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Savannah was not inside, though her towel from the night before was still there and one of his T-shirts was missing. He immediately went to her cabin, but she wasn’t there either, and all of her stuff was gone.
He called, he texted, and then he called and texted Becca.
All he got back from that wasshe’s fine and doesn’t want to talk to you.
Great.
He knew immediately what he’d done wrong. So he sent Savannah a final text:I would never abandon you. Give me a chance to explain.
He didn’t hear anything back from her, so he showered, then headed into Autre. He found Beau and Becca at Ellie’s bar. But no Savannah.
“Where is she?”
Becca looked up at him with a frown. “Back in New Orleans.”
“Is she alright?”
“She’s kind of pissed that you didn’t give her a ride back like you said you would.”
“I got called out to work. I left her a note. I was coming back to get her.”
“Well, she called someone else to pick her up.”
He couldn’t put his finger on it, but there was something about the way Becca said that, or the way she was looking at him, that made him hesitate. It didn’t seem that Becca was upset that he and her friend had slept together or that he’d treated Savannah poorly the morning after. This seemed to be strictly about him not giving her a ride back to town.
“What did she say?” he asked.
“That she met all the stipulations of your agreement and that you were supposed to bring her back to Autre, but you just left her out there for no specified amount of time. She has a job, Theo. She didn’t plan her entire weekend around this stupid competition that you cooked up for her.”
“That’s all she said? She was just mad about the ride to town?”
“What else would she be mad about?” Becca’s eyes narrowed. “Did something else happen?”
Okay, so Becca didn’t know that he and Savannah had slept together.
That… bugged him.
Becca was Savannah’s best friend. From what he could tell, they told each other everything. He wouldn’t be surprised if Becca was one of the very few people that knew Savannah’s whole family history and what was going on with her mom.
But she hadn’t told Becca that she’d slept with him last night? What did that mean?
“I guess we never settled on a time. I didn’t want to wake her up so early,” he finally said.
“Yeah, well, wrong choice. She wanted to get the hell out of there. She would have been ready as soon as the sun came up even if she’d had electricity and AC.”
Yeah, well, when the sun had come up, she’d been snuggled up in his bed, exhausted from the hot, dirty, best sex of his life.
And he’d been hoping they could spend the day together. He’d thought about showing her more of the bayou. Maybe showing her the bald eagle nest he’d found last week. Or giving her an airboat driving lesson, helping her learn the basics at least so she’d feel more comfortable on the bayou. Or even taking her to his favorite pond for some skinny dipping.
“I’ve tried calling and texting. If you talk to her, tell her to call me. I would like to apologize.”
“Okay.” Becca gave him a funny look. “I mean, I think she’s fine now that she’s back. But I’ll tell her.”
“Yeah, thanks.”
Theo had a feeling he wasn’t going to hear from Savannah Lee for quite some time.
And he was right.
