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The highway she left on was a four lane highway, this was a two lane. She had taken a wrong road somewhere. She tried to remember where the road had forked and how far back. She'd just have to turn around and head the other way. The solution seemed simple enough. Her brother had told her many times if she was lost to go back the way she came. Good advise.
Checking her mirrors she saw one car, and it was far off, so she turned around and headed back the way she came. Then it happened, a tire blew and she skidded to a fast stop on the side of the road again, nearly bumping her head on the dash.
She groaned, unfastened her seat belt and checked herself. None of this of thing happened to her back home in Dallas. How could she possibly have so much bad luck? It made no sense. All she wanted to do was get back to the dude ranch. The town hadn't been but about ten miles down the highway. There was only one fork in the road. So, she'd taken the wrong road. Now, she was faced with a storm that seemed destined to last the night and a flat tire which she didn't know how to change. She'd been through that once before and she wasn't going to get drenched trying to do something she didn't know how to do in the first place. She silently cursed herself for not checking the tires before she left. However, under the circumstances, she couldn't be blamed for that one. But how could she have known she would run into so much trouble. Besides, this was a rental car, she wasn't buying tires for a rental. She checked her cell phone. It was dead. She'd forgotten to plug it into the charger. Great! Was there anything she could do right?
It was too much. All she could do was cry. She laid her head down on the steering wheel and cried like a baby. It was a release, and it helped her emotionally, but it wasn't going to get her out of this predicament.
Suddenly she heard a tap on the window. She started not to react at all, thinking it could be anyone, and with not the best of intentions on their minds. But realizing the person on the other side wasn't going away when they tapped on the window again, she jerked up from the wheel and glanced at a dark looming shadow. Then a bright light shone right in her face. She winced and turned her head away from the light.
Before she knew what was happening, someone reached inside the car and pulled her out and into the rain.
"Damn little fool. What were you thinking? Where were you going?" The very familiar voice asked.
She knew that voice, and she shivered when she looked up to see those cold brown eyes staring at her again through a bolt of lightning.
Ben Hogg, and looking more handsome than she remembered.
"I got lost..."
Her voice didn't sound like her own.
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"Lost?" He politely opened the door of the squad car to shove her inside and went around to the other side to get in.
"What are you doing out so late, and alone?"
"I am an adult, Sheriff." She rolled her eyes at him. What was he, her father, for goodness sake?
"Really, I wonder."
She bit her lip. Well, he was right, she really did look like an idiot, but it wasn't her fault.
"I had a flat."
"No kidding. Well, leave it to you to find disaster."
"Haven't you ever had car trouble?" she blasted back this time, unwilling to let him get the best of her again.
"Not recently, no. And not in this kind of weather."
He noted her dress clinging to her and grabbed a blanket from the backseat and threw over her. "Cover up before you catch a chill."
"You always carry blankets with you?"
"This isn’t my car, it belongs to my deputy, he usually has his dog with him, and he carries it to wipe him off when it rains. Any more questions?"
"I guess not," she settled down. "Except…are you going to fix my flat so I can go home?"
Naturally, he wouldn't notice that she was dressed to the nine's. That she'd borrowed one of Janet's dresses and as she tried so hard to impress her with her lovesick act.
"Do you have a spare?" He asked.
"I don't know, this is a rental car, remember?" She shot him a frown.
When he was quiet she looked at him.
"Look Sheriff I didn't ask for your help," she began only to be cut off.
