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He sighed. If he wasn't on a ticking clock, and she was about to lose power, he would've left. He could scout around the outside and at least find the rubber alligator. But she only had a few minutes of light, and God knew what she was doing. If the cabin was suddenly plunged into complete darkness, that could be dangerous.
He pulled his phone out of his pocket and texted her.Hey, it's me. On the front porch. Open up.
He waited for a few seconds. The message showed delivered. But there was no answer and no little dots showing that she was in the process of answering.
He hit the button to call her instead.
It only rang once and went straight to voicemail.
Frustrated, he hung up and banged louder on the door. “Savannah!”
No answer. And he could see that several lights were on inside. The sudden darkness would definitely freak her out.
He tried the door and found it unlocked. That was kind of funny to him for some reason. He was sure the City Girl was very used to locking her doors. But he supposed that she had taken it seriously that there was no one else out here with the two of them.
He also stupidly took it to mean that she trusted him. He pushed the door open and leaned in. “Savannah?”
Then he heard the music. It was turned up loud and was coming from the back of the house.
So she was in the bedroom or the bathroom.
He sighed. With his luck it was the bathroom. And she was taking a bath in that claw foot bathtub she'd been so excited about.
Which meant that she was naked.
And he still had to go in there.
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
He was going to kick Owen, Cian, and Zeke's asses when he saw them.
He stomped into the house. “Savannah!” he yelled. “It's Theo! I'm in the cabin!”
He drew closer to the bathroom door. Sure enough, it was halfway closed, and he could hear splashing.
He sighed, focused his gaze on the ceiling, and knocked on the door.
He heard a little shriek. “Oh my God!”
“Savannah, it's me.”
“What are you doing?”
“Um, hey, something's come up.”
“Something? What are you talking about?”
“Well, I've been made aware of an issue,” he started.
He didn't really want to throw his friends under the bus. Well, he did, but he didn't think that was the right choice right now. It wasn't fair that they were trying to drive her out of the cabin, but telling her about the stupid prank wouldn’t make any of this better for her. Maybe he could play this off as an actual wiring problem.
If he was over here making an effort to keep her safe, that would surely give him points. He wouldn’t have to risk that she might not believe that he wasn’t trying to cheat. She didn't need to know what exactly was going on. His friends were dumbasses, no doubt about it. But it was easier to not drag them into this. She was going to be hanging out in Autre as long as Becca and Beau lived here. Which was going to be forever. He didn't want to make anything awkward.
“There might be some problems with the cabin that I need to check on,” he said.
The problem was he wasn't going to be able to fix the wiring. Mitch was the best electrical and plumbing guy they had. If he'd fucked around with it. There was a very good chance that Theo would not be able to fix it.
“What kind of problem?”
