#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 we’ll

a cliff

slow, and then come to a stop, and I

Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control of the car again. “We

just hit some high

car?” I gasp, still freaked out, looking steadily out the

putting the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I

.

on his phone now,

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

Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to

We’re going to have to backtrack

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

an eyebrow and gestures towards the water in

minute. As I watch, what looks like an entire

a river across the

ask, a little breathless.

another?”

voice tight as he turns

rising water line. I watch

doesn’t, his brows

already knows what I’m just

this storm…is not

whisper, my words

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

and heads in the other direction.

him to get us out of this. But instead

drive back down the road,

around us and the tree limbs whip wildly

us at any

starts to hail, big golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I

get out of

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

ride on this road any longer in this storm – but what’s waiting for us when we stop? Something is fighting

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

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