All Chapters of Island Stripe Pride: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Maggie checked her phone as she stepped inside the apartment she still shared with Joelle over the office. It had been treated to much of the same renovations as the rest of the hotel, and she secretly loved the new bathroom.In fact, she had been dreaming of indulging in the new luxury shower system all day. Smiling as she passed the dozens of red roses and chocolate towers that had arrived every day that week, she shook her head.Alex was really something else. Ever since the other day in the office, he’d been playing old-fashioned suitor, sending her gifts and walking her to her door every night after work.She had to admit the new computer system and amazingly fast internet service he’d had installed made it so much easier for her to work on the app. My Concierge was really coming along. In fact, it would probably be finished by the time the summer season began. Once they found a designer who could help with the graphics part of it, they could roll it out into beta testing.Ant

A sound jarred Maggie from her dreams. Damn. She was having the best one ever. It was deliciously erotic and involved Alex, of course. The man had been starring in her fantasies since her sister had doused him with ink and paint one fateful night only weeks ago. Her life had not been the same since. She opened one eye and looked down.Oh shit. That wasn’t a dream after all. The large, masculine arm snug around her waist belonged to someone, after all. She swallowed.Moving carefully so as not to awaken the man, she slipped from the bed, landing with a soft thud on the throw rug she’d bought after the floors had been replaced. Maggie hated cold feet.Dear lord, what the hell was she thinking about her feet for? She wanted to squeal, almost did, but didn’t want to embarrass herself. So, she grabbed her robe, and slipped into the bathroom, where she admittedly did a little happy dance.It wasn’t every day Maggie accomplished one of her life goals. So, what if losing her virginity befo

Memorial Day a few years later…“Marco!” Alex’s voice could be heard halfway across the whole dang town as he yelled for their newly appointed hotel manager.“Right here, boss,” the young Wolf called as he ran up the stairs to the exclusive top floor of the Oasis Beachside Resort.“Good,” he growled slightly as Nathan, his Neta’s oldest cub, tugged on his hair from his perch on the Tiger’s shoulders, “take him back to his parents please. I have to pick up Maggie.”He handed over the tyke, wondering why the young Wolf blushed fiercely, then turned and sped away. Then he saw the reason. Joelle had stepped out of her room in a flashy two-piece bathing suit, and like always, poor Marco ran for cover.Alex narrowed his eyes at the new college grad’s attire. Being a big brother had its downs, and one of them was policing his sister-in-law’s love life.“Um, where’s the rest of your suit, Jo-Jo?”“Alex!” she stomped her foot and growled at him.The female hated it when he called her th

“Bria! Did you change the laundry yet?”“Oops! I’m on it,” she replied, closing her eyes in annoyance.Shit.Bria had been living in the three-bedroom apartment in the affordable, but barely secure Madison Arms for about nine months now. And yet, she still wasn’t used to Nancy. The woman was one of her four roommates’, and she was sort of infamous for lurking.Truly, Nancy was like the villain in a B horror movie with the way she popped up in the weirdest places. And completely out of nowhere, too. Even worse was her rigorous chore schedule she insisted on meting out to the entire group of them.Always on a deadline, Bria had to admit, she was slacking when it came to organization. But she’d set an alarm this time. Maybe Nancy was wrong. Sighing, she looked up from the article she was typing.Damn it.She really was late getting to the laundry room. The neon numbers on the microwave clock didn’t lie. She should have switched machines ten minutes ago, and that was bad. It could m

Bria threw a change of clothes in her backpack along with her travel toothbrush, laptop, chargers, and the keys to her parents’ house. She was going to lie low for a few days. Hoped that things would die down, then she could work on her next vlog.This was so big. Bigger than big. It was huge. She finally had proof that the supernatural existed. And once she shared it with the whole damn world, Bria Grotto was going to be a household name.Eeek!That was vaguely terrifying once she’d thought of it. Who wanted that kind of life? That was, if she survived this and lived long enough to actually become a household name.Gulp.Bria knew evil when she saw it. Hell, she’d lived with her mother’s evil cat, Beelzebub, growing up. That thing had been a hell beast, for sure. It tore up every article of clothing she’d had in high school. Including her prom dress just hours before the event. Yeah, evil was real and lurking around any given corner.Those guys who’d come after her were evil. Li