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

– anticipating at any moment that we’ll slam into a tree,

a

and then come to a stop, and I peek

but in control of

We just hit

gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily out

and picking up his phone, glancing

.

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

road, separated from us. They speak for a

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

to have to backtrack and find a new

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

an eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front

watch, what looks like an entire tree floats by

a river

I ask,

another?”

as he turns in his seat and

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

he doesn’t, his brows knit

he already knows what I’m just

storm…is not

I whisper, my words

his eyes on the road as

in the other direction. “Do you trust

get us out of this.

we drive back down the road,

and the tree limbs whip wildly above,

us at any

of ice, I open my mouth to say we

out of

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

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