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

off a cliff

and then come to a

but in control of the car again. “We skidded

we’re okay. We just

freaked out, looking steadily out

got through it,” he tells me, putting the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us.

.

on his phone now,

stopped on the other side of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few

Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to me.

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

“We can’t like… ford the

towards the water in front of us, which

like an entire tree floats

across the

ask, a little breathless. “Between

another?”

Roger replies, his voice tight as he

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

he doesn’t, his brows knit

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

storm…is not natural.

I whisper, my words shaking.

he promises, his eyes on the road

the other direction. “Do

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

down the road, though,

around us and the tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to come

on us at any

sized pieces of ice, I open my

out

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

for sure, I don’t want to ride on this road any longer in

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