Total pages in book: 91
Estimated words: 83990 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 420(@200wpm)___ 336(@250wpm)___ 280(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 83990 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 420(@200wpm)___ 336(@250wpm)___ 280(@300wpm)
The beeping of the alarm has everyone on alert, even Hunter who was on the phone. Tommy runs to the alarm pad and punches in the code as Brian makes his way up with Cori who is white as a ghost. “I found this,” I say, looking at the box in my hand. Brian reaches out and takes the box from me.
“Why don’t you get dressed and meet us downstairs?” he says, his voice soft.
“Flowers.” It comes out softly, trying to calm my heart and ignore the lump in my throat. He looks at me. “In my walk-in closet. The box was beside it.”
He doesn’t wait for anymore before he and Hunter walk into my bedroom. Tommy comes over to me, taking me in his arms. “It’s going to be okay, sweetheart,” he says. When they come out of my bedroom, Hunter is carrying the vase of flowers.
“We are going to make sure that everything is okay downstairs, so go and get dressed,” Hunter says, and he and Tommy share a look. Cori grabs me, and we walk back into my bedroom. I’m almost in a daze and not sure what in the hell just happened. Did someone come into my house and invade my space? I dress and then walk downstairs.
“There she is,” Tommy says. Smiling and coming over to me, he gives me a hug and kisses my cheek. “You look beautiful as always. They just did the tour outside, and everything is okay.”
Hunter and Brian walk back in the front door and look at us. “Where are we having this meeting?” Hunter asks the question.
“I have everything already set up in the living room,” Cori says, so we make our way there. We walk into the dining room, and it’s set up like a conference table. The large table has water in the middle and at both ends. She also has coffee set up on the tray in the middle as well.
“What’s in the box?” I ask them. Grabbing the chair at the head of the table, I pull it out and sit down in it, and Tommy sits to my right. Cori puts her purse in the chair to the left of me. Hunter sits next to Tommy, and Brian sits right next to Cori. I watch him sit down and finally notice the thick folder in his hands that he slaps on the table. He takes off his sunglasses, and I finally see his eyes although he never looks at me. He places his phone facedown on the table right next to the sunglasses that he placed there also.
“We haven’t opened it yet,” Hunter says, and I nod at them. My heart starts to beat just a touch faster. I reach over and grab the box, and Brian looks like he’s going to jump over the table at me. I grab the silk white bow and pull it. I pick up the lid off the box and put it aside, the white tissue paper folded over the gift inside. I pull the first layer and then the second, and I gasp out in shock.
There, sitting on top, is a picture of me taken when I sit outside in the morning.
Next time you are out there, wear these for me.
I’m always watching you.
“CORI!” I whisper to her, and the picture falls from my hands onto the pink lingerie set on the bottom. She flies out of her chair and comes to me, grabbing the picture. Tommy also jumps out of his chair, but he isn’t as fast as Brian or Hunter. Hunter goes to the package, and Brian literally picks up my chair with me in it to move me back away from him. I look up at him, not sure what he is thinking.
He squats in front of me. “I need you to tell me exactly where you found it.”
“In my closet on top of my dresser next to my flowers,” I whisper, and he looks back at Hunter who is on his phone typing things.
“It’s going to be fine,” Cori says, coming to my side now and holding my hand.
I look down at her. “He was in my fucking room,” I curse out now, pissed that I let someone have this control over me. I turn around and look at her, then walk out to the stairs. “He was in my room. He came into my house and walked up these stairs.” I point toward the stairs. “Then he invaded the only privacy I have by going into my bedroom.”
“About time you got pissed about this,” Brian says, and I turn and glare at him. “I’m going upstairs.”
I watch him walk up the stairs and then turn to Cori. “I want the whole room redone,” I tell Cori. “I want everything stripped and then put back. Make it happen when we leave.” She nods, while I get up grabbing a bottle of water and drinking it while the guys walk back into the room.