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
to our left. I give a
anticipating at any
a cliff
slow, and then come to
frustrated but
okay. We just hit some high
car?” I gasp, still freaked
got through it,” he tells me, putting the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at
.
on his phone now, speaking to the
of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but they
hanging up the phone and
across the road. We’re going to have to
ask, my eyes wide with anxiety. “We can’t like…
raises an eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front
minute. As I watch, what looks like an entire tree floats by what is
a river across
ask, a
another?”
as he
line. I
he doesn’t, his brows knit
suddenly, I realize that he already
this storm…is not
I whisper, my words shaking. “What’s
his
heads in the other direction. “Do you
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
crossed. Even as we drive back down the road, though, the storm does not
tree limbs whip wildly above, threatening to
us
sized pieces of ice, I open my mouth
get out
“It’s no good, Cora,” he
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