Page 19 of Dating the Boss
“Are you okay?” he asked.
“Y-Yeah.” I’d forgotten to put my seat belt back on after leaving the gas station, so if not for his arm, my head probably would’ve smashed against the dashboard. “Thank you.”
“You need to buckle up,” he growled. Though he sounded angry, I saw the worry in his eyes.
“What do you think’s going on?” I asked, pulling my seat belt across my torso and buckling it.
“I don’t know.” He put on the emergency blinker so cars coming up behind us would be able to see us and not have an accident like we almost had. He then unbuckled himself and opened the door. “Wait here.”
As he got out of the car, I looked around, confused. A car pulled up behind us, then another behind that one. Moments later, the door opened, letting in flurries of snow as he got back inside.
“Did someone have an accident?” I asked.
“Not that I could see.” Daniel rubbed his hands together and blew in them. “There’s a line of cars in front of us.”
“Behind us too,” I said, pointing to the rear. “A blizzardanda traffic jam. How lovely. It could be worse, I guess. We could end up—”
“Don’t even say it,” he interjected. “You’ve cursed us enough.”
I laughed. “You say that like I’m some kind of witch. I have many talents, Mr. Sawyer, but fortune-telling isn’t one of them. If I had the skill to curse people, I’d use it on my ex-boyfriends to give them anal warts. Not give us blizzards.”
A knock at my window made me scream. A police officer stood on the other side, so I quickly rolled down the window.
“Afternoon, Officer,” Daniel said, leaning over to speak to him. “Can you tell us what’s going on?”
“I’m afraid the road’s closed,” the officer answered. “You’ll need to turn around and find another route.”
“Thereisno other route,” Daniel pointed out. “We’re heading to Blue Harbor.”
“Not today you’re not. A few trees are down and blocking the road. Crews are on their way, but it will be a while.”
“What are we supposed to do?” I asked, feeling a bit panicky.
“I suggest you turn around and get a room for the night. Should be cleared by morning.”
He tapped the top of the car before moving on to the vehicle behind us. I rolled my window back up and turned toward Daniel, freezing when I met his cold eyes.
“What were you saying aboutit could be worse?” he said.
“Hey, this isn’t my fault.” The car in front of us drove forward, backed up a little, then drove forward again to get out of place and turn around. I grabbed my phone and opened the GPS. “I’ll look for a nearby town. Oh, that’s not good.”
“What’s not?”
I showed him the screen where most of the routes were lit up in red and orange. “We don’t have many options. Most of these roads are blocked off right now. Man, this is one hell of a snowstorm.”
“What about that one?” he asked, shifting closer to me.
I followed the route a ways. “Looks like it goes to a place called Ivory Falls.”
“Never heard of it.” He put on his blinker to let the person behind us know we were turning around. “But it’ll have to do.”
“Should I set a course, Cap’n?”
Daniel gave me awhat the fucklook before a slow smile spread across his face. “And you said you weren’t a nerd.”
“I’m not. Pirates are cool.”
“Sure.”
