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

rest of the hour-long ride away from the city and

deep into the forest.

surprised when the car slows down and Sinclair sits up

arrived because really, it doesn’t look like we’re

anywhere.

–

a dirt trail honestly, the past five minutes have been a very uncomfortable ride and Rafe let us

I ask, looking around at

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 orange light.

murmur, my eyes going wide as I stare into it. “That is so creepy.”

Sinclair corrects, shooting

to drive

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

Rafe, who stops screeching and looks around in wonder at

but otherwise we don’t say anything else as the car drives a long way 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

I hadn’t realized that I was waiting for that but, perhaps a little bit of me was expecting another blindside on the ride. It is good, honestly, to be here, underground,

I quickly unbuckle our seatbelts and prepare to get out of the car. The other car pulls up

the move.

underground?” I ask, looking

there

if we deem it safe to

me as I back out of the cat and

mate and our two guards through

I see that the entire structure is very

that the walls,

sparse furniture there is in the rooms

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