Devil's Ride by Clementine Roux

with him, but moved around freely as soon as she left the room.
                   
                  "Joe?" She called out, desperate to apologize again.
                   
                  The hotel room door slammed shut.
                   
                  "Joe?" She called out again. This time, poking her head out the bathroom door. He was gone. Panicked, she ran to the door and opened it, but he wasn't there. She turned and ran to the window to look out, but didn't see him there yet.
                   
                  "Please, tell me you didn't leave me here," she muttered under her breath, looking for any sign that he had left her for good. His luggage was still in the closet. She nearly cried at the sight of it. "Thank God!"
                   
                  *
     
                   
                    Alessandra's tear stained face surprised Sammi when she opened the door.
                   
                  "What happened, sweetheart?" Sammi pulled Alessandra into her room, shouting at Robert in the bathroom, "Don't come out naked unless you want Alessandra to fall in love with you too."
                   
                  Robert poked his head out of the bathroom. "I thought she already was in love with me." He looked at Alessandra's face and quickly closed the door. "I'll be in here, if you need me."
                   
                  "I'm so sorry to bother you, Sam, but I didn't know what else to do. It's been four hours," Alessandra explained, her voice breaking.
                   
                  Confused, Sammi asked, "Four hours for what?"
                   
                  "Joe left. He walked out four hours ago when I was getting ready to take a shower."
                   
                  "Left? Where did he go?" Sammi motioned for Alessandra to sit.
                   
                  "I don't know. He's barely talking to me. He won't look at me. He won't touch me. He just walked out and left me there." Alessandra put her head in her hands.
                   
                  Sammi was dumbfounded. She'd known Joe a long time and knew how much he cared about Alessandra. She had no idea what to say to her.
                   
                  "Rob!" Sammi shouted, getting up, walking to the bathroom. "Have you heard from Joe?"
                   
                  Robert opened the door, a towel draped around his slim waist. "No. Why? What's up?"
                   
                  "He left Alessandra."
                   
                  "What? What do you mean he left? Left to where? When?" Robert searched through his suitcase for a pair of pants and slipped them on.
                   
                  Alessandra stood up, feeling like she intruded. "Sorry. It's okay. Really. He'll be back. He just needed some time to cool off."
                   
                  Sammi called back after her. "No. Let me get dressed. We'll find him. Did he take his suitcase with him? Is the car still here?"
                   
                  Robert looked out the window. The car was still where they'd left it.
                   
                  "He probably took his bike. He'll be back. You bruised his ego, but he'll recover. He loves you. Never stops talking about you. It does something to a man when his girl, gets a little too close to another guy." Robert looked into Alessandra's eyes. "Give him time. You hungry? We're going to go eat. We kind of worked up an appetite."