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

a

a stop, and I peek my

in control

We just hit some

gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily out

he tells me, putting the car in park and picking up his phone,

.

on his phone now, speaking to the guards in the car,

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

Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to me. “They can’t

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

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

the water in front of

As I watch, what looks like an entire

across the

a little breathless. “Between

another?”

his voice tight as he turns in his seat and puts the car in

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

his

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

storm…is not

whisper, my words shaking.

his

other

know it, deep down in my gut, that I trust him to get us out of this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting back tensely in

drive back down the road, though, the storm does not

tree limbs whip

at any moment.

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

out

good, Cora,” he murmurs, glancing at me. “We have

for sure, I don’t 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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