The driver’s door opened and she jumped. Dan smiled at her and waved a key. ‘Come on sexy; let’s get you in out of the cold.’
Dan closed the door and walked around to Chloe’s side. He opened her door and she climbed out. He slammed the door and she yelped. ‘Fuck, its fucking freezing.’
Dan picked her up before she could object and moved steadily alongside the Volvo. Once he was under the stoop that ran around the motel he put Chloe down and escorted her to the second door from the reception. He opened the unit’s door with the key and ushered her inside.
Dan closed the door behind them and flicked on the lights. Chloe saw a double bed, a television and a doorway in to a small bathroom. She flicked on the bathroom’s lights and saw the shower.
‘That’s me sorted,’ she said as she bent to unzip her boots. Chloe kicked them off and walked in to the shower and switched it on. She kept her hand under the water and when it was hot enough pulled her dress up over her head and tossed it back through the open doorway.
Dan stood in the doorway and said, ‘I’ll go get our things, back in a moment.’
Chloe stepped under the hot water and turned to Dan. She smiled at him. ‘I’ll be waiting for you, you can wash my back.’
Chloe spent forty minutes in the shower and as she got dressed in jeans and a tight black roll-neck sweater she actually began to feel warm again.
Dan was stood at the small bureau next to the bed; the bag of assorted weaponry before him. He loaded the Browning and one of the Glocks and said, ‘I think we’ll be okay here but I’m taking any chances.
Chloe looked at him from her position on the bed as she rolled on a pair of thick lambs-wool socks. ‘We’re only going to get something to eat baby, I doubt we’ll need guns for that.’
Dan slipped a shoulder rig on over his black sweater and fastened it in place.
‘You really want to take that chance after everything we’ve been through? Besides I’d rather have a gun and not need it, than need it and not have one.’
Chloe tugged on her boots and tied the laces and stood up. ‘You’re right.’
Dan helped her in to her shoulder rig and Chloe giggled as his hands brushed against her breasts as he secured the holster beneath her left arm.
‘How’s that feel?’ Dan asked.
Chloe adjusted the strap across her shoulder and grinned, ‘My tits are a bit squashed but I can live with it.’
Her breasts were pushed together emphasising their size and shape through the sweater. She wore no bra and Dan traced his thumb across the outline of her left nipple and Chloe stepped back and said, ‘I can’t take you pawing me baby, dressed like this it would take too long to get undressed for sex.’
‘But you’re warm, that’s what counts.’
Chloe kissed him quickly and held her hand out for the Glock. Dan passed it to her and she checked it was loaded and readied the safety just as he had shown her. She slipped it in to the holster and pulled on her thick padded jacket. She zipped it up to her breasts and looked at herself in the mirror. The weapon couldn’t be seen beneath the coat.
Dan did the same with his Browning and then handed Chloe a pair of “Thermalite” gloves and a hat.
Once they were both fully dressed they looked at their reflections in the mirror and Chloe said, ‘I look like a housewife.’ Her face was not happy and Dan laughed.
‘Honey, you still look amazing, you can see all your curves; you’ve nothing to worry about.’
‘You’d still fuck me?’ Chloe asked with a slight smile.
‘Honey, drop your jeans and I’ll fuck you right now.’
Chloe kissed him and smiled. ‘Come on studly; let’s go get something to eat.’
It was below freezing as they made their way back to the motel from the diner. They had eaten huge steaks with mash and freshly baked bread. Chloe had eaten two portions of cherry pie for dessert and they’d drunk a lot of coffee. The diner had been warm and welcoming and the staff pleasant and friendly to them.
Chloe gripped Dan’s hand in hers as they slipped and staggered against the wind. Visibility was down to five feet and snowflakes fell in a continuous wall of white.
‘That waitress said its going to get a lot worse before the night’s out,’ Chloe shouted.
Dan nodded his head and kept his head down out of the cutting wind.
‘Fancy fucking me in the car-park?’ Chloe joked and Dan grinned.
