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

high speed to our left. I give a

whole body tense – anticipating at any moment that

a

slow, and then come to a stop, and I peek my

but in

okay. We just

other car?” I gasp, still freaked

his phone, glancing at the road ahead of

.

road ahead of us. Roger’s on his phone now,

They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but they

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

We’re going to have to backtrack

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

an eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front of us, which

I watch, what looks like an entire tree floats by what is

a river across the

ask, a little breathless. “Between one car

another?”

his voice tight as he

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

doesn’t, his

already knows what I’m just now

this storm…is

I whisper, my words

his eyes

in the other direction. “Do you

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 we retrace

back down the road, though, the storm does

around us and the tree limbs

on us at any

sized pieces of ice,

get out of

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

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