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He smirked. “Or something.”
He was pulling on a suit jacket with one hand and holding his coffee cup in the other. “Come on. Your aunt should already be busy bossing everyone around.”
I followed him through the lobby of the casino, feeling as if I were inside a green bottle. Everything was glass trimmed in gold. It was by far the most luxurious place I had ever seen.
Women in short skirts and heels followed Kade with their eyes, biting their lips like he was a piece of something sweet they wanted to sink their teeth into. I looked up at his expression, and he had this cocky and confident air about him as he walked through. The set in his square jaw, the laser focus, gave them something to watch, to remember.
We stopped at a door at the back of the lobby that I almost didn’t notice. It was green as well and blended in with the walls.
Kade pulled out what looked like a credit card and waved it in front of a black box next to the door. A clicking noise sounded, then he reached out and pulled the door open. Once inside, the sounds of the casino and lobby disappeared, and everything went silent.
Finally, a familiar voice sounded.
“It’s about time you got here, Kade. What took you so fucking long? With Zander on vacation, I need you to arrive on time, or else I’m going to …” She stopped when she spun around and saw me standing beside Kade.
Her eyes went wide, and her mouth popped open in surprise.
I’d never been so happy to see my aunt Kennedy.
“I was busy saving your niece’s ass, and I’d appreciate a thank you,” he said before he fell into a large leather chair and propped his feet on the desk she was standing behind.
She swatted his feet off her desk. “Fuck you very much, Kade,” she said before turning her attention back to me.
“I can’t believe it’s you.” She moved around her desk and started toward me, but before she reached me, she stopped. “Wait. Is everything okay?” she asked, worry pulling at her perfectly shaped brows.
Kennedy was a younger, shorter version of my mother. She was once blond, as well, but had opted to dye her hair red over the years.
It looked nice.
The red made her blue eyes pop. She was curvy, carrying a tiny bit more weight around than her tall and slender sister, but she wore it well and dressed just right to show off all the essential parts.
When I was younger, she had always been a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl, but seeing her now, surrounded by the lavish hotel and wearing a sharp white pants suit, I knew the girl she used to be was long gone.
Kennedy Vaughn was all business now, and it fit her perfectly. She was a magician with numbers and smarter than anyone else I had ever known. “Eden?” she pushed when I took too long to respond.
I shook my head, feeling tears push at the back of my eyes. I had never felt so much relief in all my life. “No. Everything’s not okay, but it will be.”
“What do you need? Name it, and I’ll take care of it.”
Kennedy had always been a ball buster. She was always the one to take charge of every situation even though she was younger than my mother. I had a feeling she would help me if I ran to her, but hearing her offer of help lifted the extra weight off my shoulders.
“I need to have my car towed, a place to crash for a bit, and I need a job. I’ll take care of the rest,” I said.
She nodded. “Done and done,” she said before turning toward Kade once again. “Kade, say hello to your newest waitress. Keep your hands to yourself, or I’ll break your fingers. Got it?”
He chuckled and held his hands up palms out.
“Got it, but it’s not me you’ll have to worry about,” he said, his eyes dipping over my legs before moving up over my stomach. “She looks like an angel. Innocence isn’t my thing, but we’ll have hell to pay once he gets back.”
I had no idea what they were talking about, or who he was, and honestly, I didn’t care. I just knew I had a place to stay and a job. The rest would hopefully fall into place. With Kennedy on my side, I had a feeling everything was finally going to be okay.
