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

to our left. I give a little shriek, pressing

whole body tense – anticipating at any moment that we’ll slam into

off a

come to a stop, and I peek

Roger murmurs, frustrated but

just hit some

I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily out

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

.

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

on the other side of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to

good, Cora,” Roger says, hanging up the phone

to have to backtrack and

wide with anxiety. “We

eyebrow and gestures towards the water

what looks like an entire tree floats

a river across

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

another?”

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

from the rising water line.

his brows knit

I realize that he already knows what I’m just now figuring

this storm…is not

I whisper, my words shaking.

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

in the other direction. “Do you

gut, that I trust him to get us out of this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod,

as we drive back down the road, though, the storm does not let

us and the tree limbs whip wildly above,

on us at

pieces of ice, I open

get out

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

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