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 little shriek, pressing my

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

a

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

frustrated but

We just hit some high

gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily out the

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

.

phone now,

They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan, but they

good, Cora,” Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to

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

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

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

the minute. As I watch, what looks like

a river across the

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

another?”

tight as he

water line. I watch him, waiting

he doesn’t, his

he already knows what I’m just now

this storm…is

my words

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

other direction.

it, deep down in my gut, that I trust him to get us out of this. But instead

drive back down the

tree limbs whip

us at

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

out of

Roger beats me to it. “It’s no good, Cora,”

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