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Fall Into You
Roni Loren
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To my husband, Donnie, who once asked me in an airport,
“What if next time I don’t have to leave?”
and then moved his whole life
to be with me. I’m glad you took the risk
on us all those years ago.
I love you, babe.
Come on, baby, don’t give up on me now. Charli Beaumonde gripped the steering wheel tighter as her eight-year-old Toyota’s headlights flickered for the second time in ten minutes. She adjusted her rearview mirror, wondering, not for the first time, if she should’ve stopped in one of the small-town motels she’d passed thirty miles back. The deserted highway hadn’t seemed quite so jeepers creepers this morning on her way out of the city as it did now.
But then again, those motels had looked more Norman Bates than bed-and-breakfast. She was probably better off taking her chances with her on-its-last-wheel car.
She
