Year of Living Blonde (Sweet Life in Seattle, Book 1) Read Online Free PDF

then I will fight you to the DEATH. Do you hear me? Do you?” There’s more music and she can hear Axl singing, though it’s garbled, and then “To the DEATH!”
    The message ends abruptly and Peter puts the phone down.
    “Damn, how many times did we play that song?” Lindsay asks with amusement.
    “Apparently more than once.” Natalie tries to hide her own smile.
    “I don’t think this is funny at all.” Peter scowls at the two of them. “Do you know how disturbing it was to receive a message like that?”
    “Disturbing?” Natalie looks at him with amazement. “You’re going to talk to me about disturbing? You completely disappeared. Where have you been?”
    Peter shifts uncomfortably. “I told you I was leaving. Don’t act like you didn’t know.” He walks over to a chair in the living room and then stops abruptly. Leaning over, he picks up an empty wine bottle. His mouth drops when he sees the label, and when he sees the second one on the coffee table, he reaches down to grab it, as well.
    “I can’t believe you’d do this to me!” He shoves the second bottle up accusingly. “Do you know how expensive this wine is that you and your sister so carelessly drank? I bought this Cabernet at an auction!”
    He tips it upside down and not a single drop comes out.
    Natalie watches. “I have to admit, it was pretty good.”
    There’s a moment of silence and she can hear Peter’s angry breathing. His nostrils flare. “ Pretty good? That’s a hundred dollar bottle of wine!”
    “Wow, is that right?” Natalie turns her head toward Lindsay. “Did you hear that? I guess that wine cost a lot of money.”
    Lindsay, who is thumbing through a magazine, doesn’t even bother to look up. “Well, it was, you know . . . pretty good. ”
    A strangled noise comes from Peter’s throat while his face turns a shade of red seldom seen outside Cartoon Network. “I can’t believe this! What is wrong with you, Natalie? They serve this same vintage at the White House, and you and your crazy sister are knocking it back like its Boone’s Farm!”
    Natalie rolls her eyes. “So what?”
    “’So what?’ That’s all you have to say for yourself? And just look at this place.” Peter waves his arms around. “I’m gone for a week and when I come back, I find that you’ve completely trashed our house!”
    “Don’t exaggerate. It’s just a little messy.”
    “There’s an axe hanging from our front door, for God’s sake!”
    “Oh . . . well, that’s true. But I can explain that.”
    “I think the axe is cool!” Chloe pipes up as she comes back into the living room.
    Lindsay chuckles. “Thanks.”
    Peter glares at Lindsay. “I knew you were behind that. I hope you have enough money to pay for a new door.”
    “No problem.” She meets his glare with cool detachment. “Though, why do you even care? From what I understand, you don’t live here anymore. In fact, where exactly are you living? Why don’t you enlighten—”
    “Stop it, you two,” Natalie cuts her off. “Lindsay, why don’t you and Chloe go get some ice cream?”
    “Ice cream?” Chloe asks. “But if I leave, I might miss something. You and Daddy never fight. I want to know what’s happening.”
    Natalie looks at Lindsay for help.
    “Actually, a new gelato place opened near my apartment,” Lindsay tells Chloe. “Do you want to go check it out?”
    Natalie can see Chloe wavering. She knows if Lindsay suggests it, it must be cool. In her eyes, everything Lindsay does is cool.
    “All right,” she agrees.

    After Chloe and Lindsay leave, Peter takes a seat in a living room chair and shakes his head. “How could you, Natalie? How could you drink that Cabernet? Or even the Pinot Noir we bought in Napa?”
    Natalie sits on the couch. Peter has such a hurt expression she almost regrets drinking the wine. But as she studies him, she realizes he looks different. And it’s not just because she hasn’t seen him for a while.
    “Why do you have