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MARINA
My cell was ringing. The sky had opened up and was dumping buckets. I’d never seen it rain so hard. The wipers on my little rental barely worked, even on the highest setting. I was practically crawling down the back road, and it was going to take me hours to get to Audrey’s.
“s**t,” I said aloud, fumbling to grab the phone from my purse on the passenger seat. “Hello.”
“Hello, Marina Thompson?”
A huge flash of lightning cut across the sky, and it illuminated the road in front of me. It wasn’t dark yet, but it might as well have been midnight. I saw the road in front of me—or lack of it—and a split second later, I slammed on the brakes.
A car-rattling boom followed directly, which made me jump in my seat.
“Shit.”
A huge river of water was cutting across the road.
“Hello?” t
