Open Road by Evelyn Glass Page A

chance with her I never would have agreed to go to San Antonio with the club so soon. Maybe I would’ve gone to college after all, given my mother that piece of paper she so desperately wants for me. Visited Ali at her school on weekends, asked her to marry me when I was close to graduating.
     
    And then what? Bring her home to this forgotten town so we could be reminded every day that we don’t belong together? Try to make a new life together somewhere else, clinging to each other until our love and need choke us? No. Better that we have these two perfect months together and leave it at that.
     
    The cracks and pops are getting closer together now, signaling the end, and Ali turns to me, her gray eyes serious. Let’s go to The Ridge, she says, and my mouth goes dry. A girl I’ve been there countless times with girls whose smiles I barely remember, but I know that whatever happens tonight I’ll remember it forever.
     
    My brain runs wild with thoughts of what might happen tonight. Ali’s a virgin, and we haven’t done much more than kiss, but that’s not a kissing look I see in her eyes. She’s hungry. For me. Let’s go, I say, pulling her to her feet, and the way she wraps around me promises everything I’ve ever dreamed. Paradise.

 
    CHAPTER TWO
     
    Alejandro wove through traffic, oblivious to the angry horns blaring around him. The wedding venue was an hour from Arroyo Flats and he’d pushed the Fatboy to its limit almost the entire ride, rehearsing what he would say to Ali and still finding words inadequate. If her family hated me ten years ago when I was just a skinny teenage boy in love with a girl out of my league, he thought, imagine how they’ll feel about me now, a tattooed outlaw biker crashing her six-figure wedding of four hundred people. It was almost comical.
     
    But now he was in some sort of Little League gridlock, sandwiched in a sea of minivans and SUVs while a young female cop directed traffic into the massive athletic complex. With the brim of her hat down so far over her eyes and traffic at her back, she didn’t see him creeping down the shoulder, desperate for her to turn her head so he could make it across the intersection. Even if she radioed ahead, he’d be there before anyone caught up to him.
     
    He hoped.
     
    Look away, look away , he willed her, but she was alert and efficient, her left hand to the through traffic, her right hand waving the vehicles into the park. He knew he had just a few minutes to spare and he had to be first off the line to get there before the rest of the traffic bogged him down again.
     
    Fuck it . He inched past the last SUV in line and gunned it. In his wake he heard the indignant shrill of her whistle, but he was too far gone to care. Let them come. If the Devil himself was on his tail he wouldn’t have slowed down.
     
    He had a confession to make.
     
    He had a woman to rescue.
     
    And he had exactly six minutes.
     
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    ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    Evelyn Glass is a native of northern California who currently lives in New England with her wonderful husband and their two rambunctious Corgis. 
    Her favorite past times include hiking and reading near the fireplace.
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