License to Love: Holiday Box Set (Contemporary Romance) by James Kristen

Author:James, Kristen [James, Kristen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-11-28T04:00:00+00:00

Four

Branches swept over the car as Nick drove down an old, narrow gravel road. Cora thought it’d been about two hours. It was hard to guess the distance because he’d driven in circles and had to slow down for the twisting roads (especially for the gravel ones). He pulled the car into a small, worn out garage (or maybe it was a shed), and turned the ignition off. She was glad the headlights stayed on for a minute.

Her stomach growled in the silence. She almost wished she’d eaten dinner, but the growling was partly from nerves too.

“There’s a path leading up to the cabin. I’ll grab the flashlight.” He also grabbed her bag and came around to her door and opened it. “You can get some rest inside.”

Sleep? At a time like this?

When she hesitated, he squatted down in front of her and held the flashlight to the side so it wouldn’t shine directly on her face. “We can talk inside. I don’t want to risk Alexander listening to us.”

“He would follow us all the way out here?”

Nick stood and pulled her up; he wrapped a small blanket around her shoulders. “That man doesn’t stop for anything. Here, you’ll want to change your shoes to walk up there.”

She didn’t want to go to this cabin at all, but she didn’t want to be out alone in the darkness either. She pulled her tennis shoes from the bag and switched into them.

The path was there, but barely there. They had to walk through the ferns and briars up a hill, in the dark, with Nick’s flashlight lighting the way ahead of them. She couldn’t see anything outside of the circle of light, so she couldn’t say if there really was a cabin up the hill. It seemed more likely that they were hiking into the deep, dark forest. Although, there had been a shed to park in, so there had to be a house to go with it. Her teeth started chattering from nerves.

“Are you cold? Are your legs okay?” he asked, turning and shining the light down on her.

“I have much bigger problems to worry about than scratching my legs up.”

He paused and swung the light around, almost as if he felt the same eerie sensation as she did. She tried to see into the blackness and considered racing off into the trees. Nick took a hold of her blanket and gently pulled her along. He was guiding her. It wasn’t menacing at all. She began to soften toward him. No. She had to hold onto her anger and keep the distance between them.

The trees opened and he shined the light up towards a small wooden building. Really, it was a tiny shack trying to hold its own against the forest.

“I’m sorry about this dump,” Nick said, looking the place over.

The wood structure looked like a building from an oil painting: lots of character, but not good for much. Instead of a porch or steps, just a plain wood door marked the entrance.

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