Chapter 12

JODY

The rain grew stronger and the winds were harder and faster to the point I had to close my balcony door. I didn’t get a chance to go searching for Ulysses. It was only fifteen minutes later when he knocked at my door.

“Hey, the weather seems to have gotten really bad,” I said when he walked in the room.

He nodded, a deep frown on his face.

“It did. Apparently, it’s a low-level hurricane that took a turn and is now coming straight this way.”

Crap!

I’d traveled a lot, but I’d never found myself in the middle of any kind of storm.

Well, another one for the books.

The house was massive, but looked very sturdy although it was on a hill. My thoughts immediately went to the town we’d just come from.

Would they be okay?

“What do we do?”

He pressed a button on my wall, and a metal gate came down, enclosing the room in total darkness.

“I’ve shut down all the glass doors and we’re high enough that we don’t have to worry about the tide coming near the house.”