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.

my whole body tense – anticipating at any moment

off a cliff

slow, and then come to a stop, and I peek

frustrated but in control of the car again. “We skidded

we’re okay. We just hit some high

gasp, still freaked out,

and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I don’t know how, though, it looks completely flooded…”

.

now, speaking to

side of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but they

says, hanging up the

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

eyes wide with anxiety. “We can’t

and gestures towards the water in front of us, which

looks like an

a river across

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

another?”

Roger replies, his voice tight as he

backing away from the rising water line. I watch him,

he doesn’t, his brows knit together.

then, suddenly, I realize that he already knows what

this storm…is

whisper, my words shaking.

it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes on the road as he turns the car

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

trust him to get us out of this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting back tensely in my seat

drive back down the road,

tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to come

us at

to hail, big golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I open my

get out of this

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

want to ride on this road any longer in this storm

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