Chapter Twenty-Four

We’d been driving for almost six hours when Felix slowed down and took the exit for Malta. I glanced at him and he gave me a lopsided smile. “I’m hungry.”

“Make it quick, we’ve still got about twenty hours ahead of us,” I said.

He pulled into a gas station and filled the SUV’s tank up. I stood outside and stretched my arms above my head as he spoke to a woman at the other pump. She was pointing him in another direction as he nodded his head.

“There’s a convenience store back that way,” Felix said.

“For what?” I asked him.

“Snacks for the road, listening to you snore isn’t as compelling as you think,” he said as I smiled.

“Please, you probably stare at me while I sleep and drool a little,” I said.

“Asshole.”

“Let’s just eat first, I need real food,” I said.

We stopped at an American restaurant and ate our fill. We’d barely been there an hour before we headed to the grocery store. Inside the store Felix grabbed a trolley and headed directly to the snacks aisle.

I froze in my tracks as F