Page 95 of Love Off Course

Gross.

I don’t want to see my cousin’s tit.

“This is ridiculous,” I snarl.

“Should have been here to stop it from happening.” She smiles unkindly at me. “Thanks for visiting Hotel Zaragoza. Come back soon.”

I flip my cousin off then haul ass on a mission to find my mother.

Chapter 27

Sheridan

Icringe when Mateo and Nicolás start bashing at the drywall with two huge sledgehammers. I’d suggested regular hammers, but they were like two kids in a candy shop, eager to destroy the hotel room Rodrigo ruined when it passed through.

“Careful,” I warn above the noise. “If you go through that outer wall, you’re fixing it and it’s coming out of your paycheck.”

Mateo winks at me before swinging his giant tool again. Freaking brutes. As they demo the walls, I can’t help but thrum with eager energy. Soon we’ll have all the old cleared out and we can start with the new. It’s going to be so awesome.

I feel him before I see him.

Camilo.

Strong. Radiating with anger. Warm.

My entire body alights at his nearness while my heart cracks down the middle. Hope is a silly, useless emotion, though I can’t help but latch onto it anyway.

“A word,” he says over the noise, his hand gently gripping my elbow.

I chance a look his way and hate how my heart stutters in my chest. He looks furious. Hot, but angry as hell. As I knew he would be. Rosita warned me.

Jerking my arm from his grip, I march past him out of the room and onto the walkway. I cross my arms over my chest and glower at him. “Yes?”

His dark eyes drop to my lips flickering with heat before he hardens them and snaps them to my stare. “This is all your doing.”

“Is that a question or a statement? Oh, and hello to you too, stranger.”

His jaw clenches. “All you or do you have partners? Araceli indicated more than one person boughtMamáout.”

“After all this time spent apart, this is how you greet me?” I scoff, shaking my head. “I don’t even know why I missed your grumpy ass.” I start to walk away, but he grabs my hand. Warmth surges through my veins at his touch. I don’t shake him away. “What?”

“I want to know…” His features fall. “Why did you take away the one thing my mother loved?”

Take it away?

“I didn’t take anything away,” I snip. “You’d know that if you’d ever cared to visit.”

Confusion furrows his brow. “I don’t understand.”

“My partners and I purchased this hotel for a generous price. We’re renovating it and have a plan to make it the best it can be.”

“Who’s they? David?”

I snort. “No, but your jealousy is cute.”

“I’m not jealous.”

“You so are, bird boy. Now are you going to stop being a prick so I can show you what we’ve done and what Estefania and Damian and I are planning on doing?” I start to tug my hand from his, but he tightens his grip, keeping me near.

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