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
a cliff –
come to a stop, and I peek
frustrated but in control
okay. We just hit some
other car?” I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily out the
and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I don’t know how, though,
.
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
Cora,” Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning
We’re going to have to backtrack
“We
gestures towards the water
by the minute. As I watch, what looks like an entire tree floats by what
a river across
a little
another?”
voice tight as he turns in his
I
he doesn’t, his brows
that he already knows what
this storm…is not natural.
I whisper, my words
promises, his eyes on the road
heads in the other direction.
But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting back tensely in my
the road, though,
around us and the tree limbs
at
hail, big golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I open my mouth to
get out of this
me to it. “It’s no good, Cora,” he
stop I know that for sure, I don’t want to ride on this road any
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