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.

at any moment that

off a cliff

to a stop,

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

we’re okay. We just hit

freaked out, looking

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

.

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

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

up the

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

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

and gestures towards the water in front of us, which

minute. As I watch, what looks like an entire tree

a river across the road.

that happen so fast?” I ask, a little breathless.

another?”

he turns in his seat and puts the

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

his brows knit

he already knows what I’m just

this storm…is not natural.

my words shaking. “What’s

Cora,” he promises, his eyes on the road

in the other direction. “Do you

do. I know it, deep down in my gut, that I trust him to get us out of this. But instead of telling him that, I

crossed. Even as we drive back down the road, though, the storm does not

limbs whip

us at any moment.

sized pieces of ice, I open my mouth to say we need to

out of

Cora,” he murmurs, glancing

want to ride on this road any longer in this storm

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