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Authors: Crystal Perkins
Society Weddings (Corrigan & Co. Book 11) (15 page)
“I’m so glad to see you, Si.”
Jenysis is Darcy’s husband’s cousin. He gave
up his kingdom for her, and Jen’s dad took over as king, making her
a princess. She was a Lady before, I think. All I know is that I’m
as glad to see her as she is to see me. We met over a year ago, and
we’ve stayed in contact. Of course, neither of us could tell the
other we were being recruited.
“You too.”
“I didn’t realize I was walking into a
sorority house,” a bitchy looking blonde says with a sneer on her
face.
“So not a sorority girl,” I say, glaring
right back at her. “Not that it’s really any of your business.”
“Actually, anything that goes on with one of
you will be important to all of you,” Reina says, walking in with a
scowl on her face, and her girls at her back. “The bond you form
with one another is just as important as the training you’ll be
receiving. You’ll have to depend on each other, and trust each
other, while you’re on missions. And during training, it will be
the support and help from your friends that will help you get
through this training. I’ve leaned on these nine women more than I
ever thought I would, and they all know I’d do the same for them.
Sisterhood is paramount to us. We would never hurt, or betray each
other, and we expect you all to feel the same way about each other.
Do you understand?”
“Yes.”
“Good. Let’s get started.”
Darcy comes over and gives me a hug before
leading me to her office. I take a seat, and she motions to a
packet on the table in front of me.
“This has everything you need to know for
right now in it. Someone from Ainsley’s team will be by to do your
hand and retina scans. Those will get you into the elevators and
our rooms here, as well as your apartment. Chloe Griffin took your
color choices and style into consideration, and created an
apartment for you that I think you’ll love. Your place isn’t as big
as ours, but if you pass, you’ll be moved to a custom place like
ours on a higher floor.”
“I’m sure the apartment will be perfect.”
Hell, I’d live in a box if it meant I could work here.
She nods, and then looks serious. “We have
to go over the results of the tests we had you take last
month.”
“Okay.”
“You scored high in technology, weapons,
sparring, fashion, and research. You did okay in analysis,
etiquette, science, and blending. Languages is where it looks like
we may have a problem.”
“I took Spanish in high school. I still
remember most of it.”
“I know. That helps a little, but you’re
going to need to master at least three other languages, and once of
them has to be complex. I think you’ll be fine with French, and
Italian for two of them. For the other one, you can choose between
Arabic, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Turkish, or
Russian.”
“Do I have to decide now?” I ask, panicking.
I knew training wouldn’t be easy, but I didn’t expect a big
obstacle so soon.
“Not right now, but Reina will want to know
what you choose by the end of the week so she can plan out your
studies.”
“Reina is teaching languages?”
“Yes. She’s fluent in pretty much every
language on the planet.”
“Wow.”
“Yeah, I know. She’s all that, and a bag of
chips. No pressure for the rest of us.”
“What are you teaching?”
“You can’t laugh.”
“Okay,” I tell her with a shrug. I know she
used to be a cat burglar, so I’m guessing it’s blending.
“Etiquette.”
“Oh.”
“Yeah, oh. Apparently all of my princess
training has made me the expert. It’s pretty embarrassing.”
“I think you’re still a bad-ass.”
“Thanks.”
We spend the rest of the day going over the
paperwork I need to fill out, my salary while training—which is
more than in a month than I made in the last year an assistant at
the auction house in Seattle—and various policies and procedures.
Basically, everyone else in the building will think we are
Foundation interns, and we have to act the part. It’s a simple form
of on the job training, but an important one. We can’t slip up. Not
that I intend to. I had no problem playing the part of intern while
flirting with the junior execs from C&C in the cafeteria this
morning. Now I just need to worry about mastering a complex
language.
From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank
everyone who’s supported me since I started writing. My friends who
believed in me from the first page of Gaming For Love, the team who
helps me get my books ready for you, and all of you who sent me a
kind word, or left me a good review after reading my books. You’re
all important to me, and I wouldn’t still be writing without you!
Lots of virtual hugs and love from me to you!
Crystal Perkins has always been a big
reader, but she never thought she would write her own book, until
she did. She lives in Las Vegas, where you can find her running
author events and selling books at conventions when she isn’t
reading, buying too many Sherlock t-shirts online or finding a
place to put all of her Pop! figurines. A mac and cheese
connoisseur, she travels the country looking for the perfect
version, while attending book conventions and signings as a cover
for her research. The Griffin Brothers series and the Corrigan
& Co. series are international best sellers, and she’s thankful
to the readers who made those things happen!
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