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 little shriek, pressing my

at any

off a cliff

then come to a stop, and I peek my eyes

but in control of the

just hit

other car?” I gasp, still freaked out,

putting the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing

.

us. Roger’s on his phone

on the other side of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but they don’t come

says, hanging up the phone

have to backtrack and find a new

wide with anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the

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

minute. As I watch, what looks like an entire

a river

so fast?” I ask, a little breathless.

another?”

he

line. I watch him, waiting for him

doesn’t, his

I realize that he already knows what I’m just

this storm…is not

whisper, my words shaking. “What’s

he promises, his eyes on the road as he

other direction. “Do you

deep down in my gut, that I trust him to get us out of this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting

the road, though, the storm does

crashes around us and the tree limbs whip wildly

us

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

get out

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

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