Free Road To Love by Courtney Brewer Page B

just nodded.  “That’s good;” she was at a loss of why he was so mad.  She questioned if her love making was really that bad.  She didn’t have anything to base it on.  “I better get dressed.”  When she pulled the blanket off of her she noticed him look away.  She chuckled.  “It’s too late for any modesty.  We did sleep together.”
    “Yeah, I know.”  He turned from her and left the shack.  By the look on his face she could tell he was feeling guilty.  It had nothing to do with her ; at least she hoped.

Chapter 11
     
    “I’m all set.”  Abigail exited the shack and he tried to ignore her.
    “Good;” he mumbled as he grabbed the blankets from her arms.  She followed him and was barely keeping up.  “Be careful; we don’t have time for more accidents.”
    “Can you slow down?”
    “The tow truck will be here any minute; we don’t have a second to waste.”
    When they reached the truck they threw the rest of the things in the back and had to wait for the tow truck.  Travis went about to the other side of the tuck and grabbed the map from the passenger seat.  When he looked up he saw Abigail looking at him.  They both looked away and he rounded to the other side of the vehicle.  “Maybe we can get the wrecker to tell us how get off this road.”
    “Maybe;” he continued to look at the map.
    “Is this how it’s going to be?”
    He looked up; he acted confused, but he knew what she was talking about.  “How what’s going to be?”
    “I get the sneaky suspicion that you’re less than pleased that last night happened.  Was I that awful?”
    He thought about it and the only truth he was seeing was that it wasn’t because she was awful.  If anything, she was everything he desired and more.  “It isn’t that;” his eyes slowly drifted over her and he kicked himself for taking advantage of the situation. 
    “Okay; if that isn’t it…are we going to discuss it?  Or, are you going to pretend that it never happened?”
    “What do you want me to say?”
    “I want…” she looked away and it took every bit of his willpower not to go to her, sweep her up in his arms, and promise her the world.  “I want you to at least acknowledge that for one night we were able to let all rationality disappear.  It may not have been what you wanted to happen, but it did.”
    “Abigail,” he faced her and an aching in his heart confessed that being with her was the best thing to happen to him in a long time.
    “Am I alone here?”  He saw pain in her eyes and he hated that he was the cause.
    “I could say that last night was amazing and that I want to spend every night with you in my arms.  I could say that every time I think of you, it makes me yearn for you even more.  I could even say that right now it’s killing me not to push you up against the truck and feel your lips against mine.”  He took a breath and let it slowly out.
    “Then why don’t you.”  She moved closer to him.  He watched as her hands moved slowly up his arms and he noticed the same desire in her eyes that he saw the night before.
    He took her hands into his, but let them fall from his clutches.  “It wouldn’t be real.”  He looked away; all instinct told him to get as far away from her as he could.  “You can’t tell me that you imagined last night playing out the way it did, because if you did then you’re a better actress than I would have imagined.  All the times that we fight and make up and fight and make up again; we make the prime example of a perfect couple.  What we did last night was irrational; it was two people that let all commonsense go.  We don’t have feelings like that and I took advantage of you.  We let the situation dictate the outcome.  You know that that’s the truth.”
    “Maybe so, but…I had never felt more alive than when we were together.”
    He looked down at the ground and moved his toe around in the snow.  “You weren’t feeling alive; you were