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.”

say, closing my eyes and resting my head back against the

for the rest of the hour-long ride away from the

deep into the

slows down and Sinclair sits up in his seat,

lets me know that we’ve arrived because really, it doesn’t

anywhere.

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of what is basically a dirt trail honestly, the past five minutes have been a very

it…where?” I ask, looking around at the trees on every side.

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

my god,” I murmur, my eyes going wide as I

cool,” Sinclair corrects, shooting

the entrance and start to drive down a

little mate,” Sinclair murmurs, turning to the window to hide his smirk, “who ripped someone’s throat out not two hours

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

a long way down the tunnel before the passage opens out into a wide space, like a large underground car park. There are a

another inhale of breath, feeling suddenly quite safe, if 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 the ride. It is good, honestly, to be here, underground, where I hope no

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

the move.

all underground?” I

Sinclair replies, “for safety. Though there are some living quarters that peek out

it safe to

nod, understanding, and I lift Rafe’s carrier with me as I back out of the cat and shut the

my mate and our two guards through the entry that leads

that the entire structure is very military As we

the walls, floor, and ceiling of all of them and

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