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

high speed to our left.

anticipating at any

off a cliff

we just slow, and then come to

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

we’re okay. We just hit some high

car?” I gasp, still freaked

phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I

.

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

separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying

no good, Cora,” Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning

to have to backtrack

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

towards the water in front of us,

what looks like an entire tree floats by what

river

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

another?”

his voice tight as he turns in his seat and

line. I watch him,

he doesn’t, his brows

I realize that he already knows what I’m just now figuring

storm…is

I whisper, my words

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

other direction. “Do

it, deep down in my 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

the road, though, the

the tree limbs whip

us at any

it starts to hail, big golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I open my mouth to

get out of

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

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