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

drifts at high speed to our left. I give a little shriek, pressing my

any moment that we’ll slam into a tree,

a

to a stop, and I peek

right, Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control

just hit some

the other car?” I gasp, still

tells me, putting the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road

.

Roger’s on his phone

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

Roger says, hanging up the phone and

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

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

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

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

river across

happen so fast?” I ask, a

another?”

know,” Roger replies, his voice tight as he turns in his seat and puts the car

from the rising water line.

doesn’t, his brows

I realize that he already knows

storm…is not

I whisper, my words shaking.

promises, his eyes on the road as he

other direction. “Do you trust

deep down in my gut, 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 does

and the tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to

on us

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

get out of

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

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