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Missy couldn’t help but laugh.If anyone would deliver on that promise it would be May.
“I’ve never danced on a bar, but I’m not ruling it out.”
Brooke looked over at her.“Okay, let’s get this girl a drink.”
An hour later they were on their second round of magic margaritas and all three of them were dancing at their table in the local bar.The bar was one big U shape, with half facing the inside where the band played and an outdoor section with beach views.
“I love this song.Come on, Missy.”May grabbed her good hand and pulled her out to the crowded dance floor.
“I’ll stay with our bags,” Brooked called.
On the dance floor there were mostly out-of-towners on vacation in Sandy Point.The band was playing a classic beach bar song and everyone was singing along.May swung Missy around and they danced and laughed.She actually forgot all about her worries until they headed back to the bar and found Brooke talking with a tall, well-built man.When they got closer she could tell it was Miles Banks.
“No boys allowed here,” May said, giving Miles’s hip a bump as she reached past him for their drinks and then handed Missy hers.
“Good evening, May Garcia, Missy,” Miles said.His deep voice was soothing, but his eyes didn’t leave May.The way he looked at her it was clear where his interest lay.
“Miles was just saying he was supposed to meet his date here, but it looks like she stood him up,” Brooke said.
“Well that is sad, but he can’t join our party.It’s girls’ night, remember?”May said and finished her drink.
“Don’t worry, I’m not much of a dancer.I think I’ll go chat with the sheriff and sip some warm milk.But if you ladies need a ride home later, I’d be happy to assist.”Miles let his hand rest on May’s back for a brief second, and in the crowd, it could have been an accident.
Missy sipped her drink and studied May’s reaction, which seemed to be aggravated.
“Is there something wrong?”Missy asked.
“No, no, Miles is just one of those men who thinks all women are going to fall all over him because he’s a Banks,” May said.
“I never thought of Miles that way, but I’m biased because he’s such a great uncle to Max.Even if Max’s dad sucks.”Brooke said over the band that was starting another upbeat song.
“Let’s not worry about him.We’re here to have fun,” May said, climbing to stand on the chair and then on the bar.
Before they could stop her, she was dancing and hyping up the crowd so much several other women joined her.
“Well, she did warn us,” Brooke said.
Missy laughed but when she looked across the bar to where Miles sat next to Wesley, he was grimacing.Then her eyes found the man next to them.Levi was there too, and he just stared at Missy.
She gulped like she’d been caught doing something she shouldn’t, even though she didn’t owe him anything.But when another man stepped close to her and asked her if he could buy her a drink, she said no.She spent the rest of the night avoiding looking at Levi and wishing he would come over to say hi.But he wasn’t hers and he never would be.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Levi
Burn It Down
After two daysof giving Missy space, Levi was at his wits’ end.She was clearly avoiding him, staying either in her art studio or in her room, all the time.Meanwhile he was stuck sitting around waiting for his agent to gather up interest in him, and bothering Declan about when Sara would be served with the court order for the paternity test.
But with a knock at the door, it all came to a head when he found Sara, with her pregnant belly, standing on his grandmother’s front porch.
“We need to talk,” she said, holding her belly.
“I agree, which is why I’ve been trying to call you, but you keep ignoring my calls,” Levi said, stepping out on the porch and closing the front door.
Sara let out a deep breath.“I wasn’t sure what to say.But then I got served by your lawyer today and figured I couldn’t avoid this conversation any longer.”
“What the hell is going on, Sara?Why would you let Maddox think this baby is mine, but not even talk to me about it?And why would you make it all so public?”
