Wolf's Fake Bride by Sky Winters

Author:Sky Winters [Winters, Sky]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

But, of course, he didn't. The rest of the week went by with no news from him. It didn’t matter. It was all a done deal. He had his cash. She was now in possession of his shit property.

Meanwhile, Trey and Alice were giving a party. Every June, they invited their friends and their sons' friends, and their colleagues and neighbors and family, in an alarmingly heterogeneous mix that only the very socially confident could pull off.

When Jo got there, people were spilling out of the house onto the lawn, music was pounding away in the background, and the empty wine bottles were stacking up in a corner of the kitchen. Alice, dressed in layers of violet and lavender, was organizing the food, the boys were handing out finger foods, and Trey was circulating around the room with a bottle in each hand, mingling with his guests and refilling their glass.

Jo made a few polite rounds and then made her excuses, opting for the quiet of her new money pit. Nothing had been cleared from the completed portion of the house and knowing that the liquor in the cabinet there most likely belonged to Paul Turner, who she now believed had consorted with Holly to defraud her, she decided to help herself to it.

Changing into a pair of heavy velour house pants and a t-shirt, she got the gas fire going and sat down with a glass and a bottle of pricey Bordeaux. She was completely lost in thought when her phone rang.

“You didn’t call me back,” King said from the other end.

“God, I’m sorry. I meant to. There is just so much going on.

“How about I come over so we can talk.”

Jo wasn’t sure. She didn’t know if she could handle more rejection on top of everything else that had been going on, but she was beholden to him per a contract and hesitant to say no.

“Sure. How long?”

“I’m sort of on your front doorstep now,” he replied.

Jo sprang from her chair. She looked like shit. Well, he had seen her looking worse, she surmised, and he did come unannounced. She walked to the front door and opened it, her phone still up to her ear.

“Goodbye,” he said with a grin, ending the call and slipping his phone in his pocket.

Realizing she must look ridiculous, she put hers on the entry table to the side and invited him in.

“Drink?” she asked.

“Sure,” he replied, stripping off his leather MC jacket and hanging it on the coat rack before following her to the den.

“You gonna do anything with the decor in this place?”

“Not at the moment. Apparently, I have a quarry to fill in first.”

“Will you have to tear down the work you’ve done to do that?”

“I don’t know yet. Trey is working on all of it for me.”

“You don’t think he is in league with Holly?”

“No. He never seemed to like her from the moment she honed in on his sale. He’s a bit green at the real estate bit, more of a contractor sort at heart.

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