I rose slowly. “We’re hoping for the best, but just in case of emergency, we have some stuff here that we'd be able to use. We’re probably not going to need it but whoever decked this place out knew there was this kind of risk involved.”
She was rubbing her arms like she was cold. I could help her with that. I could think of a lot of good ways that I could warm her up and that would warm me up too. It almost felt like we had to do it, you know? Like, what did two people who were attracted to each other do when they had unlimited time together in a private area? If she was scared about other people finding out, I wouldn't tell.
If she simply was not interested in me, well forget I ever suggested it.
“Well, I'm going back to sleep.” I walked past her out of the garage. I wanted to add that she could look for me if she wanted anything, but I stopped myself. I wanted to put as much distance between us as possible because I needed the space.
I didn't want to do anything that I regretted. I didn't want to step over the line and make this experience even more awkward for us than it had to be. She said nothing as I made my way back upstairs. I closed the door behind me, sighing as I looked around the room.
If that fucking snow wasn’t gone by the morning, I was going to jump off a bridge.
6
Maggie
Okay then, don't let me stop you.
I watched Toby walk out of the kitchen like he really had somewhere to go. Granted, I didn't particularly want to be close to him right now, but he could at least pretend like this wasn't the worst thing that had ever happened to him. He was acting like I was the last person he would want to be trapped with and I was taking it personally a little bit.
The feeling was mutual, but he didn't have to be so obvious about it. Without even saying anything to each other, we had made an unspoken agreement that we weren't going to be hanging out much for the time that we were here.
Fine by me. Whenever I started to make judgments about the man, I remembered that I didn't know him very well. All I truly knew about him was that he was Easton's business partner and what he sounded like when he climaxed, which, to be fair, wasn't enough to base a judgment on a person.
I closed the door to the garage and walked back to the kitchen. On the island were two empty cups. I hadn't put them there, maybe it was Toby. I decided to make some coffee and filled one up. Instead of heading to the living room, I stood in front of the window watching the snow come down. It hadn't slowed down at all in the time that we had been back in the cabin. I felt a little uneasy thinking about it. Toby was talking about some of it melting so that we could finally get out of here, but in order for it to start melting, it had to stop coming down.
My phone started ringing suddenly. I pulled it out of my waistband.
“Hello?” I said. It was Missy.
“Hey, are you two okay?”
“Yeah. Mostly. I mean the snow is coming down pretty hard. We thought a little while ago that maybe we could make it down off the mountain, but the snow is coming down too heavy and visibility is basically zero. We decided not to risk it.”
“Oh my God, I'm so sorry,” she said.
“Don’t be. There was no way of knowing that this would happen.”
“Honestly, I feel like this is partly my fault. I screwed everything up when I announced that I had to go to the doctor.”
“Don’t be silly, your health comes first of course. How are you by the way?”
“We’re in Denver but the weather won't let us get up to Vail. According to the forecast, the snow is likely to last for the next couple of days.”
Days? As in more than one? That thought made my stomach hurt. Even though I had been mentally preparing myself for it, and he had made some comments about being here for longer than intended, reality was just setting in. Needless to say, of course, I did not want to be up here with him. Even though that was the case, would it have been better to be up here alone?
“I... I’m glad you guys had a safe flight.”
“Thanks.”
“What is all of this going to do with the timeline for the photoshoot?”
“Photoshoot? Maggie, you cannot be worried about work right now when you and Toby ar
e stuck on a mountain in a blizzard.”
She was right, but I was just trying to change the subject.
“We've been making calls. We're going to get up there and get you guys out. Easton told me that the place had been stocked in preparation for the photo shoot, is that true?”