Jeez Kaylee.” Nate groaned as the door shut hard.
“ Go away.”
He took the phone away from me and lifted me back onto the lounge, giving me the quick once over and then walked into the kitchen as he talked to Jaxon.
A few minutes later I was robbed of my bed shirt, lucky that I was wearing a crop top underneath otherwise I might have just taken a swing at Nate. But he didn't look at me like that, I was his sister and that's all there was to it. I lost my shirt for the purpose of picking glass out of my skin, most of them had pulled away when I lost the shirt but there were a few that were actually dug into the skin. Thankfully they weren't that deep and Nate kept telling me that I was one lucky girl.
Except that I wasn't. Or at least I didn't feel like one.
“ Where did I go wrong Nate?”
“ You drank tequila. We'll start with that one, then we'll move onto the one where you fell off the lounge and onto a broken bottle.”
“ That's not what I meant.”
Nate sighed and tossed the tweezers into the dish that had several pieces of glass in it.
“ I just don't get you Kaylee. Why are you chasing after him when he doesn't even bother to acknowledge your existence? You're here alone, drinking your ass off and where is he? In LA, fucking some woman he's known for like five seconds. You can do so much better.”
I nodded, feeling the heavy gaze from Nate. He was caring like his mother but those soft eyes could be so cold sometimes.
“ We've got a few days before your party, we're going to knock this over. Right Kaylee?”
“ Sure why not?”
“ Great. I'll find someone to take you out.”
I shrugged, feeling tired. As I crawled into my bed, Nate told me that he was searching the place for more alcohol. I nodded and drifted into sleep, hearing the sounds of tinkling glass. Clearly he had found my stash and was liberating it from me. The bastard, how dare he.
Chapter Four
Nate was in the kitchen when I trudged in, another day of bleary eyed Kaylee. He held out a takeaway coffee and I wanted to plant lots of kisses on him, he was just that sweet. There was nothing better than a freshly brewed coffee. I just couldn't figure out why, I'd even bought a coffee machine to try and replicate it and I had failed. Sure, it was great coffee but it just wasn't the same.
He flicked his thumb over the screen of his phone, his gaze looking up at me.
“ Wasn't sure what you were into so I kind of based it on him, is that okay?”
Probably not.
“ Sure.” I offered as I took a sip.
He turned the phone around and showed me a picture of one of his friends. His arm was wrapped around another guy, both of them smiling at the camera. They were both pretty reasonable in the looks department but what about personalities? I guess that's what lunch is for. But I couldn't stop comparing him to Jaxon, like my heart needed my mind to fill its addiction to him.
Both had square jaws, unlike Jaxon this guy had freshly shaven skin. It seemed that Jaxon often forgot to shave, not that anyone cared. It would get to a few days and it would be gone again. The man in the photo had brown eyes, Jaxon had blue. Dirty blonde hair graced my dreams, the man in the picture had a paled blonde color.
I shrugged at Nate and he eyed me suspiciously.
“ I'll organize it for lunch today.”
“ Mom's coming for lunch.” I reminded him.
He looked at me as he flicked his phone off and put it into his pocket.
“ She's coming earlier. Come on, I'll drive you to work.”
Half an hour later I was at work, the guard still roamed the exterior of the place on occasions but most of the time he was in his little office at the front gate. He gave us a nod as he pressed the button for the gate, allowing us entry. Ordinarily Nate would wander into the studio but today he followed me up the stairs. Suspicious? Yes. More suspicious was the fact that El and Brad were here already. I walked up the three flights of stairs, more suspicious than ever