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 cliff

and then come to a stop, and I peek

in control of the car again. “We

okay. We just hit

still freaked out, looking steadily

in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the

.

now, speaking to the

on the other side of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure

hanging up the phone and turning

to have to backtrack and find a new

my eyes wide with anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the

the water in front of us, which looks like

the minute. As I watch, what looks like an entire tree floats by what is quickly.

river across the

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

another?”

know,” Roger replies, his voice tight as he turns

line. I watch him, waiting for him to continue,

doesn’t, his

he already knows what I’m just now

storm…is not natural.

I whisper, my words shaking.

to get through it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes on the road

in the other

But instead of telling

the road, though, the storm does not

the tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to

on us at any moment.

big golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I open

out of this

Cora,” he murmurs, glancing at

want to ride on this road any longer in this storm – but what’s waiting for us when we stop? Something is fighting to keep us here. What happens

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