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

our left. I give a little

– anticipating at any moment that

off a

to a stop, and I peek

right, Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but

okay. We just hit some high

car?” I gasp, still

me, putting the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I don’t know how, though, it looks

.

us. Roger’s on his phone now, speaking

of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but they don’t come up

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

We’re going to have to backtrack and

wide with anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the river, or

gestures towards the water in front of

by the minute. As I watch, what looks like an entire

river across

happen so fast?” I ask, a little breathless.

another?”

he turns

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

he doesn’t, his brows knit

he already knows what

this storm…is

whisper, my words shaking. “What’s

he promises, his eyes on the road as he

heads in the other direction. “Do

get us out of this. But instead of telling him that, I

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

us and the tree limbs whip wildly above,

us at any

starts to hail, big golf-ball sized pieces of

out

Cora,”

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