Even the principal encouraged me to get lost. I remembered that Beth told me you were here.’ ‘Does she know you decided to come here?’ ‘No. I ...idn’t want to put her in the position of lying to protect me.’ ‘So the cops are probably looking for you and I’m supposed to provide an outlaw hideout?’ She gave him a thin smile. ‘Look, I don’t want to be a bother. I’ll sleep in the barn and do chores for you. I’ve got some food with me.’ ‘Are there any weapons in that pack?’ ‘No.’ ‘I can’t trust you. ”“And if Tawns and I had said outright no on Sunday, what would you have done? Even though you knew we kind of wanted to but were too afraid.”“If you said no and meant it, we’d forget it. Well, maybe not completely, probably keep teasing, but we would have accepted your no.““Exactly. You know what Jonah would do if I said I wasn’t going to?”“What?”“He’d make me. I would have to. I don’t know how, but there won’t be an option to chicken out… and that’s exciting for me. I want to do it, but I. But...”“They’re blushing because they all felt, at least to some degree, what I felt.”“I thought that only happened when you were all touching, and he was making love to one of you.”“I ... suppose this is a weaker version of that. It... he’s getting stronger – or something, and they were all paying attention to what we were doing. Besides, you must have gotten him extremely excited last night. Guess who he took his excitement out on,” she finished with a sexy little giggle. “There was a lot of. “Honey are you okay?” She didn’t respond. Ignoring the smell he reached in to unlock the door and pulled it open. She looked disheveled and was a mess. Her usual well-groomed and pristine look was unkempt and chaotic. Her hair was a mess and what little makeup left was smeared and blotchy. She looked frightful and at least some of the smell was coming from her.“What happened?” he asked holding her hand. Slowly she turned to him.“I ... I was in an accident.”“Oh my god, are you alright? Are you.