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better. “I know my mother. She’ll send someone to Blanton’s place and someone to her house.”
    Colton made a left. “Andi, don’t you think it’djust be better to face the music now? I’ll have your back.”
    â€œYou’ll have my back?” she repeated. “But you don’t even know why I’m running away.”
    â€œIt doesn’t matter,” he said simply. “I’ll still have your back.”
    She looked at his strong jaw, at his hands steady on the wheel. He wasn’t a man to say things like that lightly. Something sweet and simple turned over inside her as she acknowledged Colton was solid—a man you could count on through thick and thin. This was why she was stuck on Colton Sawyer.
    â€œThat is one of the sweetest things anyone has ever said to me.” She went with her need to touch him and reached over, placing her hand on his arm. He tensed at her touch. Even through the layers of his shirt and jacket the bunching of his biceps beneath her fingers and palm sent a quiver through her. “Unconditional backing isn’t exactly a commodity in our household, as you well know.” His nod bordered on curt and she removed her hand. “And I appreciate it, but do you think we could just drive for a while?”
    â€œSure.” The lines bracketing his eyes crinkled with his smile, and in that instant, there was a shift between them, a connection, strong and intense and so charged with sexual energy the air seemed to sizzle between them. “Wherever you want to go.” There was no mistaking the husky note in his voice.
    Wherever you want to go. Her initial, impracticalthought was she wanted to go nowhere in particular and everywhere, just as long as she could be with him, just the two of them, until he had to leave again. And that foolish notion wasn’t at all what he’d meant. They stopped at a traffic light and the couple in the car next to them stared. They’d get that reaction all day driving around town. She made a snap decision. “Let’s hit the expressway. Too many people are going to be looking if we’re driving around town with this wedding dress filling up the front seat.”
    â€œThe expressway it is,” he said.
    As they drove in silence, Andi stared sightlessly out of the window. Instead of the spring day, she merely saw the numerous gifts in her mother’s living room, waiting to be returned now that the wedding was called off. And she saw Colton leaving Savannah once again to report for duty in five days. The presents she could deal with, but his leaving…
    Colton was entering I-95 south when he pulled out his cell phone. “My mother,” he said, reading the display. He’d obviously had it on vibrate. “Might as well get this out of the way.” He hit the on button. “What’s up, Mom?”
    â€œDon’t you ‘what’s up, Mom’ me.” It didn’t matter that he didn’t have the speakerphone on. Martha Anne Sawyer’s voice was clearly audible to Andi. “Is Andi with you?”
    â€œYes, ma’am, she is.”
    â€œOh, Lord, Lola Bridgerton was right.” Andiwinced. Lola was only the biggest gossip in Savannah. Now not only would the story be that Andi had ditched Blanton at the altar, the equally juicy part would be that she’d left with Colton Sawyer. “You turn right around and bring her back. She’s supposed to be getting married.”
    Andi kept her mouth shut but shook her head no. Her head swam dizzily—maybe because she hadn’t eaten since the rehearsal dinner last night when she’d actually only picked at her plate despite her and Blanton’s postrehearsal conversation.
    â€œNo can do, Mom. She doesn’t want to get married today.”
    â€œWhy not?”
    â€œI don’t know that answer yet, but she doesn’t.”
    Andi could’ve kissed him for that.