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

any moment

a

then come to a stop, and I peek my eyes

murmurs, frustrated but in

okay. We just

I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily out the

phone, glancing at the road ahead

.

Roger’s on his phone now, speaking to the guards in the

for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but they don’t come up with

up the

the road. We’re going to have

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

and gestures towards the water in front of us, which

watch, what looks like an

a river

that happen so fast?” I ask,

another?”

as he turns in his seat and puts the

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

his brows knit

I realize that he already

this storm…is not

my words shaking.

going to get through it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes on the road as he turns

and heads in the other direction. “Do

this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting back tensely in my seat as we retrace the

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

the tree

us at

pieces of ice, I open my mouth to say we need

out of

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

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