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But what did she know, she was a twenty-four-year-old virgin with a slightly eclectic and mostly useless bank of knowledge that no one really cared about. She was good with numbers too, although her job as an accountant at Comfy Office Furniture didn’t add much prestige to her numerical accolades but that was okay.
It was easier than being the daughter of a supermodel after all.
Lorelei shrugged out of her robe and dipped her toes into the silky water.
Bliss.
She climbed in and submerged her body, breathing in the heady scents and sighing. She tilted her head back, closed her eyes, and allowed her thoughts to mellow out. And then tried again.
But clearing her mind was an impossible thing to do being her. She was twenty-four years old; she felt the need to remind herself as often as she could, had no new exciting job opportunities lined up, no plans to get married, in fact, she’d never been in a serious relationship ever.
Maybe it was time she accepted the fact that she was going to remain a spinster well into old age. A nagging voice at the back of her head told her she wasn’t trying hard enough to land herself a husband. Sure she had been asked out a few times.
Their most important customer at work, for one, had sent her flowers and a dinner invitation. He was a great guy with deep dimples and easy-going nature. But she had made up some excuse and he had gotten the message immediately.
The guy who came in to refill their water had asked her out for coffee and of course, the new guy at work as well had done the same. She had said no to them all.
She’d convinced herself they were either blind or were being silly because who really wanted to be with her when she acquainted herself with the floor more than anyone else she knew?
At least she had Morgan Jules, her close friend since childhood who happened to live right next door to her. He was sweet and funny and knew everything about her and still remained her friend.
They usually watched movies on a Friday night when he was free, which was rare. He worked almost all hours as a technician in some groundbreaking, secretive technology company. Even the building he worked at looked like a spaceship. Yes, at least she had a very good friend to fall back on. What more did she need?
It would be better if she declared herself celibate for life, thereby eliminating all her other problems of not being married and having children and a picket fence and a dog called Ruffles.
Well, she did at least try to have a boyfriend when she had been seventeen years old. But the guy soon turned out to be into older women and became instantly smitten with her mother. She could hardly blame him. Hence it wasn’t easy being the only daughter of a supermodel who at forty-nine looked well... twenty-five. That relationship with that boy had lasted all of five minutes for Lorelei.
Thinking about that guy reminded her that she had a five-year school reunion to attend.
Well,notto attend.
There was no way she was going alone and facing all her classmates. Everyone knew her boyfriend had dumped her for her mother and her last year of school had been horrendous which was over and above the mini mishaps she created.
She never wanted to face any of those people ever again but especially Brooke Pincot. The bane of her high school experience. The stunning heiress who was perfect in every way and who Lorelei’s mother had compared her to almost every day of her life.
The same girl who had tossed Lorelei into a fountain when Lorelei decided to attend her first school dance.
She didn’t need to go to her school reunion and face her nemesis. Besides Brooke Pincot was leading the charmed life. She came from money and married into more money. She launched two beauty product companies and was voted businesswoman of the year by some woman’s publication.
Lorelei managed to keep a goldfish alive for three whole weeks. She could put her pants on without stumbling over and yeah, that was about it.
Five-year school reunion? Hard, concrete no thank you.
She didn’t care that Morgan had insisted they would both be attending together and screw everyone else. He usually convinced her to do lots of things, but she wasn’t going to give in and do that one thing.
She gave an unladylike snort and then tried to sink lower into the water but her left butt cheek seemed stuck against the tub. She shimmied a little, her stuck cheek gave way and she promptly slid under the water before she could control herself.
She managed to gulp down a mouthful of water and the taste of scented bubbles tickled her palate.
Not nice.
Great.
With her hair unintentionally soaked, she was forced to shampoo and condition it using the hand-held shower head in the bathtub before she stepped out. She wrapped both her hair and her body in a towel.
She poured herself a glass of wine, picked out a chocolate from the jumbo-sized box then gobbled up two more before she took a sip of her drink. Carrying her wine and the box of chocolates to her bedside table, she set them down, sat on the bed, and inspected the toy.
After a bit of wrestling to get the package open, she retrieved the neon pink device and stared at it for a few moments. It looked exactly like the picture on the packaging. An egg-shaped head with a kind of tail attached. It had come in two sizes, small and large and she had chosen the smaller size... to start with at least.
