#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.

body tense – anticipating at any moment that

off a

slow, and then come to a stop, and I

all right, Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but

okay. We just hit

I gasp, still freaked out, looking

car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at

.

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

us. They speak for a few moments, trying

the phone and turning to me. “They

road. We’re going to have to

anxiety. “We can’t like… ford the

raises an eyebrow and gestures towards the water in front

I watch, what looks like

river

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

another?”

Roger replies, his voice tight as he turns in his seat and puts

the rising water line. I watch

his brows knit

realize that he already knows what

storm…is

whisper, my words

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

and heads in the other direction. “Do you

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

drive back down the road, though,

tree

on us at any

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

out of

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

know that for sure, I don’t want to ride on

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 watch – a red neon glow comes barely into sight in the distance. “Yes,” he murmurs. “A motel.

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