Page 74 of Getting Wrapped Up

This could be fun.

She raised her hand.

“I haven’t asked for a bid yet,” the auctioneer told her with a grin.

“Three thousand dollars.”

The room had been shocked by the thousand dollar bid on Levi, so she assumed that two thousand would put her safely in the top spot.

And it was a thousand more than Levi had gone for.

The entire bar got quiet and everyone turned to look at her in unison.

Including Levi.

He was clearly shocked to see her. For about three seconds. Then his face broke into a huge grin and he started for her.

“She’s good for it,” he called out as he moved.

God that grin. Tucker Bennett had a three-thousand-dollar grin. Levi Spencer had a give-him-anything grin.

And that face. The sure, confident way he moved. The way he focused on her—fully, intently, like nothing else existed. Goofy, romantic-movie stuff, but that was how it seemed.

Whether they were alone in her apartment or in a room filled with a large portion of Sapphire Falls, Levi made her feel like the center of his world.

Until, of course, someone was willing to plop down two thousand dollars for him. A gorgeous, blonde someone.

Kate frowned and crossed her arms and made herself look from Levi to the man on the stage.

Pure, hot, cocky country boy grinned back at her.

Where Levi was zeroed in on her and making a beeline to where she stood, Tucker just watched her from the stage. He gave her a slow, lazy smile, then crooked a finger at her.

She couldn’t help the smile that evoked. She was sure girls fell all over themselves responding to that usually. But she simply met his grin and shook her head.

Which made his grin grow.

So this was Tucker Bennett.

Levi might be wearing denim and boots, and looking damn good in them, but this guy looked as if he’d been born in denim and boots.

His skin was sun-kissed, even in February. His brown hair was streaked with gold and was at least three inches longer than Levi’s carefully styled cut. If Tucker combed his hair with more than his fingers, she’d be surprised.

He had a day’s worth of scruff on his chin and a mischievous glint in his eye as he met her gaze over the tops of everyone else’s heads.

And dang, if that didn’t give her a tiny tingle.

She could have been here as Tucker’s date, if not for accidentally meeting Levi first.

Then that accident moved into her personal space, blocking her view of Tucker, and everything shifted.

“Don’t even think about it,” he told her, a knowing look in his eye and a confident-in-spite-of-her-Tucker-tingle grin stretching his lips. “You’re mine.”

Her gaze locked on Levi’s. His body heat surrounded her. She breathed deeply of his scent and everything in her justknewthat her being with Levi was meant to be. It was no accident, there was no luck or chance involved. It had all happened exactly the way it was supposed to.

“You’re Hailey’s,” she said, smiling.

Levi cupped her face with one big hand and Kate felt her sigh of contentment through every inch of her body. This was how it was supposed to feel. Tingles were one thing, but Levi could make her tingle and laugh, feel beautiful, feel desired and special and full of hope and happiness.

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