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

– anticipating at any moment that we’ll slam into

off a cliff

just slow, and then come to a

frustrated but in control

just hit some high

other car?” I gasp, still freaked out,

park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I don’t know how, though, it looks completely

.

ahead of us. Roger’s on his phone now, speaking to the

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

up the phone and turning to me.

We’re going to have to backtrack and find

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

an eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front

I watch, what looks

a river across the

fast?” I ask, a little breathless. “Between one car length

another?”

don’t know,” Roger replies, his voice tight as he turns in his seat and puts the

line. I watch him, waiting for him

his brows

I realize that he already knows what I’m

this storm…is

whisper, my words shaking.

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

heads in the other direction. “Do

of this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting back tensely in my

drive back down the road,

us and the tree

on us at any

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

get out of

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

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