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. I give a little

anticipating at any moment that we’ll slam into

a

slow, and then come to a

murmurs, frustrated but in

okay. We just hit some

car?” I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily out

the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the

.

his phone now,

They speak for

up the phone and turning to me.

to have to backtrack and find a

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

towards the water in front of us,

As I watch, what looks like an entire

a river across the

fast?” I ask, a little breathless.

another?”

replies, his voice tight as he turns in his seat and puts

water line.

his brows

I realize that he already

storm…is not

whisper, my words shaking.

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

and heads in the other direction. “Do you trust

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 retrace the ground

Even as we drive back down the

and the tree limbs whip

us at any

sized pieces of ice, I open my mouth

get out of

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

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