Wrecked by Jeannine Colette

Author:Jeannine Colette [Colette, Jeannine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Jeannine Colette Books
Published: 2017-06-20T18:30:00+00:00

chapter FOURTEEN

I’m tying the laces on my purple-and-pink mesh Nikes when I hear the doorbell ring.

Mom opens the door, and then her voice travels up the stairwell. “Good morning, Adam. Bob made a pot of French Roast just for you.”

With a sigh, I fall back on my bed and look up at the ceiling. My parents are still under the impression that Adam and I are dating. Dad knows I got into an accident, but I’ve been tight-lipped on the details. Even if they were wise to what had really happened, they wouldn’t let on. The only reason they might be refraining from cascading a parade of worry is because of Adam’s presence in my life.

“Should I not be surprised that Adam Reingold is sitting at our kitchen table?”

I lean up on my elbows and see Emma standing in my doorway. She’s wearing emerald-green shorts, a navy tank top, and fingering the gold E charm around her neck. Her long blonde hair is in a low bun, and her skin is way too tan for someone who sits inside and practices all day.

“I want your natural bronzing abilities.” I grimace and look down at my lightly tan arms with a pinkish tint.

Even McConaughey is looking at me from his cardboard cutout with a gaze of disappointment. The man practically glistens in the sun.

“Your skin’s like a doll. Embrace it.” She shoves off the doorframe.

“Like a Barbie doll or one of those cute Kewpie dolls with the bow lips that Grandma collects?”

She thinks on this for a second and then answers, “More like those creepy porcelain dolls with the eyes that roll to the back of their heads when you lay them down.”

I drop my chin. “You mean, the ones that gave me nightmares when I was a kid?”

Emma looks around my room. Not only do I have a life-size cutout of Matthew McConaughey, but I also have pictures of handsome leading men taped to the walls. I watch as her brown eyes take in Ryan Gosling, Jared Leto, Ewan McGregor, Leonardo DiCaprio. It’s quite the decor.

She lets out a laugh. “You can’t sleep with a doll in the corner of your room, yet having multiple men staring at you as you sleep doesn’t freak you out?”

Folding my arms behind my head, I look back toward my wall of hotness and smile. “They give me beautiful dreams.”

Emma scrunches her face and takes two cautious steps away from my bed. She looks skeptically at my floral comforter. “Ew.”

For someone so demure, her mind surely goes to the gutter quickly. That’s not what I meant at all, but I’ll play along. I lean forward, grab her hand, and pull her onto the bed.

“Gross!” she yelps.

Throwing my leg over her, I pin her down. “Feel the love, baby!”

The truth is that nothing happens in this bed, and Emma knows it.

“I have no idea what sins this mattress beholds!” Her voice is quite theatrical.

With a loud laugh, I release her. I fall back to my spot on the bed with her beside me.

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