#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.

– anticipating at any moment that

a

then come to a stop, and

Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control

just hit some

car?” I gasp, still freaked

park and picking up his phone, glancing at the

.

on his phone now,

road, separated from us. They speak for a few

hanging up the phone and turning

across the road. We’re going to have to backtrack

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

towards the water in front of us, which looks like

I watch, what looks

river across

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

another?”

tight as he turns in his seat and puts the

water line.

he doesn’t, his brows knit

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

this storm…is not

whisper, my words shaking.

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

other direction.

out of this. But instead of telling him

as we drive back down the road, though, the storm does not

and the tree limbs whip wildly

us at any

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

get out of

“It’s no good, Cora,” he murmurs, glancing

ride on this road any longer in this storm – but what’s

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

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