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

and drifts at high speed to our left. I give a little shriek, pressing

at any moment that

a

we just slow, and then come to

frustrated but in control of

We just hit some

gasp, still freaked out, looking

me, putting the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I don’t know

.

phone now, speaking to the guards in the car,

road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but

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

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

I ask, my eyes wide with anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the river,

eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front of us,

by the minute. As I watch, what looks like

river

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

another?”

as he turns in his

away from the rising water line. I watch him,

his

then, suddenly, I realize that he already knows what I’m

storm…is

my words shaking. “What’s

promises, his eyes on the road as he turns

the other direction.

this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting back tensely in my seat as we retrace the ground

crossed. Even as we drive back down the road, though, the storm does not

us and the tree limbs whip wildly

on us at any

golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I

get out of

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

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