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“I’ shy about her nudity Minutes before, she’d been crying his na in his arms But now it felt sordid She’d seen the look in those ht And it da a puzzle

“At least we don’t have to go up to the highway and look for help It came to us”

“Yeah,” she agreed, reaching for the pajama top she’d shed earlier She didn’t want to bare her breasts Silly, of course, but she felt so vulnerable In the blink of an eye, Erik had gone froular world “Guess I better go get s out of the bathroom”

“The water in the pot should be warh to wash up a bit I’ll put it in the bathroo on the sweater he’d left by the fire before lifting the pot

E up, it was her They’d had sex three—or was it four?—ti soak, but lukeater dipped from a pot would have to do

She scraed from the bathrooloss fired into her wool coat “I’m ready”

Erik had donned his coat and scarf and had inal order He’d bundled the sheets into a ball, which he carried out with them Walt and the deputy sat in a cruiser elas County Sheriff’s Office on the side Erik held the back door for her and then set her suitcase between the sheets that were the last reht

“I brought the sheets Figured they’d need to be washed,” Erik said to Walt

“Sure My housekeeper, Maria, ash them and I’ll run them back later Probably should clean that place up a little anyway Maybe stick soain Probably would have been nice to have some food”

“We survived on wine and chocolate-chip cookies,” Erik said

“Don’t sound bad at all,” the deputy said, backing around and turning toward the highway “You folks were lucky to find shelter A man died last year in the same situation He stayed in his wrecked car and died of carbon ed the tailpipe”