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They departed the meeting quickly, not speaking to anyone as they did.
“Actually, it’s a good thing that we are going out,” said Camilla. “I’ve been needing to talk to you about something.”
“What?”
She wrinkled her nose and looked away. “I’m thinking about dropping out of school.”
“What?”
“Well... It’s hard. And I don’t like being away from home. And I am an absolute weirdo there.”
“It’s only been a year, Camilla. Give it time.”
“You need help, Levi. I’ve seen the office. It’s an absolute disaster, without me there helping you with the paperwork...”
“I’m fine,” he said, anger spiking in his blood. “Never talk about leaving school because you think you need to do something for me. Camilla, I didn’t work this hard to get you where you want to have you leave school. But you need to be at school. You want to be a lawyer, Cam, and that means that you need school, and law school...”
“Maybe I changed my mind. The city is all well and good as a daydream, but what am I actually going to do there? And what’s the point?”
“The point is that Mom and Dad are dead. And in their place I worked so hard to make sure that you all didn’t lack for anything because you didn’t have your parents. Dylan joined the military, and I’ve never been that thrilled with that, but it’s what he wanted, so it’s what he’s doing. Jessie always wanted to work the ranch. And now she has a ranch of her own with Damien. And she’s happy. You deserve that. That full dream.”
“But back when I decided to go to school, Jessie hadn’t left you. I thought that she was going to stay and...”
“I didn’t want her to. I don’t want any of you to be tethered to this place, to this ranch, because of me.”
Lord Almighty.
As if this whole thing with the Sullivans hadn’t riled him up enough, his sister was talking about leaving school. He couldn’t have that.
It was not her dream.
And he really needed Camilla to keep going after her dreams.
He definitely wasn’t having her give them up for him.
“It’s okay, Levi. I won’t make any decisions just yet.”
“There are no decisions to be made. You got into school, you’re going to school. That’s it. That’s final. And at the end of spring break, you’re going back.”
Quinn Sullivan better mind her own business, because Levi had his own problems, and he was in no kind of mood.
CHAPTER TWO
“WHAT AN ARROGANT BASTARD,” Quinn said, still stomping about three days after the meeting.
He was making her angry, and no one liked her when she was angry. Least of all her. She mostly kept it under control these days, until she was in the safety of their home at Sullivan’s Point, but Levi had tested that. And she was still absolutely feral now.
He was just... He was so...and then he...!
Ughhhhh.
Levi Granger was a whole problem. He had been a problem since Quinn was fourteen and had first seen him wearing a tight black T-shirt and painted-on jeans, hanging around Sullivan’s Point just after he’d taken over his family ranch.
He’d been around quite a bit for a while, and sure, the whole thing with her dad had gone south. But everything with her dad had gone south. She was just as wounded by her dad as anyone else. And it had absolutely nothing—nothing!—to do with their plans for the farm store.
She’d run every scenario. She’d looked at this from every angle.
Making the changes that would bypass town was good because it would create a direct route. It was good because it wouldn’t require an easement—only permits.
