Kaleidoscope Hearts by Claire Contreras

Author:Claire Contreras [Contreras, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
Amazon: B00SJPYVGC
Barnesnoble: B00SJPYVGC
Goodreads: 23545800
Publisher: Claire Contreras
Published: 2015-01-20T05:00:00+00:00

Past

I’VE ALWAYS CONSIDERED myself lucky to have Victor for a friend. He’s been selfless, ruthless, and above all, loyal. When I didn’t have any place to go after I graduated and my lease was up, Vic didn’t hesitate for a moment.

“You’re living with me,” he’d said.

“Okay, let me know how much I owe you. I only need a place to stay for a couple of weeks,” I’d said, and he’d looked at me like I was crazy.

“You’re my brother. You don’t owe me shit!”

And that was how I ended up sleeping in the small cottage beside the house he’d been renting for the summer. Summer break—the last hurrah, he was calling it. The last hurrah before I left for medical school, and he settled down in law school at UCLA. Life was good during those weeks—wake up, catch some waves, eat something, drink, party, and hook up with the girls that hung around. We were treating grad school like some men would treat their last weekend as bachelors, which was funny because we’d been self-proclaimed lifers. “Who needs one woman when we can have ten?” those were Vic’s words, followed by Jenson’s, “Bros before hoes.” Junior was the only one who couldn’t participate in our crazy summer, since he’d been tied down to the same girl since the first semester of school. As much as we made fun of him, I think we were all slightly jealous that he’d found a girl he actually wanted to be with every day.

I dressed that night, much like I did every other night, but I was exhausted from being in the sun all day, and I needed to get up early the next morning to start hauling my stuff upstate. One drink . . . maybe two . . . then sleep, I promised myself as I walked over to the main house, where the party had already started.

One drink, maybe two, then sleep, I repeated, the mantra becoming like second lyrics to the song bumping off the speakers. One drink, maybe two, I was about to tell myself again when I spotted Estelle walking into the house. I felt a slow smile creep up on my face as I watched her finger comb her hair, wild from the wind outside. Her lips were pressed into a sexy pout as her eyes wandered over the room. She shrugged off the jacket she was wearing, which revealed a low cut black shirt that pressed her tits up, and a short sequined skirt that showed off every curve of her legs.

I guess she felt me staring, because her eyes caught mine a beat later, and she smiled that wide smile of hers. It told me she was up to no good tonight and that she wondered if I was fair game. One drink, maybe two, then sleep, I said to myself again, this time kicking the frontal lobe of my brain, in the hopes I’d knock some sense into myself before I reached her. My

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