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.

body tense – anticipating at any

off a cliff –

a stop, and

Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control of the

we’re okay. We just

other car?” I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily

it,” he tells me, putting the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of

.

road ahead of us. Roger’s on his phone now, speaking to the guards in

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

good, Cora,” Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to me. “They can’t

to have to backtrack and find a new route.”

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

and gestures towards the water in front of us, which looks

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

a river across the road.

I ask, a little breathless.

another?”

voice tight as he turns in

from the rising water line. I watch him, waiting for him to

he doesn’t, his brows knit

that he already knows what I’m just

this storm…is not natural.

my words

it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes on the road as he turns the car

the other direction.

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

drive back down the road, though,

tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to

us at any moment.

to hail, big golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I open

out of

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

more anxious and simultaneously relieved. I want to stop I know that for sure, I don’t want to ride on this road any longer in this storm

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