Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

Chapter 334

#Chapter 334 – Underground

Cora picks up the third call and I narrow my eyes at her even though she can’t see me. I can tell she was screening my calls and only picked up because I’d never, ever triple-call her unless something had happened.

“Ella?” I hear her worried voice say, “what’s wrong?”

“Where are you, Cora,” I demand, letting my tone tell her not to fight me.

“What -”

“Where. Are. You.”

“I’m I’m at the clinic -” she says. “What’s happening?”

“We’re sending a car for you at the clinic, now,” I say, glancing at Sinclair, who nods to me to let me know he’s on it. “Get in it immediately, Cora. Don’t speak to anyone else. Don’t ask any questions.”

“Ella,” she hesitates, her voice wavering. “I can’t-

“This is not a request, Cora,” I growl. “They came for him. They tried to take Rafe. We are sending, a car for you, and you are getting in it.”

I hear a sharp intake of breath from her side of the line, and then a moment of hesitation, and then she agrees. “All right,” she says, and I can almost see her nodding anxiously. “Okay. I’ll do it.”

I exhale a deep breath of relief and nod. “Okay. I love you, Cora,” I say, my voice wavering a little.

–

“I love you too,” she replies, with I don’t know what regret? In her voice?

But before I can ask more, she hangs up.

“The car is five minutes from her,” Sinclair murmurs, squeezing my hand again. “We’ll get her. It

will be fine.”

say, closing my eyes and resting my head back

word for the rest of the hour-long ride away from the

into the forest.

little surprised when the car slows down and Sinclair sits

that we’ve arrived because really, it doesn’t look like

anywhere.

–

says as the car comes to the end of what is basically a dirt trail honestly, the past five minutes have been a very

looking around at

of the buttons usually reserved for a garage door opener. And then my mouth drops open

eyes going wide as I stare into it. “That

Sinclair corrects, shooting me a little

to drive down a steep incline into the earth. “But if you’re

Sinclair murmurs, turning to the window to hide his smirk, “who ripped someone’s throat out not two hours

at the sudden change of color, “so imagine what I would have done if he was trying to entomb

down the tunnel before the passage opens out into a wide space, like a large underground car park. There are a few more cars already down here, but the light layer of dust on them suggests that they haven’t been

I was waiting for that but, perhaps a little

our seatbelts and prepare to get out of the car. The other car pulls up next

the move.

I ask, looking around.

there are some living quarters that peek out into

if we deem it safe

Rafe’s carrier with me as I back out of the cat and shut the

and our two guards through the entry that

structure is very military As we walk through the hallway

that the walls, floor, and ceiling

made with shining metal What sparse furniture there is in the rooms

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