Chapter 333 – Underground

Cora picks up the third call and I narrow my eyes at her even though she can’t see me. I can tell she was screening my calls and only picked up because I’d never, ever triple-call her unless something had happened.

“Ella?” I hear her worried voice say, “what’s wrong?”

“Where are you, Cora,” I demand, letting my tone tell her not to fight me.

“What -”

“Where. Are. You.”

“I’m I’m at the clinic -” she says. “What’s happening?”

“We’re sending a car for you at the clinic, now,” I say, glancing at Sinclair, who nods to me to let me know he’s on it. “Get in it immediately, Cora. Don’t speak to anyone else. Don’t ask any questions.”

“Ella,” she hesitates, her voice wavering. “I can’t-

“This is not a request, Cora,” I growl. “They came for him. They tried to take Rafe. We are sending, a car for you, and you are getting in it.”

I hear a sharp intake of breath from her side of the line, and then a moment of hesitation, and then she agrees. “All right,” she says, and I can almost see her nodding anxiously. “Okay. I’ll do it.”

I exhale a deep breath of relief and nod. “Okay. I love you, Cora,” I say, my voice wavering a little.

“I love you too,” she replies, with I don’t know what regret? In her voice?

But before I can ask more, she hangs up.

“The car is five minutes from her,” Sinclair murmurs, squeezing my hand again. “We’ll get her. It

will be fine.”

eyes and resting my head back against the

for the rest of the

into the

the car slows down and Sinclair sits up in his seat, looking around in

me know that we’ve arrived because really, it doesn’t look like we’re

anywhere.

says as the car comes to the end of what is basically a dirt trail honestly, the past

I ask, looking around at the trees on every

to the driver, who presses a button on the ceiling of the car, one of the buttons usually reserved for a garage door opener. And then my mouth drops open as, in front of us, the earth just…opens, sliding upwards like the jaws of some great creature and revealing beneath it a

wide as I stare into it. “That is so creepy.”

Sinclair corrects, shooting

entrance and start to drive down a steep incline into the earth.

little mate,” Sinclair murmurs, turning to the window to hide his

head and putting a hand on Rafe, who stops screeching and looks around in wonder at the sudden

car drives a long way down the tunnel before the passage opens out into a wide space, like a large

that I was waiting for that but, perhaps a little bit of me was expecting another blindside on the ride. It is good, honestly, to be here, underground, where I hope no

and prepare to get out of the car. The other car pulls up next to us and I see Sinclair’s men

the move.

it all underground?” I ask,

“for safety. Though there are some living

forest, if we deem it safe to use

carrier with me as I

through the entry that

when I see that the entire structure is very military As we walk

we pass and note that the walls, floor,

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