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

at high speed to our left. I give

whole body tense – anticipating at any

off a cliff

slow, and then come to a stop, and

Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control of the

We just hit some

gasp, still freaked out,

putting the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing

.

ahead of us. Roger’s on his phone

speak for a few moments, trying to

says, hanging up the phone

road. We’re going to have to backtrack and

eyes wide with anxiety. “We can’t like…

water

watch, what looks like an entire tree floats

a river across the

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

another?”

as he turns in his

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

his

already knows what I’m just now

storm…is

I whisper, my words shaking. “What’s

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

and heads in the other direction. “Do you trust

know it, deep down in my gut, that I trust him to get us out of this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting back tensely

we drive back down the

and the tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to

on us

it starts to hail, big golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I open my mouth to say we

get out of

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

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