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,

any moment that we’ll

a

to a stop, and I peek my

frustrated but in

okay. We just

I gasp, still

through it,” he tells me, putting the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I don’t

.

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

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 up

says, hanging up the phone and turning to me. “They can’t

to have to backtrack and

with anxiety. “We can’t

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

As I watch, what looks like an

river

so fast?” I ask, a little breathless.

another?”

as he turns in his seat and puts

the rising water line. I

doesn’t, his brows

I realize that he already

this storm…is

whisper, my

it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes on

heads in the other

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

Even as we drive back down the road, though,

tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to

on us at

it starts to hail, big golf-ball sized pieces of

out

Cora,”

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