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I peered into the growing dark, the taillights ahead growing fuzzy as it got darker When the sun hit the ridgeline of thefrom sunset pink to deep purple in minutes As hard as I looked, I couldn't see the cars aheadThen one inched forward And the next And so on down the line until we inched forward, too

"Doesn't anyone you know have a helicopter or so?" I muttered

Tenn laughed "Don't think so Griffen ht know someone, but not around here"

"Therearound at the road ahead and the slowlyfor a miracle

Tenn shrugged again "We still have some time"

I checked the clock Only forty-six ood thirty minutes aithout the rockslide We could sit here for an hour, or—

I shut down that thought and tried to follow Tenn's lead and relax Either we'd get home on time, or ouldn't

Nope, not doing the trick "Why aren't you upset?" I de that my near shriek woke up Thatcher

Tenn braked behind the hatchback in front of us, co one hand, he cupped my chin "Because it doesn't matter, Scarlett"

"Not ht! You love the Inn"

With a slow graze of his thu his eyes back to the road Our pace was agonizingly sloe inched forward another few feet before stopping again "I do love the Inn," he said "And Heartstone Manor I even love living with ht I'd say But, Scarlett, the s They don't really matter"

"Not lanced between us before his eyes fixed on the taillights ahead of us

"What's going on?" he asked Tenn in a low voice, probably deciding that I was too unhinged to bother talking to He wasn't wrong I did not have a hold on calet why I was the only one