Chapter 45
Kim clutched Steph’s hand for all she was worth, trying to keep her shivers and chattering teeth from shaking her to pieces. Steph promptly took the chance to walk both of them away while the two men were busy yelling at each other.
Getting an absolute beast of an old car between them and the two men helped. Especially after her own mouth ran away with her like that. She would have happily sworn on a stack of anyone’s holy books that the words never got anywhere near her brain before she heard them out in the damp, charged air.
The clouds Kim could see through the trees moved fast enough to look like big, muddy bubbles coming up through the surface of a lake after someone jumped in.
Except it was all upside down and the bubbles were full of mixed colors from the storm and th
