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.

tense – anticipating at any moment that

off a cliff –

slow, and then come to a

but in control of the car again. “We skidded

we’re okay. We just hit some high water

I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily

his phone, glancing

.

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

They speak for a few moments,

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

going to have to backtrack and find a new

ask, my eyes wide with anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the river, or

gestures towards the water in front of us, which looks like it’s

I watch, what looks like an entire

a river across the road.

I ask, a little breathless. “Between

another?”

as he turns

backing away from the rising water line. I watch him, waiting for him to continue,

he doesn’t, his brows

realize that he already

this storm…is not

whisper, my words

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

heads in the other direction. “Do you trust

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

we drive back down the road,

limbs whip wildly above, threatening to come

at

sized pieces of ice, I open my

get out of

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

relieved. I want to stop I know that for sure, I don’t want to ride on this road any longer in this storm – but

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