Bandit Bound: A Bad Boy Romance Novel by Kendra King Page B

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    "I'm serious, he did that, no exaggeration," Savannah said. It felt nice to be able to talk about him like he was a real person and not some sort of boogey man who swooped in and stole her for a night of terror. Nothing could have been further from the truth.
     
    "I guess he really liked you, huh," Lily teased.
     
    "I really liked him," Savannah sighed.
     
    "Have you talked to him since?" Lily asked.
     
    "I haven't been able to find a single detail about him since he gave himself up to the police. Nothing," Savannah lamented.
     
    "Why not? Shouldn't he be in the paper or on some news site or something?" Lily asked.
     
    "I looked everywhere. Everywhere! I was obviously curious, right?" Savannah said.
     
    "Obviously," Lily concurred.
     
    "Nothing," Savannah sighed.
     
    "I'll look too, what was his name again?" Lily asked.
     
    "He said his name was Vincent Starlingveil, but his friend, uh, accomplice I guess, called him Vance. Vincent said he was just mispronouncing his name, but I don't know. I'm skeptical," Savannah said.
     
    "Okay, I'll go check it out, but not tonight, I've got cooking class tomorrow morning," Lily said.
     
    "Oh man, I'm sorry, we can talk about this later," Savannah said. I'm fucking up her sleep schedule for this , she thought. She's too nice to me.
     
    "Are you sure?" Lily asked.
     
    "Yes. Thank you so much for pestering me to pick up the phone," she said.
     
    "I do love to pester you, but I also love to sleep. Goodnight, Savvy," Lily said.
     
    "Goodnight," Savannah replied.
     
    "By the way," Lily added.
     
    "Yes?"
     
    "Did you guys, you know... do it?" Lily sounded like a grade schooler.
     
    Savannah thought long and hard about telling her the truth of what happened that night, but opted to tell her her version of 'the truth'.
     
    "No, we didn't have sex," she said. Technically we didn't, she thought to herself. That doesn't count as sex. Not for a second.
     
    "Damn, that would have been an even crazier story," Lily asked. "Like something from a book!"
     
    "Yeah," Savannah said dreamily.
     
    "Goodnight!" Lily said once more.
     
    "Goodnight!"
     
    Savannah put away the phone and tried to sleep. She squirmed in bed for an hour, fantasizing about the night she spent captive at his hidden cabin.
     
    She dreamt of him that night. He came back for her in a big air balloon at her bank. She ran out the door and hopped into the air balloon and they sailed off together. He kissed her on the neck.

11
     
     
    Savannah walked through the entrance of the bank with her hand over her eyes in a makeshift visor to block out the sun as she entered. The golden illumination of outside turned to fluorescent grey as she walked into the place that still felt like a prison to her.
     
    After sleeping so late, she was particularly tired and didn't greet anyone on the way to her office, instead shambling directly from the entrance of the building to the entrance of her cubicle office like a zombie.
     
    "Excuse me!" an unfamiliar voice called out. Savannah realized that he had repeated himself about three or four times before the final shout caught her attention.
     
    She slowly turned around and saw a uniformed police officer looking at her suspiciously.
     
    "You alright, Ms. Solitaire?" he asked with a concerned voice.
     
    "Oh, yes, I'm fine, just haven't had a coffee yet," she replied with a half-hearted laugh.
     
    "That's good. I need to speak with you about something, is there somewhere private we could talk right now?" the police officer asked.
     
    Savannah looked at her office which was about as private as a bathroom stall. Then she looked around the bank. What few customers were there this early in the morning were giving her looks as if she was a criminal.
     
    "I guess outside would be good," Savannah said with a minuscule sigh.
     
    "Great," the officer replied and started to head back for the door. Savannah turned on a pivot and followed after him. What's this all about? She