Winter Kisses by A.C. Arthur

Author:A.C. Arthur
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kimani Press
Published: 2011-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

The interior of the truck hadn’t reached the freezing point yet. Alex had moved them to the backseat, pulling out blankets that had been stored there by the resort just in case. A good thing the staff had the sense to think about “just in case,” Alex thought as he and Monica slid closer on the backseat. He wrapped an arm around her and they both pulled at their ends of the blankets until they were covered up to their chins.

“How long did the tow truck say they’d be?” Monica asked, trying desperately not to shiver again. She was cold and she was more than a little shaken up by the accident, but Alex had already held her and she’d already assured him she was fine. It was time she acted like it.

“About an hour,” he said, pulling her even closer.

“So we’ll just stay like this, hoping our combined body heat and these blankets will keep us warm until they get here?”

“Sounds like a plan,” he responded with a wry chuckle. “You comfortable?”

She was, surprisingly. With her body tucked against his and the two thick blankets wrapped securely around them, Monica was beginning to feel better. She was beginning to feel safe.

“Yes,” she finally responded. “That other driver was a maniac. I can’t believe he didn’t even stop to see if we were okay. I wish I’d gotten his license number so I could report him.”

“Don’t worry about it,” Alex said. “Let’s talk about something else. Something cheerful.”

“You want cheerful when we’re stuck in this truck that’s stuck in the snow?”

He chuckled, but it didn’t sound sincere. “Humor me.”

Okay, Monica thought. She could do that. Alex had jumped out of the truck and had been moving ever since to get them help and make them as comfortable as possible in these circumstances. If being cheerful was the least Monica could do, she’d certainly give it a try.

“When I was ten I wanted to be a superhero.”

The interior of the truck was instantly silent.

Monica took a nervous breath but wouldn’t look at Alex. “I used the sheet from my bed and tied it around my neck. I’d been in ballet for two years by then so I had leotards and tights in every color imaginable. I put the blue ones on and pretended my green-and-white floral-print sheet was red and used it for a cape. When my costume was complete with my red leather rider boots I stood on the wrought-iron edge of my full-size canopy bed and jumped.

“The plan was to fly across the room to the dresser. Nothing big, I was just practicing. You know, building my way up to things like flying down the steps, into the den and eventually out the front door up to the sky. So, I misjudged the distance or the floral sheet wasn’t as helpful as I thought it should be. Afterward I thought maybe because it was the wrong color. Anyway, I leaped off the bed and was airborne for about ten seconds before the side of my face crashed into the edge of the dresser.

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