DINI OPENED HER EYES and yawned. Her back was stiff from lying on the cold ground all night, and her arm hurt, but the long, hard body wrapped around her had kept her mostly warm, even in the wee hours of the morning. Hours which had grown steadily colder as they’d slept.
A cold front was moving in, and it looked like it was carrying a really nasty storm along with it.
Even as Dini had the thought, the first fat drops of rain started to ping against the hard packed dirt beyond their little cocoon. The thick branches of the towering evergreens overhead blocked the initial drops and created dappled shadows that swayed in the building breeze.
The air smelled of ozone and the sky was iron gray, heavy with clouds. In the distance, a bolt of lightning gave silent warning of the approaching st
