" What?"He felt her tense up. "You need to be checked for bites, Tyler too." Oh, so it's true about the bites, I wasn't sure. Didn't feel like letting...one of them bite me to find out. Tyler doesn't have any either."She relaxed some, and patted his arm, but still didn't let go. "I'm glad, I'd hate to see that happen to you" She squeezed his arm as she said it, then pushed him ahead up the steps to the porch of a double wide trailer. "go on in then to the left, I'll have your gear brought. "It's going. Careful now!" Her warning came too late as the spanner slipped and they both tumbled from the engine compartment to the ground.Jamie nursed the back of his hand and the graze he had received from the bonnet lid. "Oh shit, are you OK?" she asked, inspecting the damage."Hmm, I'm OK." he said crossly. Blood oozed from between his fingers."We're done. Let's get you seen to. Follow me, we have a first aid kit in the laundry room." She zoomed off towards the house. The laundry room was. The sound was flat, undramatic, but still I jumped, adrenaline flooding my body. Vaguely I felt a burning sensation in the center of my chest but I paid it no attention, thinking, if anything, that it was a result of having the crap scared out of me.What the hell had happened? I wondered, trembling a little. Was it a rock thrown from a truck? It couldn't have been. There was nobody closer than a quarter mile in front of me. Since it was now hard to see out the window, I started to pull the. The glass doors opened automatically as she approached, almost as if they knew she was coming, so welcoming yet so detached. How many different people, for different reasons, business travel, vacationers, illicit affairs, even the occasional domestic dispute, passed through this threshold, but she knew why she was here. She walked at a relatively fast pace through the entry hall to the reception area of the hotel. It wasn’t an upscale hotel like the Fairmont or even one close to matching the.