‘We’d be found in the morning frozen together,’ Dan shouted back to be heard over the storm.
Chloe tightened her grip on his as she slipped and Dan managed to stay on his feet and kept her from falling flat on her ass.
They reached the stoop of the motel and stepped under the sloping roof out of the snow. Dan found their room key and Chloe stamped her feet to keep warm. ‘Christ, I’m frozen.’
Dan had the door open. ‘Wouldn’t want to be caught out in the open; that’s for sure.’
They stepped in to the room and Dan closed the door behind them. ‘Let’s see how quickly I can get you out of those clothes.’
Chloe squealed as he lunged for her.
‘McCall’s place is only ten miles from here,’ Dan said as he looked up from the laptop between his legs. He was sat up in the bed, a sheet covering his groin, legs open, with the laptop connected to the internet. Even in stormy weather you could always rely on broadband he thought to himself.
‘Shit, that’s convenient,’ Chloe replied as she rolled over on to her back and looked up at Dan.
Dan slid one hand down her shoulder and across her bare breasts.
He gently caressed them and Chloe sighed. ‘That’s nice.’
‘He has a website called “Outward Bound in Cowboy Country”. Looks like he takes rich folks out on horses and charges them a fortune to sleep rough beneath the stars.’
Chloe opened her legs and stretched out like a cat in recline.
‘Well if this storm continues we could be here for a while, let’s just hope he hasn’t heard about Williams and Nakatomi, put two and two together and hightailed it out of the country.’
Dan groaned, ‘I hope not, the weather forecast says it should clear in a day or so, the winds are carrying it south towards the mountains. They keep the roads well maintained around here judging by all the snow plough activity we’ve seen so far, I think once the snow stops we should be able to get out to McCall’s place. There are chains in the boot for the Volvo if it gets heavy going out there.’
Chloe rolled on to her front and Dan playfully squeezed her ass. Chloe braced herself up on her elbows and rested her chin in her hands.
‘Is Montana going to be this cold?’
Dan smiled. ‘Worse during the winter.’
‘And you still want to move up there if we get the chance?’
‘Yes, why; are you having second thoughts?’
Chloe smiled broadly. ‘As long as I’m with you I don’t care where we are.’ Chloe scratched at her nose and bit her bottom lip. ‘Besides, you can pay for the best heating system going, as long as I stay inside it’ll be like the tropics.’
Dan shut the laptop down and put it on the floor. He slid down the bed and Chloe wrapped her body in to his. Dan brushed her fringe from her eyes. ‘Baby, if we get through this we’ll build the perfect house for you, it’ll be so damn hot you’ll be walking around the house in just a bikini.’
Chloe grinned. ‘You’d like that huh?’
‘I could see its merits.’
‘I love you.’
‘I love you too baby.’
‘Dan, we’re in trouble.’
Chloe’s words brought him instantly up out of his sleep and he reached in the darkness for the Browning beneath his pillow.
He sat up quickly and Chloe pushed his arm down.
‘Nothing like that honey, I’ve started my period.’
Dan flicked on the small lamp and blinked at Chloe, she was sat on the edge of the bed, a dressing gown wrapped around her.
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bsp; ‘What?’
‘My period, I totally forgot about it, I’ve come on.’
‘Jesus Christ!’ Dan sighed and collapsed back on the bed and slid the gun back beneath the pillow. ‘You scared the shit out of me Chloe!’
‘Sorry baby, but I’ve started my period, it’s a disaster.’
Dan laughed and rubbed at his eyes. He looked at his watch; 7am.
‘Jesus!’ Dan’s breathing slowed and he slung his legs over the side of the bed and walked in to the bathroom. He urinated, washed up and headed back in to the bedroom. He picked his jeans up off the chair and slid in to them.
Chloe still looked wrecked on the bed.
‘Honey, its okay, it happens.’
‘I know but it means we can’t fuck for a while.’ Chloe didn’t look happy about it at all.
Dan buckled his jeans and began to gather the rest of his clothes up.
‘Where are you going?’ Chloe asked.
