i smell like wet dog and this cop's hot.
previously on the most epic romance novel ever: we meet our heroine lou and learn she's a supermodel who just happens to be a werewolf. she also might have killed someone in her pre-supermodel past, especially with the appearance of a smoking hot cop appearing in her life to question her about something and proceeds to send our heroine to the edge of a meltdown.
CHAPTER TWO
Men in black are hot...unless they've come to arrest you for murder.
Guessing from that tagline that Lou Kinipski, our plucky lycanthrope, probably killed someone and is the reason she ran away from home and reinvented herself as a supermodel bombshell.
The chapter opens with her back in the tiny bathroom having a meltdown; luckily for her, since she is a supermodel, she has the excuse of fixing her makeup to stall for time as she tries to compose herself together.
Lou mentions that she's pretty sure that the other models, Cindy (her makeup artist/BFF and the only one who knows our gal's a werewolf) and Stefan (the hot photographer and the UST that she straddles the line between love and lust with) think she's just freaking out over unpaid parking tickets. She scoffs at that, because while she's a werewolf, apparently she deems driving too insane for her because this is NYC we're talking about. She wishes it was parking tickets instead of the fact that she's skirting the edge of a furry outbreak, she's soaking wet in lingerie and angel wings from a photoshoot, and there's a hot cop sniffing around. (pun sort of intended. :P)
I'm thankful I haven't had another outbreak to deal with on top of a police officer wanting to speak with me, but my hair is still wet and it smells like a wet dog. I notice the cop sniffing in the elevator and hope he thinks it had something to do with the feathers on my wings.
Poor girl. Naturally, though, since she carries around a 10-pound beauty bag, she's bound to have some perfume and thus practically drenches herself in perfume in hopes of hiding the wet dog smell. Not that the smell will stop her from immediately thinking of Sexy Cop's good looks and then flashing back to the events that led her to run away from home.
Turns out she and Cindy the BFF hail from a small Texas town called Haven; Cindy's a pastor's daughter who was kicked for being a lesbian and the story that Lou and Cindy tell people is that Lou and her prom date Tom Dawson ran away and eloped. But we know the truth: our girl's a werewolf and may or may not have murdered the guy on prom night. Obviously, they don't keep in touch with that small town very much. Also, since we already learned in the first chapter that Lou is not really our gal's name, we learn in this chapter her real name: Sherry Billington. It's a nice name, though. I'm calling her Sherry-Lou then.
Moving on to Important Flashback Time and Italic text! According to the Important Flashback, Sherry-Lou and Cindy were just small town shrinking violets and Sherry-Lou caught the attention of Tom Dawson, the local BMOC and he asked her to prom after he broke up with his ex. Naturally, our girl is a bit skeptical about this but goes along with it because nothing this interesting ever happens to her. Hoo boy is she in for a surprise. And it's here in the flashback that we also get a throwaway mention of her parents, who were decent people but usually left our girl to her own devices.
Well...it turns out Tom the BMOC is only interested in Sherry-Lou because of the classic Bet. He's got a $100 riding on acquiring Sherry-Lou's underwear and whether she likes it or not, he's going to get her underwear. And our flashback ends with this:
Tom had always been a bit of a bully, but if he thought I was too intimidated by him to do anything but roll over and play dead, he had another think coming.
"I hope you have a hundred bucks, asshole."
It had been the wrong thing to say.
(LOL SO MUCH AT THE DOG PUN. I bolded for emphasis. :D)
And now we're back to reality and Sherry-now-Lou is still in the bathroom and gathering enough composure to face the Sexy Cop named Detective Terry Shay, NYPD. Sherry-Lou immediately files away in her mental cabinet that Detective Sexy's tough as nails exterior hides intense blue eyes and looks nothing like the cops on TV. She then tells us that not only is Cindy her BFF and makeup artist, Cindy lives next door to her and prefers to watch TV at her place rather than Cindy's own.
Sherry-Lou even tell Detective Sexy that he looks nothing like the cops on TV as an effort to stall his questions. She even takes the time to eye him up and down and files away the mental image of herself in bed with him because he's not hitting on her and a mild prison fantasy.
Now that I think about it, jail wouldn't be so bad if he was my warden. He could bring his handcuffs to my cell...damn this PMS, bitch-in-heat stuff. I do not look good in orange. Jumpsuies went out of style in the Eighties. I can't go to jail. They probably wouldn't let me keep my beauty bag on hand to fight the werewolf outbreaks.
Naturally. this time-killing fails as he just glares at her and instead hands her a picture of a dead girl. Dead Girl looked astoundingly like Sherry-Lou and exploited that resemblance to get into clubs and restaurants; now she's dead and Detective Sexy is tracking down any leads, starting with World Famous Supermodel Sherry-Lou Billington-Kinipski herself.
