Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 298

Either way, I would meet another Gerrard today, whether I was ready or not. After all, he was technically trespassing in my house, and I already had plans to be here for the entire weekend. I couldn’t just turn around and head home when I had every right to be here. Everyone in this helicopter deserved a nice weekend away from the city.

“You said one of them is armed?”

“Quentin’s bodyguard,” Chloe said. “We didn’t confiscate the gun. I don’t see a point in it when there are six of us. It would only irritate the situation.”

“And the rest of them?” I asked.

Chloe shrugged. “Friends of his. None of them are dangerous or armed.”

“How can you tell?”

“Because most of them barely have any clothes on?”

“What?” I asked. I noticed Natashya’s interest pique along with Erin’s.

“Most of them are wearing swimsuits. Not much space to stow a weapon,” Chloe explained. “Roughly half are too inebriated to be of any danger at all. You want to go in or head back?”

“Go in.” There was no way I was missing a chance to check out the house and meet another Gerrard.

“Alright,” Chloe said, disappearing down the hall toward the cockpit. A few moments later, we heard the dull roar of the helicopter’s rotors slow as the pilot shut the whole thing down. Natashya and Emily started to retrieve their bags, but I stopped them. “Just leave them for now. Once we meet everyone inside and figure things out, we’ll send a couple of the guys for the luggage.”

The six of us piled out of the helicopter, where Chloe and the remaining agent were waiting for us. Then we followed her back to the house, with Chloe and I in the lead while the pilot followed last, trouncing across the yard toward the house.

“Hey,” Emily said, falling on one side of me while Erin walked on the other. “You have another brother, and you’re about to meet him. How does that make you feel?”

“It’s insane,” I said. “I mean… it doesn’t change much. I already have two brothers. Hopefully, this one doesn’t turn out to be like Jacob.”

“God,” Emily said, breaking into a smile. “Can you imagine your luck in finding a new brother, and he turns out to be as much of a deadbeat as Jacob?” It was nice to see her smiling again.

“I don’t know,” I said. “I’ve had a lot of bad luck to offset the amazing luck from the money, so at this point, I think just about anything is possible.”

Emily grabbed my hand and gave it a squeeze, giving me a tight-lipped smile; I returned it, feeling grateful to have her here with me. Within minutes, we were walking up the front steps of the porch, and Chloe opened the door. The sound of rap music immediately hit us as we followed Chloe into the house.

I wasn’t sure what I had expected when we walked inside, but it wasn’t this.

The den was massive, with stone pillars that reached exposed rough-hewn beams that traveled across vaulted ceilings. It was all white, reflecting the copious amounts of sunlight streaming in from the skylights and windows, showing a back patio where a couple of shirtless guys were laughing as they stood around a grill. A woman with shoulder-length brown hair walked past two of the windows toward the guys, and I watched as one of them said something to her, and she responded flirtatiously before disappearing beneath the glassy surface of a pool. There were others around the pool outside talking, laughing, and eating.

In the middle of the large den was a sunken area that held a couple of couches in an L-shape, facing a few more chairs with a coffee table between them. A television hung over a massive stone fireplace, displaying a college football game. A bald guy sat on one of the couches, wearing nothing but an open shirt and a pair of swim shorts. A girl lay across the rest of the couch with her head in his lap. She wore one of the smallest bikinis I’d ever seen, showing off a slender tummy and sporting a pair of breasts that might have been a small C-cup on anyone else but looked closer to a B on her tall frame. She must have been at least six feet tall, and while her legs had an appropriate thickness to them, they looked slender thanks to how long they were. Her light brown hair was short, cut in a boyish fashion that left her neck looking slender and swanlike. She had a bold nose, pouty ruby-red lips, and a pair of slightly downturned eyes that gave her an innocent girl-next-door quality. Her lips were slightly parted, and she appeared sleeping in the man’s lap.