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He was right. My long-sleeved shirt was thin, and I was wearing sandals.
“That just means it’s fuzzy-slippers time again.”
“I agree.”
I headed to my room and kicked off my shoes. I was pulling a sweater on when I heard the wind pick up, howling outside. The sky turned darker; it looked like the middle of the night, except it was still early evening.
A shiver ran down my spine, and I headed back to the main room.
I stopped to check the thermostat though to make sure the heat was running. I walked over to the front window and looked outside. “It’s so windy. I can’t believe it’s not raining.”
“It could just be a windstorm.”
“Huh.” I shrugged. “Maybe it is. I’m still holding out for snow though.”
Liam laughed. “Not when it’s this windy. It’d be a blizzard.”
“True.” I turned around, admitting defeat in my hopes for the fluffy white stuff.
“So, since we’re probably not going outside again tonight, what do you want to do?” Liam asked. “And do you want red or white wine?”
“Crap. I left the wine I’d bought today out in the SUV.”
“Do you want me to go and get it?”
I looked out the window. “No,” I said with a sigh. “It’s not worth it. Maybe if it lets up, I’ll run out there. But we still have one more night here. We can drink it tomorrow too.”
Liam opened the cupboard. “In that case, you have two bottles of red left. So, it looks like that’s what you’re drinking.”
“Works for me.”
As he poured me a glass, he asked, “Do you want to watch a movie or play a game?”
His voice sounded tight, and I studied him as he handed me my wine.
I had a feeling he didn’t want to watch anything on the television again since we had almost kissed last night. Or since I had almost kissed him.
I didn’t want him to feel awkward, so I opted for a game instead. “I saw a deck of cards in one of the drawers. Know any good games?”
He grinned at me. “I sure do.”
* * *
We were in the middle of our third game of Six Card Golf when the cabin went black.
I yelped, unable to see anything around me.
I had lost power in the city before, but there were usually cars driving around and lights off in the distance, as only our local grid had lost power. Out here in the middle of nowhere, there were no other lights, and the clouds must be covering the moon because there was nothing from that either.
“Chloe?”
“Yeah.”
“You okay?”
“Yes. Just a little creeped out, is all.”
Without the hum of appliances and electronics, the wind sounded very loud.
