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

our left. I give

any moment that we’ll slam into a

off a

come to a

right, Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but

okay. We just hit some

still freaked

car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road

.

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

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 up with

up the phone

across the road. We’re going to have to

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

water

the minute. As I watch, what looks like an entire tree floats by what

a river

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

another?”

don’t know,” Roger replies, his voice tight as he turns in

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

his

suddenly, I realize that he already knows

storm…is not

my words shaking.

his eyes on the road as he turns the

and heads in the other direction. “Do you trust

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

Even as we drive back down the road, though,

around us and the tree limbs whip

us at any

sized pieces of ice, I open my mouth to say we

out

me to it. “It’s no good, Cora,”

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