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.

– anticipating at any moment

off a

then come to a stop,

right, Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control of the

just hit some high water

still freaked

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

.

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

road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a

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

across the road. We’re going to have to backtrack and find a new route.”

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

eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front of

what looks like an entire tree floats by what is quickly.

river across the

I ask, a little breathless. “Between one car length

another?”

replies, his voice tight as he turns in his seat and puts the

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

doesn’t, his brows

then, suddenly, I realize that he already knows what I’m just now figuring out.

storm…is not natural.

my words

Cora,” he promises, his eyes on

the other direction. “Do you trust

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

back down the

us and the tree limbs whip wildly

at any

sized pieces of ice, I open my

get out

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

for sure, I don’t want to ride on

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