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
drifts at high speed to our left. I give a little
at any moment that we’ll slam into a
off a cliff
then come to
Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control
just
other car?” I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily
car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road
.
of us. Roger’s on his phone now, speaking to the guards
the other side of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying
up the phone and turning to me.
across the road. We’re going to have to backtrack and find a
wide with anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the river,
and gestures towards the water in front of us, which looks
watch, what looks like an entire tree floats by what is
river across the
that happen so fast?” I ask, a little breathless.
another?”
his voice tight as he turns in his seat
backing away from the rising water line. I watch him, waiting for
he doesn’t, his brows knit
I realize that he already
storm…is
I whisper, my
promises, his eyes on the road as he turns the
in the other direction. “Do you trust
I trust him to get us out of this. But
back down the road, though, the storm
tree limbs whip wildly
on us at
big golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I open my mouth to say we need
get out of
good, Cora,”
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