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.

– anticipating at any moment that we’ll slam into

off a cliff

slow, and then come to a stop,

but in control of the

We just hit some high

car?” I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily

up his phone, glancing at the

.

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

us. They speak for a few

no good, Cora,” Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to

going to have to backtrack and find a

I ask, my eyes wide with anxiety. “We can’t

towards the water in front of us, which looks

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

a river across

happen so fast?” I ask, a

another?”

as he turns in his seat

the rising water line. I watch him, waiting

he doesn’t, his brows knit

I realize that he already knows what I’m just now figuring

this storm…is not

I whisper, my words

Cora,” he promises, his eyes on the road as he

other

trust him to get us out of this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting

the road,

around us and the tree limbs whip wildly

on us at

it starts to hail, big golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I open my mouth to say we

get out of

“It’s no good, Cora,” he murmurs, glancing

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