Unfortunately, his lead is going nowhere so he gives her his business card.
Reluctantly, I take the card he extends. "I'll call if I think of anything." I almost add that I *won't* think of anything, but I'm sure that Shay already has that preconceived notion about me. Unfortunately, the world seems to associate smart with unattractive and attractive with "NASA is not going to call her for a job interview" when it comes to women.
(I like this quote. Our heroine is sassy and feisty with a good head on her shoulders, even though she has panic attacks due to being a werewolf.)
Sounds like we should be wrapping that up, right? Nope. Miss Curiosity rears her head and she asks how Dead Girl was killed. Detective Sexy is not amused and refuses to tell her until she manages to flirt it out of him; Dead Girl died from losing too much blood due to a severe bite wound to the neck. IN OTHER WORDS, SHE DIED FROM A VAMPIRE BITE. MAYBE.
FOLKS, IT'S ONLY CHAPTER TWO AND ALREADY THE CHANCE OF VAMPIRES JUST WENT FROM ZERO TO 100%. :D
Except that poor Sherry-Lou looks a bit queasy from hearing about how Dead Girl was killed and her mind zooms to a recurring nightmare that she had apparently been having; blood spattered sheets and tangled legs and bloody sex. Poor girl nearly faints in Shay's arms but luckily he gets her to sit down and catch her breath.
Detective Sexy has decided he's had enough for the day and says his goodbyes; gutter-minded Sherry-Lou checks him out and makes note of his baby blue eyes and thick hair as she sees him leave. The minute he's out of the picture, everyone gives our heroine a look. One of the other models assumes Detective Sexy was the stripper type of cop and but no, Detective Sexy is the real deal. Now they swarm down on Sherry-Lou; even Stefan, who is actually quite protective of her, despite what she thinks their relationship should be.
Anyway, the big question of what Detective Sexy wanted is brought up and in order to not freak out everyone, the vaguely correct answer of "identity theft" is brought up to mollify everyone and Sherry-Lou decides she really needs a drink and slips the detective's card into her bra, thus ending chapter two.
Mmmkay, so it looks like the murder mystery du jour if I'm guessing correctly, is that there is something resembling a vampire is in NYC and might be hunting down our lycanthropic heroine and ended up killing an innocent party girl in the process due to mistaken identity. Also, our girl has not yet displayed the traditional werewolf traits yet so we'll have to see as the book goes on.
CHAPTER TWO
Men in black are hot...unless they've come to arrest you for murder.
Guessing from that tagline that Lou Kinipski, our plucky lycanthrope, probably killed someone and is the reason she ran away from home and reinvented herself as a supermodel bombshell.
The chapter opens with her back in the tiny bathroom having a meltdown; luckily for her, since she is a supermodel, she has the excuse of fixing her makeup to stall for time as she tries to compose herself together.
Lou mentions that she's pretty sure that the other models, Cindy (her makeup artist/BFF and the only one who knows our gal's a werewolf) and Stefan (the hot photographer and the UST that she straddles the line between love and lust with) think she's just freaking out over unpaid parking tickets. She scoffs at that, because while she's a werewolf, apparently she deems driving too insane for her because this is NYC we're talking about. She wishes it was parking tickets instead of the fact that she's skirting the edge of a furry outbreak, she's soaking wet in lingerie and angel wings from a photoshoot, and there's a hot cop sniffing around. (pun sort of intended. :P)
I'm thankful I haven't had another outbreak to deal with on top of a police officer wanting to speak with me, but my hair is still wet and it smells like a wet dog. I notice the cop sniffing in the elevator and hope he thinks it had something to do with the feathers on my wings.
Poor girl. Naturally, though, since she carries around a 10-pound beauty bag, she's bound to have some perfume and thus practically drenches herself in perfume in hopes of hiding the wet dog smell. Not that the smell will stop her from immediately thinking of Sexy Cop's good looks and then flashing back to the events that led her to run away from home.
Turns out she and Cindy the BFF hail from a small Texas town called Haven; Cindy's a pastor's daughter who was kicked for being a lesbian and the story that Lou and Cindy tell people is that Lou and her prom date Tom Dawson ran away and eloped. But we know the truth: our girl's a werewolf and may or may not have murdered the guy on prom night. Obviously, they don't keep in touch with that small town very much. Also, since we already learned in the first chapter that Lou is not really our gal's name, we learn in this chapter her real name: Sherry Billington. It's a nice name, though. I'm calling her Sherry-Lou then.
