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.”

resting my

another word for the rest of the hour-long ride

deep into the forest.

Sinclair sits up in his

way that lets me know that we’ve arrived because really, it doesn’t look

anywhere.

–

past five minutes have been a very uncomfortable ride and Rafe let

ask, looking around at the trees on every side.

the buttons usually reserved for a garage door opener. And then my mouth drops open as, in front of us, the earth just…opens, sliding upwards like the jaws of some great creature and revealing beneath it a metal tunnel filled with

going wide as I stare into it. “That is

shooting me a

drive into the entrance and start to drive down a steep incline into the

the window to hide his smirk,

shaking my head and putting a hand on Rafe, who stops screeching and looks around in wonder at the sudden change of color, “so imagine what I would

as the car drives a long way down the tunnel before the passage opens out into a wide space, like a large underground

for that but, perhaps a little bit of me was expecting another blindside on the ride. It is good, honestly, to be here, underground, where I hope no one can find us.

into the next free space and Sinclair and I quickly unbuckle our seatbelts and prepare to get out of the car. The other car pulls up

the move.

underground?” I

replies, “for safety. Though there are some living quarters that peek out

deem it safe to use

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

through

the entire structure is very military As we walk through the

some rooms we pass and note that the walls,

shining metal What sparse furniture there is in the rooms is

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