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.

any moment

off a cliff

and then come to a stop, and I

in control

We just hit some

still freaked out, looking steadily out the

his phone, glancing

.

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

us. They speak for a few moments, trying

Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to me. “They can’t come

road. We’re going to have to backtrack and find

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

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

I watch, what looks like an entire tree

a river across the

that happen so fast?” I ask, a little breathless. “Between one car length and

another?”

as he turns in his seat and

line. I watch him, waiting for him to

he doesn’t, his

I realize that he already knows what I’m just now

this storm…is not

whisper, my words

get through it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes on

other direction. “Do

out of this. But instead of telling

down the road, though,

crashes around us and the tree limbs

us at

starts to hail, big golf-ball sized pieces of ice,

out of

Roger beats me to it. “It’s no good, Cora,”

know that for sure, I don’t want to ride on this road any longer in this storm – but what’s

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