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word to him since he’d warmed her ass. That would have been a record for her back in Hollywood. She wouldn’t have thought it possible, but somehow the spanking he’d given her had helped he r de-stress. Who knew? Maybe spanking would catch on as a new therapy trend in Hollywood. She would have laughed at the thought , if the idea of going back to LA didn’t make her rebel inside. Getting snowed in with Logan had given her a bye, a time-out from her life there . When the snow stopped, she was going to have to go home and marry Cameron, like it or not.
    The reminder put her in a pissy mood for the rest of the day, so it was probably a good thing Logan spent most of it in his studio or she probably would have gone off on him if he looked at her wrong.
    If he noticed how quiet she was during dinner he didn’t comment on it. When he gave her a curious look as they were cleaning up afterward, she thought for sure he was going to as k what was up, but he only stared out the window above the sink as he washed and she dried.
    “It stopped snowing,” he said.
    Raine looked out the window . In the early evening dimness, the final flakes of snow fluttered down. Her hands suddenly shook, a ridiculous sense of panic taking hold of her. With the blizzard over, there was nothing to keep her here.
    She finished drying the plate and put it back in the cabinet with the others. “Good. I can finally get my c ar out of that stupid ditch. I’ll go change.”
    His brows drew together. “ You want to go now? ”
    Five minutes ago, she’d dreaded the idea of leaving, so why was she in such a hurry to go ? Because the longer she stayed, the harder it was going to be to go back to her life. And as much as she hated the direction it was headed at the moment, she did have to go back. Her poor assistant Chloe was probably compl e tely freaked out because she hadn’ t checked in.
    “Yeah.” She folded the dish towel and placed it on the counter. “I mean, there’s no real reason to wait until morning when I can leave now.”
    “There isn’t? How about waiting for them to plow the roads?”
    “You have four-wheel drive.”
    “But you don’t.”
    He had a point. Dammit.
    She sighed. “Okay. I still need to go into town, though. And not that pitiful place we drove though the other night—the other one.”
    He frowned again. “What for?”
    “I have to call my assistant and let her know where I am.”
    He dried his hands on the towel she’d just folded. “You’ve already waited two days to call her. One more day won’t hurt.”
    Probably not, but it was the longest she’d gone without talking to the other woman. And if there was one person in Hollywood she could talk to, it was Chloe. She wasn’t just her assistant, she was her best friend. And talking to her was what she should have done instead of running off to the spa. If she had, she wouldn’t be stranded in this cabin where she had way too much time to think about how much more simple life would be if she could stay here forever.
    “I have to call her tonight.”
    She walk ed over to where her bag sat on the floor beside the couch and rummaged through it for her jeans. Then she remembered they were still hangin g up in the bathroom. She hoped they were dry.
    “Forget it,” he said from behind her. “I’m not talking you anywhere tonight.”
    She didn’t know why his answer bothered her, but it did. She whirled around to glare at him. “Why do you always have to be so damn difficult?”
    “Me?” He folded his arms across his chest. “I’m not the one demanding we go out there in two feet of freaking snow and risk our lives just so I can talk to my assistant.”
    Raine knew from the way the muscle in his jaw worked that she was on the verge of royally pissing him off. Considering that had gotten her spanked the other night, she probably should have let the issue drop—especially since he was right. It was insane to go out before the roads were plowed. But she