“A direction.”
“North,” I said with a small shake of my head and a playful roll of my eyes.
“Alright,” he said as he pulled out onto the street.
We weren’t going back to the cabin.
Even if I’d been paying attention on the way here and could tell we weren’t going the way we had come, I knew he had something else planned.
“Silas, where are we going?”
“North,” he answered like that was all he was going to give me.
“I don’t even have any clothes. Everything is back at the cabin.” I nearly screeched the words thinking about how I only had the panties I was currently wearing.
“No worries, we’ll stop and get some stuff.”
Three hours on the road and we pulled off to grab something to eat. I’d been a nervous wreck this morning and hadn’t even been able to handle any kind of breakfast. Now that I could breathe, my stomach was very vocal about how empty it was.
“I haven’t eaten at a place like this in a long time,” Silas said as he pulled up in front of the roadside diner that looked like you’d gain twenty pounds just by breathing in the air.
“It smells so good,” I said with excitement in my tone.
Being with Ray, well, there wasn’t a lot of this kind of food around. Everything was fancy. Even the places he got take-away from.
I ordered a milkshake right away and even asked for an extra cherry on top.
Silas smiled at me, the kind of smile that seemed like he wasn’t even aware he was doing it.
He was really happy sitting there with me in a dirty, rundown diner in the middle of nowhere.
And I realized that I was too.
“I think we need matching shirts,” I said to him as I nudged his side with my elbow.
He looked up from paying the lady at the counter to see the array of shirts hanging there with the diner’s logo on them.
The lady looked at him with a raised brow.
“We’ll take two,” he said and gave me the side-eye.
Then we were off again.
That night in the cheap motel room— that I had insisted on, by the way— he slipped into his shirt and I laughed at how snug it looked on him. I definitely remember him saying he wanted a large. I checked the tag and saw that it was a medium. I had a feeling the lady had done that on purpose. I mean, it fit him, like perfectly, in the way that it was like a second skin.
I so did not mind it at all.
“Is this look working for you?” he asked with a sexy smirk on his face.
“It’s doing something,” I said and tried really hard not to crack up.
Then I was airborne, my back landing on the bed a second later.
Silas jumped on top of me, using his arms to hold his weight from crushing me.
“Let’s start a new life right now,” he said with a smile. One that wasn’t weighed down by darkness like it had been.
“What?” I asked him, my head cocking to the side in confusion.
