Phantom Pleasures - Chapter One
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
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St. Augustine, Florida
April 2008
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“What are you doing?”
From behind her, manicured hands coiled around Alexa Chandler’s face and pressed gently against her temples. Even without turning around, she knew who’d come up behind her. Catalina Reyes’s scent always gave her away. Spicy. Rich. Exotic. Alexa had tried wearing the same fragrance and had come off smelling like a proverbial French whore. On Cat, however, the scent reminded Alexa of pure freedom–of the wild life she could be living if she used her money for evil rather than good.
If simply making more money qualified as “good,” of course.
“What do you think I’m doing?” Cat replied.
Alexa sighed. They’d played this game before. “Trying to read my mind.”
Cat chuckled softly.
“Only trouble is,” Alexa continued, “you don’t read minds.”
“Says you,” Cat countered.
“Oh, yeah?” Alexa said, sounding much more confident than her previous experiences with Cat should warrant. “What am I thinking?”
Alexa clutched the railing on the hotel suite’s balcony tighter and focused on the horizon, on the tiny sliver of land far in the distance, where, with any luck, she’d be exploring sometime in the next few hours.
“You’re thinking about how much money you’re going to make if that abandoned old castle on that barren little island your father left you is the cash cow in disguise that you think it is,” Cat replied.
Alexa turned abruptly, breaking Cat’s contact with her skin.
“How’d you know that?”
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