‘To see if either the store or the chemist is open, I take it you didn’t bring anything with you.’
Chloe shook her head. ‘No, I forget all about it.’
‘No problem,’ he said as he pulled the sweater over his head. ‘What kind do you use?’
Chloe was frowning at him and she got up and walked over to him and put her hands on his hips and looked up at him. ‘You’re not mad, you don’t mind going out?’
Dan kissed her and smiled. ‘Why the hell should I mind?’
‘Won’t you be embarrassed?’
Dan chuckled and shook his head. ‘No honey, it doesn’t bother me at all.’
‘You’re my hero.’ She kissed him and kept her lips on his for a while. ‘Still; we’re not going to be able to screw for a few days, that pisses me off.’
Dan laughed again. ‘Are you going to be like this every time you have your period?’
Chloe shrugged, ‘I don’t know. Probably; I hate not being able to have you in me.’
‘Jesus, you’re crazy,’ Dan said laughing. ‘Let me get my shoes on and get out of here, why don’t you take a bath.’
‘Okay and thanks.’
Chloe told him what she used and asked him to see if he could drum up some breakfast. ‘Get some RedBull if they sell it round here.’
Dan kissed her at the door and headed out in to the early morning snow.
Dan unpacked the small grocery sack. He picked up the smaller bag from the chemists and took it in to the bathroom. Chloe smiled up at him from the bathtub; soapsuds covered everywhere except her face. ‘Thanks, I’ll be out in bit, did you get some breakfast?’
‘Yeah, bagels, doughnuts and RedBull.’
‘The perfect start to a day.’
Dan closed the bathroom door and started in on the bagels.
Chloe joined him ten minutes later. She was dressed in the same clothes as the night before.
‘Thanks baby,’ she said as she popped the ring-pull on a can of RedBull.
‘No problem, the weather’s slackened off a bit. When I went out I started up the Volvo and moved it a couple of spaces down, I didn’t want it trapped in snow. The wind has stopped which is good.’
‘So what are our plans?’
‘I need a shower and shave, and then I thought we’d get some coffee in that diner, I bought a local road map, we should be able to find McCall’s place on it, we’ll take it from there.’
‘Okay, you go shower and shave, I need to do my make-up, I feel plain and frumpy this morning.’
Dan kissed her and said, ‘Chloe, you could never be plain and frumpy.’
‘Yeah, well I feel it.’
Dan opened the door and Chloe stepped outside. It wasn’t anywhere near as bad as the night before. Snow still fell but in not such force. A few cars moved along the street and in the parking lot of the motel some kids had built a snowman. On the pavement opposite them a father pulled his son along the ice on a sled.
Dan closed the door and they moved slowly across the parking lot.
Chloe felt a little better about her predicament now that she had put make-up on, it made her feel prettier. She hated “her time of the month” but being with Dan made it infinitely worse; she just wanted to jump him all the time.
Dan had helped her in to her shoulder rig, and she had been thankful that he hadn’t brushed against her breasts, and he hadn’t made any remarks of a sexual nature and she was glad of that too. Period or not she’d fuck him if he said anything that got her stirred.
Chloe gripped Dan’s hand and they crossed the road. A plough had been through recently and snow was piled high at the kerbs and they had to climb over to reach the diner. Chloe laughed as Dan tripped and fell to his knees. Dan got up and flung a handful of snow at her face and she yelped as the cold particles slid beneath her roll-neck.
‘I’ll get you for that buddy,’ she laughed as Dan got back to his feet. They stamped their feet on the pavement and opened the door to the diner and stepped in out of the cold. They found a booth and slid in opposite each other; Dan once more with his back to the wall, facing any potential danger.
The same waitress that working the previous night was serving and she came over and took their order.
‘Coffee please,’ Dan said.
‘Can we also have some scrambled eggs and bacon,’ Chloe added.
‘Sure thing sugar,’ the waitress said and walked off to place their order.
