Chapter Seven
“Are we going to get out of here today?” Jess asked. He stood next to Ashley at the small airport, the temperamental blonde had been running around in the midst of high drama for the last hour trying to get her life in order enough to leave.
“Yes, yes, yes, I’ll be ready,” she barked, too nastily to suit Jess, though he had no choice but to listen to her now, and wait for a better moment to suggest a few corrections in her behavior.
Another half hour, and Ashley was even more irritated, and Jess more exasperated, as the aviator couldn’t seem to get everything “straightened out” so they could be on their way. When they were finally in Jess’s Wrangler on their way out of town, headed for the low foothills and then the Sierra’s beyond, Jess breathed a sigh of relief, though h
