Rewinding My Reaper Boyfriend
He was reading a paperback novel, his feet tucked under him, a mug of tea steaming on the coaster Cale had insisted they use.
"What is dropping?" Elion asked. "The stock market? We don't have stocks."
"The barometric pressure," Cale said, tapping the glass again. "It has dropped ten millibars in the last hour. That indicates a rapid cyclogenesis."
"In English, Cale."
"A storm," Cale said. "A big one."
"It's the Pacific Northwest in November. Storms are the default setting."
"This is not default," Cale insisted. He turned from the wall and walked to the window. "The wind velocity is increasing. I can hear the shear against the siding. It is... aggressive."