Grabbing the bag, Red exited the vehicle, sticking his head back in the opened door. “Leave it running, I’ll only be a minute.”
Unfortunately, he thought regretfully.
He looked up to the sky, squinting after a particularly bright flash lit the heavens in a strobe of varying colors. He loved night time storms, they relaxed him like nothing else. Maybe tonight he would get more than his usual couple hour’s sleep.
Glancing at the house, he thought better of his decision to return for a moment. The house was pitch black. But surely she couldn’t be asleep by now? He had only left about fifteen minutes ago.
A low crashing sound drew his attention. Looking down the street both ways, he didn’t see anything out of the norm. The area quiet of traffic or pedestrians even.
As he went up the firs
