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

– anticipating at any moment that we’ll slam into a tree,

a

and then come to a stop, and I peek

all right, Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but

okay. We just hit some high

I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily out the

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

.

Roger’s on his phone now, speaking to the

stopped 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

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

to have to backtrack and find a new

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

eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front

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

a river across the

so fast?” I ask, a little

another?”

voice tight as he turns in his seat and puts the car

away from the rising water line. I

his

already knows what I’m just now

this storm…is not

my words shaking. “What’s

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

in the other direction. “Do you

get us out of this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting back tensely in my seat as we

the road, though, the storm does not let

us and the tree limbs whip wildly

on us at any

big golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I open my mouth to say

out of

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

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