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decide if you’re more beautiful this way, or the way you looked last night.”
    Kallie laughed.
    “ You’re too much!” she said as he kissed her neck one more time. “You better get going. I’ve got a lot to do before we have breakfast, and I’m pretty hungry.”
    “ All right.”
    She watched as he moved toward the door.
    “ See you soon?” he asked.
    She nodded and smiled at him.
    Levi disappeared and she went to shower. She decided on a pair of jeans and a T-shirt that hugged her body. She braided her long brown hair in a side braid before slipping on her boots and fetching Blaze from his stall. She made sure he had grain, water, and hay before she locked up the trailer and got into her truck. She would be heading toward Georgia today. It was a three-day drive, which would give her two days to rest up before the next rodeo. She started up her rig and drove toward the diner.
     
    * * * *
     
    Levi walked into the hotel room to find Travis lying on the bed, flipping through the channels.
    “ There he is!” Cassidy came out of the bathroom.
    “ Did you stay with Kallie?” Travis asked.
    He and Cassidy looked at him and he smiled.
    “ Oh my gosh !” Cassidy yelled.
    “ Nothing happened.” Levi clarified.
    “ Right!” Travis said as he hi-fived him.
    Levi smiled as he thought about their mini make-out session, and how turned on he’d been just kissing her. He’d let them think what they wanted. He knew nothing happened, other than he got to hold the most beautiful woman he’d ever met in his arms all night long.
    “ Hey, uh… Are you driving Cassidy’s rig?” Levi asked.
    “ Yeah, why?”
    “ I’m meeting Kallie for breakfast.”
    Travis laughed.
    “ Damn, it must have been good. You’re taking her to breakfast too?” he joked.
    Levi shook his head, embarrassed by what his best friend had just said.
    “ You never take me to breakfast Travis!” Cassidy told Travis.
    “ See what you started? Now I’m going to have to take Cass to breakfast.”
    Levi laughed.
    “ Well, if you’re driving the truck, then we’re going to head out. Can you check out?” Travis asked him.
    “ Yeah. I got it. See you in Georgia?”
    “ See you in Georgia,” Travis confirmed as he grabbed his and Cassidy’s bag and walked out the door.
    “ See ya, Levi!” Cassidy called behind her.
    Levi showered and gathered his clothes before he checked out. Climbing into the truck, he drove to the small diner and waited.
    A half hour went by before she pulled in. Anxious to see her, he hurried to her truck.
    “ I was starting to think you weren’t coming.”
    “ Getting Blaze together took a little longer than I thought.”
    “ You look great,” Levi told her as he eyed the way her shirt hugged her breasts, and the way her jeans fixed to her hips.
    “ Thank you.”
    Levi shut her door and she locked it. Grabbing her hand, he entwined his fingers with hers, his large hand swallowing her tiny one.
    They ate breakfast quickly, anxious to get the three-day drive behind them.
    “ So are you going straight to Georgia?” Levi asked her as they walked to her truck.
    “ Yeah. Three days in a trailer is a lot for Blaze.”
    “ Do you care if I follow you?”
    She smiled at him and his heart warmed.
    “ I guess that would be all right.”
    He picked up her phone from the table and put his number in. He dialed it and then hung up once he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. He handed it back to her.
    “ This way, if you get lonely, you can call me.” Levi smiled at her and she shook her head.
    “ If I get lonely? Don’t you mean, if you get lonely?”
    “ Maybe.”
    She laughed.

Chapter Five
     
     
    They spent the next three days talking to one another on the phone and stopping occasionally for meals. At night they stopped at rest stops and Levi slept with Kallie, always on top of the blanket and her under. One night she woke crying. He didn’t ask questions. He just hugged her tight and tickled her back until