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.

tense – anticipating at any moment that we’ll

off a cliff –

and then come to a

but in control of

just hit some high water

freaked out, looking steadily out the window.

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

.

Roger’s on his phone now,

stopped on the other side of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but they don’t come up

Roger says, hanging up the phone

We’re going to have

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

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

looks like an entire

river across the road.

that happen so fast?” I ask, a little breathless.

another?”

tight as he turns in his seat and puts the

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

doesn’t, his

already knows what I’m just

this storm…is

I whisper, my words shaking. “What’s happening?”

Cora,” he promises, his eyes on the road as he

and heads in the other direction. “Do you trust me?”

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

drive back down the

limbs

on us at

of ice, I open my mouth to say

get out of this

“It’s no good, Cora,” he murmurs, glancing

relieved. I want to stop I know that for sure, I don’t want to ride on this road any

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