Page 29 of One Wild Night
She slid off the bed with the sheet wrapped around her and walked over to sit in hislap.
She wrapped her arms around his neck and enjoyed the soft kiss he placed on herlips.
“The car’s going to be ready in an hour.” She smiled against herlips.
“My gosh, what will we do for an hour?” sheteased.
“I have a few ideas.” He returned her smile, but then a look of concern washed over his handsome face. “What will we doafter?”
“Get Margo and go back to SanFrancisco.”
“Yeah.” He nodded. “Where’s your room at thehotel?”
“It’s the furthest from everyone. I confirmed my bookinglate.”
“Come stay with me.” He held her gaze and took her hand into his. “Abi, please. Come and stay with me. It’ll be fun. Ipromise.”
She didn’t doubt that. What she feared was what she was getting herself into. But the fear wasn’t enough for her to sayno.
“Yes.” Shesmiled.
“Yes?” the excitement on his face to be with her was also something she wanted to remember. Again, she’d never seen itbefore.
Her view of their breakup was bad enough as it was, but, since yesterday, she’d seen several things she had never seen when they were together. It wasfine.
She was seeing it now, and she likedit.
They indulged in each other one last time beforeleaving.
After they got to the garage, it took next to no time to get out on the road and off on their mission to collect Margo. From the route they traveled, it took less than eight hours, and that was with a short stop for lunch and a quickie in thecar.
On their journey to Phoenix, between kissing whenever they could, they listened to their favorite songs on the radio and talked about everything that was going on in theirlives.
They got to Phoenix at around 3:00pm.
Margo flew out of the station’s entrance before they could even park. They got out to greet her, and she hugged them bothhard.
Abi felt bad as she looked her friend over. Poor Margo looked completely drained as if she’d been through a lifetime of wandering around in thewilderness.
“You guys are the best!” she said, crying. “Thank you so much for coming to getme.”
Scott hugged her and kissed the top of her forehead. “No thanksneeded.”
Abi sat in the backseat while Margo rode in the front. It would have been kind of weird if it was the reverse because, according to everyone, Abi and Scott weren’t together, and there was no way on God’s green earth that anyone would guess the sort of wild time they werehaving.
The whole journey back to San Francisco, they listened to Margo tell her tale of her encounters at the bus station. She was always a big talker, and never bored you because of the excitable way in which she spoke. She was one of those people who could see the funny side to a bad situation. Like now, she was laughing at how foolish she’d been for running away the way she had and turning back, then falling asleep and getting robbed. She joked about how it was only her that something so bizarre could happento.
She told them how she spoke to some Buddhist monks for an hour while they waited for their bus and how she learned how to truly meditate. Then, Margo being Margo, had to elaborate on the technique, and she told them how to do it, too. She continued to tell them how she learned a little bit of sign language so she could communicate with two deaf children and that she’d seen a dog with three legs, and an African grey parrot. She told them all sorts of things, and Abi had to wonder how all of that could have happened in the time that she was at the station. If it had been Abi, she was certain she would have found something to read and kept toherself.
The talking made the journey go fast. It was weird being so close to Scott, yet not being close. From time to time, she’d catch him looking at her in the rearview mirror. Seeing him gave her that tingle and warmed her cheeks. At one point, the look he gave her was so obvious and sexual that she could almost read histhoughts.
She couldn’t wait to get back and go to hisroom.
By the time they got to San Francisco, it was just after midnight. The journey had taken a little bit less time than they had thought because the roads were quite clear, unlike yesterday. That was brilliant for Margo because the wedding was in fourteen hours and she had a lot to sortout.
As late as it was, they could see Gale waiting in the foyer for Margo. Margo didn’t really elaborate on what she told Gale, but Scott and Abi hung back in the corridor to avoid any suspicion. As far as everyone knew, Margo was still just delayed at thehospital.
When Gale saw Margo walk in, he rushed straight over and hugged her, picking her up and spinning around withher.
