Werewolf in Seattle: A Wild About You Novel (37 page)

Impressed with his ability to surrender control, Kate drove slowly and kept to the plowed sections of the highway. Traffic thinned once they were outside the city limits, and she began to wonder if she’d made the right call. Hers were the only headlights taking the exit road to the resort. And she had several miles yet to go.

Turning back wasn’t an option. As long as she moved slowly and didn’t hit a patch of ice, they’d get there. She’d always been lucky driving on snowy roads.

But not this time. When the skid started, she did everything she’d been taught so they wouldn’t flip, but nothing could have prevented them from plowing into a snow bank, nose first.

The impact woke Duncan, who sat up, startled. “What happened, lass?”

She sighed. “We’re stuck.”

“Can we get out?”

The wind whistled as snow swirled around the Jeep and blocked the view from all angles. Kate surveyed the situation. It wasn’t good. “I don’t know. Maybe not.”