Eden High Series 2 Book 3 (3 page)

JACE

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“J
ace get your hands off my ass.” She grinned up at me with the sun shining down on that hair of hers, eyes bright and happy. I’d been working hard to put that look back in her eyes these last few days. Doing everything I can to take her mind off of the attack and all the other shit that had followed. After my conversation with dad this morning, I was even more determined.

“Why should I? it’s mine.” I kissed her nose and pinched her ass.

“Because everybody’s looking.” She swatted at my hands but I held tight.

“So what, let them.” Her eyes went to the girls in their cheering uniforms heading to practice, and I could see the longing on her face.

“Just another week or so baby and you’ll be back out there.”

“But it doesn’t hurt anymore, I wanna practice now.” She was so adorable when she pouted like that.

“That’s just the meds talking. We already had this conversation. You try that shit I’ma tan your ass right here.” She rolled her eyes and huffed. I guess that’s her way of calling me on my shit.

“Babe, gimme a break okay, just go sit in the stands with Belle and Tammy. Read a book or some shit if you’re bored.”

“Fine, I’m not talking to you.” She folded her arms and stomped her foot. So cute! “What’s this like the tenth time today? Take your little ass over there and behave.” She growled at me, my lil beast.

I moved in for a kiss and jumped back just as fast. “Hey.” I rubbed a finger over my lip where the pain in the ass nipped me. “You’re so gonna pay for that later. Gimme that mouth.” She howled with laughter and tried evading me but I nabbed her around her middle and spun her around until she begged to be let down. I stole a kiss and patted her ass before sending her on her way. I watched as she headed to the stands where her friends were waiting.

She looked so small the farther away from me she got. I sometimes forget what a tiny bit of a thing she is. It’s that damn mouth of hers. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night scared out of my mind worrying about how I was going to keep her safe for the rest of our lives. Gives me the sweats. If I could I’d wrap her up in something soft and lock her in my room where she would always be safe.

I’m still shook from finding her in that damn alley. For the rest of my life I’ll have that visual in my head and nothing was going to erase it. Not even when we find the asshole responsible. That’s why it’s so hard to give dad what he’s asking for. I’ll stay away from the succubus for now, but no way was I going to stop looking for answers. She deserves better than that from me.

“Dude, Stanley’s on the warpath again.” Alex jogged up beside me with his helmet in hand breaking my train of thought.

“The fuck I care about that hump?” Stanley could get fucked. I barely give that guy a second’s thought these days. He seems to have a chip on his shoulder, and that stunt Sian had pulled weeks ago when she was trying to teach me a lesson hadn’t helped things.

I did notice that he’s been acting strange on the field during practice but that wasn’t anything I couldn’t handle. As long as he stayed the fuck away from my girl I didn’t really care what he did. “I just thought you should know. Guy looks a little off to me and you know he’s not sane.”

“The fuck I care.” Sian’s slow ass had to stop every five seconds to talk to somebody or the other before she reached where the hell I’d sent her. There were no undesirables around so I figured she’d make it to the stands okay. Alex was still bitching like an old lady about Stanley but I wasn’t really interested. Stanley has been trying to get on my nerves in one way or another since we were kids. He wasn’t worth my damn time.

I finished gearing up and headed out to the middle of the field where the others were already waiting. I was looking forward to letting off some steam on the field during practice. Outside of the home gym, this was the only place I had to release some of the tension. Or sex. I’ve had to take it easy on Sian since she’d been hurt, but she was doing better. Maybe later I can take her down and mount her the way I want to.

I looked back to see her finally making her way to the middle of the stands and shook my head. It had only taken her damn near ten minutes.

“Sanders are you listening to me?”

“What?” I looked at coach and gave the finger to the guys who were grinning like asses. “Just making sure my girl is okay.”

I watched until she made it to her seat in the stands with her friends. I saw her shadow get into place out of sight and only then did I relax. “Okay now I’m here.” He shook his head and went back to his clipboard. “Okay you pansy asses we’ve got to get our A-game on. I’ve noticed some slacking off in the defense we’re gonna work on that today. Stanley no more rough stuff, save it for the opposing team. You ready?” The guys gave the war cry and we got shit started.

My mind wasn’t completely on the game but I did my thing well enough to keep coach off my nuts. I only had to check Stanley’s ass once or twice but that was nothing new. The guy had a problem, I didn’t. If he wants to spend the rest of his life in some sort of twisted competition against me he’s on his own, the dumb fuck.

It had been a long while since he’d tried getting in my face. In fact, before Sian came along we’d hardly had any dealings with each other except on the field. Everyone knew there was a rift between us, but that shit had started so long ago I wasn’t sure anyone even remembered why.