Moving on to Important Flashback Time and Italic text! According to the Important Flashback, Sherry-Lou and Cindy were just small town shrinking violets and Sherry-Lou caught the attention of Tom Dawson, the local BMOC and he asked her to prom after he broke up with his ex. Naturally, our girl is a bit skeptical about this but goes along with it because nothing this interesting ever happens to her. Hoo boy is she in for a surprise. And it's here in the flashback that we also get a throwaway mention of her parents, who were decent people but usually left our girl to her own devices.
Well...it turns out Tom the BMOC is only interested in Sherry-Lou because of the classic Bet. He's got a $100 riding on acquiring Sherry-Lou's underwear and whether she likes it or not, he's going to get her underwear. And our flashback ends with this:
Tom had always been a bit of a bully, but if he thought I was too intimidated by him to do anything but roll over and play dead, he had another think coming.
"I hope you have a hundred bucks, asshole."
It had been the wrong thing to say.
(LOL SO MUCH AT THE DOG PUN. I bolded for emphasis. :D)
And now we're back to reality and Sherry-now-Lou is still in the bathroom and gathering enough composure to face the Sexy Cop named Detective Terry Shay, NYPD. Sherry-Lou immediately files away in her mental cabinet that Detective Sexy's tough as nails exterior hides intense blue eyes and looks nothing like the cops on TV. She then tells us that not only is Cindy her BFF and makeup artist, Cindy lives next door to her and prefers to watch TV at her place rather than Cindy's own.
Sherry-Lou even tell Detective Sexy that he looks nothing like the cops on TV as an effort to stall his questions. She even takes the time to eye him up and down and files away the mental image of herself in bed with him because he's not hitting on her and a mild prison fantasy.
Now that I think about it, jail wouldn't be so bad if he was my warden. He could bring his handcuffs to my cell...damn this PMS, bitch-in-heat stuff. I do not look good in orange. Jumpsuies went out of style in the Eighties. I can't go to jail. They probably wouldn't let me keep my beauty bag on hand to fight the werewolf outbreaks.
Naturally. this time-killing fails as he just glares at her and instead hands her a picture of a dead girl. Dead Girl looked astoundingly like Sherry-Lou and exploited that resemblance to get into clubs and restaurants; now she's dead and Detective Sexy is tracking down any leads, starting with World Famous Supermodel Sherry-Lou Billington-Kinipski herself.
Unfortunately, his lead is going nowhere so he gives her his business card.
Reluctantly, I take the card he extends. "I'll call if I think of anything." I almost add that I *won't* think of anything, but I'm sure that Shay already has that preconceived notion about me. Unfortunately, the world seems to associate smart with unattractive and attractive with "NASA is not going to call her for a job interview" when it comes to women.
(I like this quote. Our heroine is sassy and feisty with a good head on her shoulders, even though she has panic attacks due to being a werewolf.)
Sounds like we should be wrapping that up, right? Nope. Miss Curiosity rears her head and she asks how Dead Girl was killed. Detective Sexy is not amused and refuses to tell her until she manages to flirt it out of him; Dead Girl died from losing too much blood due to a severe bite wound to the neck. IN OTHER WORDS, SHE DIED FROM A VAMPIRE BITE. MAYBE.
FOLKS, IT'S ONLY CHAPTER TWO AND ALREADY THE CHANCE OF VAMPIRES JUST WENT FROM ZERO TO 100%. :D
Except that poor Sherry-Lou looks a bit queasy from hearing about how Dead Girl was killed and her mind zooms to a recurring nightmare that she had apparently been having; blood spattered sheets and tangled legs and bloody sex. Poor girl nearly faints in Shay's arms but luckily he gets her to sit down and catch her breath.
Detective Sexy has decided he's had enough for the day and says his goodbyes; gutter-minded Sherry-Lou checks him out and makes note of his baby blue eyes and thick hair as she sees him leave. The minute he's out of the picture, everyone gives our heroine a look. One of the other models assumes Detective Sexy was the stripper type of cop and but no, Detective Sexy is the real deal. Now they swarm down on Sherry-Lou; even Stefan, who is actually quite protective of her, despite what she thinks their relationship should be.
Anyway, the big question of what Detective Sexy wanted is brought up and in order to not freak out everyone, the vaguely correct answer of "identity theft" is brought up to mollify everyone and Sherry-Lou decides she really needs a drink and slips the detective's card into her bra, thus ending chapter two.
Mmmkay, so it looks like the murder mystery du jour if I'm guessing correctly, is that there is something resembling a vampire is in NYC and might be hunting down our lycanthropic heroine and ended up killing an innocent party girl in the process due to mistaken identity. Also, our girl has not yet displayed the traditional werewolf traits yet so we'll have to see as the book goes on.