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 cliff
we just slow, and then come to a stop,
right, Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control of
okay. We just
the other car?” I gasp, still freaked out, looking
his phone, glancing at
.
of us. Roger’s on his phone now, speaking
the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying
the phone and turning to me. “They
going to have to backtrack and find a
anxiety. “We
raises an eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front of us, which looks like it’s
like an entire tree
across
happen so fast?” I ask, a little breathless.
another?”
Roger replies, his voice tight as he turns in
backing away from the rising water line. I watch
his brows
he already knows what I’m just now
this storm…is not
my words shaking. “What’s
his eyes on the road as he
and heads in the other direction. “Do you
out of this. But instead of telling him
we drive back down the road,
tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to
on us at
of ice, I
out
“It’s no good, Cora,” he murmurs, glancing at me. “We have to stop.”
simultaneously relieved. I want to stop I know that for sure, I don’t want to ride on this road any longer in this storm – but
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