I’d cut him off when we were like ten or some shit, because I knew even back then that he was wired wrong. My parents were sticklers for standing up for the underdog and had passed that trait on to me. Stanley on the other hand, liked picking on anything weaker than him. By the second time I saw him doing that shit I was done. After I’d bloodied his nose for fucking with some kid that couldn’t stand up for himself.

Ever since then he’s done everything he could to get back into my good graces but I was done. He’d learned to leave me the fuck alone, but here lately he’s been acting up again. Maybe he needed to switch his meds or some fuck, who knows.

I used to feel bad for him when we were kids, because his old man was a piece of shit. But when he started doing the same shit I couldn’t bring myself to go there. Mom always taught me that if you don’t like something, then you don’t do that shit to anyone else. So I’d dropped him and moved on. Then he started complaining to anyone who would listen that I was turning people against him, what the fuck? Never happened.

Even the counselors had gotten in on that shit. Dragging me into meetings and shit, begging me to be this fuck’s friend, but I never gave in. Not even when his mom ran off and left him and his old man. They seemed to think I was the answer to his psychosis or some shit. Fuck that. I saw what they didn’t. He was just as bad as his old man and I wanted no part of it.

That’s when the fucker really went ape shit. One day I had to kick his ass for getting in my face, that’s when I knew he was psycho. Asshole thought he could bully me into hanging out with him. We were probably twelve when that happened. I remember dad had to pay a visit to his old man. After that he did his shit from a distance and I pretended he didn’t exist.

I’m not sure what his beef is now, what stirred his ass up again, but I could take a guess. Fucking Sian and her shit. Since that day with her flirting shit she knew to steer clear of him if she didn’t want me to rip her a new one. I guess he didn’t like that she avoided him like the plague these days and of course he blamed me. Fuck I care.

After practice the crew headed to my house. It had been a while since we’d fucked around just for kicks and mom thought it would be a good break from the stress of the last few weeks. It’s something we always did at one or the other’s house, but the greedy fucks loved when it was my turn because mom always went overboard with the food. It was also another excuse for my parents to embarrass me with their PDA. Twisted.

I was well aware that they were only a handful of us with hands-on parents. Most of my friends were being raised by their housekeepers and shit, but when they were here, even for those few hours, mom, Ms. Knows Everything, would fill that void. I’m proud as fuck of her for being who she is. I think I saw that same quality in Sian that day on the field with Carissa, that and her fine ass.

Speaking of which! “Babe where’s Carissa?” That’s something else I’d been slacking off on. I keep meaning to talk to the kid but something always comes up. I wasn’t sure what the deal was with her and her cheating ass old man, or if she even knew what was going on, but I knew Mandy had been fucking with her before this whole mess with Sian started. Damn, can’t go one day without thinking about that hag.

“She wasn’t at practice today I don’t think. Shit, I was supposed to talk to her too.” I was sorry I brought it up when I saw the worried look on her face. “Don’t sweat it baby she’ll be fine.” I’ll make sure of it. Maybe I should talk to dad because this mess was way over my head. I know how I’d feel if dad cheated on mom, but I’m a guy, I’d just knock his head off his shoulders.

Poor kid, she had a lot on her plate. I knew this because mom was like the fucking gossip pipeline in this town. Everybody was always telling her shit, and she was always sharing the PG version with me, who knows what she tells dad. I know Carissa’s mom had lost a baby, and that she wasn’t doing too well there for a little while, but mom said she was coming around lately.

I wouldn’t put it past Mandy and her sick ass to rub her affair with the kid’s dad in her face just for kicks, but I could never pin Carissa down long enough to find out. I couldn’t put it away entirely, but I let myself enjoy the evening with the assurance that tomorrow I’d make sure I talk to the kid.

Mom had laid out some of everything imaginable to eat and the guys and their girls were having a blast. Just like old times. Except better, because now I had my girl and she makes everything better.

“You take your meds sweetheart?” I pulled her under my arm as we watched Shane toss Tammy into the pool. Jared and ‘Red’ as he’d started calling Belle were off on a corner lounge in deep discussion about some shit. Knowing those two they could be discussing relativity.

Track had left to go back to wherever the fuck he’d come from with the assurance that he’d figure this shit out if no one else did. For some reason I believe him. He was gone again, but his girl Valerie was here looking lost and alone, fuck. I was supposed to be looking out for her too. “Hey isn’t your sleepover tomorrow night?”

“Yeah why? You and your pals aren’t invited.”

“Just stay your ass in the house unless you want a repeat of last time.”

