CHAPTER 16 - REED
“WHAT’S THE BAG for?” I asked Kim when I tripped over a small duffel in the hallway.
After downing two mugs of strong instant coffee, I was waiting for the caffeine rush to hit, and boy did I need it. Why did everything have to happen at once?
“It’s my overnight bag. I’m coming with you.”
Was she serious? “No, you’re not.”
“Why? Think about it—we can share the driving and take it in turns to sleep. I don’t have a wedding this weekend, just a meeting to discuss floral arrangements, and I already spoke to Annie and she said she’d take that and also pick my car up.”
Kim had really thought this through, hadn’t she? A strange warmth spread out in my chest because nobody had ever done that for me before—dropped everything to help—but I still couldn’t let her come along. N
