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.

my whole body tense – anticipating at any moment

off a cliff

then come to a stop, and I

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

we’re okay. We just hit some high

freaked out, looking steadily

phone, glancing at

.

his phone now,

on the other side of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but they don’t

up the phone and turning to me. “They

across the road. We’re going to have to backtrack and find a new route.”

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

the water in

what looks like an entire tree floats by what is quickly.

across the road.

I ask, a little breathless. “Between one car

another?”

he turns in his seat

I watch him, waiting for him

doesn’t, his brows knit

I realize that he already knows what I’m

this storm…is not natural.

whisper, my words

Cora,” he promises, his eyes on the road as

heads in the other

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

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

crashes around us and the tree limbs whip wildly above,

on us at any moment.

hail, big golf-ball sized pieces of ice,

get out of

Cora,” he murmurs, glancing at me.

want to stop I know that for sure, I don’t want to ride on this road any

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