Naked In LA (Naked Series Book 2) by Falconer Colin

Author:Falconer, Colin [Falconer, Colin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Cool Gus Publishing
Published: 2013-10-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

Reyes had leased a redwood tree house bachelor pad with views over the valley. When we got there it was right on dusk and the lights were twinkling on all over the city. He started throwing open the windows and shutters. “It’s good to finally breathe some air that doesn’t stink of rot,” he said.

I took a look around; there was a pool, a deck with views right over the Hills, a couple of bedrooms. It might have been a display home--there was no sign that anyone actually ever lived there. I looked for photographs and couldn’t find even one. He was a man who had no history except the chapters he selected himself for public view.

“I’m going to have a shower,” he said.

“Sure.”

I listened to the faucet run.

I opened the pantry. The cans were lined up in rows in perfect alphabetical order. If there were a world war he’d be able to survive for weeks. There were no bookshelves, but there were two bookmarked novels on the coffee table; Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and the latest James Bond bestseller, Doctor No. I smiled. There were the two sides of his character, right there.

Even the liquor bottles in the bar were lined up like soldiers. I wondered how a woman like me would fit into such an ordered life; I left my clothes on the bedroom floor and I never put anything back in its place. Records were put in the nearest sleeve, I was always buying milk in the summer because I kept leaving it out. Perhaps it was because I’d been brought up with a maid. Like he said, I really was a princess.

He had chased me for so long and now I was here, I was his, another conquest. He was right, even though I’d first met him four years ago I still hardly knew anything about him. Who was he really? He lived an utterly unreal life, even by Hollywood’s rules. He’d pretended to confess to so much but I was sure he’d only given me a sanitized version of his life. Running betting rackets for the mob and running guns for the CIA might sound glamorous, but what sort of things had he done to stay alive and turn a buck? I didn’t imagine that Reyes was any kind of hero. You didn’t get a house like this by being a good person, that’s what Papi had been trying to tell me.

Here was a man who lived in a redwood eyrie high above everyone else, living by a code unique to the clique of gangsters and spooks, gamblers and gun-runners, he chose to call friends.

This was not real, none of it. It was as solid as smoke.

A man like this, he would get bored with me soon enough, he liked new, shiny things. He had told himself it was love at first sight but I was just a woman he once didn’t think he could have. My novelty would soon wear off. I could not invest too much of my heart in Reyes Garcia or I was going to get hurt.

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