She nodded. “The patrolman said it got pushed over by the snow and then buried.”
“The patrolman?”
She nodded again. “He came to visit me earlier this morning, to see if I was okay.”
He hadn’t come to my room, which told me he wasn’t just worried about her health; he wanted to see her. Maybe cash in on the fact he saved her life…
She was watching me so I nodded and stepped toward the chair on the other side of the room. I didn’t have any reason to feel jealous. If I wasn’t trying to kill her, I wouldn’t be spending this much time with her anyway. Besides, she wasn’t my type.
And she’s too good for you,something whispered in the back of my mind.
It was true. Even if I wasn’t trying to kill her, I still wouldn’t be good enough.
“So, they said we could go. You feeling up to leaving?” I asked.
“Yes, please. I go on vacation to get away from work and I end up in a clinic just like the one I was trying to get away from.” She shook her head and smiled.
“Why aren’t you mad at me?” I blurted out.
She stopped in the middle of pulling on her sweatshirt and looked at me. “Why would I be mad at you?”
Because I stood there and debated if I should let you drown. Because the only reason I pulled you out was because I figured you would die on the way down the mountain.
I didn’t say those thoughts out loud, though. Instead, I replied, “Because I was driving recklessly.”
She finished pulling on her sweatshirt and pushed her feet into a pair of boots.
“If it wasn’t for you, I probably would’ve died. You saved my life.”
I held back a wince. Thank God Charming and G.R. weren’t around to hear that. I’d probably be recalled on the spot. “I don’t think it was me. It was the patrolman.”
“He did warm me and give me CPR,” she began.
No, he just wanted to cop a feel. I thought bitterly as she continued.
“But the doctor said the only reason we’re alive is because you pulled us out of the water so fast.”
“I got lucky,” I mumbled, hoping she’d been so out of it she hadn’t seen who really pulled us out.
“You can call it luck,” she said, “but I’m going to say it was your quick thinking.”
I didn’t argue. If she wanted to believe I was the hero I wasn’t going to stop her. It only added to the trust between us so the next time I tried to kill her it would work.
I was running out of chances.
I was running out of time.
“The cabin isn’t far from here. The nurse called someone from the rental place to give us a ride back there,” Piper said, not picking up my preoccupation.
I nodded. “You need to drive home. I lost my glasses.”
“We can stop and get some new ones,” she offered.
“I have an extra pair at home.”
“Oh. Good. Well, then, let’s get out of here,”
Suddenly I wasn’t in a hurry to get home. Charming would be waiting and Grim would be wondering why he never got a call to come see the body.
