The Love Of Money - Episode 298
31-08-25 (06:34)
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. Don't forget to leave a Comment 
