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

and drifts at high speed to our left. I give a

anticipating at any

off a

come to a stop, and

murmurs, frustrated but

We just

car?” I gasp, still freaked out,

and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I don’t know how, though, it

.

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

on the other side 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 with

Cora,” Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to me. “They can’t

have to backtrack and find a new

my eyes wide with anxiety. “We can’t

towards the water in front of us,

watch, what looks like an entire tree floats by what is

river across

I ask, a little breathless. “Between

another?”

tight as he turns in

line. I watch him, waiting

his brows

he already knows what I’m just

this storm…is

my words

his eyes on the road as

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

we drive back down the road, though, the storm

tree

us at

it starts to hail, big golf-ball sized pieces of ice,

get out of

Cora,” he

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