“I’ve never seen moonlight like this.” Dani stared into the night, snug in the bastion of Matt and Luke’s cabin. This dark didn’t bother her. It hid the steep terrain, let her pretend it was just a place, not a state of being.
“Where’s the moonlight you usually see?” Luke bent to pick up a poker next to the huge fireplace.
“New Orleans.”
“The Big Easy. Night is different without city lights screwing it up.” Luke poked at the fire, then set the poker to one side and picked up his beer. “Anybody waiting back there for you?”
She turned around and leaned against the window frame, the night at her back now. “A few friends, my next book, a new breed of mosquito.”
He laughed. “I can see where you’d miss that.”
“Hey, at least it’s not ten thousand feet in the air.”
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