Opposites Attract in Sedona: A Later-in-Life Romance (Sedona Silver Romance) by Lynne M. Spreen

Author:Lynne M. Spreen [Spreen, Lynne M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silver Life Press
Published: 2023-06-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

J ohn was a mess. Worried as hell. She shouldn’t have left. Even a bruiser truck like hers couldn’t deal with a flash flood. He’d seen one tumble a freight train.

Wouldn’t matter if she had known how to drive it, drove it regularly, and had it down cold, she was still no match for floods.

He stared out the window. The rain was coming down hard now. That canyon would soon be deadly. She had no idea.

For the next thirty minutes, he wouldn’t try to text her because if she was going to make it out of there alive, she couldn’t be distracted by a phone.

Damn it all, anyway.

It wasn’t like him to sit here helpless while somebody he cared about put herself in danger. And there wasn’t a thing he could do except wait.

He slugged down the water, drained the glass.

John liked Celeste. A lot. She was pretty, smart, and braver than she knew. He gave himself a little bit of credit for that. She’d been scared out of Massachusetts, but now she was gaining confidence.

Maybe he shouldn’t have kissed her, but it had been a relief to tell her about his past, to unload some of the weight that sat on his shoulders. She was getting comfortable in Sedona, looking like she meant to stay, so he assumed she and the husband were separated. Also, he had waited, and she made the first move, so it seemed like clear sailing from there.

Guess not.

A bolt of lightning flashed, blinding him, and then the thunder hit so fast, he knew it was right on top of them. John thought he was pretty tough but that sucker had him shaking in his shoes.

He hoped Celeste got past the canyon before it let loose.

* * * * *

Rain battered the Beast, and growing streams of water raced across the road in front of her. Lightning flashed through the purple dark of late afternoon. Celeste gripped the wheel. She shouldn’t have waited so long to leave. Either that or she shouldn’t have left.

Delicious, confusing thought, one she couldn’t think of now.

The dirt road in front of John’s house had been neatly graded. That ended when she reached the county road, much more harrowing with deep ruts and soft mud. Thank God the truck’s tires were so big and capable. She considered switching into four-wheel-drive but couldn’t take the time to figure it out. Every second would count. She had to get across the canyon and the creek that flowed out of it, while she still could.

A half-mile from John’s, she reached the beginning of the downhill slope leading to the creekbed, and even from there she could see how much the flow had grown since she first crossed it. Her wipers were on high, though the rain was falling so hard she could barely see through the windshield. The truck raced down the slope. When its tires hit the water, it was as if the Red Sea was parting. The big tires clawed their way over freshly exposed rocks, causing the truck to slip and jerk.

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