Chapter 6 - Driving Through The Blinding White Winter Storm
The headlights of Audrey’s SUV cut feeble paths through a swirling vortex of blinding white snow.
Trees bent violently under the weight of accumulating ice, snapping overhead and crashing across the dark asphalt roads.
Eli slept soundly in his car seat in the back, exhausted from the mounting tension of the past few days.
Audrey gripped the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles shone stark white against the dark dashboard.
The GPS navigation screen flickered and died, plunging the center console into sudden, disorienting darkness.
She turned the steering wheel sharply toward the private northern access road leading to the historic Whitaker estate.
That was where Lucas claimed he worked late into the night inside the family’s ancestral archives building.
The iron security gates loomed out of the swirling snowstorm like giant skeletal ribs against the gray sky.
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Audrey pulled her vehicle to a halt right in front of the massive electronic keypad barrier.
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