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“We are still in the city,” Blaze said. “It’s nuts, but we are making ground. The driver asked if we could meet at Patriot Place. Longer for you but shorter for us and he knows some other shorter routes. He thinks we can get there in like forty minutes.”
“It’s still better than the city. Let’s aim for that. I’m cruising pretty well right now. Keep me posted.”
An hour later, he was actually pulling into Patriot Place and made much better time than he thought but still no word from Blaze, so he was assuming they weren’t there yet.
He parked and got out. Might as well piss and get some food. The boys would be hungry, he was sure, as he knew he was.
His phone went off with a text. He looked to see they were ten minutes out and moving pretty fast. What should have been a thirty-minute drive for them from the airport was two hours easily, but he didn’t care at this point.
He found a takeout burger place and got in line, then got to the window. “Can I have five cheeseburgers, five orders of small fries and two chicken strip things?”
He pulled his card out and swiped it. “To go or eat in?”
“To go,” he said. “Can I get four bottles of water too?”
It came up and he swiped again, then moved to the pickup side. There was a vending machine to the side and he went there, got three candy bars, and came back. That would be enough to get them through the ninety-minute drive back and if they were held up, they’d be fine.
Knox got his food, threw the candy bars in the bag and went back to his truck.
The wind was blowing enough that it sent his short hair all over the place. His fingertips were even numb at this point and he hoped he still had blankets in the back of his truck if they were needed.
No snow yet, but the thought of being in gridlock traffic wasn’t appealing to him though he didn’t think that would happen. The further they got away from here and back home, the easier it would be to make it.
He was putting the food in his truck and lifting the collar of his jacket higher around his neck when his phone vibrated with a text that they were pulling in now.
He told them where he was parked and stood there waiting until he saw the small sedan come up next to him, almost blocking him in.
Blaze got out with another kid. Knox hadn’t seen his brother in three years since his high school graduation and maybe five years prior to that.
Both kids had a duffel bag with them and were wearing nothing more than a hoodie.
What the fuck?!
He hated to feel like an adult and lecture them so he kept it to himself.
“Thanks, Knox,” Blaze said.
“I’ve got to piss,” Mark said. “Do we have time?”
“Go,” he said. “Both of you. I’ve got food in the truck and blankets if you’re cold. I’ll settle up here.”
The boys took off in a mad rush for the building and he moved to the driver’s door. The window came down and he pulled out ten bills to hand over. Double what he’d promised. The damn Uber drive alone was going to be huge and he didn’t want his college-aged brother to have to deal with that.
“Here you go,” he said. “Don’t charge his card.”
The driver took the bills and counted them. “This is a thousand dollars.”
“It is. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate what you did for them and getting them out of the city. Get your ass home and be safe.”
“This is more than I make in a week. I just do this part time,” the guy said. He looked to be in his mid twenties or so.
“Good deeds never go unnoticed,” he said. “Seriously. We appreciate it.”
The guy pulled away and took off with a big smile on his face.
Blaze and Mark came running out and got in his truck.
“I’m starving,” Blaze said. “We haven’t eaten since we left the hotel at seven. Every time we wanted to get something, the lines were too long and we were worried they might call our flight. Then we gave up and I called you.”
