“Your ice time then!” she shouts.
“I’m on the IR!”
“Damon,” she says, winding her arm through my brother’s, “I think it’s time to get on the horn, don’t you think?”
He tosses a grin over his shoulder as they head into the house. “I think there’s a minor league team in Antarctica we can trade him to.”
“You’ve bought it now,” I say lightly as Colt opens the passenger door and I drop into the seat.
A wink. “Worth it.”
“You sure?”
He tugs down the seatbelt, buckles me in, my heart squeezing at the small sign of care—a hundred, a thousand of which he gives me per day. “Yup.”
Before I can reply—or tell him how much I like those little acts of caring—he closes the door and rounds the hood, settling into the driver’s seat. Then he’s backing out and turning onto the street, weaving his way through the winding roads.
I’m so content—full of wine and food (and care)—that I miss it at first.
The fact that we’re not heading to his house or my apartment.
I choke as he pulls into a parking lot. “H-hot dogs?”
He grins at me then shrugs. “You said you wanted to try them.”
“We just ate our body weight in cheese,” I protest. “How can you possibly be hungry?”
He shrugs. “You know what they say about wein?—”
I clamp my hand over his mouth. “Don’t.”
A wink, his lips pressing to my palm before he peels it free.
“We’re not having hot dogs, starfire.”
“Then what?” I ask as he shifts the transmission into park and turns my way.
“Aren’t you curious to find out?”
Thirty-Four
Colt
She narrows her eyes at me, suspicion in every line of her gorgeous body.
I bite back a smile and get out, moving around to her side and tugging open the door.
“You’re not about to shove me into a snowbank, are you?”
“I need two good arms for that, baby.” I reach in and undo her belt. “Come on.”
She puts her hand in my outstretched one and I tug her to her feet. “Where are we going?”
“You’ll see.”
We had snow this week, enough to stick, to make those snowbanks, but not enough to compact into dirty icy masses.
Enough that I saw the lights on here at the outdoor market a couple of days ago when I drove by.
