After a moment, though, she pushed him away.
“We have a plane to catch in just over four hours and a two-hour
drive to get to it. That’s if no more trees fall on us.”
He ran an unsteady hand through his hair and
took a deep breath. “Damn. You’re right. Let me go splash some cold
water on my…face and get my bag.”
Ilene did some splashing herself before
throwing clean clothes into the overnight bag. Some lacy underwear,
no silk.
At mid-morning, however, traffic was light on
the highway. The downed trees still sat on the side of the road
where they’d been pushed out of the way.
They made it through the security checkpoint
at the airport just thirty minutes before the flight was scheduled
to leave and got to the gate thirty minutes before they closed the
plane’s doors. The fligh
