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“That won’t happen again,” she told him. This was composure? She was close to tears. “Now leave. I believe I said something like that before.”

Ashton didn’t say a word; he just took a step back and leaned against the wall. She had no idea what was in the man’s head. What she did know was that she probably wouldn’t like it.

Gathering up the rest of her clothes, she rushed to the bathroom. When she exited it, he was gone. If the fates were with her, Alexa wouldn’t say a word about what she’d walked in on.

But when were the fates ever on Savannah’s side?





Chapter Thirteen


Well, hello, ladies.”

Savannah and Alexa stopped in their tracks as a gorgeous six-foot-plus mountain of a man with a few days’ growth of beard and piercing gray eyes stood in their path.

“Hello, handsome,” Alexa said with a flirty smile before Savvy was able to even open her mouth.

“I’m Lance,” he said, holding out his hand.

“I’m Lexie, and this is Savs. Nice to meet you.”

But the moment Lance and Alexa’s hands touched, Savvy was surprised to see her sister’s eyes narrow a tiny bit and her smile fall away. Lexie tugged on her hand and Lance released it.

“Savs,” the man said with a nod as he turned toward her. His smile was now just a little less bright.

“We have to get going now,” Savvy said.

“Wait!” he called out as they took a step past him. They wheeled around. “Do you work here?”

This time Alexa was strangely quiet.

“I do,” Savvy said.

“Good, then I know where to find you.”

And then they walked around him.

“Maybe we don’t want to be found,” Alexa muttered.

“What was that about?” Savvy asked. “You were all flirty and then you were cold as ice.”

“I didn’t like the feel of that guy,” Alexa grumbled.

“Like, you got a creepy vibe, Lexie?” Savvy was now worried. She hadn’t felt anything creepy about the man.

“No!” Alexa blurted out. But her voice calmed. “Nothing like that. I … I can’t explain it,” she said with something that sounded like frustration.

They walked on silently for a few moments and then Alexa’s shoulders straightened and she seemed to be getting her groove back. Her eyes fixed on Savvy with a gleam in them.

“Spill your guts.”

Ugh! Sisters! Even though they were through the gate and walking away from the docks, Savannah still turned around with a blush on her cheeks. She’d rather focus on the stranger and her sister’s reaction to him.

“There’s no way you’re going to just pretend you saw nothing and drop this, is there?”

“Not a chance, sis,” Alexa replied. “I can’t believe that you’ve been getting down and dirty with that hunk of a man and you haven’t mentioned it to me yet.” She opened her car door and climbed inside. She was completely back to herself now. Maybe “Out of sight, out of mind” was her motto.

Savannah followed her reluctantly inside the small two-door and buckled up. This wasn’t a conversation she wanted to have. What in the world was she expected to say to her little sis?

“That was the first and last time I’ll be so-called getting down and dirty with him,” Savannah said. “He’s my boss.”

“So what? I can’t comprehend the idea of online dating. So where else are you supposed to meet people besides work, school, or the bars? And, seriously, the ones you meet at the bars aren’t the ones you want to take home,” Alexa said. “And I despise online dating.”#p#分页标题#e#

“That’s why I don’t generally hang out at bars. But no, I don’t want it to happen again with Ashton. That was a big mistake, and one I really, really don’t want to discuss.”

“Sorry, sweets. If you didn’t want to discuss it, you shouldn’t have been moaning in pleasure when I walked in,” Alexa told her.

“I wasn’t moaning in pleasure. I heard you calling me. We were just … well, he was kissing me,” Savannah said. It was true, sort of.

“Hmm. Where exactly was the man kissing you?” Alexa asked.

Savannah’s cheeks flamed again. Was her sister a freaking mind reader?

“None of that matters, Lexie. The man is taken. He has a fiancée, so I shouldn’t have been fooling around with him in the first place,” Savannah had to admit.

For once her little sister was stunned into speechlessness, which made Savannah feel even worse about herself. Alexa was obviously judging her. She’d committed the ultimate of sins against her sex by poaching on another woman’s territory. It was an unforgivable thing to do.