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

a cliff

we just slow, and then come to a

frustrated but in control

we’re okay. We just hit some

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

phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I don’t know how, though, it looks completely

.

phone now, speaking to the guards in the car, who

speak for a few moments,

up the phone and turning to me. “They can’t

“We

towards the water in front of

by the minute. As I watch, what looks like an

across the

so fast?” I ask, a little breathless. “Between one car

another?”

he turns in his seat

I watch him,

his brows knit

already knows what

storm…is

my words shaking. “What’s

promises, his eyes on the road

the other direction. “Do you

But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting back tensely in my seat as we retrace the ground

down the road, though, the storm does not

tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to come

at

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

out

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

want to ride on this road any longer in this storm – but what’s waiting for us when we stop? Something

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