The Mystical Attraction of Alpha

Chapter 333

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.”

I say, closing my eyes and resting my head

for the rest of the hour-long ride

deep into the

slows down and Sinclair sits up in his seat, looking

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

anywhere.

–

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

I ask, looking around at the trees

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

murmur, my eyes going wide as I stare

corrects, shooting me a

the entrance and start to drive down a steep incline into the earth. “But if you’re claustrophobic it

to the window to hide his smirk, “who ripped someone’s

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 if he was

a wide space, like a large underground car park. There are a few more cars already down here, but the

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

next free space and Sinclair and I quickly unbuckle our seatbelts and prepare to get out of the car. The other car pulls up

the move.

it all underground?” I

of it,” Sinclair replies, “for safety. Though there

if we deem it safe to

and I lift Rafe’s carrier with me as I back out of

our two guards through the entry that leads to

entire structure is very military As we walk through the

and note that the walls, floor, and ceiling of all

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