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

and drifts at high speed to our left. I give

anticipating at any moment that we’ll slam

a

then come to a stop, and

Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control of the car again. “We

okay. We just hit

still freaked

car in park and picking up his phone, glancing

.

Roger’s on his phone now,

of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments,

says, hanging up the

across the road. We’re going to have to backtrack and find a new

anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the

an eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front of us, which

what looks like an entire tree

river across

so fast?” I ask, a little breathless.

another?”

as he turns

from the rising water line. I watch him, waiting

his brows

I realize that he already knows what I’m

this storm…is not

whisper, my words shaking. “What’s

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

in the other direction. “Do you trust

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

we drive back down the road, though, the storm does

around us and the tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to

on us at

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

out of

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

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