She snorted and elbowed me in the ribs. “I’m serious Sian, do not leave your house for any damn reason you hear me?” I was planning on being there anyway but she didn’t need to know that. I wasn’t in the mood for one of her lectures, that’s why I wasn’t telling her of my plans. The girl could argue my ass to death.

“Keep your shorts on we’re just planning to stay in and gorge ourselves on junk food. I’m gonna go talk to Valerie make sure she has the right address.” Uh-huh, she ain’t slick, but I let her think she got away with it. I’ll call her on her shit later, for now I just wanted her to enjoy herself.

JACE

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F
or the rest of the night mom and dad were in and out talking shit to my friends and keeping us entertained. The atmosphere was the lightest it had been in a while. That could be on account of the fact that no one brought up the situation or even mentioned Mandy and her shit, and there were no cops knocking at the damn door. Best of all Sian was totally relaxed and she wasn’t faking it to keep my mouth shut.

If I could just figure out what the hell she had planned for tomorrow night then maybe I could relax too. I don’t think she realizes that I know her as well as I do, or the way her mind works. Being in love with someone kinda gives you some insight, makes you think only of the other person.

I know how I feel about what had happened to her, how I feel about anyone fucking with her. And the way Mandy has been coming after me lately, sending the cops to arrest me on some trumped up bullshit, I knew Sian’s placating me was all for show. So with that deduction, I knew she had to be planning to take care of the shit herself. It’s what I would do.

Dad had filed a complaint against the cops who were harassing me and their superiors had called them off my ass. They were pissed, at least one of them was, but who the fuck cares. There was no evidence that I’d done anything wrong and therefore no reason for them to be up my crack twenty-four seven, which is basically what their superiors had decided.

They weren’t allowed to come near me unless I committed a crime. Good, maybe now they can do their damn job and crawl the fuck outta my ass. Fucking assholes. I wasn’t done with Mandy by a long shot though. No matter what anyone else thinks, I know she had something to do with what happened to Sian. But what fucks with my head, what has me tied up in knots and willing to ring her fucking neck in broad daylight, is that she did it because of me.

Maybe if I told her why I’d dumped her nasty ass she would move the fuck on and get a clue, but I wouldn’t give her the satisfaction. I don’t know why she blames Sian anyway, we were done long before she moved here. But that’s just Mandy, she’s totally fucked in the head.

I pulled my thoughts back before they took over again and I find my ass back at the hospital with that twit’s neck in a vise. Sian was making the rounds with our friends, playing hostess. Too cute. Mom was still hovering around her like a mother hen without trying to be too obvious, but she wouldn’t be who she is if she didn’t. I’m gonna have to warn her off. I don’t want Sian thinking about this shit twenty-four seven. When she tries to remember she gets debilitating headaches, I’m not down with that shit.

I grabbed a bottle of water as I looked around at my friends who were laughing and talking shit. So much had changed in the last few weeks, most of it good. Jared and Shane were in love, I had new friends, people who’d been either too afraid of rejection, or too shy to approach me, and my boys in the past. People that I actually liked. Even the way I think these days was different. Never thought I’d be thinking marriage at my age, shit wasn’t even on my radar. Now I can’t imagine not having her at my side for the rest of my life.

Our whole dynamic had changed since the Claibornes arrived, and it was all for the better if you ask me. She made her way back to me and I nabbed her as soon as she reached my side, swinging her in the air, just so I could hear that tinkling laugh of hers again.

She wrapped her arms and legs around me and laid one on me. “Don’t start nothing you can’t finish babygirl.”

“Who says I can’t finish?” She nipped my nose.

“A yard full of people.”

“We could always sneak off. We haven’t been to the cottage in a while.” I looked off in the direction of the place where I took her the first time.

“Jace I was just kidding.”

“Too late.” She might be kidding but I wasn’t. I made sure no one was eyeballing us and snuck her around the house laughing her ass off.

“If you keep laughing like a loon they’ll hear us. Pipe down or I’ll do you right here.” She clapped her hand over her mouth to stem the flow of laughter as I hustled my ass across the grass to the cottage.

She reached for the light switch as soon as we cleared the door. “No lights.” I used the moonlight to make my way to the bedroom. I was careful not to drop her before reaching the bed and laying her down. “I’m still sweaty baby.” The others had cleaned up after practice but I didn’t want to leave her long enough to hit the showers.

“I don’t care.” She lifted her legs and wrapped them around my back pulling me down to her. I pressed my hard on into the heat between her thighs. Her skirt had ridden up a little and her pretty panties peeked out at me. They were soft and pink like her.

I ran my fingertips lightly over them. I don’t think I’ve ever touched her through her underwear before. I was always in too much of a hurry to get inside her to take the time. Now I teased her over the silky crotch and found her already wet for me.

