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

to our left. I give a little

at any moment that

a cliff

slow, and then come to

all right, Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control of the car again.

just

car?” I gasp, still freaked

car in park and picking up his phone, glancing

.

phone now, speaking to the guards in

from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan,

says, hanging up the phone and turning to me. “They

have to backtrack and find a new

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

towards the water in front of us, which looks like

looks like an entire tree floats

a river across the

that happen so fast?” I ask, a little breathless. “Between one

another?”

he turns in his seat and puts the

rising water line. I watch

he doesn’t, his

already knows what I’m just now figuring

storm…is not

I whisper, my

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

in the other

trust him to get us out of this. But

we drive back down the road, though, the storm does not let

tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to

us

of ice, I open my

get out of

good, Cora,” he murmurs,

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