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 my

at any moment that

off a

slow, and then come to a stop, and I

all right, Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control of the car again. “We

just hit some high

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

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

.

on his phone

other side of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure

the phone and turning to me.

the road. We’re going to have to

anxiety.

an eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front of

watch, what looks like an entire

river across

ask, a little breathless.

another?”

he turns in

rising water line. I watch him, waiting for him

doesn’t, his brows knit

then, suddenly, I realize that he already

storm…is

my words

going to get through it, Cora,” he 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 instead of telling him that, I just

drive back down the road,

around us and the tree limbs

on us at any

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

out of

Cora,” he murmurs, glancing

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