Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

#Chapter 374 – Betrayer

Roger

“My phone,” Dominic murmurs as I look over his wounds. “Fuck your phone,” I murmur, shaking my head and leaning closer to a deep slice on his stomach that makes me hiss with anxiety.

“Roger,” Dominic snaps, and I look up at him with a frown. “The priest – he said the master had Rafe. Check my fucking phone – Ella will…” his head. 1 falls back, exhausted. But I interpret his meaning. So, I reach for his back pocket. Dominic moans loudly as I turn him a little so that I can get behind him, but eventually I get the phone and flick through it, my face going pale at what I see.

“Shit,” I murmur, flipping through the messages first from our father’s phone and then an unfamiliar number.

“What?” he asks.

“They don’t have Rafe,” I sigh, tucking the phone into my own back pocket. ” The priest was wrong about that. The baby’s still with Ella and Cora. But…” I sigh, and Dominic opens his eyes to look at me, bidding me silently to tell him everything I know. “They attacked the bunker when we left. The girls got out through the passage – they had to leave dad behind. And…Cora’s hurt,” I say, working hard to get the words out steadily. “They went to Hank, to try to patch them up.”

Dominic’s eyes go wide now. “Ella’s gift?”

“Bound,” I say, shaking my head. “I don’t know how-”

“Doesn’t matter,” my brother murmurs, and then to my shock – he curls his body to sit up, almost screaming at the pain it causes him.

“Dominic!” I shout, putting my hands on his shoulders, but he works to swat me away, so I back off.

“We have to get to them,” Dominic says, panting and holding my eyes. We can’t – we can’t trust Hank…”

go, Dominic,” I say, shaking my head. “You’re in,” I hesitate, but when I

at me and I sigh, knowing

put my arm beneath my brother’s shoulder to help him up. “But if you fall to pieces on the way, don’t blame

in response as we get him panting to his feet, but I ignore

my brother. “No one else here. If the

get the cars close. We need transport, now. You take all the men – injured and healthy – back to the bunker. They were attacked when we

Conor says, giving us

his face serious, Conor turns and starts to give commands to the men. “That one needs a

sighs, his eyes on the stairs. “Right now, let’s just figure out how the hell we’re getting

Ella

suddenly, Henry’s ideas echo in my mind. That we can’t trust Hank. That he’s gotten too close to our family too quickly. That he’s an ambitious, eager man who has worked suspiciously hard to work to a place of trust

much about my gift and how I could use it? Did he really really want to help

throwing a hand out towards the Priestess, Rafe still crying loudly in one of her arms while she holds one of the

then, shocked and confused.

do it!” I say, ignoring him, my eyes completely focused on the Priestess before me.

the normal cries of a disgruntled baby who wants his mother. A very true, very desperate scream

As if –

if Rafe himself intuits something about

is wrong

and back to the Priestess who holds him, as I see now the vicious sneer on her face as she whips up

a horrible cry of pain and then falls to the ground, his hands