#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.

tense – anticipating at any moment that we’ll slam into

a cliff

come to a

all right, Cora,” Roger murmurs, frustrated but

we’re okay. We just

car?” I gasp, still freaked out,

it,” he tells me, putting the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing

.

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

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

Roger says, hanging up the phone and turning to me. “They

going to have to backtrack and find a new

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

water in

watch, what looks like an entire

river across the

I ask, a little breathless. “Between

another?”

his voice tight as he turns in his seat and puts the

from the rising water line.

his brows

already knows what I’m just

storm…is not

whisper, my words shaking.

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

heads in the other direction. “Do

my gut, that I trust him to get us out of this. But instead of telling him

crossed. Even as we drive back down the

crashes around us and the tree

us at

golf-ball sized pieces of ice, I

get out of

Cora,” he murmurs, glancing at me. “We have to

more anxious and simultaneously relieved. I want to stop I know that for sure, I don’t want to ride on this road

the windshield along with him, unable to tear

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