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.

tense – anticipating at any moment that we’ll slam into a

off a cliff –

a stop, and

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

okay. We just hit

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

he tells me, putting the car in park and picking up 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

flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but they

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

We’re going to have to backtrack

wide with anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the

raises an eyebrow and gestures towards the water in

looks like an entire tree floats

river across

so fast?” I ask, a little breathless. “Between one car length and

another?”

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

away from the rising water line. I watch him, waiting

doesn’t, his brows knit

realize that he already knows

storm…is not natural.

words shaking.

he promises, his eyes on the road as he turns the

heads in the other

I do. I know it, 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

the road, though,

and the tree limbs

us at any moment.

pieces of ice, I open my mouth to say we need to

get out

Roger beats me to it. “It’s no good, Cora,” he murmurs, glancing at me. “We have to stop.”

relieved. I want to stop I know that for sure, I don’t want to ride on this road any longer in this storm – but what’s waiting for us when we stop? Something is

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