“Yep. I thought we could get some breakfast, then you could drive the rest of the way to Colorado.”
“Okay.” Meg tried to smooth down her hair, but she was afraid it looked like a mess. “How bad do I look?”
Cade grinned at her, and she realized in the light of the day he was quite handsome. “You look cute.”
“Great. That means I have smeared makeup and funny hair.” She rummaged through the bag of snacks and pulled out a stick of beef jerky. “You want one?”
He held out his hand, chuckling. “Sure.”
“Anything eventful happen while I was asleep?”
“Nope.”
Meg nodded and bit a piece of beef off. The spicy flavor filled her mouth, and she looked closer at the wrapper. She hadn’t realized she’d chosen extra hot. Her eyes watered.
Cade coughed. “What is this?” he said around the piece of beef in his mouth.
She swallowed. “Oops. I guess I bought the spicy kind.”
He picked up his bottle of water and downed it. He chewed some more. “That didn’t even help.”
Meg giggled at the look on his face. “Sorry.”
He kept chewing. “You’re not sorry. You’re enjoying my discomfort.”
“You do look like you are trying to eat a fresh pepper.”
He swallowed and made a face. “What else did you buy?”
“Pringles.”
“Yeah, give me some of those.”
She grinned and opened the cylinder-shaped container. “Coming right up.”
Cade crammed a handful into his mouth. She laughed at him. “Much better,” he said after he swallowed.
A few minutes later Cade pulled into the parking lot of a mom-and-pop coffee shop. “I haven’t had a good cup of coffee in...” He looked at her and cringed. “A while.”
Yep. A reminder that she wasn’t sitting next to a regular guy. He was a convicted felon. A murderer, if she wanted to believe the evidence. She pushed down all the warning bells going off in her head. He hadn’t tried anything while she was asleep. What could he do in a public place like a coffee shop?
She got out of the car and walked with him inside.