Date Week: A Novel by Ted Fox

Author:Ted Fox [Fox, Ted]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published: 2024-06-25T00:00:00+00:00

THREE DAYS AGO

Chapter 18

“I don’t know how else to say it, so I’m just going to say it.”

The words were on the tip of Will’s tongue, and he knew no matter how far apart he and Rachel may be on this, no matter what her reaction might be, he couldn’t keep it to himself any longer.

“How could you possibly find that ferry ride scarier than driving over this bridge?”

“Oh, it’s no contest,” she said. “This bridge has been here for a million years and is like a four- or five-minute ride over solid ground. The ferry was twenty minutes at sea.”

“I’m sorry, is the fact that the bridge is old supposed to make me feel more comfortable? Because apparently I’ve read more stories about the crumbling state of our nation’s infrastructure than you have.”

She laughed. “That’s fun for you. I just mean that clearly it’s stood the test of time.”

“And solid ground? Have you looked over the edge at what’s under it? It’s a two-hundred-foot drop into the abyss.”

“I told you I’d be happy to drive,” Rachel said, breaking off a piece of the peanut butter fudge. It was a little after 8:00 Tuesday morning, and they had grabbed coffee and tea but foregone breakfast in order to get on the road early for the four-hour drive downstate to Ann Arbor.

“No, it would be worse if I weren’t the one driving,” Will said. “Having a job to do is distracting me just enough to keep me from having a repeat of the Sears Tower.”

“Well, then here, have some more of this.” She held out a piece of fudge to him. “It’s so delicious you won’t be able to think about anything else.”

With his hands locked at ten and two, he glanced from the road to her offering and then back again. “No thanks, the one was good.”

“Seriously, I’m going to eat the whole slice if you don’t take some.”

“I don’t think I’m really a fudge guy.”

Rachel pulled the piece back and bit it. “You’re kidding, right?” she said through her chewing. “Oh my God—it’s so good. It’s like if they took that sunset last night and turned it into candy.”

“I don’t know. I always want fudge to be better than it actually is. Does that make sense?”

“No. No it doesn’t. And I’m now reconsidering our entire relationship.”

“I’m sorry to hear that. At least we’ll always have last night.”

The return carriage ride to the ferry, the ferry across the water, and then the short drive back to the hotel had basically served as extended foreplay, their bodies in constant contact with one another. The way they’d touched hadn’t been scandalous, but it definitely had conveyed what was going to happen as soon as they got to their room. Rachel had ripped his new shirt yanking it off him. Neither of them had seemed to mind.

“So why’d you let me buy so much?” she asked, returning the fudge box to the back seat.

Even knowing they were within their budget, Will had started

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