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After almost ten minutes, the car door opened “Careful, those are hot and oozing stuff out the sides”

“Thatshe’d dropped on his lap Two bundles wrapped in white parches of nacho cheese Doritos and two Heath bars When she shoved two bottles of grape soda in the beverage holders, he gave her a dubious look “How’d you know this is exactly what I would’ve gotten?”

“Lucky guess?” She twisted the top on a bottle of soda “Or maybe there’s an index card that lists Sundance’s own PBR bull rider Chase McKay’s favorites! on the wall by the hot food section”

“Are you serious?”

“Yep”

“Christ That’s e”

“Where to now?” she asked with a sns to Devil’s Tower” They started the twisty ascent out of Sundance After a few miles they entered a valley and he said, “Turn left and take the road until it stops”

“This is considered a road?”

“In Wyo? Yes”

Once they came around the last bend, Ava said, “OhLook at that view”

Devil’s Tower jutted up, the land surrounding it a rainbow palette of red dirt, dark green pine trees, caraainst the backdrop of a cloudless blue sky “You like?”

“It’s spectacular I’ll bet most tourists don’t even know this view is here”

“Some stumble on it But it’sof Doritos and a hot dog

As he slowly unwrapped his food, the fay er, of hoes since he’d taken time to stop at the Shell station that’d at one ti, deep moan A moan that sounded like a woman about to colance Her beautiful face had a drea on a hot dog?

“That’s the best chili dog I’ve ever eaten” Ava kept ined dragging her across the console and giving her another reason to s wide open Burying his face between her thighs Turning her ainst his mouth in a wet rush

“Chase?”

He jumped at the closeness of her voice in his ear and snapped, “Jesus, what?”

“Are you okay?”

“Uh Yeah Why?”

“Oh, you’re just squeezing that chili dog so hard I thought the ht out of the bun”

Dammit He eyed the balled-up wrapper in her hand “You finished yours? Already?”