As much as Dennis hated to admit it, Palmetto was exquisitely beautiful.
The high ceiling was carved with delicate roses and entwined fingers that
seemed to reach out to you. Their footsteps were hushed and bounced against
thin walls. "How many rooms are there?" Nina asked as her pretty eyes
absorbed all that was around her. "There are 10 bedrooms, 5 full baths, 2
libraries, and a huge huge kitchen that is already stocked" This peeked
Rosemary's interest. "Stocked? Stocked with what?" Dennis looked over at
her with an appeased smile. "Don't worry about it, there's so much of every
single food you won't ever have to cook again"
After he showed the castle, he took Alex's hand in a friendly manner and led her to the room she would be staying in. When he pushed the wide gleaming cherry wood doors open, Alex gasped in pure shock. There was a four-poster bed in the middle of the room. It was draped heavily with rose and cream color crushed velvet covers and the wall was hung with spun burnished gold and silver tapestries. "Oh my. I keep waking up and discovering this is all just some sort of wonderful dream and that I'm going to be in my little drab room above a strip club" She could easily read the interest in Dennis's eyes and sighed. "I'll explain it to you another time" Dennis nodded and helped her with her bags as she lugged them on the bed. "I'm going to go show the other girls their rooms"
Next was Nina. Her gasps about an exquisitely carved marble statue or an extremely rare piece of art made Dennis smile. Nina could swear she head calliope music playing faintly, almost eerily in the long seemingly endless corridor. Dennis chose the third door on his left and slipped a long key through the lock and heard that satisfying click. When he pushed on the doors, they slowly creaked open and Nina's eyes went as wide as dinner plates. "This can't be my room" Nina gasped. The walls were high and the color of rum fresh from the bottle. On the huge bed was an amethyst sheets and the room was almost overwhelmed with the smell of lilies
While Nina was calculating the amount of money on the walls in her room, Dennis decided to wander the halls for a while before he took Rosemary to her room. When Nina heard calliope, he heard his impending doom. He should have fought like a wild animal when he was assigned to them and Palmetto; he knew that the secret of destructive couldn't be concealed forever. But until then, he supposed that he would have to ride it out as best as he could.
He found Rosemary in the middle of the huge kitchen with an ecstatic grin on her full sensual lips. "Do you like it?" Rosemary laughed as she reached into a wooden cabinet and retrieved a bottle green glass container of fresh jasmine. "Fresh spices this is HEAVEN!" Dennis had to laugh. "If you're so excited about spices, I don't think I should show you your room" Rosemary giggled much like a schoolgirl and wrapped her hand around Dennis's lanky arm. "You're room awaits you, your grace" He said in his best faux British accent. He led her down winding corridors and tight pathways, and when they reached the tall French carved doors, Rosemary suddenly increased her grip on Dennis's arm. "What's the matter?" Rosemary's soft lips curved into a smile and she laughed a little. "Oh it's nothing really, I was watching 'The Shinning' on the plane, and I was just hoping it wasn't going to be like that. You know, me or Alex or Nina going crazy or something-No I'm just paranoid" With an understanding and somewhat amused smile, Dennis unlocked the door and Rosemary felt her breath catch in her lean throat.
The walls were more stone blue then gray and the bed that could have fit 5 people was covered in watery soft Irish blue silk. It was more beautiful then Rosemary could have imagined, and she couldn't find the words to say anything. "Yeah," Dennis said as he placed his hands on his hips. "This room is pretty nice" At this, Rosemary turned to stare at him. "No Dennis, puppies are nice, flowers on a Saturday are nice. This is.amazing, simply amazing" She set off in a soft stream on Italian, which Dennis didn't quite understand. "Well, dinner is at 9, breakfast is at 8:30. You won't have to deal with the landlady much, but she'll be coming in and out to set the tables and to clean your rooms. I'll give you time to get ready" "You'll be joining us for dinner won't you?" she asked "Oh," Dennis said looking around the room. "Sure I guess" Rosemary smiled and kissed Dennis's cheek affectionately and hugged him tightly.
Wandering down the halls to find Nina and Alex, Rosemary found a door that held a carving that was covered with dust. She brushed at it and bent to read it, she bumped into something and screamed, causing the thing she bumped into topple to the ground with a terrible clatter. Faintly down the hall, she heard a familiar scream down the hall. "Nina?" Rosemary called out. "What?" Replied the feeble voice. Following the sound of Nina's panicking breathing that sounded like thunder in the empty halls. She found Nina looking like a frightened 5-year old.
"What's wrong honey?" Rosemary asked as she took the trembling Nina in her arms and smoothed her sunny blonde hair. "I heard voices talking" Nina said as her eyes darted around the dimly light halls. "I was talking to Dennis, maybe that's what you heard" Nina shook her heard furiously. "Not unless you were talking in tongues" Rosemary raised a minnow of an eyebrow and took Nina by the hand and lead her to Alex's room.
