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.

any moment that we’ll slam into

off a

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

Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in

we’re okay. We just hit some high water

I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily

car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road

.

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

us. They speak for a few moments,

hanging up the phone

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

“We can’t like… ford the river, or

towards the water in

looks like an entire tree

across the road.

a little breathless.

another?”

Roger replies, his voice tight as he turns in

the rising water line. I

he doesn’t, his brows

he already knows what I’m just now figuring

storm…is

words shaking. “What’s

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

heads in the other direction. “Do you

do. I know it, deep down in my gut, that I trust him to get us out of this. But instead of

crossed. Even as we drive back down the road, though, the storm does not

around us and the tree limbs

us at any moment.

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

out of this

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

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

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