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“You do?” he asked.
I nodded as I clung to the armrest. “Last night I was so scared I almost went down to the basement to sleep with you.”
“You should have.”
The gravelly tone in his voice had my lady parts fluttering. My mind instantly started flashing all of the fantasies I’d played out last night when I was cuddling Fozzie in the guest room.
Me tiptoeing downstairs and slipping into the bed, trying not to wake him.
Him, not saying a word as he wrapped his arms around me and pulled me against his warm, hard body.
One of his hands slips beneath my shirt and begins to slowly move up my torso to my breasts as the other hand dips beneath my panties and moves south between my legs.
Just as my X-rated fantasy was getting good it stopped playing in my mind when I saw not one but two flashes in the sky, followed by loud cracks seconds later.
“The next storm wasn’t supposed to hit until tonight. Can you check online to see what this is?” Cash’s voice sounded tense.
I tried not to let that add to my anxiety since he never got tense as I grabbed my phone and pulled up the latest local weather reports. “They’re saying that this system picked up speed and velocity and turned on a dime. It was supposed to be heading north but instead veered west. It looks like were right on the edge of it and it should pass in the next half hour.”
I pulled up two more news outlets and saw that they were the both saying the same thing and the Doppler images they were showing backed them up.
It turned out that you can’t believe everything you read on the internet, because we’d been driving for hours and it had only gotten worse. I kept checking the news, but apparently, the forecasters had all taken notes from the contractor in The Money Pit who kept telling Shelley Long and Tom Hanks it would take “two weeks” to finish the house. In this case, the meteorologists kept saying the system would move through within the next thirty minutes.
If I was with anyone else, or worse by myself, I would have been having a full-on panic attack and would’ve probably needed to be hospitalized. But since I was with Cash, I’d been able to white knuckle it.
For the past hour I’d been counting the seconds between the flashes of light and the crack of thunder. It had been pretty steadily a ten to fifteen second delay, but when it got to five, I wondered if maybe it was time to call it.
“Do you think we should pull over?”
“I’m getting off at the next exit.”
I pulled up the navigation on my phone and saw that there was an exit in five miles.
“See if there’s any place for us to wait this out.”
I checked to see what was off the exit. I thought maybe there would be a diner we could find refuge in. There wasn’t.
“There’s a motel. The Snooze Lodge. It has over a thousand reviews and four and a half star rating on Yelp.” I wasn’t sure why I was giving him so much information. If I was nervous because of the storm, or nervous because I’d just suggested we stay in a motel together.
Probably both.
