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

left. I give a little

anticipating at any moment that

a

and then come to a stop,

all right, Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control of the

We just

I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily out

it,” 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, though, it looks

.

phone now,

speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but they don’t come up

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

to have to backtrack and

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

gestures towards the water in front of us, which

what looks like an entire tree floats by what

a river across

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

another?”

voice tight as he turns in

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

his brows knit

he already knows what I’m just

this storm…is

whisper, my

through it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes on the road as he

other direction.

out of this. But

drive back down the

the tree limbs whip wildly above,

us at any

starts to hail, big golf-ball sized pieces of

out

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

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