Chapter 252: Going Where?
Being with Derek often left Emily feeling as though she was losing touch with reality for a bit. The way that she was used to things working, becoming untrue simply because she happened to be in the presence of one Derek Haven.
At first, Emily could not sleep. Then one day she shared a bed with Derek and voilà! She was suddenly able to sleep through the night without a single nightmare. Then of course there was that whole thing where she had gone to bed single, and had woken him up in the middle of the night. The two of them talking things out, until she felt ready to accept. Meaning that come morning she had a boyfriend.
And the whole Derek is my boyfriend, and I am his girlfriend thing. Had led to the situation that Emily was in now.
In a car with Derek on a Saturday morning, instead of being in bed with him back at the penthouse. They were headed somewhere that only Derek knew.
And judging by the way that he kept drumming his fingers over the steering wheel. It promised to be someplace good.
Emily had to admit she was more than a little bit curious. She wanted to know where they were going. She wanted to know so bad that it was almost a physical ache.
Emily had never been one of those people who was content to be left in the dark. She was always more comfortable knowing exactly what to expect.
But Derek seemed very pleased with the surprise that he had arranged, and she did not want to ruin that for him. So she decided that she would play along, at least for a little while. But if wherever it was that they were going turned out to be a trip that required them to be driving for more than an hour, just to get there. Then Emily was not sure that she would be able to hold on that long.
By that point she was pretty certain that her patience would have been worn down to just bare threats so thin, that even a spider’s web was thicker than them. She would begin pestering Derek non-stop, and trying to find answers for herself so that she knew exactly where they were going. But that point in time was yet to come, and if she was lucky it never would.