Levi puts his hands on my hips and walks me back toward the table. Sunny and Jace meet us there. “Are you okay?”
“I overexerted myself, I think,” I tell them. “Levi’s going to bring me home.”
“Are you sure? We can do it,” Sunny states.
I look at Jace. “I’m good. Levi offered.”
“Oh, okay,” he says. I think he understands what I’m trying to do. Well, not the sneaking off with Levi bit, but the bit where Sunny and Jace spend some alone time together.
“Text us when you get home,” Sunny orders.
“I will.”
I grab my purse and Levi leads me out the door. Once we’re outside, he scoops me up in his arms.
“Levi!”
He chuckles into the crook of my neck. “Just making sure you arrive home safely. We don’t want to overwork you any more than I already plan on doing.”
He pulls open the truck door and sets me in.
“I only said that so we could sneak away.”
He laughs. “Tab, you’re a little tipsy.”
“No, I’m not.”
He grins at me and shakes his head. “Fine. You’re not.”
He closes the door, and I take stock of myself. Now that I’m still, maybe I am a little drunk. The dash in front of me looks fuzzy, and I giggle.
Yep, there it is. It’s my drunk giggle. At least, that’s what Rae-bae always called it.
Levi gets in beside me, and I reach over to cup his cheek. “I think maybe you’re right, Levi Soucy.”
“I think maybe I’m always right. And right now, I’m right about taking you to my place.”
“Oooh, your place.”
He holds my wrist and kisses the inside of my palm before holding my hand on his thigh.Goodness.My skin tingles where his lips just were. I’m pretty sure there are country music songs written about this very thing.
Levi Soucy, I don’t know how, but he’s gotten to me.
14
Levi
“What is with you football players and penthouses?” she scoffs as I press the P button in the elevator.
Damn, she looks beautiful.Her hair swept back from her face, her long-sleeved shirt tucked into jeans behind a big belt buckle. The flush on her face from the alcohol. “Hey, I live in a penthouse in a normal-sized building. Micah has you guys in a penthouse in one of the tallest buildings in Nashville.”
Nerves churn in my stomach. I don’t bring girls to my place. Never have. As a public figure, I need a certain level of privacy, and the girls I’ve been with were just fun dalliances. Tab is so different from that.
“You look nervous. Are you nervous, Big Dick Levi?”
I take her hand, staring into her eyes. “I’m always nervous around you.”
A smile curves her lips. “There’s that southern charm.”
