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.

whole body tense – anticipating at any moment

a

just slow, and then come to a stop, and I

right, Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control of the

okay. We just hit

still freaked out, looking steadily out the window.

his phone, glancing at the road

.

phone now,

a few moments,

good, Cora,” Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to

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

ask, my eyes wide with anxiety. “We

raises an eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front of us, which looks

watch, what looks like an

river across

a little breathless. “Between

another?”

as he turns in his seat and puts the car

rising water line. I

he doesn’t, his brows

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

this storm…is not

I whisper, my words shaking. “What’s

promises, his eyes on

the other

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

back down the road, though, the storm does

limbs whip wildly

on us at any

ice, I open my mouth to say we need

out of

Roger beats me to it. “It’s no good, Cora,” he murmurs, glancing at me. “We have to stop.”

ride on this road any longer in

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