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

slow, and then come to a stop, and I peek

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

just

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

park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us.

.

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

us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but they don’t come

Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning

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

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

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

like an entire tree floats

across the road.

did that happen so fast?” I ask, a little breathless. “Between one car length and

another?”

tight as he turns in his seat and puts the

the rising water line. I watch him, waiting for

he doesn’t, his brows knit together.

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

this storm…is not natural.

my words

Cora,” he promises, his eyes

and heads in the other direction. “Do you trust me?”

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 seat as we

as we drive back down the road, though,

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

on us at any

big golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I open

get out

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

stop I know that for sure, I don’t want to ride on this road any longer in this storm – but what’s waiting for us when we stop? Something is fighting to keep us here.

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