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“Ooh, I love this song!” she cooed, reaching for the volume and turning it up, tapping her toes on the dash as she sang along. I’d never heard it before in my life.
This woman was a complete dichotomy. Junk food eating, sweet first-grade teacher with attachment issues, a fascination for weird side-of-the road tourist traps who sucked dick like a porn star and was just all around… happy. Maybe it was avoiding jail time that helped with that.
I took in the terrain. It looked like Mars, but hot. No one was around. A car was ahead of us about a half mile. Glancing in the rearview mirror, there was an eighteen-wheeler cruising a way behind us.
This stretch of road was deserted as hell and I had the cruise control set to eighty-five. I imagined Mallory driving this all alone and clenched the steering wheel. Instead of blowing past the exit–which seemed like nothing more than ranch access–I blinkered, for no other reason than abiding by the law, and took it.
She swiveled her head around. “This isn’t the exit for the dinosaur thing.”
I didn’t say a word, only turned right off the top of the exit ramp, then pulled over on the side of the dirt road about a quarter mile down. Shut off the car and the radio fell blissfully silent. I took off my seatbelt.
“I’ll stay in the car while you pee,” she offered.
I shifted my leg to face Mallory, grabbed the canister of chips and set it on the floor at her feet, screwed the lid on the tea, then unclipped her belt.
“I don’t have to pee.”
I didn’t know why I was brooding or bothered that she could’ve been out here all alone. Or that she hadn’t confided in me about her arrest. This was Mallory and this was just about sex. With sex, we were in agreement. We liked it hot. We liked it often. We liked it really fucking dirty.
“Ever fuck in a car before?”
Her eyes widened–I could tell even behind her sunglasses–and she glanced around, then back at me.
She shook her head and a sly smile spread across her face.
“Show me what else you learned from your friends,” I ordered.
“You really want to know?”
“Show, not know, tiger.”
She tapped her lip as if she had multiple possibilities she was considering. “Push your seat back.”
Reaching down between my legs, I grabbed the metal bar and did as she requested.
Then she crawled over the center console and into my lap.
“Get ready, doctor, to have your world rocked.”
50
MALLORY
Theo pulledinto Lindy’s driveway after midnight. I was exhausted and my ass was numb. I climbed out, reached my arms overhead and stretched. Compared to Las Vegas, the air in Hunter Valley was crisp and biting cold. I shivered as Theo came around the car.
“Thanks for driving. The entire way.” I hadn’t wanted him to join me. I hadn’t even wanted him to show up in Vegas. Or know anything about what happened. But I had to admit, he made the drive easier. And the sex had certainly been a fun break.
He nodded. “Come on. Let’s get some sleep.”
I looked at him, then the front door, then him again. Maybe my brain was too tired to understand. “You want to stay here?”
He’d never slept over before. Or me in reverse. Not once.
“My car’s not here,” he explained. “I’m not walking and I’m more tired than I remember ever being in residency. Then I stayed up for thirty-six hours straight.”
Oh. Well, that made un-romantic sense. He was staying with me out of necessity, not desire.
Like the house. Like his appearance in Vegas. Like right now. But somehow, even with all that, I felt closer to him. Road trips didn’t give anyone a choice in that. It was really a dangerous feeling.
