“Taking a Chance”

The pair stared at each other a moment, stunned by what had just happened between them. “What the fuck?” Zack thought to himself, “First she tries to run me over, then she kisses me like there’s no tomorrow!”

“You got a room here, Grant?” she asked, still breathless from the kiss – her chest heaving and her lips tingling where they’d touched his.

When he nodded, she smiled, “Then what are we waiting for?”

Zack scooped Destiny up in his arms and carried her quickly into the inn, nearly crashing into Arthur, who was just on his way out.

“Pardon me,” Arthur told him, a bit miffed that they weren’t looking where they were going.

“Sorry,” Zack called back to him, just as he got to the bottom of the stairway.

“That your car, then?” Arthur asked, standing in the doorway and pointing to where Destiny’s car sat in the middle of the drive, the driver’s side door standing wide open.

“Here,” Zack called back to him, taking the keys from Destiny and tossing them over to Arthur. “Park that for me, will ya? Thanks!”

Arthur just stood there, an incredulous look on his face, as he watched Zack and Destiny race quickly up the stairs and out of site.

The pair barely made it through the bedroom door as clothes were ripped and pulled and flung to the floor in a heat of passion.

“You always were good for a tumble in the sheets, Grant,” Destiny told him, as she lay in his bed, snuggled against him, several hours later. “Sure make it hard for a girl to keep on running.”

“You don’t have to keep running, you know,” he told her softly, his fingers gently brushing the soft chestnut tendrils of hair away from her face. “You can stay here, with me, in this town. We can get a little farmhouse just on the edge of town; make a real home of it.”

Destiny let out a sigh, rolled over on her side, “Zack, we’ve been through this. I’m no good for you. They’ll catch up to me, someday... maybe sooner. No, you’re better off forgetting you ever met me.”

“In case you hadn’t noticed,” he said, rolling over so his body cradled hers, “I don’t want to forget. I want you... here, with me, now and forever.”

“Zack... I...” she sighed, closed her eyes tightly shut. “Shit. I’ll... think about it. That’s all I can give you for now... I’ll think about it.”

TBC...