Chapter 2
The whole thing was over in only a few seconds, but both men looked like they had just gotten off an hour-long upside-down roller coaster.
“Are you alright?” Dane asked, looking over at Heath.
It took Heath a second to process what had happened, and another to realize Dane’s arm was across his chest. Heath looked down at it.
“Sorry,” Dane said, pulling his arm away as if it had burned Heath. “I guess I wanted to protect you.”
Heath smiled. “No need to apologize. It was…nice. I mean, it was nice of you to do.”
Dane climbed out of the car and Heath joined him. They looked up at the parking lot and then around where they were now.
“We’re lucky we didn’t hit anything,” Dane said, taking in the area surrounding the part of the hill they were on.
“Especially that tree. I guess
