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I grit my teeth. “Yes. Like I said, it was a tough day.”
“And did you two… um… patch things up?”
I would rather dig a tunnel straight through the earth and come out the other side than have this conversation.
“No.”
“Oh.” She looks nonplussed. “Okay.”
“Listen, do me a favor? Don’t go around telling everyone about my moment of weakness. Especially Rex and Lucy.”
Savannah looks amused. “I don’t think that will be a problem. Generally speaking, I don’t tell people how hot I find their siblings. It’s a weird thing to say.”
My heart skips a beat. Did Savannah just admit that she finds me sexy?
“Savannah–.”
“Everyone that knows me at all calls me Sav,” she interrupts.
I give her a hard look. “Savannah, I know my meddling little sister might want you here, but I don’t. If Rex hadn’t insisted on it, you wouldn’t be. If I have my way, this little project will only take a few days. And then you and I will probably never see each other again.”
A muscle pulses in Savannah’s jaw. Then she smiles widely, as if she’s talking to a little kid.
“I can sense that you’re bummed out about being here in Cape Simon. Let’s just try to stay positive and not bicker with each other. We’ll see what the project is and go from there. What do you think?”
I grimace and stick out my hand to her.
“Shake on it.”
Savannah puts her palm against mine, making way too much direct eye contact as she shakes my hand.
“It’s an agreement,” she says softly. The roar of a diesel engine in the distance cuts off whatever Savannah was going to say next. I step back, putting space between the two of us. But even so, I can smell her perfume: honey, vanilla, and a little cinnamon.
Savannah smells like what I imagine heaven must smell like.
She turns and brushes the stray hair out of her face, then squints at the approaching dust cloud.
“Is that your brother?” she wonders.
“Must be. He drives the same vehicle as a Mad Max villain.”
She looks at me with surprise, her lips curving up. But she doesn’t say anything else as she watches Rex drive his enormous, lifted truck toward us. I shove my hands into my pockets and eye her while Rex screeches to a halt and jumps out of his truck.
Mostly I’m wondering if Savannah will react to Rex like most girls from around here. It’s like he’s a salt lick and they’re a bunch of deer creeping closer, hoping to taste him. I have yet to meet a woman who didn’t find my brother charming.
Including Holly, sad to say. She hung on his every word, laughed hysterically at every joke out of his mouth, and basically all but rubbed her whole body against him. All in a useless attempt to get Rex to pay attention to her.
Thankfully, Holly’s desperation always had the opposite effect. The harder she tried, the more disdain my brother seemed to treat her with. His repulsion was actually one of my favorite things about my relationship with Rex.
My brother runs up to us, wearing his black motorcycle jacket and black jeans. He wears a dark snapback hat with the Atlanta Kings’ logo splashed across it.
I expect Savannah to blush and begin to flirt with Rex as soon as he reaches us. But she just fidgets with the hem of her skirt. Her face is oddly blank, devoid of emotions. She seems more nervous than anything.
“Well?” Rex asks, throwing his arms wide and looking around. “What do you think?”
Savannah looks left and right. I follow suit and then shrug. “What are we looking at, Rex?”
“This is the land I want to buy.” A grin explodes over his face.
