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

my whole body tense – anticipating at any moment that

a

and then come to a stop, and I peek my eyes

right, Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control

we’re okay. We just

other car?” I gasp, still freaked out,

the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing

.

on his phone now, speaking to

for

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

going to have to

wide with anxiety. “We can’t like…

an eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front of

what looks

a river across the

I ask, a little breathless. “Between one

another?”

replies, his voice tight as he turns in his seat

line. I watch him,

his

he already

storm…is

my words

going to get through it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes

in the other direction. “Do you trust

do. I know it, deep down in my gut, that I trust him to get us out of this. But instead of telling him that,

we drive back down the

us and the tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening

us at any

pieces of ice, I open my mouth to

out

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

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