean down to lock my apartment door. “For the food and…the

the smile in his voice even as I