Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

Chapter 322

#Chapter322 – The Storm

Cora

The weather, bizarrely, gets worse as we drive. I’m usually not skittish about driving in bad weather, by as the miles pass I feel myself getting more and more anxious. The water pounds against the windshield and thunder booms around us, lightening flashing through. the forests through which we drive.

“What the hell is this,” Roger growls, leaning forward to look up into the sky. “I can’t believe it’s lasted this long and it’s raining harder, not letting up..

“Can you even see?” I ask, my hands gripping the leather of my seat anxiously now as I

stare out the windshield in front of us. To me it looks like a vast sheet of grey water with

the occasional flare of the guard car’s brake lights ahead of us.

wwwwww

“I can see,” Roger murmurs in reply, a little annoyed, apparently, that I’d even call his skills

into question. I roll my eyes at this, but trust him there must be something about his

wolf senses that can see into the road ahead of us that my eyes cannot make out. Still,

despite my trust, I’m anxious. We could run into another car, or a fallen tree, or a lost animal at any moment – how could we even see it coming?

My phone lights up in the cupholder next to me and I release my grip on my seat to grab it,

looking at the new text from Ella. “Roger,” I say, anxious, glancing at him. “Ella says it’s not

even raining at home what –

I

–

But suddenly the car lurches, skidding sideways a little I see the diver’s wheel shift in

Roger’s hands, moving without his control – hear him curse under his breath as the car

hydroplanes and drifts at high speed to our left. I give a little shriek, pressing my eyes.

at any moment that we’ll slam into a tree,

off a cliff

come to a stop, and I peek my

in

We just hit some

I gasp, still freaked

the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of

.

us. Roger’s on his phone now, speaking to the guards in the car,

They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but they don’t

the phone and turning to

have

wide with anxiety. “We

raises an eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front of us, which

like an entire tree floats by what is

across the

so fast?” I ask, a

another?”

his voice tight as he turns in his seat and puts the car

I watch him, waiting for him to continue,

doesn’t, his brows knit

he already knows what I’m

storm…is

whisper, my words shaking.

get through it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes on the road as

other direction. “Do

down in my gut, that I trust him to get us out of this. But

Even as we drive back down the road, though,

around us and the tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to come

us at

it starts to hail, big golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I open my mouth to say we need

out of

Cora,” he

to ride on this

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