The bolt of lightning that cracked across the sky felt close enough to rattle the perfume bottles on their glass shelves.
Lainey flinched, one hand pressed to the register counter, and watched the parking lot through the rain-streaked windows.
Water sheeted down in silver curtains, turning the streetlights into blurred smears of amber.
“Guess we’re stuck,” said a voice behind her.
Lainey turned. The woman who’d been browsing the lace bralettes was mid-thirties, dark hair pulled into a sleek ponytail, yoga pants that hugged every curve.
She gestured with her phone. “Weather app says this isn’t letting up for hours.”
“Looks that way.” Lainey forced her retail smile. Five customers. She’d counted them when the storm started.
Two couples, both in their late twenties, and this woman. The couples had been laughing near the sleepwear section. Now they stood in an awkward cluster by the fitting rooms, eyeing the windows.
The lights flickered.
A collective murmur rippled through the store. One of the girlfriends was blonde and petite. She was wearing a sundress far too thin for the weather, as she clutched her boyfriend’s arm. “Marcus, tell me the power’s not—”
Darkness swallowed the store whole.
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The storm is only the beginning.
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