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

at high speed to our left. I give a little shriek, pressing my

anticipating at any moment that we’ll slam

a

we just slow, and then come to a

frustrated but in control of the car again.

we’re okay. We just hit

other car?” I gasp, still freaked

and picking up his phone,

.

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

the other side of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for

Roger says, hanging up the phone and

going to have to backtrack

anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the

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

minute. As I watch, what looks

a river across

that happen so fast?” I ask,

another?”

he

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

he doesn’t, his

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

this storm…is

I whisper, my words shaking.

going to get through it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes on the road

other direction. “Do you

him to get us out of this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting back

as we drive back down the road, though, the

around us and the tree limbs whip wildly above,

on us at

to hail, big golf-ball sized pieces of

out of

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

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