Total pages in book: 50
Estimated words: 47579 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 238(@200wpm)___ 190(@250wpm)___ 159(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 47579 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 238(@200wpm)___ 190(@250wpm)___ 159(@300wpm)
Making her decision, Caroline set the phone down with a click. She opened the refrigerator to find scrambled eggs with bacon covered neatly by a sheet of plastic wrap. Suddenly ravenous, she popped the plate into the microwave. He took such good care of her.
After a long bath in the enormous tub, Caroline reclaimed her clothes from the laundry hamper. She didn’t want to wear his T-shirt home with nothing else. Confiscating a pair of his stretch boxer briefs, Caroline giggled as she substituted those for her lacy panties. Why is men’s clothing more comfortable than women’s?
Returning to the bathroom, she noticed he had left a new toothbrush on the counter for her. How did she find this guy? She tore into the packaging and cleaned her teeth before storing the pink toothbrush next to his. The sight of them snuggled together in a glass made her heart happy.
Caroline snapped a quick photo and texted it to Wraith. His heart emoji answer fueled her dance back into the bedroom to grab her shoes and Jam. He had to come with her to pick up some things. He’d waited for her for too long. She wouldn’t leave him behind.
She headed into the garage and opened the door using the wall-mounted control. After sliding into the driver’s seat, she carefully backed out and paused to fasten her seatbelt.
“Crap! How am I going to close the door? I guess I can go in and out the front door,” Caroline said to Jam. She noticed the purple monkey seemed to be focused on the glove box. Automatically, she followed his gaze. Remembering, she opened it to find the remote Wraith had given her last night. She took a second to attach it to her visor next to her condo’s.
“Damn. He’s good!”
After triggering the device, Caroline reversed carefully out of Wraith’s driveway. Hitting a biker would be bad. She paused for a second to memorize his house number before heading out of the complex. A silver-fox biker she hadn’t met before waved her out.
How many Devil Daddies were there in the MC?
Caroline dismissed the question from her mind as she concentrated on the secluded road toward Inferno. Emerging into the sunlight from the shaded tunnel of tree cover, she grabbed her sunglasses and popped them on. Inferno was quiet, with only a few bikes and cars in the parking lot as she drove through.
Once on the freeway, Caroline plotted what she needed to pack. She worried she would bring too much or too little, giving Wraith the wrong message, but then she remembered Wraith’s words, “As long as you’ll stay, Little girl. I’d like to have you with me.”
She wanted to be with him. Caroline made a list of items to take care of while she was at her place. Empty the fridge, water the one plant she had…. Maybe she should bring that plant? Pack her large suitcase and her laptop.
With plans made, she organized everything quickly and piled things together. She made a trip to the dumpster with food that would spoil. Lifting her suitcase into her car was a challenge, but she made it. Caroline stood in her family room and looked around.
While this wasn’t a permanent goodbye, she wouldn’t miss this space. This condo had sheltered her when she’d been at her lowest points, following the end of her marriage and her panic about Wraith. It hadn’t counted as home, but she would always appreciate having some place safe to hide from the world.
“And you wrote a new book here,” she reminded herself aloud. Crafting a romance about people in love had challenged her as she recovered from her heartbreak over her failed union with Adam. Wraith had shown her that part of her wasn’t dead.
Caroline had hope once again. She still expected that Adam would be a pain. Her life was ensnared with his. But he didn’t have the same power over her that he had before Wraith. Plus, having a big, bad biker on her side would discourage him from being a complete ass.
A warm feeling filled her. She’d survived so much. Wraith made her believe her fantasies could come true. He gave Caroline back her hope and passion for life. Caroline wrapped her arms around herself and squeezed.
“Time to go, Jam. Let’s go home to Wraith.”
Pausing at the mail station to empty her box, Caroline noted she’d have to remember to pick up her mail from time to time. She’d enrolled her regular bills in automatic payments from her bank account, so she didn’t have to stress too much. But random things could slip through. With her to-do list complete, Caroline drove toward Wraith’s home.
When she saw Inferno coming into sight, her phone rang. Caroline answered it through her blue-tooth connection, “Hi, Wraith! I’m on my way back to your cabin.”