#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.

at any

a cliff

to

Roger murmurs, frustrated but in control

just hit some

car?” I gasp, still

the car in park and picking up his phone, glancing at the road ahead of us. “I don’t know how, though, it looks completely

.

on his phone

for

good, Cora,” Roger says, hanging up the

We’re going to have to

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

and gestures towards the water in front

As I watch, what looks like an entire tree floats by

a river across the

I ask, a little breathless. “Between one car length

another?”

as he turns in his seat and puts the car

water line. I

his brows

that he already knows what I’m just

this storm…is

I whisper, my words shaking.

through it, Cora,” he promises, his eyes

in the other direction.

out of this. But instead of telling him that, I just nod, sitting

crossed. Even as we drive back down the road,

tree limbs whip wildly

us at any

pieces of ice, I

get out of

Cora,” he

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

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

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