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 slam into a tree, or

off a cliff

a stop,

murmurs, frustrated but in control of the car

We just hit some high water

still freaked out, looking steadily

through it,” he tells me, putting the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I don’t know

.

us. Roger’s on his phone now, speaking to the guards

speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but

hanging up the phone and

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

anxiety. “We can’t

water in front

the minute. As I watch, what looks like

a river across the

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

another?”

tight as he turns

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

he doesn’t, his brows

that he already knows what I’m just now

storm…is

words

promises, his eyes on the road

heads in the other

us out of this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting

back down the road, though,

around us and the tree limbs whip wildly above,

on us at any

golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I open

out of this

Cora,” he murmurs, glancing at

know that for sure, I don’t want to ride on

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