The rise of Jeremy Collins

Chapter 9

Rushing into the bathroom as fast as he could, he was worried that something might have happened to her, and immediately paused when he saw Ariel on the floor with nothing but a flimsy tiny towel wrapped around her body.

He sucked in a breath at the unexpected but intoxicating image before him. He wasn't sure if it was appropriate to be staring the way he was right now, but that didn't stop him from standing there and blinking repeated at the sight.

He was not sure what he should be doing at that point. Awe struck was an understatement to the effect her beauty had on him.

Was it even appropriate to try to help her up? She was practically naked and God! She was beautiful. Her skin glowed brighter than the florescent lightning in the bathroom, and for a second, he wondered how she'd react if her towel came off.

He could not take his eyes off her for several moments. He thought she was beautiful before but staring at her now with barely any clothes on, he wanted to claim her as his.

He watched as her face turned a deep crimson in embarrassment.

“What are you doing? Help her!” My inner voice chastised.

He cleared his throat at the awkward tension between them and moved to her side swiftly.

“Are you okay?” He asked her and she shook her head.

“I think I sprained my ankle.” She said, looking down at her legs.

“Shit. Okay, I'm going to help you up

are you ready?” He asked for some reason.

He didn't want to pick her up and accidentally take off her towel, although He wouldn't have minded if she consented.

“Get your mind out of the gutter, Jeremy!” He chastised himself.

She nodded and held on to her towel really tight. He crouched to her level and picked her up from the ground, careful not to unravel her tiny towel.

She blushed even harder as she was now barely a whisper from his face. She turned away from him, looking at anywhere else in the room but at him.

He couldn't help but blush too. He knew he shouldn't have been thinking of inappropriate things, but he had the urge to kiss her, but he was sure that would result in a sounding slap.

She weighed barely anything as he carried her out of the bathroom and into her bedroom, it felt like he was carrying a feather, a stunning and sexy feather.

Gently and carefully, he placed her down on her bed and for the first time noticed the vast difference between her bedroom and his.

While his was basically gray and white, hers was an emerald green and lilac that gave him a soothing feeling. The room was a bit bigger than mine, and it had a see-through wall at the left-hand corner.

“What's going on, Noah?” His little brother asked through the phone as he spied on his sister and her alleged husband.

“Seems they are getting intimate…” He said, surprised to see the young man carrying his sister to the bed.

He let his binoculars fall to his neck. He did not want to see his sister getting it on with her husband, or any man for that matter that would be gross. He came down from the fence. He could not believe he was doing this, spying on his sister, but what choice did he have?

It didn't make sense for Ariel to be married so soon and out of the blue too. I mean she had never even had a boyfriend for fuck's sake.

Whatever the hell was going on, he needed to figure it out.

“You know we could have easily hired a private investigator for this.” His brother said as soon he got down.

“Yes but where's the fun in that?” He smirked, taking off his binoculars from his neck and placing it in its case.

“How are you, the older sibling?” His brother asked with a blank stare.

“Maybe because I'm smarter, more handsome?”

“Sure. So, do you think he's authentic?”

He asked, referring to their sister's new husband.

“Honestly, I don't know, it's hard to say.”

He said, stroking his chin in thought.

“But you just said they were about to have sex, what could be more authentic than them consummating their marriage?”

“I don't know, but there's still something fishy going on.”

“Of course you'd say that. Let's just go before we get caught.”

“Yeah, I need to call Jake, so he can run a background check on him.” He mused out loud.

If Ariel wasn't going to introduce him to them, then they might as well get familiar with him, she'd kill them when she finds out, but he didn't care.

“You haven't done that?” His brother asked in an incredulous tone.

“No, I haven't done that, it's not like I knew she was going to suddenly be married today, I wasn't exactly given the invitation letter.” He glared at him as they walked to their car parked just down the street.

“Fair enough. I have to agree with you that it is a bit odd, the whole marriage thing. Didn't even realize she had a boyfriend.”

“Me and you both.” He replied and opened the driver side of the car.

“How about we just invite him for dinner?”

His little brother asked “get to know the lad.”

“Tried that, Ariel said no, well, not really no, she just kind of ignored me. She might be onto us, I think, " He said as he started the car.

“Well then, she's definitely hiding something. I'm not so sure if it, but at least you are,” His brother retorted as he put on his seat belt.

“Yeah, she sure is, we just need to find out what, but I have a feeling we already know.”

“You really think she'd go through all this trouble to get the company?”

“I don't know what to think, to be honest.” He said as he began to drive back home.