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“Good grief,” he said, shaking his head. “I’m going to assume that’s your car?”
“That’s it,” she said. “I must’ve gotten turned around. I had no idea I was on the other side of the road.”
“If you’d driven another three feet you would’ve ended up nose down in a ditch full of water. You’re lucky to be alive. I still don’t know how you managed to find your way to my place.”
“I was very determined. I just kept putting one foot in front of the other, and then I saw the gas lights lit at the entrance to your driveway. It was like a sign from God. I’d never been so happy to see anything in my whole life.”
“I can imagine,” he said. “Is that a rental car?”
“No, it’s mine.” She sighed. “That car has gotten me all over the United States without a hitch, and I’m the one who did her in just before her final destination.”
“Well, she’ll probably survive once she gets towed out of the muck, but you should probably have my sister-in-law take a look at it. She’ll be able to tell you anything you want to know about cars.”
“Your sister-in-law is a mechanic?” she asked, making him grin.
“The best there is,” he said with pride in his voice. “You probably passed her shop on the way into town. Dylan’s Automotive.”
“Yeah, I did,” she said. “Who’s Dylan?”
“I told you, my sister-in-law,” he said. “Her name is Dylan, and she’s married to my brother Aidan. They just got married last year. Finally.”
He looked at her little car again, and just shook his head. “I don’t mean to rain on your parade…”
“Ha, ha,” she said.
“But how many inches of snow do you think that thing can drive through?” he asked.
“I have no idea,” she said. “But I’m sure Dylan can tell me. And if I need something else, I’m sure she’ll tell me that too. I’ve got time to figure something out unless we’re going to get twenty inches tomorrow.”
“As long as you’re thinking about it,” he said. “What do you need to get out of your car?”
“I can make do until I can call a tow truck tomorrow. I really don’t want to get wet again, and I’m too tired to do anything with it anyway.”
Duncan hated to break it to her, but she’d be lucky to find a tow truck driver to come all the way out here in the next century.
“I’ll get it,” he said.
“I appreciate it,” she said. “The suitcases with my clothes and toiletries are in the trunk.
He pulled the Hummer up so the back seat was even with the trunk of her car, and then held out his hand for her keys. She passed them over wordlessly.
He zipped up his rain jacket and then pulled up the hood, tying it beneath his chin, and then he got out into the rain, waiting until the last minute to pop her trunk so her things didn’t get wet.
For someone who’d uprooted her whole life and was starting over in a new location, she sure didn’t bring much with her. There was a designer carry-on bag with fancy initials all over it and a matching duffle. He grabbed them both and tossed them in the back seat of the Hummer.
There were boxes in the back seat, and two more in the passenger seat, so he went ahead and grabbed them too.
“You travel light for a woman,” he said when he got back in.
“I can’t decide if I should be insulted or not,” she said.
“It’s just interesting,” he said. “My mom packs this much for a weekend vacation.”
He put the SUV in drive and headed back toward the fork in the road. When they passed the big tree, he saw her shiver and he turned down the A/C.
“Everything okay?” he asked.
“Fine,” she said. “It’s just that I might have hit that tree a little bit.”
