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 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.

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.

at any moment that

a

slow, and then come to a stop, and

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

just hit some high

other car?” I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily out the

phone, glancing at

.

Roger’s on his phone now, speaking to the guards in the car, who

of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but they

up the phone and turning

to have to backtrack and find a new

ask, my eyes wide with anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the river,

an eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front of us, which

what looks like an entire

river across the road.

a little

another?”

replies, his voice tight as he turns

from the rising water line. I watch him, waiting

his brows

that he already knows what

this storm…is not natural.

whisper, my words

get through it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes on the road as he

other direction. “Do

down 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

as we drive back down the road, though, the storm does not let up.

tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to

at any moment.

to hail, big golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I open my mouth

get out

Cora,” he murmurs, glancing

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

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