Eva tried to reassure him that she was fine. But she could feel little Zeus trembling in her arms and Barrel’s big, spotlight eyes seeing through her every word.
He zipped off through the hot day, anyway, tugging on his seat belt at the same time.
Eva was terrified. Not just for their lives and the lives of their adopted pup, but the crumbling of their developing relationship. It could all end very soon, as soon as they got to the rendezvous. Would he say goodbye to her there? Thanks for the s*x and all that. See you in another life?
That was partly what had made her shake as he drove along the bumpy lane, eventually ending up back on a path. She pulled Zeus tighter as he began to bark. Before she saw it coming, a car the color of vomit blasted into them on her side, sending her sideway
