Surrogate For Alpha Dom

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.”

my head back against the leather of my seat.

rest

deep into the

when the car slows down and Sinclair sits up in his

way that lets me know that we’ve arrived because really,

anywhere.

–

is basically a dirt trail honestly, the past

around at the trees on every side.

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

I murmur, my eyes going wide as I stare into it. “That is so creepy.”

cool,” Sinclair corrects, shooting me a

and start to drive down a steep incline into the

little mate,” Sinclair murmurs, turning to the window to hide his smirk, “who ripped

at the sudden change of color, “so imagine what I would have done

before the passage opens out into a wide space, like a large underground car park. There are a few more cars already down here, but the light layer of dust on them suggests that they

just for the moment. I hadn’t realized that I was waiting for that but, perhaps a little bit of me was expecting another blindside on

driver pulls us into the next free space and Sinclair and I quickly unbuckle our seatbelts and prepare to get out

the move.

all underground?” I

safety. Though there are

deem it safe

as I back out of the cat and

two guards through the entry that leads to the

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

some rooms we pass and note that the walls, floor, and ceiling of all of

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