Page 60 of Getting Wrapped Up

Getting Frisky

A Sapphire Falls short story

New Year’s Eve

Kate Leggot and Levi Spencerare madly in love.

But they just met 11 days ago!

Is it the real thing or was it just the Christmas magic of mistletoe in Sapphire Falls?

They’re about to find out.

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Kate Leggot’sheart was hammering as she faced the inside of her front door.

Levi Spencer was on the other side.

The man she was pretty sure she was madly in love with.

The man she’d met eleven days ago.

She’d met him when she’d visited her friend’s hometown of Sapphire Falls, nestled in the middle of Nebraska. She’d been head over heels in a matter of hours.

Which would have been fine. She could have just kept that to herself and returned to San Francisco with a little heartbreak and a wonderful Christmas memory.

But Levi had fallen for her too. And had told her.

And he had a private plane.

So, even though she’d returned to California on the twenty-sixth, she’d talked to him twice a day, texted a dozen times a day, and had phone sex twice since then.

When she’d asked him to join her in San Francisco for her company’s New Year’s Eve party he’d said, “It’s about time you asked me.”

And now he was on the other side of her front door and she was nervous. Her stomach was filled with butterflies and her palms were sweaty.

What if things weren’t the same? What if part of their connection was Sapphire Falls? The little town had a magical feel. It had a way of pulling people in and making them believe that anything could happen. Even falling in love with two days.

But that was crazy. There was no way that she and Levi could really be in love. They probably wouldn’t even have the same chemistry.

With her stomach swooping and swirling and her heart pounding, she took a deep breath and swung the door open.

It might have been the two dozen crimson roses that he held. Or maybe it was the bottle of champagne in his other hand. Though it was probably the tux. She’d always been a sucker for a tux.

Whatever it was, everything in her went hot and soft and seemed to strain toward him.

“Hi,” she said simply, not sure where else to start.Marry me tonightseemed a little too much.

“Uh, Kate?” Levi asked.

“Yeah?”

“We’re going to be late for your party.”

His gaze was hot and hungry as it swept over her from the top of her head to the toes of her gold shoes.

She wore a pale gold dress that left one shoulder bare and hit her just above her knees. It sparkled, which she loved, and fit her curves like a second skin… which Levi seemed to love.

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