Chapter Sixteen
Joel
I’d been thinkingabout getting naked with David in the hotel shower when I felt the car slowing down. My thoughts rapidly changed to trying to get the car to a safe place before it stopped altogether.
I tried starting it up again, but nothing happened.
“Fuck, what do we do?” I asked
“Do you have any paperwork for the car? A number we can ring?”
“Both our phones are dead, remember?” We’d used our phones to browse the internet for information and to take photos. My phone died at some point in the afternoon, and David’s soon after.
“Shit, how far are we from the hotel?” David asked.
I looked at the navigation system, which fortunately still had some battery life.
“Six miles. Can we walk six miles? We may even see a small village on the way and ask for help.” A little bit of panic was starting to rise in my belly. We were literally in the middle of nowhere, so it was unlikely we’d find many people driving past, and the sun would be setting very soon.
“It’s too far. Look, grab your jacket and let's walk to that hill over there.” David pointed to a small hill about two hundred yards away. Maybe we could get a view of what was around us and see where we could go for help.
It didn’t take us long to walk up. Much like what we’d seen on the drive to Évora, this one also had a single tree at the top. We stopped when we reached the tree.
“Wow, this place is incredible.” While the hill hadn’t seemed too high from where we’d come, it was clearly much higher up from the other side because I was looking at miles and miles of uninterrupted fields of wheat, broken into various sections by olive trees. There was nothing around us. I could see the car and the road we’d been, but then it disappeared behind the tree line.
“Let’s sit down,” David said, taking my hand and leading me to the tree.
“What? Why? What if someone comes and we don’t see them?”
David kissed me softly and said, “Trust me. Sit here with me.” He laid down a blanket he brought from the car and then sat with his back to the tree and pulled me down to sit between his legs, my back to his front.
“Do you see the car?” he asked.
“Yeah.” My breathing became a little uneven when David placed soft kisses on the back of my neck as he tightened his arms around me.
“We’ll see if someone comes, which to be honest, I’d be surprised—”
“What?” I screeched. “What the fuck are we going to do here in the middle of nowhere?”
David laughed, but he then ran his hands through my hair, and I immediately relaxed under his touch.
His voice was soft but confident as he tried to reassure me. “We’re going to watch the sunset from here, and then we’re going to make ourselves comfortable in the car and try to get some sleep. I’m sure someone will be driving past here at some point so we can ask for help then.” I was only half-listening to what he was saying. Suddenly, I couldn’t care less where we were because his hands running through my hair were causing all sorts of shivers to run down my spine, all the way to my cock.
I turned my head and kissed David softly. His hands came down to my neck to keep me in place ever so gently while his thumbs caressed my cheeks tenderly. We could have been kissing for minutes or hours; I wasn’t sure. Screw being rescued or spending the night in a comfortable hotel bed. Every single part of me felt safe and content in David’s arms.
David looked at me with his big brown eyes full of emotion, desire, and unspoken feelings. Despite how right this thing between David and me felt, it was also temporary, and part of me was screaming to be careful.
I turned around and settled once again against David. I pulled his arms around me and laced our fingers together.
The sky was turning a deep and vibrant shade of orange and red with the sun now hidden behind the hill in the distance.
“Thank you,” I said.
“What for?”
“For sharing the journal with me, for taking time off work to come on this trip with me, for not panicking when the car stopped, for coming up the hill with me. Making me feel safe.”
“Are you going to thank me for the sunset too?” David let out a chuckle.
