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 moment that we’ll

off a cliff

just slow, and then come to a stop, and I peek my eyes open.

Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control of the car again.

We just hit

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

phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I don’t know how, though, it

.

us. Roger’s on his phone now, speaking to the guards

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

the phone and turning to

road. We’re going to have to backtrack

anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the river, or whatever?”

gestures towards the water in front of

minute. As I watch, what looks like an entire

river across

did that happen so fast?” I ask, a

another?”

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

line. I watch him,

he doesn’t, his brows knit

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

storm…is not natural.

whisper, my words shaking. “What’s

Cora,” he promises, his eyes on

other direction.

But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting back tensely in my seat as we retrace the ground we’ve

as we drive back down the road, though, the storm does

and the tree limbs whip wildly

on us at any

golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I

out of

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

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

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