Curvy Girls Can't Date Billionaires (The Curvy Girl Club #2) - Kelsie Stelting Page 0,4
mine hung loose because I had to buy a size up so it would fit my bust.
Kai adjusted his tie and then smirked at me. “See you at school, Jordan.”
Three
The door clicked shut behind him, only half as loud as my anxiously pounding heart. Kai Rush had seen me in my bra. And not the sports bra. No, this was the lavish one that pushed up the girls with a tiny pink bow in between my cleavage.
I covered my face with my hands. Not only was I his maid, I was also an embarrassment. If Mom found out I’d been in a client’s bathroom, exposed, she would be so disappointed.
Kai hadn’t had the decency to turn around and walk away, but I at least hoped he would keep the encounter to himself.
I tried to still my fretful heart as I finished dressing, gathered up my things, and went back downstairs. When I made it back to the kitchen, Mom was half inside the oven, scrubbing.
“Amá,” I said quietly, careful not to startle her. I’d bumped my head more than a few times the same way.
She disengaged herself from the oven and smiled at me. “You look nice.”
I barely managed a twitch of my lips. “Thanks. So, I’m heading out. Need anything else?”
Shaking her head, she said, “No, I’m fine. I have another job after this. Should be home around eight. Will you make supper?”
I nodded. It was the least I could do for how hard she worked for us.
She kissed my cheek, and then I walked back out the front door. The butler somehow appeared, as if he’d been watching me the entire time. Well, where was he when Kai was walking in and seeing me in my bra? Huh?
As I left the front entry, I caught sight of Kai’s Tesla pulling through the gates. One day, just out of curiosity, I’d looked it up. The black car driving away from me right now cost upwards of two hundred thousand dollars. That fact made me detest the boy who drove it even more.
And Mom was worried about me falling in love? Not a chance. He and his dad stood for everything I despised. They practically bathed in hundred-dollar bills while Mom and I wasted away on whatever leftovers they were tossing us for the job.
Still, my cheeks were warm as I walked to my car and pulled out of the multi-million-dollar driveway. I couldn’t get Kai’s dark eyes and his self-satisfied smirk out of my mind. Had he known I was in the bathroom? It wasn’t like he’d stopped to use the toilet or blow his nose or anything. He had simply straightened his already straight tie and left like it was business as usual.
Was he always so strange? So self-assured? And how did he know my name? I’d hardly spoken a word to him since I started at Emerson Academy this fall. Add that to the fact that everyone called me a ‘ship (short for scholarship student), it was a wonder he remembered my name at all.
When I got to school, I still hadn’t solved the mystery of the morning’s encounter. I parked in my designated spot and turned off my car, the engine squealing and sputtering to a halt.
I kept my eyes down as I grabbed my backpack and stepped out of the car.
“Nice ride, ‘ship,” a guy called.
I ignored him and walked inside to my locker. Attention only fueled antagonists, and I had no intention of giving them extra material.
Farther down the hall, I saw my friends congregated around Ginger’s locker.
They were clearly mid-conversation, but Rory smiled at me as I approached them. “I was just saying how thankful I am for you guys!” She pulled me in a one-armed hug. “Last night was so sweet!”
I grinned. “No problem.” I loved making the people I cared about happy, and setting up a surprise make-up “homecoming dance” for her and her boyfriend definitely fell under that category. “How’d it go with Beckett’s dad?”
I knew things had been a little awkward for them since the homecoming game when he found out, along with the rest of the school, that Rory had bet Merritt she could get Beckett to fall in love with her.
“It was fine,” Rory said. “A little awkward, but things eased up, I think.”
“Good,” I replied, then lowered my voice. “You guys won’t believe this.”
They leaned in, curious. I never had juicy gossip.
I took a deep breath. “My mom’s new cleaning client is Kai Rush’s family.”