chapter 102
BAILEY FINISHED HER shower, dried her hair, and put on a strapless dress that she had designed and sewn. She hoped Levi loved it as much as she did. It had taken her only twenty-eight minutes to get ready.
As she stepped out of the bedroom into the suite, she said, “I’m ready, Levi.”
Levi’s jacket lay across the back of an armchair, but he was gone, and so were the two suitcases.
She ran to the window overlooking the parking lot, hoping to see him. When she didn’t, she ran out of the suite into the empty hallway and looked both ways. It was empty. She dashed to the elevators and noticed that the indicators showed both elevators were between the lobby and the mezzanine level. Bailey slowly walked back to her room and discovered the door was locked. She hit the door with the palm of her hand and cursed. Turning slowly, she put her back to the door and slid to the hall floor.
The man she thought loved her had just abandoned her. She was crushed. She didn’t care as much about the money as she did about the man, problems and all. He was to be her fixer-upper project, with lots of upside potential. Bailey felt she had hit rock bottom. She began sobbing uncontrollably at the realization that Levi had chosen the money over her.