The Mystical Attraction of Alpha

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.

“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, Coral”

“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. “God damn it, Cora,” he growls, storming past me into the apartment, don’t you ever check your pho-

He freezes and goes silent, though, the moment he sees Hank standing in the doorway to my bedroom, pulling on his shirt. And then Roger turns slowly and looks at me, taking me in from head to toe in my bathrobe. He doesn’t say a word, rendered, apparently, speechless.

you doing here, Roger?!” I hiss, filling the void that his silence left as I slamming the

blatantly ignores Hank. “It’s a crisis – Ella and Sinclair have been blowing up your

grab it and see that Roger is right – that Ella has been calling me for the

heart suddenly in my throat. I can’t grasp the whole situation – but

arm, “but they need you. It’s something about the sperm

“God, Cora, let’s go – – you can ask all of these questions in the

Obviously I’m coming!” I rip my arm from his hand and glare at him as I move

at him, my stomach warming. At least he’s good in a crisis. I hand Hank my phone as I move to my dresser. “Can you give me a summary of Ella’s texts as I get dressed? I can’t do both at

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

door, interrupting one of Hank’s readings.

door, fed up with his impatience. “God damn Alpha bullshit…” I mutter as I pull on my sneakers, not bothering to tie the laces. Then, I stand up, tucking

my cheek and looking into

his and shaking my head a little. ” Thank you, Hank,

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

hate in my eyes, but then I nod towards it. “Come on,” I say, moving away from Hank. “We’d better get moving before

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

ready,” he snarls, walking swiftly to keep up with me. We pass through the door together and then awkwardly wait for Hank to catch

Hank,” I say, giving him a smile as I lean down

voice even as I concentrate on my keys. “You’ll let me know how it