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.

any moment

a cliff –

slow, and then come to a stop,

but in

we’re okay. We just hit

gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily out

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

.

Roger’s on his phone now, speaking to the guards

for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but they don’t

Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to

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

with anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the river, or whatever?”

the water in front

what looks like

a river across the

so fast?” I ask, a little breathless. “Between

another?”

don’t know,” Roger replies, his voice tight as he turns in his

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

he doesn’t, his brows

I realize that he already

this storm…is

my words

going to get through it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes

the other direction. “Do

us out of this. But instead

back down the road, though, the

the tree limbs whip wildly

at any

of ice, I open my mouth

get out

to it. “It’s no good, Cora,” he murmurs, glancing

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

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