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“Some people thrive in it.Okay, we have to go back down so I can take you to the next spot, where we’ll have lunch.”
“Oh, shit.”She sucks in a breath and clenches her eyes shut again.
I shake my head, laughing.“Your confidence in me is awe-inspiring.”
ChapterTwenty
Erin
“Ihave confidence in you,” I insist, still clenching my eyes closed.“But I don’t like the ascent or the descent.I think I must have died in a plane crash or something in a previous life.I’ll have to ask my cousin, Haley, about that.”
“Haley would know about your past lives?”He doesn’t sound so sure.
“Maybe.I don’t know.Are we down yet?”I donotwant to have the first panic attack of my life sitting next to the man that I’ve fallen in love with while he’s trying to show me his ranch.
“Almost,” he murmurs.After a few minutes, I finally hear him say, “Yes.We’re down.”
I crack one eye open, and when I see that we’re level again, I open the other one.“Whew.”
“So, aside from a possible fatal plane crash in a past life, you don’t know why you’re afraid of heights?”
“Not really.There wasn’t one specific incident or anything, if that’s what you mean.”I reach into my pocket and pull out a peppermint and pop it into my mouth.“Mint?”
“Sure.”He accepts it.“So, no specific scary heights incident.”
“Nope.But I’ve known since I was little that I didn’t want to go on the scary rides at the fair or at any of the amusement parks.They make me feel sick, and I don’t like being up high.”
“A lot of people get motion sick.”
“I know, and it sucks.Anyway, I avoid it.”
“How do you do in a plane?When you travel?”
“Not bad, actually.I just make sure I’m in an aisle seat toward the front of the plane.Did you know that if you’re prone to motion sickness, it’s not usually as bumpy toward the front of the plane when they hit that unexpected rough air?”
“I don’t think I’ve heard that, but Ididknow that you’re the safest in the middle of the plane.”
“You know, I have a theory that if you’re going down, there is no safest place to be.Other than the ground, that is.”
I turn in the seat so I can look at him.
“Are you the thrill seeker type?”
“No.”He smiles over at me.“Definitely not.But I don’t mind roller coasters.Johnny loves them, too.The ones he’s allowed to ride, anyway.However, Holly is just like you.They make her sick.”
“Then she and I can eat funnel cakes while we watch you two risk your lives on a roller coaster.”I stop and frown.
“What’s wrong?”
“I shouldn’t just assume that you’d invite me to a carnival or something.That’s a huge assumption.”
“Oh, we’d invite you,” he assures me and reaches out to take my hand, pulls it up to his lips, and nibbles on my knuckles.“We like having you around, Doc.”
“That’s nice to hear.Holy shit!”I pull my hand out of his and point.“What isthat?”
“What does it look like?”He puts the Jeep in park and turns off the engine.
“A hole in the side of the mountain, with a door.”
