Total pages in book: 69
Estimated words: 65039 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 325(@200wpm)___ 260(@250wpm)___ 217(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 65039 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 325(@200wpm)___ 260(@250wpm)___ 217(@300wpm)
When I first arrived I almost didn't get out his cruiser, no one warned me it was a mansion, holy...dad's flannels would've so been the wrong choice.
The place was huge, and gorgeous and...freaking spectacular, there was glass everywhere and spirals and turrets and flowers and birds and what the heck?
"Hi chief what you bring me?"
I looked around and saw what I thought was a little girl coming towards my dad until I got a good look, she must be my age but she was tiny, like me, she had the most infectious smile on her face.
"Hi Ali, give us a hug."
She hugged him like they were long lost friends.
"Carol, this is my daughter Katarina, Kat this is Carol Lyon, your boss's sister."
She squealed loud enough to alert Washington and I soon found myself in her arms as she hopped up and down.
"Heels, heels."
I tried to alert her to the fact that she was one step away from breaking my neck, but when I looked down her heels were higher than mine.
"Finally, we meet, I've been your surrogate sister while you were away."
"See you later chief, we'll save you a plate."
"You'd better."
He got back in the cruiser shaking his head and smiling as the human dynamo dragged me away.
"Bye dad, thanks for bringing me."
I waved him off as she chattered non stop, hopping from one topic to the next without taking a breath.
All I heard was ' we have got to do something about your hair' next thing I knew we were in a bathroom three times the size of my bedroom, my bun was loose and she screamed loud enough to deafen ten people.
"All this hair and you did that to it, shame on you."
She got out curling irons and hair spray and goop and went to work.
"Hi, I'm Katarina."
"Yeah I know, we met already."
She looked at me like I'd hit my head.
"Yes but when, ten minutes ago or ten years ago?"
"Oh, that, mom says I never met a stranger." She giggled as she attacked my hair with the hot iron.
When she was through with that she started in on my eyes, I don't know what smoky sexy meant and wasn't sure I wanted to, but I must say, the end result was amazing.
I hardly recognized myself , my hair, after having been restrained for so long was wild and free and dare I say, gorgeous, she'd done something that made my eyes look wider and dreamy and, I don't even want to think about it, all I kept thinking was I hope Colton will be here, and why wouldn't he, it was his family's BBQ after all.
I didn't stop to think why he was the first thought I had, or why I got so excited at the thought of him seeing me like this, I just knew I wanted him to.
We went outside and she dragged me off to a picnic table alone while she gabbed on and on about everything under the sun, girl was a talker.
Jared came by and said hi and gave my look a thumbs up, he almost made me cry when he whispered welcome back Kat in my ear before heading off and leaving me with Carol.
"Shouldn't I go find your mom and introduce myself?"
"Oh she'll be out soon, she's primping, at least I hope that's what she's doing, where's my dad?"
She got us some juice as she pointed out different people to me, most of whom I knew I wouldn't remember.
Suddenly I felt nervous butterflies in my stomach, then I felt it, that heat on the back of your neck when someone is doing more than looking at you.
Somehow I knew before I turned who it would be.
* * *
"Fuck me..."
"Dude you okay?"
Jared was giving me the beady eye like he thought I was about to keel over from heat stroke any minute, I just might but not from the heat of the sun.
"I'm going to kill you."
"Dude!"
He backed up from me like I'd lost my mind.
Fucking lemon my ass, he'd sold me a fucking thoroughbred disguised as a nag, I should be happy right, somehow I wasn't though, if she had all that going on why the fuck was she hiding under those butt ugly suits?
"Start talking Jared and make it good, who the fuck is Katarina Sloan?"
I gave him my signature glare to let him know I meant business I wanted to know what the fuck was going on and I wanted to know now.
First I needed one more look at her, fuck she was hot, and I noticed others noticing it too, fuck this.
"Later, we'll talk later."
I left him dumbfounded as I headed towards her.
"Hi Carol, bye Carol,... let's go."
"Colton......"
My sister yelled after me as I pulled Mata Hari behind me towards the house, we were going to need privacy for this.