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 a little shriek, pressing

my whole body tense – anticipating at any moment that we’ll slam into

a

just slow, and then come to a stop, and

but in

We just

car?” I 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 how, though, it looks completely

.

us. Roger’s on his phone now, speaking to the guards in the car,

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

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

road. We’re going to have to backtrack and

with anxiety. “We can’t

towards the water

what looks

a river across the

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

another?”

Roger replies, his voice tight as he turns

from the rising water line.

doesn’t, his brows

realize that he already

storm…is not

my words

going to get through it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes on the road as he turns

other direction. “Do

gut, that I trust him to get us out of this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting back tensely in my seat as

down the road, though, the storm does not let

tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to

us

of ice, I open

out

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

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