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Dana poked her head in. “Levi, do you have a minute? Oh, hi, Zack.”
“Hi, Dana. How’s it going?”
“Good. How are you?” She spoke to Zack but she was looking at Levi. Smiling.
Levi suspected his expression mirrored hers. Smiling because he was thinking about the night before. And the night ahead.
“I can come back if you’re busy.”
“No, no,” Zack said. “I was just leaving.” He gave the two of them a speculative look and left.
“I thought he’d never leave,” Levi said.
“Was it that bad? Is there a problem at the airport?”
“No and no.” He walked over to where she stood. “I wanted him to leave so I could do this.” He pulled her into his arms and kissed her.
Dana returned the kiss with enthusiasm but she pulled away before things got too heated. “Work, remember?”
“You can take a five-minute break, can’t you?”
“Yes. But if you keep kissing me like that I’ll be on break a lot longer than five minutes.”
Chapter Nine
Levi and Dana spent as much time together as they could over the next week. Which was a lot. They didn’t see each other much during the day, except at lunch and other odd times. But the nighttime after the workers left was their time. They spent it making love, talking, discussing the house plans, eating, watching a little TV, and making love some more. The nights they didn’t make love they still spent together. In fact, Dana had only stayed at her place once since she and Levi had gotten back together. Levi had been surprised and a little worried by how much he’d missed her for just one night. Damn, he had it worse now than he ever had before.
One night they were having lasagna, which Muriel had made and left for them for dinner. The workers had stayed until after eight that night, so they ate dinner fairly late. Muriel’s lasagna was one of Levi’s favorite meals so he dug in with gusto.
“Hey, do you want to go to the movies tomorrow night?” Dana asked him.
“You mean at the Palace in town?” The Palace was Whiskey River’s original movie theater, which had been revitalized a few years before. They showed an eclectic mix of movies. The new ones showed at the movie complex on the outskirts of town, one that people from other small towns in the area frequented as well.
“Yes.”
“Depends. What kind of movie?” Right now he was a lot more interested in lasagna than in movies. He hoped it wasn’t one of those foreign films with subtitles. Those were so not his thing.
“I’ve heard it’s really good.”
“You know I’m not into those foreign films.”
“It’s not foreign. But it’s not the kind you usually like.”
Code if he’d ever heard it. “So it’s a horror movie. No way. But don’t let me stop you from going.”
“It’s not exactly horror. But it’s a little scary.”
Marginally better but not much. “Scary as in a thriller?” Those he could deal with. Usually.
“It’s not a thriller.”
“Sounds like horror to me.”
“I don’t know, Levi,” she said, sounding exasperated. “I’ve just heard it’s really good. And only one person thought it was terribly scary.”
“One person out of how many?”
“Two,” she admitted.
