Page 34 of Forced Proximity
—Dru’s secret thoughts
DRU
His smile was breathtaking.
He’d smiled before, of course, but this one was definitely a genuine smile that really had my heart beating fiercely in my chest.
“What…”
The lights flickered, and the walls once again groaned.
The wind had picked up yet again, and my stomach was starting to hurt at the thought of what might happen.
“What, what?” he asked as he moved to the cabinet closest to the kitchen entryway and pulled out a bag of dehydrated milk.
I swallowed hard and said, “I don’t remember.”
That happened a lot.
Lord help you if you interrupted me when I was talking, I’d never be able to finish my thought.
His lips quirked.
Ding.
Ding.
Ding.
He stopped next to the iPad that was dinging like crazy and slid it open, this time without any fancy legwork on his end to get it unlocked.
“Whoa.” He twisted toward me. “Look at this.”
I sidled up to him and glanced at the screen, my breath hitching.
“Whoa,” I breathed.
The article he had pulled up said, “Deadly Twin Tornadoes Rock Arkansas.”
“Is it a video?” I asked, reaching out to click the play button at the top of the screen.
Sure enough, the video started to play, and the more I listened to, the harder it got to hear.
“Deadly twin tornadoes tore through the area of the White River in Arkansas around five p.m. Central Time. Sources say that even more bad weather is set to come for the same area, and urges citizens to be ready for even more. First responders are out in full force tonight, and many more are on their way from neighboring cities and states. As of right now, the tornado ripped through…”
The same deadly storms that the woman’s voice had just warned about was among us.
I had no doubt that more was to come, I was just hoping that Mother Nature spared us.
The video finally finished, and I leaned my hips against the counter next to the man who had the ability to affect me by doing nothing.
“What’s the plan?” I asked as the wind howled.
“We’re going to find a room to buckle down in and wait,” he said. “One with no windows, and interior-only walls.”
“But first, let’s do this diaper change,” I suggested.
The walls creaked around us before he said, “We’ll take it and go.”