Alex was trying on different clothes when Rosemary and Nina knocked on the door. Still in her favored black ruby dress, she opened the door. "Oh hey," She said with a smile and walked in the room so they could enter. "Isn't this amazing?" She gushed as she continued to unpack her suitcase. "I can't believe we're going to be staying here and be getting two million dollars" She was about to say more as she pulled out her needle thin heeled black shoes when she saw the look on Nina's face. "Is she alright?" She asked Rosemary since Nina didn't look as if she were capable of intelligent speech. "She had a little fright. Dennis said dinner was at 9. The dining room is on the first level down the second hall 5th door to the left, see ya'll later"
After Nina had taken a long hot bath, she wrapped a soft towel around her exposed self. As she was brushed her hair while sitting at the child size desk with a velvet covered hair and left herself drift away as the massaging soft bristles worked at her damp hair that was reduced to fire blonde. As she left her hair air-dry, she ruffled through her suitcase and carefully chose a few dresses. Her particular favorite was a midnight blue silk that skimmed her thighs. As she peeled away the towel from her still wet skin to change into the dress, she heard a rustling sound at the window. She turned and her scream echoed in the room.
In front of the window, was a man. His hair was a little shaggy as if he was in need of a trim and the rich near black color His eyes, however, were what interested Nina. The stormy blue always seemed to be looking through her instead of at her. "Get out" Nina insisted, though her voice was shaking. "You know," He said as he walked towards the bed and picked up Nina's tiny dress. "This color is nice on you with your color skin, but I think that this one will look great," He said as he pulled out her blushing ivory color dress that was unapologetically sexy. "Ok great. Now who the fuck are you?" She demanded with a little more force. His smile was quick and charming. "Oh, how rude of me. I'm Zachary Fitzpatrick and you're Nina Embry" Her eyes were wide with fear and she looked around for something to use as a weapon. "Look buddy I don't know who the hell you are or how the hell you got in my room but you are but get the hell out of here before you're going to be very sorry"
Zachary only laughed. "Oh you ARE a firecracker, I see why Alexandria and Rosemary love you" This peaked Nina's attention. "You know Rosie and Alex?" When he only nodded, Nina pushed herself to venture closer to him. When she took the small step forward, she could feel the heat radiating off him. "How do you know them?" Zachary shrugged a broad shoulder and walked towards Nina until she was trapped between his arms and the wall. "You know, where I come from, the name Nina means 'happy face', so why is it, Ms.Embry that you look as if I've just pulled a gun on you?" Nina tried to struggle against him. He backed away slowly and as Nina turned to run, all there was one the windowsill, was a single white falcon.
Understandably shaken up, Nina quickly changed and began her search for the dinning room. As she stood at the first flight of stairs, wondering about the mysterious Zachary Fitzpatrick. Before she could come to any real conclusion about him, she felt a pair of stone cold hands shove at her. She tumbled down the stairs with a terrible twisting of limbs, the split instant before she hit the landing that would decidedly kill her, she felt two strong hot hands grab onto her, stopping her face. The instant the warmth was felt, it was gone, and Nina was once again left alone trembling in the dark.
After he showed the castle, he took Alex's hand in a friendly manner and led her to the room she would be staying in. When he pushed the wide gleaming cherry wood doors open, Alex gasped in pure shock. There was a four-poster bed in the middle of the room. It was draped heavily with rose and cream color crushed velvet covers and the wall was hung with spun burnished gold and silver tapestries. "Oh my. I keep waking up and discovering this is all just some sort of wonderful dream and that I'm going to be in my little drab room above a strip club" She could easily read the interest in Dennis's eyes and sighed. "I'll explain it to you another time" Dennis nodded and helped her with her bags as she lugged them on the bed. "I'm going to go show the other girls their rooms"
Next was Nina. Her gasps about an exquisitely carved marble statue or an extremely rare piece of art made Dennis smile. Nina could swear she head calliope music playing faintly, almost eerily in the long seemingly endless corridor. Dennis chose the third door on his left and slipped a long key through the lock and heard that satisfying click. When he pushed on the doors, they slowly creaked open and Nina's eyes went as wide as dinner plates. "This can't be my room" Nina gasped. The walls were high and the color of rum fresh from the bottle. On the huge bed was an amethyst sheets and the room was almost overwhelmed with the smell of lilies
While Nina was calculating the amount of money on the walls in her room, Dennis decided to wander the halls for a while before he took Rosemary to her room. When Nina heard calliope, he heard his impending doom. He should have fought like a wild animal when he was assigned to them and Palmetto; he knew that the secret of destructive couldn't be concealed forever. But until then, he supposed that he would have to ride it out as best as he could.
He found Rosemary in the middle of the huge kitchen with an ecstatic grin on her full sensual lips. "Do you like it?" Rosemary laughed as she reached into a wooden cabinet and retrieved a bottle green glass container of fresh jasmine. "Fresh spices this is HEAVEN!" Dennis had to laugh. "If you're so excited about spices, I don't think I should show you your room" Rosemary giggled much like a schoolgirl and wrapped her hand around Dennis's lanky arm. "You're room awaits you, your grace" He said in his best faux British accent. He led her down winding corridors and tight pathways, and when they reached the tall French carved doors, Rosemary suddenly increased her grip on Dennis's arm. "What's the matter?" Rosemary's soft lips curved into a smile and she laughed a little. "Oh it's nothing really, I was watching 'The Shinning' on the plane, and I was just hoping it wasn't going to be like that. You know, me or Alex or Nina going crazy or something-No I'm just paranoid" With an understanding and somewhat amused smile, Dennis unlocked the door and Rosemary felt her breath catch in her lean throat.
