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.

whole body tense – anticipating at any moment that we’ll slam into

off a cliff

slow, and then come to a stop, and I

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

we’re okay. We just

gasp, still freaked

and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I don’t know how, though, it looks completely

.

on his phone now, speaking to the

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

the phone and turning to me. “They can’t

across the road. We’re going to have to backtrack and find a

anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the river,

the water in front of us, which

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

across the

that happen so fast?” I ask, a little

another?”

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

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

his

then, suddenly, I realize that he already knows what I’m just now figuring

this storm…is not natural.

I whisper, my words

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

and heads in the other direction.

deep down in my gut, that I trust him to get us out of this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod,

we drive back down the

around us and the tree limbs whip

on us at any

golf-ball sized pieces of ice,

out

“It’s no good, Cora,” he murmurs, glancing

to ride on this

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