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

off a

we just slow, and then come to a stop, and I peek my eyes

but in control of

just

still freaked

up his phone, glancing at the road ahead

.

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

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

hanging up the phone and turning to me. “They can’t come

the road. We’re going to have

my eyes wide with anxiety. “We can’t

and gestures towards the water in front of us, which

looks like an entire tree floats by what is

river across

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

another?”

voice tight as he turns

rising water line. I watch

he doesn’t, his brows knit together.

I realize that he already knows what I’m just now figuring out.

this storm…is not

my words shaking. “What’s happening?”

it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes on the road as he turns the car

in the other direction.

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 back tensely in my seat

we drive back down the

and the tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to

at any moment.

big golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I

get out of this

me to it. “It’s no good, Cora,” he murmurs, glancing

simultaneously relieved. I want to stop I know that for sure, I don’t want to ride on

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