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

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

a

then come to

frustrated but in control of the car again. “We

we’re okay. We just hit some

I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily

picking up his phone, glancing at the

.

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

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 with

hanging up the phone and

going to have to backtrack and

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

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

looks like an entire tree floats by

river

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

another?”

Roger replies, his voice tight as he

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

his brows

I realize that he already knows

storm…is

my words

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

and heads in the other

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, the storm does

and the tree

us at any

sized pieces of ice, I open my mouth

get out

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

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