#Chapter322 – 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

hydroplanes and drifts at high speed to our left. I give a little shriek, pressing my eyes.

– anticipating at any moment that

off a

a stop, and I peek my eyes open.

frustrated but in control of the car again.

we’re okay. We just hit some high water

freaked out, looking steadily out the window.

me, putting the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I don’t know how, though, it looks completely flooded…”

.

his phone now,

road, separated from us. They speak for a

up the phone and turning to me. “They can’t come

across the road. We’re going to have to

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

the water in front of us, which looks like it’s

looks like an entire tree floats by what

a river across

so fast?” I ask, a little breathless.

another?”

know,” Roger replies, his voice tight as he

water line. I watch him,

his brows knit together.

that he already

this storm…is not

my words shaking. “What’s

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

heads in the other

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

crossed. Even as we drive back down the road,

around us and the tree limbs whip wildly

at any

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

out of

Cora,” he murmurs, glancing at

know that for sure, I don’t want to ride on this road any longer in this storm – but what’s waiting for us when

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