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

our left. I give a little shriek, pressing

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

off a

just slow, and then come to a stop, and I peek my

Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control of the car again. “We

We just hit some high

other car?” I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily out

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

.

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

stopped on the other side of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments,

hanging up the phone and turning to me.

to have

anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the river,

water in

minute. As I watch, what looks like

river across

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

another?”

replies, his voice tight as he turns

water line. I watch him, waiting for him to

his brows knit

suddenly, I realize that he already knows what I’m just

storm…is

my words

Cora,” he promises, his eyes on

other direction.

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 drive back down the road, though, the storm does not let

and the tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to

on us at any

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

get out

Cora,” he murmurs, glancing at me. “We

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