Being stuck out in the wilderness makes a person think a lot. After all, there isn't really much else to do when it's winter and everyone is stuck indoors trying not to freeze to death out there

Laura Lee is tucked in your arms, her head pressed into your chest laying between your legs with her book in her lap reading under the gentle warmth of the fireplace next to the two of you. It's oddly domestic for the situation the both of you were in right now

Silver spoon, golden rule, private school and never missed a day of Sunday church. That's what Laura Lee was

You? You could laugh. Blue collar, low dollar, out there where concrete meets old red dirt. You have no clue how you did it but it sure doesn't add up on paper

Thinking again?

Her gentle voice snaps you out of your pit of swirling thoughts

You have that look on your face.

It isn't hard to tell when you have been sucked into your mind again. That little furrow in between your brows and the way your entire body suddenly stiffened under her, Laura Lee could tell in an instant

She keeps on loving you and you keep on wondering why