Love with a Jerk by Nikki Plotner (inspirational books to read TXT) 📕

I was excited that I was turning eighteen years old and that my dad was throwing me a party for my birthday. The thing I hated about the entire situation was that my dad was throwing me the party for the wrong reasons. Not because it is my birthday, but because he wants me to find the person that I am going to be marrying. I don’t understand that at all. First I am way too young to even think about married, but second I don’t want to get married ever. I mean come on; marriage only ever ruins your life. I have been trying to fight my dad about this for the last two months, finally he told me that I didn’t have a choice, and this was going to happen weather I liked it or not. I guess I better start doing what he says. I want to tell him that this is America and that we are in the twenty-first century, I should be able to marry when and who I want. I hated all of this and right now I hated my dad. Whenever I ask why I have to have a party to choose a guy for me; he just tells me that since I was a werewolf it is the father’s job to choose a man for them to marry. He said that I am lucky he is a nice father and won’t choose someone I won’t like. Yeah right, I thought to myself. He will probably choose someone I hated. So, yeah now here we are the night of my party. My mom took me to the beauty shop to get my hair and makeup done. We went to get pedicures and manicures earlier this afternoon. My party was going to start in an hour and I have been sitting in this seat here at the beauty shop all evening. I was really ready to get this night over with; then again I was dreading the night. After getting my hair done, my mother drove us back to my enormous house. I don’t even know why we need such a huge house; there are only four of us living in the thing for crying out loud. I got home and went straight to my room, so I could finish getting ready. I only have a half an hour left before the party started so I really needed to get my heels and dress on. I went into my closet and took the dress bag out, unzipping it revealing my marina blue pleated organza strapless cocktail dress. I took it out of my bag and slipped my thin perfectly figured body into it, zipping up the back of it. I put on my black leather open toed pump heels and then put on my white pearl earrings and pearl necklace. I placed my diamond bracelet on my left arm and then went downstairs, finding my dad in his study. I could hear him talking, but I couldn’t figure out who he was talking to. I knocked on his study, waiting for him to grant me access to come in.
“Come in”. He yelled.
I walked into the study and towards my dad.
“Hey daddy, I am ready”. I said with a fake smile, even though it looked like a real one.
“Darling, I want you to meet someone”. My dad wrapped his arm around my waist and walked us over to wear this guy was sitting. Gosh was he a hot guy and I mean hot. He had dark brown hair and ocean blue eyes. He had the perfect body that showed his muscles in all the right places. I could tell he was tall, even though he was sitting down. He was definitely hot, but he looked like he was stuck up. I could tell he was conceited about himself, because he dressed so perfectly.
“Darling, this here is Neil his family is from Ireland and I am great friends with his father. My father and mother used to live in Ireland before they became Alphas of the United States, so know we live here in Maine.
“Hi Neil”. I said with a smile on my face and with the utmost kindness.
“Hello Olivia”. He said in the most beautiful Irish accent, but with attitude behind it. I tried to just ignore it and turned towards my dad.
“You ready daddy? The party has started”. I said.
“Yes dear”, he held out his arm to me and I placed my arm into his elbow. We walked out into the ballroom, Neil following behind us. I had a lot of my friends here at the ball and then all of my family. There were also of course people I didn’t know either attending. The band that was singing announced my father and my entrance and we walked to the dance flow, to have a father daughter dance. After the dance, I danced with a bunch of other people. After what seemed like a few hours of nonstop dancing, I walked over to bartender and ordered me a punch, and then I took my punch outside in the back to the garden. I loved the garden; it was one of my many places to think. I must have been out there for a while because my father came out and sat next to me on the concert bench, which was in the middle of the garden.
“I knew I would find you out here sweetheart”. My dad said looking out to the garden.
“Yeah, I needed to get some air”.
“Well, it is really late and everyone is clearing out of the house. It is time to come meet the guys I picked for you”.
“Guys? Daddy, I am not going to have more than one guy”! I yelled becoming really worried about what type of person my dad thought I was.
“I know you’re not going to be with more than one guy. I have chosen three different guys, in which you get to get to know over the next couple of weeks and at the end of those two weeks, you will have chosen which guy you would like to be with”.
“Really daddy, I thought you had to choose for me”?
“Sweetheart, this is America. It is not Ireland, where we came from. You were born here and even though I have to choose a guy for you, I still think you should get to have the choice of who you want, within limits of course. You do have to choose one of the guys I picked out, but I am not going to choose for you fully”.
I was so excited; I actually got some say in what I wanted. Not much, but still a lot more than what most werewolf girls have. I went back into the house with my dad, we walked to his study again and I sat on one of the chairs that were in there. A couple minutes later, three guys walked into the room. One of them was Neil. I could have figured he would have been one. The guy that was standing on the right of Neil had blonde hair and green eyes. He was pretty cute, he was muscular and tall. I liked his smile, with his perfect white teeth. My dad informed me that his name was Leon. Leon was from England. The guy on the left of Neil was really tall; he was the tallest guy out of all of them. He was really muscular and had black hair with grey eyes. His name happened to be Reece, which was from Australia. You see, I couldn’t be with anyone that was from the United States, because since I was an Alpha’s daughter, I had to be with an Alpha’s son. So, I would probably have to move to where ever they came from, which I wasn’t very happy about leaving my family. After I was introduced, I excused myself and made my way to my bedroom. I got out of my dress and heels and went into my bathroom and took a steaming hot bath. Once, the water was starting to get cold, I washed my body and face and exited the tub, wrapping a towel around my body. I went back into my room and dried off putting on my lotion and getting into my pajamas. Then I went and brushed my teeth and crawled into bed, quickly falling sleep.

I was awoken the next morning by my mom. She went over to my window and pulled open my curtains, the sun blinding my eyes.
“Why do I have to wake up so early? I just went to sleep not that long ago mom”. I complained, I just wanted to go back to sleep.
“You have slept half the day away Olivia. You need to get up and get ready; you are going out with Leon this afternoon”. She said walking out of my room and shutting the door. I groaned getting out of my bed and going to the bathroom, to take a shower. I turned the water on and stripped my clothes off. I quickly brushed my teeth and then stepped into the hot shower. I let the hot water run down my back for at least twenty minutes, and then I washed my hair and body. I got out of the shower wrapping a towel around my hair and then one around my body. I dried my body off and plugged in my straightener and blow dryer in the wall sockets. I lathered on my body lotion and went to my room, putting on my panties and bar. Then I went to my closet and grabbed my black skinny jeans and my purple draped shirt. I got out my purple flats and put them in. I went back to the bathroom and blow dried my hair. Then I ran my straightener through it. I looked through my hair basket, on the edge of my sink and found a purple ribbon. I put it in my hair making it look like a bow. Then I put on some eyeliner and mascara. I really don’t need much makeup because I have perfect complex skin. When I was finished, I went downstairs into the kitchen. I found the butler and asked him to get me some breakfast to eat. I didn’t want to eat lunch food, so I made sure I would get my breakfast inside my empty belly. I went into the dining hall and sat down waiting for my food to come. I noticed that everyone was sitting at the table eating lunch. My father looked up at me.
“Good afternoon sweetheart. Do you want any lunch”? My dad asked.
“No daddy, Scotty’s getting me some breakfast food. You know how I like my breakfast food when I wake up”.
“I know sweetie”. Scotty the butler came in with a