Page 97 of Life To My Flight

-Life Lesson

Rue

Rue: I took a naked picture of myself. You’re welcome.

Cleo: It’s black. I can’t see anything.

Rue: There’s only so much one can do while in the dark.

Cleo: Tease.

Rue: Yep. You want to know why? Call me ASAP.

It’d been two months now since I’d been on Cleo’s helicopter and a lot had changed.

The trial that I was testifying in had started, but I’d yet to be on the witness stand.

Neither side wanted me there.

In all honesty, I was as neutral of a party as I could get and neither side had a need for somebody that wouldn’t help their case.

In the past month, Silas had bought Life Flight.

Layoffs had started at our hospital, and my Nonnie had gone into a decline.

The one positive thing about the last month was that Cleo and I seemed to be doing really well.

Even though I knew he was keeping secrets.

It didn’t escape my attention that he had people following me.

I wasn’t stupid. However, I wasn’t sure they were trying to keep it from me, but more or less just not talking about it.

I guessed it had something to do with the damage that was done to my car that was related to the break in.

Cleo had asked me to stay at his place when he couldn’t be with me and I’d obliged.

I couldn’t tell you why, though.

Maybe because I was comforted being surrounded by all of Cleo’s things. Or maybe it was because I knew he was just making sure I was safe.

Whatever the reason, I’d practically moved in.

It was my day off and I was hotter than hell.

The power had gone out twenty minutes ago, and I was so hot that I’d stripped down to my bra and underwear in a vain attempt to try to keep cool.

It wasn’t working, though.

Sadly, Cleo was on the back half of a forty-eight hour shift, and that text I’d just sent him was the first one he’d answered in well over twelve hours.

They really must be busy.

I’d reported the power outage myself, yet some drunk on the highway that ran along Cleo’s place had taken out a power pole with his big rig. Effectively stranding nearly two hundred people in the entire grid without power.

So there I lay…doing nothing.

A timid knock came from the direction of the living room, and my body froze.

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