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 that we’ll

a cliff –

a stop,

all right, Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control of

We just hit

I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily out the

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

.

of us. Roger’s on his phone now, speaking to

us. They speak for a few moments, trying to

Cora,” Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to

to have to backtrack and find a

with anxiety. “We

gestures towards the water in front of us, which looks like

watch, what looks like an entire tree floats by

across the road.

happen so fast?” I ask, a

another?”

voice tight as he turns in

I watch him, waiting

doesn’t, his brows

then, suddenly, I realize that he already

this storm…is not natural.

my words shaking. “What’s happening?”

through it, Cora,” he promises, his

the other direction. “Do you trust me?”

But instead of telling him that, I just

back down the road, though,

and the tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening

us at

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

out

beats me to it. “It’s no good, Cora,”

I don’t want to ride on this

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