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.

at any moment

off a cliff –

a stop, and I peek my eyes open.

but in control of the

We just hit

freaked

park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I don’t know how, though, it looks

.

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

from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out

good, Cora,” Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to me. “They can’t come

We’re going to have to

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

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

As I watch, what looks like an entire

a river across

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

another?”

as he turns in his seat and puts the car in

away from the rising water line. I watch him, waiting

he doesn’t, his brows

suddenly, I realize that he already knows what

storm…is not

whisper, my words shaking. “What’s

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

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 telling him that, I

we drive back down the road, though, the storm does not

and the tree limbs whip wildly above,

at any moment.

of ice, I open

get out of this

no good, Cora,” he murmurs, glancing

anxious and simultaneously 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 what’s

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