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At a loss, she shook her head. “I’m sorry, I don’t understand.”
He gestured at her lap with the device. “The numbers.”
Tess looked at the pad in her lap. The cards were still pinned to the cover. “The numbers…” It took her a second, but she gasped and spun toward him, dropping her feet to the ground. “You know what these are?”
“The bottom ones,” he said. “It’s longitude and latitude, right?”
Her mouth opened at the same slow pace she used to rise to her feet. “Coordinates.”
“Yeah,” he said, doing something on his device. “Let me see.” Tess turned the notebook toward him and he typed the numbers in one at a time. “This is supposed to change them into degrees, minutes, and seconds, give you an exact… There we go.”
He turned it around to show her the screen, but it took a few breaths before she gathered the courage to look at it.
There, laid out, so simple, was an electronic map, a little pin graphic in the center. Above it were other numbers with letters and degree symbols.
Unclipping her pen from the notepad, she wrote them down. They seemed to lead to nowhere, but still she copied the vague address printed above.
A smile spread on her face. Grabbing the older guy, she pulled him down and smacked a kiss to his cheek. “Thank you. Oh my God, you have no idea… Thank you!”
Leaving him speechless, Tess spun on the spot and dashed around the end of the trailer to burst through the door, startling the damp, shirtless Danny.
“Babe—”
“I have to go to Oregon,” Tess said, turning the pad to show him what she’d written. “Want to come with me?”
His gaze flicked from her to the notepad. As he read her notes, his brow came down, but it was quick to relax when he made eye contact with her. “It’s not South America.”
Shaking her head, Tess lowered the pad while creeping toward him. “No, but there’s sex in it for you and I promise to buy the beer.”
His dimple gave her his answer before his lips did. “Sold.”
NINETEEN
MUCH OF THEIR ROAD trip was the same as the one they’d already traveled, just in reverse. Danny didn’t complain about her dragging his ass one way, only to turn around and bring them back. As with everything else, he took the development in his stride.
Something beeped and snapped her from her sleep. Confused, she raised her head and turned her chin.
“What happened?” she asked, her voice rough from sleep. Clearing her throat, she pushed up just a little more to look around at the darkness outside. “I thought we were going to park.”
“Take your time,” Danny said from the driver’s seat.
It was night, and they were still moving. The truck felt different too, though it wasn’t until she slid her butt back and looked from the front to the back that she realized why the ride was lighter.
“Where’s the Beast?”
“Parked at one of those middle of nowhere spots I told you about.”
Clearing her throat again, Tess retrieved her bottle of water from the door while sitting up. “I slept through all that?”
“Only takes a minute to unhitch it.”
Yeah, but Tess hadn’t known she was that tired. The digital clock on the dash clued her in to how long she’d been out.
“It’s almost three a.m.”
“We came all this way,” Danny said. “You don’t want to know where we’re going?”
Her curiosity brought them to wherever they were. As she looked around, trying to figure out where they were going, uneasiness tickled her neck. It was creepy. Trees. Grass. Nature. No sign of civilization.
