Accidental Surrogate
Chapter 321: 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.
“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 –
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. closed, my whole body tense – anticipating at any moment that we’ll slam into a tree, or fly off a cliff –
But we just slow, and then come to a stop, and I peek my eyes open.
“It’s all right, Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control of the car again. “We skidded but we’re okay. We just hit some high water
freaked out, looking steadily out the window.
of us. “I don’t know how, though, it looks completely flooded…” the road ahead of us. Roger’s on his phone now, speaking to the guards
good, Cora,” Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to me. “They can’t come back across the road. We’re going
eyes wide with anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the river, or whatever?” Roger raises an eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front of us, which looks like it’s rising by the minute. As I watch, what looks like an entire tree floats by what is quickly. becoming a river across
ask, a little breathless. “Between one car
he turns in his seat and puts the car in reverse, backing away from the rising water line. I
he already knows what I’m just now figuring out. That this storm…is
whisper, my words
promises, his eyes on the road as he turns
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 as we retrace the ground we’ve already crossed. Even as we drive
us and the tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to come
it starts to hail, big golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I open my
Roger beats me to it. “It’s no good, Cora,” he murmurs, glancing at me. “We have
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
not wanting to interrupt his concentration, looking out. the windshield along with him, unable to tear my eyes
now from the side the car rocks as he slides the gears into park. The rain is coming at us sideways now, punishing and incessant. As I stare at it, baffled by the sudden
the lobby?” He gestures
his eyes. “What’s going
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