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
speed to our left.
body tense – anticipating at any
a
and then come to a stop, and I
murmurs, frustrated but
okay. We just hit
the other car?” I gasp, still
he tells me, putting the car in park and picking up his phone,
.
of us. Roger’s on his phone now,
the other side of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying
the phone and turning to me. “They
We’re going to have to backtrack and
wide with anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the river,
water in
I watch, what looks
a river across the
that happen so fast?” I ask,
another?”
tight as he turns in his seat and
the rising water line. I watch
his brows knit
that he already knows what I’m
this storm…is
my words
to get through it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes on the road as he turns
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, I just nod, sitting back tensely in my seat as
we drive back down the road,
tree limbs
on us
hail, big golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I open my
out
“It’s no good, Cora,” he murmurs, glancing at me. “We have to
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