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.

any moment

a cliff

just slow, and then come to a stop, and

in control of the car again. “We skidded

okay. We just hit some high

I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily out the

me, putting the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing

.

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

a few moments, trying to

says, hanging up the phone and turning to me. “They

to have to backtrack and find a new route.”

ask, my eyes wide with anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the river,

gestures towards the water in front of us,

minute. As I watch, what looks like an entire tree floats by what is

across the road.

happen so fast?” I ask, a

another?”

as he turns in his seat and puts the

backing away from the rising water line. I watch him, waiting for him to continue,

his brows

he already knows what

storm…is not

whisper, my words

Cora,” he promises, his eyes on the road

other direction.

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

drive back down the road, though, the storm does not

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

on us at

of ice, I

out

Cora,” he murmurs, glancing at me. “We have

ride on this road

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