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

my whole body tense – anticipating at any moment that we’ll slam into

a cliff

then come to a stop, and I

Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control of

we’re okay. We just

car?” I gasp, still

his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us.

.

ahead of us. Roger’s on his phone now, speaking to

of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a

Cora,” Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to

across the road. We’re going to have to

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

water in front of us, which

by the minute. As I watch, what looks like

river across

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

another?”

he turns in his seat and

backing away from the rising water line.

he doesn’t, his brows knit

then, suddenly, I realize that he already

this storm…is

whisper, my words shaking. “What’s

promises, his eyes on the road as

and heads in the other direction. “Do

know it, deep down in my gut, that I trust him to get us out of this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting back tensely in my seat as we retrace

the road, though,

and the tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to

us at any

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

get out

Cora,”

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