a cute girl and didn’t need all that shit caked on her face, but who was I to judge.
I watched as Phoebe walked up to Kilyn and introduced herself. “Hi, I’m Thad’s girlfriend, Phoebe. You are?”
Rolling my eyes, I made my way over to them. “Always the direct approach. That’s Phoebe,” I mumbled.
Kilyn smiled and extended her hand. “Kilyn O’Kelly. I’m ah—”
Before I had a chance to even stop myself, I blurted out, “The interior designer I hired to fix up the cabin.”
Thad and Kilyn both looked at me with disappointed looks on their faces. Thad shook his head while Kilyn stared at me with a look of disbelief. Here, not more than five minutes ago, I had her tit in my mouth and now I was introducing her like someone who worked for me.
Forcing a smile, Kilyn replied, “Right. The interior designer.”
I walked up and stood next to her. I could almost feel the anger rolling off her body. “Well, I mean that’s not all, we’re friends as well.”
“Oh . . . because that made it all the better, Thano,” Thad mumbled.
Phoebe looked between all three of us with a confused expression. “So wait, are you friends, dating, the decorator? Because the fire, the pillows, and blanket on the floor scream more than just the decorator and more like friends with benefits, perhaps?”
Kilyn took a step away from me and turned to Thad. “So can we leave?”
His face dropped. “I don’t think so. We barely made it up here. The state police were shutting down the road that leads up here. It’s snowing like crazy. I think we’re all going to be stuck up here until they can plow the streets.”
Kilyn’s face fell. “You mean we’re stuck up here tonight?”
“Maybe for more than one night.” Turning to Phoebe, he wiggled his eyebrows. “Good thing I brought food and a blow-up mattress!”
My heart dropped. We were stuck up here and it was my fault. Not to mention Kilyn kept stepping further away from me.
I’d have to worry about what I said later. Right now, we had to figure out a plan. “I’m going to walk over to the neighbors. Maybe they have a way out of here since they live up here.”
“Thano, I already said they closed the road. We barely made it past them before they closed it. There’s no getting out.”
Kilyn wrapped her arms around her body and frowned as she rubbed vigorously to warm herself up.
“Are you cold?” I asked walking up to her and wrapping my arms around her. She melted into me and relief rushed through my body. She wasn’t that mad about my fuck up. It was then I realized how cold it had gotten in the cabin.
Phoebe smiled. “I’m going to guess Kilyn is way more than just the interior designer.”
Glancing over at my brother and his girlfriend, I smiled as Kilyn buried her face into my chest. “I’m freezing.”
“Shit. You didn’t even bring a jacket, did you?” All she had on was a T-shirt and jeans.
Phoebe jumped up from where she was sitting in front of the fire. “I’ve got an extra jacket, but why don’t we just turn on the heater?”
Kilyn and I looked at each other and busted out laughing. “Well, hell. Why didn’t we think of that?” I said walking over to the thermostat.
Turning the heater on, I held my breath until it turned on. At least we had one thing on our side.
I held up my hands and called out, “We have heat!”
It wasn’t more than ten seconds later and the power to the whole cabin went off.
Kilyn let out a frustrated moan and said, “We had heat.”
Things were not looking good.
P HOEBE AND I sat and stared at the fire in silence. Thano and his brother decided to hike over to the closest neighbor. Even though Thad brought food, it was like a bag of chips, candy, and Pop Tarts.
“So how long have you and Thad been dating?” I asked, breaking the awkward silence.
With a warm smile, she said, “We’ve dated on and off for about two years. We’ve been dating pretty solid for the last six months, though.”
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