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 a tree,

off a

and then come to a stop,

murmurs, frustrated but in control of

just hit some high water

still freaked out, looking steadily

tells me, putting the car in park and picking up his phone,

.

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

a few moments, trying to

says, hanging up the phone and turning

across the road. We’re going to have

ask, my eyes wide with anxiety. “We can’t like…

towards the water in front of

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

a river across the

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

away from the rising water line. I watch him,

doesn’t, his

he already knows what I’m

this storm…is not natural.

whisper, my words shaking. “What’s happening?”

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

heads in the other direction.

this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting back tensely

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

and the tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to

on us at

of ice, I open my mouth to say

get out of this

it. “It’s no good, Cora,” he murmurs,

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

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