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

at any moment

off a

and then come to a stop,

but in control

we’re okay. We just

gasp, still freaked out, looking

the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the

.

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

for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but

good, Cora,” Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to me. “They

the road. We’re going to have to backtrack and find a

my eyes wide with anxiety. “We

eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front of

watch, what looks

a river across the

that happen so fast?” I ask,

another?”

as he turns in his

away from the rising water line. I watch him, waiting

his

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

this storm…is

I whisper, my words shaking. “What’s

it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes

other direction. “Do you

that I trust him to get us out of this. But instead

crossed. Even as we drive back down the road, though, the

the tree limbs

on us

golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I open my

out of

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

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