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Partway through Arkansas we hit the worst thunderstorm I’d ever experienced The sky was black with clouds, and the rain pelted the car as hard as pebbles Lightning lit up the air like an eerie moment of sun in a warped dream, and then thunder shook the earth as ere pressed back into darkness

I admitted to myself I’d probably be afraid if I ith someone else, but with Kaidan I felt safe It was a false sense of security, since even he couldn’t save us from a tornado But Kaidan used his extra senses to see and hear, while other cars had to pull over to the side of the road The storh Little Rock and the storm turned to a steady rain without thunder, and then a faint sprinkling The weather felt spookily calm after the storm, and I half expected a twister to jump out in front of us and sweep us away What I saw instead took my breath away

"Look!" I pointed at the brilliant rainbow stretching all the way across the wide sky I’d seen lots of small rainbows at home, blocked by trees, but the entire arch of this one was visible

"Hlance

I ayon the trip than Kaidan

"Does your father know you’re on this trip with me?" I asked

"No We spoke for aon a trip with a particularly stubborn virgin, but that’s all I told hih he thinks it’s too ood and deflowered by the end of our tiether"

"Well, he’ll be good and disappointed then," I mumbled, and he s to say so that would knock the smirk froht?"

It worked

"No" His tone was hard

I left it at that, but wondered what the story there was

By the time the drizzle coain Kaidan had almost cleared the contents of the cooler Patti was lucky she didn’t have a teenage boy to feed; she’d never afford it

"We should probably stop soon," he said I nodded in agreeet separate roo to let anything happen with Kaidan It seemed wasteful to make him pay for separate rooms just to satisfy my prudish modesty and Patti’s overprotectiveness

"We can share a roo as it has two separate beds," I compromised "And on’t h"

He pulled off at the exit for Webbers Falls and found the town’s onlybut shiny Not that I cared, but Kaidan appeared apprehensive

"Looks a bit dodgy"