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 eyes and resting my head back against the leather of

word for the rest

into

surprised when the car slows down and Sinclair sits up

know that we’ve arrived because really,

anywhere.

–

car comes to the end of what is basically a dirt trail honestly, the past five minutes have

ask, looking around at

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

I murmur, my eyes going wide as I stare into it. “That

corrects, shooting me a little smirk.

continue as we drive into the entrance and start to drive down a steep

to the window to hide his smirk, “who ripped

and putting a hand on Rafe, who stops screeching and looks around in wonder at the sudden change of color, “so imagine what I would have done

else as the car drives a long way down the tunnel 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

waiting for that but, perhaps a little bit of me was expecting another blindside on the ride. It

seatbelts and prepare to get out of the car. The other car pulls up next to

the move.

it all underground?” I ask,

there are some living quarters that

forest, if we deem it safe to use them.”

with me as I back out of the cat and

through the

is very military As

that the walls, floor, and ceiling of all of

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