The walls were more stone blue then gray and the bed that could have fit 5 people was covered in watery soft Irish blue silk. It was more beautiful then Rosemary could have imagined, and she couldn't find the words to say anything. "Yeah," Dennis said as he placed his hands on his hips. "This room is pretty nice" At this, Rosemary turned to stare at him. "No Dennis, puppies are nice, flowers on a Saturday are nice. This is.amazing, simply amazing" She set off in a soft stream on Italian, which Dennis didn't quite understand. "Well, dinner is at 9, breakfast is at 8:30. You won't have to deal with the landlady much, but she'll be coming in and out to set the tables and to clean your rooms. I'll give you time to get ready" "You'll be joining us for dinner won't you?" she asked "Oh," Dennis said looking around the room. "Sure I guess" Rosemary smiled and kissed Dennis's cheek affectionately and hugged him tightly.
Wandering down the halls to find Nina and Alex, Rosemary found a door that held a carving that was covered with dust. She brushed at it and bent to read it, she bumped into something and screamed, causing the thing she bumped into topple to the ground with a terrible clatter. Faintly down the hall, she heard a familiar scream down the hall. "Nina?" Rosemary called out. "What?" Replied the feeble voice. Following the sound of Nina's panicking breathing that sounded like thunder in the empty halls. She found Nina looking like a frightened 5-year old.
"What's wrong honey?" Rosemary asked as she took the trembling Nina in her arms and smoothed her sunny blonde hair. "I heard voices talking" Nina said as her eyes darted around the dimly light halls. "I was talking to Dennis, maybe that's what you heard" Nina shook her heard furiously. "Not unless you were talking in tongues" Rosemary raised a minnow of an eyebrow and took Nina by the hand and lead her to Alex's room.
Alex was trying on different clothes when Rosemary and Nina knocked on the door. Still in her favored black ruby dress, she opened the door. "Oh hey," She said with a smile and walked in the room so they could enter. "Isn't this amazing?" She gushed as she continued to unpack her suitcase. "I can't believe we're going to be staying here and be getting two million dollars" She was about to say more as she pulled out her needle thin heeled black shoes when she saw the look on Nina's face. "Is she alright?" She asked Rosemary since Nina didn't look as if she were capable of intelligent speech. "She had a little fright. Dennis said dinner was at 9. The dining room is on the first level down the second hall 5th door to the left, see ya'll later"
After Nina had taken a long hot bath, she wrapped a soft towel around her exposed self. As she was brushed her hair while sitting at the child size desk with a velvet covered hair and left herself drift away as the massaging soft bristles worked at her damp hair that was reduced to fire blonde. As she left her hair air-dry, she ruffled through her suitcase and carefully chose a few dresses. Her particular favorite was a midnight blue silk that skimmed her thighs. As she peeled away the towel from her still wet skin to change into the dress, she heard a rustling sound at the window. She turned and her scream echoed in the room.
In front of the window, was a man. His hair was a little shaggy as if he was in need of a trim and the rich near black color His eyes, however, were what interested Nina. The stormy blue always seemed to be looking through her instead of at her. "Get out" Nina insisted, though her voice was shaking. "You know," He said as he walked towards the bed and picked up Nina's tiny dress. "This color is nice on you with your color skin, but I think that this one will look great," He said as he pulled out her blushing ivory color dress that was unapologetically sexy. "Ok great. Now who the fuck are you?" She demanded with a little more force. His smile was quick and charming. "Oh, how rude of me. I'm Zachary Fitzpatrick and you're Nina Embry" Her eyes were wide with fear and she looked around for something to use as a weapon. "Look buddy I don't know who the hell you are or how the hell you got in my room but you are but get the hell out of here before you're going to be very sorry"
Zachary only laughed. "Oh you ARE a firecracker, I see why Alexandria and Rosemary love you" This peaked Nina's attention. "You know Rosie and Alex?" When he only nodded, Nina pushed herself to venture closer to him. When she took the small step forward, she could feel the heat radiating off him. "How do you know them?" Zachary shrugged a broad shoulder and walked towards Nina until she was trapped between his arms and the wall. "You know, where I come from, the name Nina means 'happy face', so why is it, Ms.Embry that you look as if I've just pulled a gun on you?" Nina tried to struggle against him. He backed away slowly and as Nina turned to run, all there was one the windowsill, was a single white falcon.
Understandably shaken up, Nina quickly changed and began her search for the dinning room. As she stood at the first flight of stairs, wondering about the mysterious Zachary Fitzpatrick. Before she could come to any real conclusion about him, she felt a pair of stone cold hands shove at her. She tumbled down the stairs with a terrible twisting of limbs, the split instant before she hit the landing that would decidedly kill her, she felt two strong hot hands grab onto her, stopping her face. The instant the warmth was felt, it was gone, and Nina was once again left alone trembling in the dark.