Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Chapter 321

Chapter321 – The Storm

Cora

The weather, bizarrely, gets worse as we drive. I’m usually not skittish about driving in bad weather, by as the miles pass I feel myself getting more and more anxious. The water pounds against the windshield and thunder booms around us, lightening flashing through. the forests through which we drive.

“What the hell is this,” Roger growls, leaning forward to look up into the sky. “I can’t believe it’s lasted this long and it’s raining harder, not letting up..

“Can you even see?” I ask, my hands gripping the leather of my seat anxiously now as I

stare out the windshield in front of us. To me it looks like a vast sheet of grey water with

the occasional flare of the guard car’s brake lights ahead of us.

wwwwww

“I can see,” Roger murmurs in reply, a little annoyed, apparently, that I’d even call his skills

into question. I roll my eyes at this, but trust him there must be something about his

wolf senses that can see into the road ahead of us that my eyes cannot make out. Still,

despite my trust, I’m anxious. We could run into another car, or a fallen tree, or a lost animal at any moment – how could we even see it coming?

My phone lights up in the cupholder next to me and I release my grip on my seat to grab it,

looking at the new text from Ella. “Roger,” I say, anxious, glancing at him. “Ella says it’s not

even raining at home what –

I

–

But suddenly the car lurches, skidding sideways a little I see the diver’s wheel shift in

Roger’s hands, moving without his control – hear him curse under his breath as the car

hydroplanes and drifts at high speed to our left. I give a little shriek, pressing my eyes.

anticipating at any

a cliff

and then come to a stop, and I

murmurs, frustrated but in control of the car again. “We

just hit some high water

still freaked out, looking steadily out the

up his phone, glancing at the road ahead

.

phone now, speaking to the guards in the car, who

side of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but

good, Cora,” Roger says, hanging up the phone and

We’re going to have to backtrack and find a

“We can’t

eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front of us,

what looks like an entire tree floats by what is

river across

fast?” I ask, a little breathless. “Between

another?”

know,” Roger replies, his voice tight as he turns in his seat and puts the

I watch him, waiting for him to

doesn’t, his brows knit together.

realize that he already knows what I’m just

this storm…is not

my words shaking.

going to get through it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes on the road as

the other direction. “Do you

I do. I know it, deep down in my gut, that I trust him to get us out of this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting back tensely in my

Even as we drive back down the

tree limbs whip wildly above,

at

of ice, I open my mouth to say we

get out

to it. “It’s no good, Cora,” he murmurs, glancing at me.

simultaneously relieved. I want to stop I know that for sure, I don’t want to ride on this road

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