“Okay. Sorry,” Jana said. “Want me to get someone to take a look?”
“Of course, I do. Call maintenance or the trailer company or something. I need it to be seventy degrees as soon as possible.”
“I’m on it,” Jana replied, reaching for her walkie-talkie.
“Just go into mine,” Dana told her.
Samara turned to see that she was standing outside her own trailer. She looked annoyed but also a little disappointed,and Samara knew she’d been the cause of both of those emotions.
“Sorry?” she asked.
“Samara, my trailer is fine. Go on in. I’ll just hang out in yours.”
“It’s too hot in mine.”
“It’ll be fine for me,” Dana said, walking toward her.
“How do you know yours is seventy?”
“Because I set it to seventy. Feel free to verify it for me, though,” Dana said and walked into Samara’s trailer, closing the door behind her.
Samara considered following her and talking now, but she knew she couldn’t. She really needed a minute to herself, and likely, so did Dana. She walked into Dana’s trailer and was surprised to find that Dana had been right. Samara sat on the small sofa and let the perfect temperature cool her heated skin. Then, after a moment, she stood and opened Dana’s fridge, hoping for a bottle of water. Inside, she found exactly six bottles of her own favored sparkling. There were also six of those bottles on the counter that she’d just noticed.
“God, she’s perfect. What the fuck are you doing, dumbass?” she asked herself before taking a long drink.
CHAPTER 20
“You’re wrapped for the day, Dana. Get out of here before I change my mind,” Reed said.
“You don’t have to tell me twice,” she said and rushed to her trailer.
It was dinnertime, but she was done for the day since the rest of the bar stuff was Stella and Jessica, who had a talk on the sofa while Bray went to the bathroom. That meant Dana could get out of here and meet up with Lainey and fill her in on what happened. She knew she shouldn’t out Samara, but this was her big sister and probably her sister’s fiancée. Neither of them would say anything to anyone, and if they did, Dana would kick their asses. She had missed Lainey the past few days. They’d both been busy, but Dana had only had time to sleep outside of work, with the exception of the little late night out with Samara. She needed some sister time and for Lainey to talk some sense into her because Samara was a bad idea. She was a celebrity. She lived in LA. She also wasn’t out yet, and based on her reaction last night, probably wouldn’t be for a long time, if ever. That wasn’t something Dana wanted for herself. If she ended up with a woman, she wanted to be able to hold her hand in public, and Samara might not ever be ready for that.
“Hey,” Lainey said when Dana walked intoChapter & Versethirty minutes later. “I’m just helping Maisie. Give me five. Want to meet over at the café?”
Lainey nodded toward the open door that led to Southern Roastery’s corporate office, which had a café in the lobby.
“Sure,” Dana said. “Hey, Maisie,” she added when she saw Maisie coming through that same door with India right behind her.
“Oh, hey. Were you going to the café? India just got done with work. We were going to close up here and have a coffee there.”
“Oh, yeah. We were,” she replied.
She loved Maisie, and India was fine, but Dana had been hoping it would just be Lainey until Paige inevitably showed up and they went home together while Dana went home alone. She wouldn’t say no to Maisie, though, because it wasn’t the woman’s fault that Dana and Lainey hadn’t had a lot of solo sister time over the past few, well, years, really.
“See you over there. Babe, will you hook Dana up?”
“Yes,” India replied with a laugh. “Dana, just take my badge. Jules is over there right now, so you should be good.”
India handed Dana her Southern Roastery employee badge.
“Great. Thanks,” she replied.
“We’ll be there in five,” Maisie said.
“Laine? You ready?” Dana asked.
“Yes. Let’s go. I’ll text Paige. She should be done with her meeting now.”
