Her Protector Billionaire Groom by Taylor Hart

Author:Taylor Hart [Hart, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ArchStone Ink
Published: 2019-10-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Ari walked into the JW Marriot the next afternoon with Parker, her “brother”, at her side.

She’d actually slept well last night—better than she had in a long, long time. She and Parker had spent the two-hour drive to Santa Monica perfecting their cover story and discussing the mission. She’d caught Parker up on the basics of her recent past. She and her father had moved only three times since Colorado; first they’d gone to a small town called Winnemucca, Nevada, then they’d lived in Susanville, California. Their last place, Portland, Oregon, was where she’d actually felt the safest. It’d been after the trial, and things seemed to be finally settling down.

Until she’d come home to find her father dead. Even now, as she told Parker about it in a perfunctory, businesslike manner, it hurt like hell.

They strolled to the check-in counter where the attendant at the desk gave her room keys and then turned to Parker. “Mr. Sanchez requested you have a room, too. Because you are visiting your sister.”

Parker shook his head, waving off a second set of keys. “Oh, I’m staying with sis.”

Ari jerked to face him. She hadn’t realized this. “Parker, if Mr. Sanchez is allowing you to have your own room, then maybe you should take it.”

Parker let out a loud laugh, and she realized he was back in “brother cover.” “Sis, you know I need you.” He put his arm around her and looked at the attendant. “I just got dumped hard by my girlfriend. You need your family when that happens, right?”

The attendant nodded sympathetically.

“And now we can have girl talk and you can paint my nails.” He turned to the attendant. “Tell the senator we really appreciate the offer, but Sabrina and I will just bunk together.”

They walked away from the desk, Parker’s arm around Ari’s shoulders. He was pretty tall, almost six-four. He was this tall in high school, of course, but then, he’d been leaner, less muscular, and less confident.

As they strolled to the elevator, her nerves kicked up. She had been fine when he was regular Parker, so careful he almost didn’t touch her. Now he was all over her.

Although, he had kissed her twice last night. She hadn’t even had time to process that.

They rode to the top floor, where all the suites were. Parker dropped his arm as they strolled down the hallway toward their room. They got to the door adjacent to the big suite, and Parker opened the door and held it for her. It unnerved her that he could be so casual, then bam! He was back to the tight, controlled operative.

Their suite consisted of a sitting room, two bedrooms, and a small kitchen, complete with a table that looked out over the ocean. The sitting room contained a large, comfortable couch, a television mounted on the wall, and a Christmas tree decorated with little shells and turtles that were pink and blue and beachy. Ari walked over to it, delighted, but her smile faded when she thought of how she wouldn’t be with her father for Christmas this year.

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