Chapter Sixteen
TESSA
We sit down at Reindeer Diner, every set of eyeballs in the place following us.
“This town is nice but kinda weird,” I whisper across the table to Tre.
He lowers his menu. “After this whole Santa and Mrs. Claus thing, we’re outta here.”
“You already know what you’re getting?” I ask, still perusing the menu for some diner food I haven’t eaten yet on this road trip.
“Patty melt.”
My eyes widen, and he chuckles. I will say the longer we’re on this journey, the more he’s loosening up.
“It’s been a long few days, and I don’t have any willpower right now. It took everything in me not to climb over that counter and beat the s**t out of Rowdy and his sidekick.”
“Because they delayed us another day?”
He looks at me for a long moment, holding my gaze. “No. Because I w
