Chapter Twelve
We slept until a little before midnight, and then Allan gave me a spare robe — it was supposed to be knee-length on him and so was around mid-calf on me, although the sleeves were impossibly long — and we went downstairs to snuggle in front of the fire and eat bread pudding and drink some much-needed water. The rain still fell, and that surprised me a little; storms in Southern California usually weren’t quite this intense.
But it was all right, since we certainly weren’t going anywhere. After we were done with our belated dessert, I retrieved my emergency overnight kit from my tote bag and took it with me when we went back upstairs again. We brushed our teeth in the marble and stainless bathroom, each of us at our own sink while we worked in companionable silence, and the
