#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 pa*s 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.

my whole body tense – anticipating at any

a

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

right, Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control of

just hit some

car?” I gasp, still

picking up his phone, glancing at the road

.

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

stopped on the other side of the flooded road, separated from us. They speak for a few moments, trying to figure out a plan,

the phone and

the road. We’re going to have

with anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the river, or

water in front of us,

the minute. As I watch, what looks like an entire tree floats

a river

ask, a little breathless. “Between one car length

another?”

tight as he turns in his seat and puts the car

rising water line. I watch him, waiting for him

he doesn’t, his brows knit

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

storm…is

my words shaking.

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

the other direction. “Do

us out of this. But

down the road, though, the storm does not let

tree

us at any

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

get out

no good, Cora,” he

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

think I remember…” Roger begins, peering out the window, but his words fade off as he looks. I wait, holding my breath, not wanting to interrupt his concentration, looking out. the windshield along with him, unable to tear my eyes away. But as I

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