Stay Until We Break by Mercy Brown
Author:Mercy Brown
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-06-20T21:00:00+00:00
Chapter Twelve
Sonia
In case you’re wondering by now if the road is magic, the answer is an unequivocal hell yes. Hell yes, it is.
Case in point: the largest full moon I’ve ever seen is hanging low in the sky over Center Hill Lake, which you can conveniently get to off of Interstate 40, about an hour outside of Nashville. That comes in handy when you’re running from the police, the Pumps, and a horde of irate hotel guests at two a.m. on a Wednesday morning in August.
By three thirty, I find myself sitting beneath that full moon with Cole, dabbing a paper towel damp with Bactine on a small cut next to his eye, now swollen and aching from the fist he hosted there back at the Sheraton. Even so, he looks beautiful to me, lounging in the moonlight, his long legs stretched out as he props himself up on his elbows and lets me tend to him. He’s still smiling even though I know it has to hurt. I lean over to wipe a spot of blood away from his scalp and feel his hand on the back of my neck. He pulls me right down on top of him and everything disappears inside the warmth of his mouth as he kisses me, soft, slow, and deep.
A few yards behind us, Elliot and Emmy are singing an extra slow, quiet duet of “Ring of Fire” while Anton strums quietly on the acoustic guitar. Crown the Robin pass what’s left of the Jägermeister around the campfire. We don’t even know whose it is—Anton just grabbed it from the Pumps’ hotel suite when we ran. As Cole kisses me I can hear the choir of them, Anton, Vincent, Elliot, Miles, Travis, and Emmy, all singing, Down, down, down, as the flames went higher . . . accompanied by Joey’s signature buzz saw snore soaring out into the night from the back of Steady Beth, where he passed out on the way here. Without his shirt or his only pair of shoes.
“At least he got laid tonight,” Emmy says, looking over her shoulder at the van behind her. She takes a swig off the bottle.
“The road will make him a man, yet,” Elliot says, stretching before the fire.
“Looks like it made a man out of Cole, too,” Emmy says, wagging her eyebrows at us. “Sunny, I can’t believe you and Cole got married before me and Travis.”
“Travis married us in the Motel 6 parking lot last night, remember? You were my maid of honor and everything.”
“Goddamn, I’m never drinking PBR again,” she says and makes a fake retching sound.
“Whoa, wait, did we miss an announcement?” Elliot says. “Emmylou, are you and Travis planning to get hitched, sweetheart?”
“No! That’s not what I meant . . .” Emmy says, laughing, but then she stops and I see a wistful look cross her face as she turns to Travis. “Is it?”
“Emmylou, are you saying you want to make an honest man of me?” Travis teases, and holy crow the way they look at each other is intense.
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