Between Us by Christine Bell

Author:Christine Bell [Bell, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Frog Prints Publishing
Published: 2014-12-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Lola

“Where are we going?"

When Reid called me two days before, I’d already talked myself out of him. In fact, I was feeling pretty grateful that he hadn’t let things progress between us, because, in the harsh light of day, there was no question I’d dodged a bullet.

So when he did finally call, I had every intention of saying no. But when I heard his voice on the line, I couldn’t spit it out. Now, it was Wednesday afternoon and I had spent the past couple days talking myself in and out of this date a dozen times. We were heading away from the Strip—away from the city altogether, actually—and I still wasn’t sure I’d made the right decision.

At the same time, I was filled with an anticipation I hadn’t felt in ages.

“Seriously, Reid, I’m all for surprises, but now I’m literally dying to know. Where the heck are we going?”

“I’m taking you to the desert,” he said, turning his head to shoot me a crooked smile that sent an instant shiver over me in spite of the ninety-five degree temperature.

I paused and let that marinate for a second. The desert? That was a new spot for a date. Or maybe this wasn’t a date after all.

The thought filled me with despair and relief all at once. If he was as confused as I was about what was happening between us, maybe he didn’t know either.

“The desert? Like, so you can hit me in the head with a shovel, rob me and throw me in a shallow grave so the coyotes can eat me kind of desert?"

"Don't be ridiculous. If I was going to do some digging, it would be at night when it was way cooler out." He snorted and leaned down to turn up the radio.

That should've been unsettling. He might be taking up a lot of square footage in my head these days, but he was still pretty much a stranger. If there was one thing my mother warned me about when I was a kid, it was stranger danger.

Instead of feeling apprehensive, I settled back into the seat of his car and enjoyed the ride and the knowledge that I didn't have to go to work that night. As much as I tried to put a good face on it, the thought of gyrating around in a thong and a headdress was wearing on me even more than usual after the incident the other night, and I could already feel that sense of restlessness in my belly. That little nugget of panic that told me it was almost time to go. That the place I was in was starting to stick to me like tar. It was one I’d experienced a dozen times before and it always preceded a change of zip code. The fear that, once a place started to take root, I'd be trapped there, in whatever dreck I was living, forever.

This time, though, there was a bright spot.

"Here we are," Reid announced, pulling into a parking lot.

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