own good.
“ I know dad,” she said as she wrapped her arms around her father for a hug. Jamie pulled away, and grinned at him. “I’m going to bed. I’ll see you in the morning.” She yawned covering her mouth with her hand. She started toward her room.
“ It is the morning already.”
Jamie laughed at her father’s wry tone, and then continued down the hall toward her bedroom.
When Jamie woke up , she glanced at the time, it was afternoon. Crap! She thought. Now I’ll never hear the end of the late nights and what not from Father . After she and Emily had left the club, they’d put on their Black leather bracelets. She’d told Emily about meeting He het meetinry again and Emily told her she would come with her.
Jamie looked out her bedroom window from her position in her bed. A black building was all she could see. She’d grown up looking at that all black building with silver lined windows and doors. She’d only seen pictures of the Blue housing, but she knew they were a rich blue with white lined windows and doors. Her intercom buzzed, pulling her way from her thoughts. She got out of bed and crossed the room to answer it. She pushed the answer button. “Yes?”
“ The new butler has arrived. Your father wanted me to remind you to stay in your room until he notifies you.”
Jamie groaned and pushed another button to find out where her father was in the house. The sensor found him in his study. She sighed. She couldn’t believe he’d ordered her to stay in her room. She wasn’t a little kid, but he still treated her like she was.
Jamie threw herself back on her soft , pink, fluffy bed, her every thought was on the man who made her feel things she’d never felt before. His crystal-blue eyes appeared when she closed her eyes. Henry Roarke’s face was sketched in her mind. She still had a long time before she would see him again, but her heart raced at that thought. She was still a little mad at her best friend for interrupting her first kiss. The whole night she’d imagined how it would be to really kiss Henry, and she wondered how he would taste. Jamie closed her eyes again, knowing her dreams would consist of a certain blue eye man.
* * *
Henry couldn’t believe he was employed by the Wicked Moore, but he’d needed an inside man and he’d been the most logical choice. He glanced down at his wrist where the bright Blue bracelet lay, reminding him that he was a slave.
When Blues and Blacks were born, the bracelets were automatically placed on them. As you grew you received a new one to accommodate your size. By about eighteen you would most likely keep the same bracelet until you died. It was the same for both the Blues and Blacks.
Black s, of course, held the best jobs and weren’t allowed to marry beneath them. Blues usually worked for the Blacks and weren’t allowed to marry above them. Whatever category your family was put in fifty years ago, was what you were now.
Henry's mo ther worked for the Rich family. That was how he and Mike had become best friends. The Rich family wasn’t like other Blacks. They didn’t care what color was around your wrist. They treated everyone the same, and that was why Henry thought of them like family.
He glanced at the clock in the kitchen, and groaned . He still had two hours left until he could leave and get ready to meet Jamie. Henry’d had a few girlfriends before, but never one who made him feel how Jamie made him feel in just those few short hours. He could still feel her soft lips as he brushed his lips against hers.
His heart fluttered as he thought of her, the sounded of her laughter rang in his head . He didn’t believe in love at first si fa at firght, but there was something there that made him want her. A knock sounded at the front door, right on time he thought.
He walked to the front door and a delivery man wearing all brown held a package in his hands . Henry smirked, he knew what it was.
“ For Mr. Moore,” the