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.

whole body tense – anticipating at any moment

a cliff

slow, and then come to a stop,

Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in

we’re okay. We just hit some high

the other car?” I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily

his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I don’t know

.

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

a few moments, trying to

hanging up the phone and

the road. We’re going to have to backtrack and find a new

with anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the river, or whatever?”

water in front of us, which looks

As I watch, what looks like an entire tree

a river across the

ask, a little breathless. “Between one car length

another?”

as he turns in

rising water line. I watch him,

he doesn’t, his

suddenly, I realize that he already knows what

this storm…is not

my words

through it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes on

heads in the other direction. “Do you trust

deep down in my gut, that I trust him to get us out of this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting back tensely in my seat

back down the road, though, the storm does

and the tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to come

at

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

out of

Roger beats me to it. “It’s no good, Cora,” he

don’t want to ride on this road any longer in this storm – but what’s waiting for us when we stop? Something is fighting to keep us here.

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