Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate by Caroline Above Story

#Chapter321 – 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 pa*s 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.

whole body tense – anticipating at any moment that

a cliff

slow, and then come to a stop,

all right, Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control of the car again. “We

we’re okay. We just hit

the other car?” I gasp, still freaked

phone,

.

of us. Roger’s on his phone now, speaking to the guards in the

other side of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but they don’t come up

no good, Cora,” Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to me.

to have to backtrack and find a new

my eyes wide with anxiety.

and gestures towards the water in front of us, which

what looks like an entire tree floats

a river

ask, a little breathless. “Between

another?”

don’t know,” Roger replies, his voice tight as he turns in his

away from the rising water line. I watch

he doesn’t, his brows knit

I realize that he already knows

this storm…is

I whisper, my words shaking. “What’s

it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes

other direction. “Do

it, deep down in my gut, that I trust him to get us out of this. But

we drive back down the road, though, the storm does not

crashes around us and the tree limbs whip wildly above,

on us

pieces of ice, I open

get out of

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

somehow at once more anxious and simultaneously 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

remember…” Roger begins, peering out the window, but his words fade off as he looks. I wait, holding my breath, not wanting to interrupt his concentration, looking out. the windshield along with him, unable to tear my eyes away.