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

body tense – anticipating at any moment that we’ll slam into a

off a

to a

murmurs, frustrated but in control

we’re okay. We just hit

gasp, still freaked out,

phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I

.

road ahead of us. Roger’s on his phone now, speaking to the guards in the

from us. They speak for

the phone and turning to me.

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

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

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

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

a river across the

fast?” I ask,

another?”

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

away from the rising water line. I

his

I realize that he already knows what

this storm…is not

I whisper, my words

his eyes on the road as he

the other direction. “Do you

this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting back tensely in

down the

the tree limbs

on us at

pieces of ice, I open my mouth

get out

beats me to it. “It’s no good, Cora,” he murmurs,

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