breath.
I have to give myself a moment. I don't know what it is about that guy that makes such simple things so hard.
Once I’ve finally got myself under control, I get dressed and head up to the deck, determined not to let my day go to waste. Just as I had said to Colton, he stays at his end of the boat and I stay at mine and for some reason unknown to me, that’s exactly what happens.
I sit at the bow of the boat feeling the wind slapping against my face and my hair blowing out behind me, my legs stretched out in the sun with my bag right beside me. After all, my gun can hardly be concealed in a bikini.
After ten minutes, the fight leaves me and I’m finally able to relax. Some random girl I’ve never met comes and sits with me for a while and offers me a drink and before I know it, all the girls are sunbaking on the front of the deck as the boat glides across the water like a skater on ice.
Luckily for me, the guys remain at the back of the boat, fucking around and doing what boys do. The anchor is dropped and suddenly it’s a party in the middle of the ocean. The music booms through the open sea and bottles of spirits get passed around like a joint.
Needing to pee, I get up and make my way around the boat to find Colton lounged back on a couch with a girl dancing over him. Her bikini top is nowhere to be found and up until I walked around here, she had his full attention.
His eyes snap to mine and as I walk across the back of the boat to the stairs, that’s exactly where they stay. As the girl dances on him, he watches me and it’s as though he’s waiting for some kind of reaction.
He's right to wait too. He knows it bothers me yet neither of us can understand why. For some damn reason, he has my attention and I have his but I’m sure as hell not about to break. Without taking my eyes from his, I find my way to the stairs and start walking down.
I’ll be damned if Colton Carrington ever gets the best of me again.
Chapter 15
Colton’s Veneno comes to a stop in the massive garage and I gawk as I glance around. I’ve never been in here before but it’s just as I was hoping. It’s piled high with collector cars. It’s like a fucking showroom in here. Absolutely insane.
Dad would be in heaven, though he already is.
I get out of the car and seeing as though there’s no other door out of his garage, I have no choice but to cut through the house to get out to the pool house and unfortunately for me, that probably means running into Harrison. I didn't see him this morning but I’d be smart to assume that he’s still not moved past my little tantrum last night.
Mom though, I don’t know how she’s going to feel about this. She’s not one to hold a grudge and had said her piece last night, but this is a different world and we have more at stake now. I promised her that I’d be on my best behavior and in one easy go, I snapped that promise like a twig. Besides, while she’ll never admit that she likes her job as a housekeeper for some rich guys, I know she really loves it here. She feels important in her role, needed, and appreciated. It’s not a feeling that comes around often in Breakers Flats.
I follow Colton out of the garage and just like everywhere else we’ve gone today, it’s done in absolute silence. “Where the hell have you been?” Charles roars the second we step out of the foyer, making me wonder if he’d been sitting here waiting all day when in reality he probably just had Harrison notify him when the Veneno came through the front gates.
Colton spins around and I stand in the opening of the foyer as awkwardly as possible. “Took the boat out,” Colton says factually.
Charles raises a brow and a vein appears at his temple, the only sign that he’s about to blow. “You did what?” he roars. “You knew what today was. Do you have any idea how incompetent you made yourself and this family look?”
Colton scoffs. “Fuck this family and your goddamn board. I don’t want to