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She liked to try new things and considered herself adventurous.
But she wasn’t sure she was ready for Theo Taggart.
“Get your shit and let’s get going,” Theo said, turning on his heel. “I’ll meet you on the dock.”
“Fine,” she said. “I guess I’ll just bring one bag then. But give me a minute. I need to be sure I grab the bag with my bubble bath, dirty book, and vibrator!” she called after him, her voice louder onvibrator.
Theo caught his toe on the first uneven board at the end of the dock.
And, because his back was to her, Savannah finally let herself smile with satisfaction.
She started to turn back to her car. In truth, one of her suitcases was full of only books so it would feel heavy. She didn’t need it at all, and if she was hauling the thing around, she was totally leaving it in the car.
“Do you need help with your bags?” Zander asked.
Ah, the rumor of the Southern Gentleman wasn’t totally fiction.
She shook her head as she slipped into the car and turned it on so she could raise the convertible’s roof. “I’ve got it, but thanks.”
When the top was up, she pushed the seat forward, grabbed the one suitcase she did need—which was only half-full, but did indeed carry her vibrator, bubble bath, and the spicy romance novel she was in the middle of—locked the car, and started for the dock, rolling the suitcase behind her.
“I don’t know which one of you I feel sorrier for,” Zander said, opening the driver’s door to his car as she passed him.
“Neither. He’s just dropping me off. After that, we won’t see each other again until he comes to pick me up to bring me back to town. Unless he’s late doing that.” She slid her sunglasses down her nose and looked over the tops of them. “Then him. Definitely him.”
She had just stepped up on to the walkway that would lead to the dock, but she still heard Zander chuckle and say, “Right. Okay, then. Have a great night.”
Hmm. His tone was weird. She wasn’t sure what that meant suddenly.
But she wasn’t sure she wanted to.
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The nice thingabout airboats was that the huge fans that propelled them were really loud, and it was hard to talk over them.
So Savannah just got to sit in front of Theo with big noise-canceling headphones over her ears and her own thoughts swirling in her head.
She was now officially on her way to spend the night in a cabin on the bayou. Where it was very dark. And very quiet. Where she would be very alone. Where she would be unable to leave if she wanted to.
That was the part that she was most worried about.
She hated feeling stuck. She got anxious when she didn’t have the means to take herself someplace else if she got bored or restless or uncomfortable or needed something.
Trees lined the water on either side, whipping past as the airboat coasted over the top of the water, grasses, and the floating green leafy plants of the bayou.
She saw various types of birds, and as the waterway narrowed and the trees and banks came closer, she could see logs with turtles on them.
But none of it distracted her from her thoughts.
And she had an entire night ahead of her. Alone. With no way to leave. What if she got sick? What if she got hungry? What if she did run into an alligator? This could be dangerous!
She put a hand to her chest and made herself breathe. She wasn’t going to get sick. And she wasn’t going to get hungry. Theo wouldn’t leave her out here with no food, and no matter what she could survive untiltomorrow,for fuck’s sake. It wasn’t like she was going to have to stay out here for a week.
The alligators… well, that was probably the most likely threat, actually, but she really didn’t think Theo would take her somewhere that she had a greater than two percent chance of losing a limb or getting eaten. She’d donesomehomework. She knew they built the cabins on the bayou up several feet because of varying water levels and because of wildlife. Her chances of having an alligator get into the cabin with her were very slim.
That didn’t mean she wasn’tstuckout here, though, with no way to get back to civilization by herself. She was totally dependent on Theo.
She did not fucking like that.
