Meeting The Knight Family.

THEODORE

What the hell was I doing?

That question kept echoing in my mind as I sat in the back of my Acura TSX, next to the woman I had whisked away from her home. After I managed to convince Catalina to help me, I received an unexpected call from my mother to have dinner with my new girlfriend. This led to me asking Catalina's father for permission to take Catalina to Los Angeles.

“I don't think that's appropriate,” he frowned. “My daughters are respectable ladies, so they should be treated as such.”

Yeah, right. The first thing the youngest daughter, Rosalia, told me when I asked about Catalina was how she fucked her fiancé two hours before I arrived. The news was enough to consider walking out the door, but I was too desperate right now.

And Mateo promised me she would deliver.

I exhaled sharply, finally forcing myself to steal a glance at the woman I had spent over six hours tracking down.

Damn, she was gorgeous.

She sat with her legs crossed, eyes fixed on the cityscape beyond the tinted window. Her pale skin shimmered like porcelain, soft and inviting. Silky, blonde hair cascaded down her back, framing a face with emerald eyes that made her look like a fucking wet dream.

It was too bad my heart already belonged to my uncle's fiancée.

“So,” she turned to me, eyeing me from head to toe before settling on my face. “Tell me everything about this, Hannah. And I want to know only the truth because there's no way I will be played for a fool again.”

Fair enough.

“Hannah was my high school sweetheart.” I cleared my throat lightly. As much as I enjoyed having her eyes on my body, this wasn't a conversation to be taken lightly. “We got engaged two years ago before my father died.”

Her hard expression softened. “I'm so sorry for your loss.”

I nodded grimly. My father's death was a very dark, suffocating period in my life. A lot of corporate vultures hovered around my family, claiming to have our best interests at heart, but instead, they nearly led us into bankruptcy. I was forced to juggle between completing my master's degree and salvaging what was left of my father's legacy.

“That's also the time I pushed Hannah away,” I confessed. “I was too deep in my pain, too blind to see I was pushing the only person who cared for me the most. When she couldn't endure it anymore, she called it quits and returned her engagement ring.”

Catalina nodded like she understood the situation. “So where are we going?”

“To my family home,” I replied. I told her about the call I received from my mother and assured her it would be a brief meeting. Grabbing the document I had my assistant prepare in advance, I passed it to her as we sped towards the airstrip where my private plane was waiting for us.

Catalina barely flipped a few pages before she turned to me with a silent look of confusion.

“You'll need all the personal information about me you can get,” I explained. She couldn't be allowed to slip up in front of my mother, or else there would be hell to pay. “We just have to convince my family tonight that we are dating, and then I will handle the rest.”

Catalina let out a snort that sounded so sexy I had to blink twice. She set aside the document before replying. “Then we don't need these papers to do so, silly.”

“What do you have in mind?”

A glint of mischief flickered in her eyes this time. “You'll see.”

Although I had a few reservations, I decided to push them to the back of my mind since she was the experienced one here. A few hours later, we landed in Los Angeles on a private airstrip a few meters from my family home.

When Catalina stepped down from the plane, her beauty took my breath away. I made a mental note to raise my assistant's pay for the amazing job he did in hiring those stylists. From the short, sexy red dress she had donned earlier, Catalina had transformed into a goddess in a black satin gown. Her hair was styled into a sleek ponytail, accentuating her bronze eye makeup and red lipstick.

Catalina's lips curved upwards when she noticed my speechlessness. “So, what do you think?”

My brain failed to process the words she had said and the appropriate words needed for a response. Fortunately, my assistant stepped forward to compliment her.

“You look stunning, Miss Rodriguez,” he said with a stoic voice. “You should proceed to the car. We don't have much time left.”

Catalina let herself be guided by my assistant while I tagged along. I knew what I was doing was wrong, but I was unable to stop staring at her ass. Catalina was a very sensual female, and she had no qualms about showing it.

Or else, why the hell would she be giving me such sultry glances?

Thirty minutes later, we drove through the private estate and finally reached my family's mansion. Catalina stopped me just before I reached for the door handle. “Wait a minute,” she said. “I still haven't told you my plan yet.”

“What do you have in mind?” I asked.

The next second, Catalina closed the distance between us. Her fingers curled around my neck as she brushed her lips against mine. She pulled back for a second, looked at me, and then kissed me again.

This time, my senses vanished into air as I wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her closer. My hands roamed her body, exploring every curve on her body. She tasted like honey and cinnamon mixed together. I couldn't get enough of her taste, and the sounds she made nearly drove me to insanity.

I felt her slender fingers tug my tie at the same time she melded her body to mine. She made me want to act like a beast, something I had never done before.

In fact, I'd never wanted any woman like this.

“Uncle!” a child squealed, opening the door abruptly.

The next thing I heard was a loud gasp, which made me pull away from Catalina. Shock and confusion echoed across all my family's faces as they gathered to welcome me.

I immediately shielded Catalina with my body, expecting to see her outraged expression. Instead, she gave me a triumphant grin as she wiped a lipstick stain from my lips.

“Hello, Mother,” she smiled sweetly.