Surrogate For Alpha Dom

Chapter 312: Reinforcements

Cora

Hank and I are tangled in the sheets of my bed, talking softly to each other about nothing, when suddenly I hear a pounding on my door – a dangerous, feral, fervent sound.

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“What the hell is that,” Hank gasps, sitting up and whipping his head to look towards the front of

my apartment.

“I–I don’t know “I stutter, fear racing through me. The pounding halts for a moment and we both sit there, frozen, not knowing what to do. Then, suddenly, a voice breaks through the silence.

“Cora!” it shouts, and my jaw drops a little because…well, because I know that voice. “Open the

damn door, Cora!”

“Oh my god,” I murmur, standing up and wrapping my naked body in my sheets – weirdly bashful in this moment. As I do, the pounding starts again.

“Do you know who it is?” Hank asks, hurriedly getting out of bed and pulling his pants on

“Yes,” I breathe, quickly switching the sheets for my robe hanging on the back of my door and

then rushing through the living room. “It’s fucking…”

But Hank, standing at the doorway to my bedroom, sees for himself the moment I pull the door

open.

Roger’s fist is still raised as my door flies open, but he drops it as he glares down at me.

it, Cora,” he growls, storming past me into the apartment,

pho-

on his shirt. And then Roger turns slowly and looks at me, taking me in

are you doing here, Roger?!” I hiss, filling the void that his silence left as I slamming the door shut and stalking forward to give him

out of his shock and turning his attention to me as he blatantly ignores Hank. “It’s a crisis – Ella and Sinclair have been blowing up your

hour –”

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that Roger is right that Ella has

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suddenly in my throat. I can’t grasp the whole situation – but there’s something about Rafe,

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his hand around my upper arm, “but they need you. It’s something

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let’s go – you

sense his fury, his worry and his impatience, but all it breeds in me is defiance. “Fine!” I shout.” God, Roger, give me ten seconds! Obviously I’m coming!” I rip my arm from his hand and glare at him as I move towards my

steady cool and deliberation. I glance at him, my stomach warming. At least he’s good in a crisis. I hand Hank my phone as I move to my

reading some of the texts aloud to me, skipping through the ones that he deems less important. Overall I get the gist and my heart wrenches to think of what my sister is going through as I hurriedly pull on some sporty leggings and a t–shirt. After all that she went through with the pregnancy, I had thought this was

interrupting one of Hank’s readings. “Seriously!? What’s taking so long! Let’s go!”

laces. Then, I stand up, tucking my hair behind my ears as Hank crosses the room to me and hands

his thumb over my cheek and looking into my eyes. “Are you going to be all

and shaking my head a little.

yell and a single pound comes again and I realize, suddenly, that of course Roger has wolf hearing and is using it to spy on

towards it. “Come on,” I say, moving away from Hank. “We’d better get moving before he

rip it down,” I hear Roger growl, disgruntled, but I

ask, breezing

pass through the door together and then awkwardly wait

smile as I lean down to lock my apartment door. “For the food and…the

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