Dan raised an eyebrow at Chloe and she smiled across at him. ‘Smelling the food cooking made me hungry, and besides who knows when we’ll next get a chance to eat properly.’
Chloe lowered the zip on her jacket and asked Dan quietly if the gun beneath her left arm was visible.
He told her it wasn’t. ‘But you’re looking very fine in that tight sweater.’ He grinned at her and she shook her head and sighed.
‘Man, don’t go saying that, I’m trying hard not to think about sex.’
Dan reddened. ‘Shit baby, I didn’t think, I’m sorry.’
‘You’re forgiven,’ she replied with a smile. She took off her gloves and put them on the table. Dan did the same and held her hands in his across the table-top.
Chloe moved her fingers and the diamond ring twinkled and she smiled and said, ‘I still can’t believe you asked me to marry you, I’m going to remember that night forever.’
Dan squeezed her hands. ‘I was worried you’d say no, that you’d think I was mental for asking so soon.’
Chloe shook her head. ‘You could have asked me five minutes after opening your car door to me, I knew then that I’d be with you forever, I’d have said yes right then.’
‘I still find it all a little unreal.’
‘I once read an article in a magazine where this couple met when they were twelve and were married at sixteen and had been together for sixty five years, miraculous things do happen.’
The waitress brought over their coffee and said, ‘Fran said that the food will be five minutes.’
‘Thanks,’ said Dan.
‘You folks on holiday or something?’
‘Something like that,’ Chloe said. ‘I’ve got an interview in Santa Fe to have my art displayed in a gallery down there, the weather got so bad yesterday that we had to stop.’
‘Y’all from England or something?’
‘Yes,’ Dan said.
‘Never seen weather like this I bet,’ the waitress said with a friendly smile.
‘You got that right,’ Chloe offered.
‘I’m Sara, Fran’s my pa, and you need anything whilst you’re in town you let us know.’
‘Why thank you Sara,’ Dan said and took a sip of coffee. He smacked his lips together in pleasure and smiled up at Sara. ‘That’s the best damn coffee I’ve tasted so far.’
‘Best in the state.’ Sara left them to attend to a customer who had just sat at the main counter.
Chloe sipped her coffee and then added milk and sugar. ‘Christ, that’s strong.’
‘Is good, that’s all I care about, that was good thi
nking about the gallery.’
‘I have my moments,’ Chloe replied with a pleased look on her face.
Dan unzipped his coat and checked that the Browning couldn’t be seen.
‘You’re good to go,’ Chloe said quietly.
Sara soon brought their food and she put the plates down and said, ‘I hope you don’t mind my asking but have you got snow chains, a lot of folks don’t think of that sort of thing, hate to think of y’all getting stranded out there on the road.’
‘Thanks Sara, but we’re all covered in that department.’
‘Great, a couple of years back two women got stranded in a snowstorm and died in their car half a mile from here, whenever people pass through and the weather’s bad I always ask, wouldn’t be able to sleep if I thought I could have helped out and din’t and someone paid for it, y’all know what I mean.’
‘Yes,’ Dan and Chloe said in unison and smiled at each other.
‘Well enjoy the food, and if you need anything else just holler, that’s what everyone else does in here when they want something.’
They ate in comfortable silence. The diner around them slowly filling up as people came in for their breakfast or just to get out of the cold. Dan looked out through the big plate glass window and noticed that the snow was coming down heavy again and that a strong wind was blowing. Visibility was down to a few metres.
‘Guess we’re going to be holed up here for a while.’
Chloe swallowed a mouthful of bacon and said, ‘I can’t believe it, holed up here with nothing to do but fuck like rabbits and I’m on the rag.’
Dan laughed and started to choke on his eggs. He cleared his throat and took a gulp of coffee.
‘You’re incredible baby.’
‘Well,’ Chloe said as she stabbed a piece of bacon with her fork, ‘I love it when we make love; I can’t get enough of you.’
‘You’ll soon get bored of it, we’ll be down to once a month before you know it,’ Dan replied and smiled at the deep frown on Chloe’s face.
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