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“No, no, no,” I hiss, scrabbling to grab the seat to pull the bike back over toward me, onto its kickstand. I need to stop this thing from falling.
But it’s heavy, and I haven’t been to the gym in far too long. That soft, luxurious leather I’d just been admiring slips from my grasp, and the bike tips all the way over…and into the next one.
Horror ices my veins as I watch the line of bikes crash over like a hellish line of dominos. One, two, three…they just keep falling over one after the other. I stand at the end of the line, wincing at each sound of metal on metal, metal on asphalt, metal on concrete.
My breath comes in short, staggered gasps as my shoulders squeeze up to my ears, the awful spectacle in front of me lasting an eternity, until the very last bike in the line trembles, and finally crashes over onto its side.
The silence is even worse. It presses down on me as I watch the line of tumbled motorcycles stretching out in front of me, wondering if I should just turn on my heels and run all the way back to Heart’s Cove. I can call Trina and tell her I was held up in Reno. I’ll come up with an alibi. I was never here.
Then—footsteps.
Frozen, I gulp down a hard gasp when Lee steps out of the shadows, his eyes sweeping over the trail of destruction caused by my clumsiness, finally landing on me.
There’s nothing friendly in his gaze. He stares at me for an interminable moment, until I can’t take it anymore.
“Oopsie daisy,” I squeak.
The silence presses in, and Lee tilts his head a few degrees to the side. “Oopsie,” he growls, taking two steps to close the distance between us, “daisy?”
