Chapter 19
Jordan
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Jessica was quiet during the cab ride to the cabin and I was too tired to make conversation. When we arrived thirty minutes later, she seemed to perk up.
“This is really nice,” she said, after I paid the driver and we were on the porch, surrounded by the familiar chirp of crickets. It was a sound that some found annoying. For me, it was more of a ‘welcome home’ to the one and only place that I could truly relax in.
“Thanks,” I replied, surprised at the sudden relief I felt that she approved. “It’s not anything too fancy, but I always look forward to getting back here.”
“I bet. It’s bigger than I thought it would be.”
“Oh really?”
It wasn’t extremely large, about twenty-two hundred square feet, but it had a deck that wrapped around to the back, a small boa
