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.

my whole body tense – anticipating at any moment

a cliff

we just slow, and then come to a stop, and

all right, Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in

just hit some high water

gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily out the

it,” he tells me, putting the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I don’t

.

ahead of us. Roger’s on his phone now, speaking

for a few moments, trying to

Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to me. “They

have

ask, my eyes wide with anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the river, or whatever?”

gestures towards the water in front of us, which looks

the minute. As I watch, what looks like an entire tree floats by

across the road.

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

another?”

don’t know,” Roger replies, his voice tight as he turns in his seat

I watch him, waiting

his brows

I realize that he already knows what I’m just

this storm…is not natural.

my words

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

in the other direction.

I trust him to get us out of this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting back tensely in my seat as we retrace the ground we’ve

the road, though,

crashes around us and the tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening

us at

golf-ball sized pieces of ice,

get out of

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

to stop I know that for sure, I don’t want to ride on this road any longer

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