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.

whole body tense – anticipating at any moment that we’ll slam

a

then come to a stop, and I peek

frustrated but in control of the car again.

okay. We just hit some high

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

he tells me, putting the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I don’t know

.

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

for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but they don’t come up

the phone and turning

to have to backtrack and find a new route.”

my eyes wide with anxiety. “We can’t

eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front of

minute. As I watch, what looks like an entire tree floats by what

across the road.

I ask, a little breathless.

another?”

he turns in

the rising water line. I watch him, waiting for him to continue,

doesn’t, his brows knit together.

he already knows what I’m just now figuring out.

storm…is not

words shaking. “What’s happening?”

his eyes on

heads in the other

this. But instead

back down the road, though, the storm does not let

crashes around us and the tree limbs whip wildly above,

at

sized pieces of ice, I open my

out of this

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

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