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.

tense – anticipating at any moment that we’ll slam into

off a

come to a stop,

Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control

just hit some high

the other car?” I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily

and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead

.

now, speaking to the guards in the

speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but they

hanging up the phone and turning to me. “They can’t come

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

“We

water in

As I watch, what looks like an entire tree floats by what is

a river across

that happen so fast?” I ask, a little breathless. “Between one car length

another?”

his voice tight as he

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

he doesn’t, his brows knit together.

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

storm…is

I whisper, my words shaking. “What’s

promises, his eyes on the road as

the other direction. “Do you

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

we drive back down the road, though,

the tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to

us at any

pieces of ice, I

out of

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

want to ride on

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