“What?” I screeched, panic clear in my voice. “We can’t be stuck up here! What if we don’t get down?”
“Talia, calm down.” He chuckled at first, but then he grabbed both of my hands and squeezed them tight as he realised my panic was genuine. “We’ll be fine. We won’t be up here for long... Half an hour at the most.”
My jaw dropped, and the blood drained from my face at the prospect of being stuck for a prolonged amount of time.
“Half an...” I breathed.
“Okay, so maybe that wasn’t the best way of putting things,” Hunter mumbled, hastily reassuring me. He squeezed my hands once more. He then tugged on them, so I was facing him. “Look, let’s do something to take our minds off things.”
“Like what?”
Hunter thought carefully. “Why don’t we just... talk? Get to know each other better? What’s
