Chapter 4, yeah! As always, read and review. Title and plot suggestions are welcome and please vote in my poll. Sabretooth's daughter will remain nameless until I get ten votes. Isn't the suspense killing you?
They spent the two day drive to Washington discussing their lives, their likes and dislikes, pet peeves, favorite movies, favorite bands, etc. She discovered that Victor liked Metallica, Blues Brother, Spinal Tap, hunting, and hates Twilight. He likes his meat rare, doesn't eat cranberries or walnuts, loves to drink milk and his favorite color is red.
They stopped in Seattle for lunch at the Space Needle and he took her to Pike's Place Market and the gum wall. They made it to Chehalis by five and stopped at the Chehalis Deli to pick up a couple of Bearcat Sandwiches then drove to his house. It was a large barn looking A-frame on sixty acres of pine forest. It was beautiful, she was in love.
"This is your house!"
"Yep. Sweet little set up, isn't it?"
"I'll say."
"This place used to be a tree and horse farm. Now I use the barn on the other side of the house as a garage."
"Do you live by yourself?"
"I actually don't use this house much, but I have it cleaned every couple a weeks."
"Where do you usually live?"
"Don't stay in one place long, but this is my favorite house. Plenty of room to roam and hunt without nosy, busy-body neighbors."
He drove around the house to the renovated barn. It was clean and had concrete floors, toolboxes along the walls and all kinds of fancy equipment. He parked her truck among various quads, motorcycles, trucks and expensive sports cars. They grabbed their bags and walked down a manicured gravel path to the back of the house. Four large windows were covered with shades so she couldn't see what the inside looked like yet. They climbed the steps to the covered wraparound porch. He opened the door without using a key.
"Guess you don't have to worry about people breaking in all the way out here."
"Actually, the door has a pressure sensor. It knows how I grip the knob and automatically unlocks the door, but I make the maid use a key."
"Fancy. Are you gonna program me in or do I get a key?"
"I'll have you programmed in after you get settled in your room."
"Sweet." She followed him through a large kitchen that was decked out in stainless steel appliances with hardwood floors and butcher-block counters to a wooden staircase and down a long hallway.
"This is your room." He swung the door open to reveal an absolutely huge bedroom with hardwood floors. It had a queen size wooden frame bed with a brown and green vine patterned comforter set and matching curtains. An oak desk, dresser and trunk completed the room. One door led to an attached bath and the other opened to a walk-in cloth set that was big enough to house a family of five.
"Uh...It's big."
"And..."
She spun around, "I love it," she announced happily.
"Glad you like it, cub. When you get settled in, come downstairs and we'll send for the stuff from your house and get you programmed into the security system."
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