Chapter 69

“Run?” She repeated.

“Yes, tonight. If you are not tired.”

“I’m not,” she said.

“I’d love to do that with you.”

She hesitated and then nodded. They lay there for a few minutes longer before getting up to take a shower.

They took Alex’s car. He drove, and Mary sat up front with him. Alex was talking about his latest business venture, something to do with E-commerce and a new company he was backing.

Alex drove to the outskirts of a forest they’d used before. He took the car past a barricade and down an abandoned logging road, grounding out the bottom more times than she cared to count. The car wasn’t in the greatest shape, and he suspected the undercarriage was more rust than steel, though he had never worked up the nerve to test his theory. He only used it when he wanted to run, for it endured the bad road more.

Farther into the forest, he stopped the cat and put it in the park. 

The engine died with a very unhealthy thunk. He tried not