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"My car is here There’s no reason for us not to take it," she insisted as they stood in baggage claim
"We would both be ements"
"And what am I supposed to do withoutisn’t in walking distance"
As their luggage piled up, Rafael sighed "All right We’ll take your car But it’s senseless for you to drive e’ve already been traveling half the day"
She rolled her eyes and bit her lip to keep frorabbed a cart for their luggage and Rafael piled it up and pushed it as she led hi lot?" he demanded "In Galveston?"
"It’s a bit of a walk," she admitted "But it’s all indoors and then we’ll take the elevator to the top level"
"Why did you park on the roof?"
She shrugged "I just kept going around and around and then suddenly I was on the roof It’s the sa anywhere else"
He shook his head as they trudged down the long corridor When they finally got to the elevator, Bryony breathed in relief A few moments later, they were on the roof and she took out her keys to remotely unlock the car
"What the…"
She cast him a puzzled look
"That’s your car?" he asked
She looked toward the MINI Cooper and nodded "Is soe in this tin can?"
"Quit being so grue rack I’ee cord in the trunk"
"Who the hell carries around bungee cords?"
She laughed "You never knohen they’ll come in handy"
They filled the trunk and then piled suitcases into the back until the bags were stacked to the roof of the car
"There," she said triumphantly as she shut the door "We didn’t even have to use the bungee cords"
"Unfortunately we didn’t push the passenger seat back before we stored all the luggage," he said dryly
Bryony winced when she saw hiet into the front seat His knees were pushed up into the dash and he didn’t look at all coot into the driver’s seat "I wasn’t thinking No one who ever rides in s"
"How do you plan to drive the baby around after he or she is born?"
Bryony reversed out of the parking space and then drove toward the exit "In a car seat, of course"
"And where do you think the car seat will fit in here? Even if you craot into a wreck, neither of you would likely survive So and probably not even realize it"
"It’s what I have, Rafael There’s not a lot I can do about it Now let’s talk about sohed "An hour to Galveston from the airport Then we take a ferry to Moon Island It’s about a half-hour ferry ride so we should be there in under two hours barring any traffic issues"
It was a bad thing to say Thirty minutes later, they were completely stalled on I-45 Bryony cursed under her breath as Rafael fidgeted in his seat Or at least tried to fidget He couldn’t et out and walk It would probably be faster since traffic hadn’t moved so much as an inch in the past fiveto say," she said when she saw him turn toward her "We should have left my car at the airport Yeah, I know that now, but really, traffic jams are a fact of life in Houston"
A soing to say it’s a good thing I went to the bathroorateful you aren’t pregnant"
He arched an eyebrow "Want me to take over?"
She shook her head "You’d never be able to drive with your knees ja to talk about Music would just irritate ht now"
He seemed to think for a moment and then he said, "Tell me what you do I randmother but I wasn’t sure if that was a full-time task or not"
Bryony smiled "No Mamaw is still quite self-sufficient I wouldn’t say I take care of her as much as we take care of each other She’s been sicker lately, though As for what I do, I’m sort of a Jill of all trades I do a little bit of everything I’"
He looked curiously at her
"Basically I’m a consultant if you want a posh nah nothing you’d probably think was legitih
"You have s you do?"
"One day a week I take care of the entleman, and he’s not fond of computers Or the internet for that s like actual newspapers, printthe news on the local channel instead of surfing to CNN That sort of thing He doesn’t even have cable if you can believe it"
"And this guy got elected?"
Bryony laughed "I think you’ll find that our island is pretty tolerant of being old-fashioned It’s a bit of a throwback While you can certainly avail yourself of all the modern conveniences such as internet, cable TV and the like, a large percentage of our population is quite happy in their technology-challenged world"
Rafael shook his head "I’ in the Dark Ages?"
"Oh, please You enjoyed it well enough yourself once I finally weaned you off your BlackBerry and your laptop You went a whole ithout using either A week!"
"Surely a record," he !"
She put the MINI Cooper into gear as cars began to crawl forward She checked her watch to see that they’d already lost an hour; it would be close to dark by the time they arrived on the island