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.

whole body tense – anticipating at any moment that we’ll slam into a tree, or

a cliff

to a stop, and

but in control of the car

We just hit some high

gasp, still freaked

in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us.

.

phone now, speaking

from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but

no good, Cora,” Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to me.

We’re going to have to backtrack and find a new

“We

raises an eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front of

I watch, what looks like an entire tree

a river across

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

another?”

know,” Roger replies, his voice tight as he turns in his seat and puts

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

doesn’t, his

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

this storm…is not natural.

whisper, my words shaking. “What’s

promises, his eyes on the road as

the other

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

down the road, though, the storm does not let

limbs

on us at

pieces of ice, I open my mouth to

get out of this

no good, Cora,” he murmurs, glancing at me. “We

more anxious and simultaneously relieved. I want to stop I know that for sure, I don’t want to ride on

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