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Chapter 11Rhett "Not like that." I could feel my face getting hot, which hadn't happened since I was about sixteen. "Your brother just drove off from my lot knowing exactly where you are, and I don't like the way he looked at you. The motel's got a lock a kid could open with a credit card. You take the cot. I'll take the floor. I've slept on worse.""You keep saying that.""Because it keeps being true."He looked at the cot, then at me. "You don't have to sleep on the floor."My heart did something stupid.I stood up and went to the stove and put another log in, mostly so I'd have something to do with my hands. When I turned back around, he had gotten up too, and he was standing a foot away from me, close enough that I could see the stove light on his face."I meant what I said," he said. "About the kiss. I'm not sorry.""Good." My voice came out rough. "I'm not either."He reached up and pressed the loose corner of the bandage back down against his chin, and his fingers were trembl

Chapter 13 Milo He was right, and I hated it. I sat on an upturned bucket inside the warehouse and looked at the shelves. Even with the trailer full and the truck bed loaded to the top, more than half of everything he had was still sitting here. Wool blankets. Rope. Tools. Water filters. Three more pallets of propane tanks by the back wall. All of it worth more than gold in three months.It would take him four trips, at least. Maybe five. And the freeze would not wait for a fifth trip.Rhett went around the far side of the trailer to tighten the straps, and for a minute I couldn't see him and he couldn't see me.I got up and walked to the back wall. I put my hand on the nearest pallet of propane tanks, twelve of them shrink-wrapped together, and I touched the ring with my thumb.The pallet disappeared.There was a hollow square on the concrete where it had been, a clean shape in the dust. I could see it in the gray room now, sitting beside the generator I had bought yesterday. My he