Page 108 of Getting Wrapped Up

He knew the things that attracted her to Sapphire Falls. He knew how much the sense of community and the friendships would mean to her. It hurt that he wasn’t sharing that with her, but maybe it wasn’t intentional.

Well, the oatmeal had been intentional.

That hurt too.

Just a bit more than it was going to hurt to get home and admit to her boss that she’d jumped the gun and had now changed her mind about quitting.

She needed to get to California.

She had to get to her office and get that letter before her boss saw it. He often worked on the weekends, including Sundays.

“I need to go,” she said, handing her wine to Tucker.

“You can’t go dashing out of the dance,” Tucker said. “You’re not even wearing glass slippers.”

She almost laughed at his analogy. Because if she didn’t get home in time, her fancy dress would turn into rags. Metaphorically at first maybe, but over time it could become a reality of her unemployed state.

She headed straight for the table where Levi sat with Hailey.

He looked up as she approached. His smile started out huge but quickly died when he saw her face. He immediately got up from his seat.

“I’m going to need you to arrange your plane for me to go back to California tonight. Right now,” she told him.

There still had to be some perks to sleeping with a millionaire with his own plane.

“What are you talking about?”

“I want to leave. And you need to make that happen.”

Levi’s gaze went to something over her shoulder. Or someone.

His expression went from confused to furious. “What the hell, Bennett?” he demanded, stepping away from the table. “What did you do?”

She heard Tucker speak from directly behind her. “It wasn’t me, Spencer. Calm down.”

“She was just with you, dancing and drinking. And now she wants to leave.” Levi took a step forward and moved Kate out of the way, squaring up to Tucker.

Tucker chuckled. “Seriously, man? One, I outweigh you. Two, I’ve got forty guys here, at least, who will back me up and ask questions later.”

“You messed with Kate,” Levi said. “Those forty guys won’t like that.”

“Lev—” Kate started.

Tucker cut her off. “I didn’t do a damned thing. Why don’t you askherwhat’s going on?”

Levi looked like he’d rather punch Tucker and Kate stepped between them, grabbing Levi’s right forearm.

“Stop it, Levi.”

“What’s going on?” he demanded with a frown.

“The oatmeal,” she told him.

“Yeah, who takes the woman he supposedly loves to Dottie’s foroatmeal?” Tucker asked over her head.

“Just…shut the fuck up,” Levi told him, focusing on Kate. “You hated the oatmeal.”

She nodded. “But you knew I would.”

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