After the busiest day Beth could remember she clocked out and went to her car in the parking lot. She left the door open while she started it and turned the air conditioner to max. She hoped it would cool more quickly than it really would but keeping the door open would let it blow out the super-heated air from sitting in the sunshine all day.
While she waited she pulled out her phone, it would need to be charged after getting lost in the couch last night and sitting in her purse all day. She hadn’t heard from Sadist, Billy she reminded herself, since the night before and she hoped he’d sent a message while she’d been too busy to check.
Billy Heat spread through her and settled low in her tummy when she found he’d texted. She tapped the screen to pull up his message. The phone seemed to
