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in the chests while Eleanor looked around. They were still surrounded by trees but were closer to the public entrance to the park. Despite it being early fall, people milled around in shorts and tank tops. The weather was still a bit humid and almost spring-like. Typical for southeast Texas.
    A woman brushed dirt off her barefoot toddler’s feet, and a pang of longing hit Eleanor. Would she ever do that? In the past four years, she’d only gone on a handful of dates, which had barely lasted through dinner. She just couldn’t seem to find a man who could hold her interest for even an hour. She glanced at Cam. Not true. He’d held her interest for years, but he was her boss. Well, not anymore. But he clearly wasn’t interested in her. She had the distinct impression that he often forgot she existed, sometimes even when they were in the same room. With a sigh, she walked over to the passenger’s door of his SUV.
    A dark shadow flowed over the truck and brought a chilly gust of wind with it that sent a shiver down her spine. She released the door handle and wrapped her arms around her body as she shivered. The mother grabbed her toddler and shoved him in their car as she snuck glances at the sky overhead. Eleanor gasped at the dark, angry-looking storm clouds forming above her. Lightning sparked within the clouds, which kept swirling even as they spread. Soon the area had darkened to the look of early dusk. Eleanor jumped when someone suddenly grasped her elbow.
    “Get in the truck,” Cam said in her ear.
    The urgency in his voice spurred her to action as he ran around the front of the vehicle. He jumped in and started it while she strapped on her seat belt. He pulled his on even as he was backing out of the parking space.
    “Wait. Where’s Sel?”
    “The store owner’s son is going to drive him to his car with some gas. Then he’ll drive back here and fill up before heading back to Mike’s.”
    He hit the road and accelerated quickly. She didn’t know why, but she felt the need for speed, too, and almost asked him to drive faster. The road into the woods wound back and forth while ascending slightly, but luckily not much. They were still on mostly flat ground in this area.
    “What do you think is happening?” she asked.
    “I don’t know, but I think we need to be safely inside my house when it hits.”
    The first golf ball-sized piece of hail hit his windshield like a gunshot. She cried out, but he didn’t even swerve, as if he’d been expecting it. His face showed no sign of strain or apprehension, but Eleanor’s nails dug into the door handle on one side and the console on the other. Even as she fought to stay calm, her knuckles turned white from the strain. The hail increased in size and frequency until finally they made it beneath the canopy of the deeper woods.
    Thunder rumbled in the distance, and the wind rattled the trees around them. She closed her eyes and tried to concentrate on breathing slowly. She had full confidence in Cam—he had always been a rock, there to weather any storm that came their way.
    Before he’d come along she’d hit rock bottom so hard it had nearly killed her, but then he’d shown up out of the blue, and she’d never looked back. Since then, very little had affected her over the past four years, as if his presence in her life had scared all the bad stuff away. Now scary, unexplainable things were happening again, and she prayed it didn’t hurt either one of them.
    A loud clap of thunder rattled the windows, and Cam hit the brakes. “Shit.”
    “What—”
    She opened her eyes to see a large tree lying across the road. “Oh no.”
    “It’s wedged between the trees, too. That’s not going to be easy or quick to move.”
    “Move? It’ll take a crane to budge that thing. Is there another way to your house?”
    He put the truck in park and stared at her for a moment before giving a slow nod. “Yes. And if I wasn’t worried about what this weather means, I’d never