“Look at me baby.” Her eyes were already at half-mast, her pupils dilated with lust.  She looked so young, so innocent, my heart squeezed. I wanted to say so much to her but now wasn’t the time. Instead I lowered my head and nipped her lip playfully, before licking it with my tongue. “Open your legs Sian.”

Instead of tearing her underwear in half, I pushed my hand beneath the waistband onto the light sprinkling of curls that were growing back after her shave. She opened her legs wider, making room for my hand. I found her clit and worked it with my finger, using some of her juice to soften the touch. “You’re so soft.”

I kissed my way along her cheek to her lips, letting my fingers drive into her over and over until her scent reached me. My heart was going wild in my chest. The thought that we could be missed any second, that someone could come calling for us, added to the excitement of the moment. Just a few hours ago I was thinking of doing her rough, now that I had her here, I just wanted to love her.

“Lift.” She lifted her ass off the bed so that I could pull her panties down and off  her legs and I moved in between them. This time I used my mouth on her, sinking my tongue deep inside. “How do you always taste so good?” It was true. Her taste was always like my own special blend of perfection. I’d never tasted anyone like her, they didn’t exist. I won’t tell her that because her mean ass might kick me in the balls, so it was my little secret. And to think, this was mine for the rest of my life.

“Jace.” Her voice trembled and her body tensed like she was about to cum already.

“Cum.” I pushed two fingers inside her while lick her clit, pressing down hard with my tongue. She came all over my hand and tried to pull what little hair I had out at the roots.

Now I was willing to go slow all night if it killed me. I was going to give my girl soft and tender, but then she did something that changed the game. Fucking female. As soon as she was calm again, even though she was breathing like she’d just finished a triathlon, she pushed up from her prone position and went after my shorts.

Poor me, I was still in a daze but that cleared up real quick when my little freak shoved my shorts to my knees, grabbed my cock and stuffed her face with it. “Oh shit. Sian?” Usually I have to tell my girl what to do, she’s new and still a little shy in some ways when it comes to sex. There was nothing shy about her now and my fucking heart was about to blow.

I was on my knees over her, she was half laying, with her elbow in the mattress holding her up as she swallowed my shit whole. She made hungry noises as she went after my dick like it was a meal. She teased me, letting me sit on her tongue before dragging me back into her throat. What the fuck had she and her girls been talking about? Bunch a freaks.

Her hand found my balls and I forgot how to think as she double-teamed me. She swallowed around my meat while fondling my nuts, then pushed me out of her mouth far enough to tease my cock slit with her tongue, before sucking me back in all the way again.

She did this over and over while I just looked down at her in amazement wondering what the hell had gotten into her. “I’m going to cum baby you better stop.” When she laughed around my cock that shit jumped and filled even more. I tried pulling out of her mouth at blast off but she fondled my balls and sucked harder. What the fuck?

She looked up at me with a smile and that’s all it took. Grabbing fistfuls of her hair, I shot off in her mouth and she took it all. “Damn baby.” I slipped my cock out of her mouth pulled her up and kissed her hard before pushing her to her back and following her down. “Whoa baby what was that?”

“Just a little thank you.”

“For what?”

“Oh just for being you.”

“I was going to give you a nice slow ride but after that all bets are off.”

“I don’t want slow.” She grinned and ran her knee over my bobbing cock while pulling my head down to hers.

Even her kiss was wilder now. I pushed her knee away and got between her thighs. I drove into her going deep with one stroke. She choked and clenched around me. Taking both her hands in mine, I laid them flat against the mattress over her head and lifted my chest away from hers.

With her body pinned only by my thighs and my cock I fucked into her hard enough to make the bed shake. “Show me your ring.” She lifted her hand and I saw the light reflected from the moonlight on the big ass diamond I’d put on her finger. Somehow seeing it there always makes me hard as fuck, and now was no different.

I lifted one of her legs over my hip and took her nipple between my teeth with the coldness of that ring pressing into my back, a constant reminder of who and what she was to me. Who knew an engagement ring could be so sexy?

I changed up between hard deep pounding and soft easy strokes. She started cumming from the combination and the sweet clenching of her soft pink flesh around my cock had my balls drawing up hard and tight. “I’m cumming inside you baby.”

“It’s okay I’m safe.” Her words were soft and breathy in my ear as I used the last of my strength to pound one out in her. “Fuck baby, you’re trying to kill me.” I eased out of her and dropped like a stone next to her, pulling her onto my sweaty chest. We were both breathing heavy, fighting for our next breath, but that didn’t stop me from tipping her chin and stealing what little we had left with a kiss.

“That was amazing Jace.”

“No baby, you were amazing. Shit, I don’t meant to be greedy but do you think you can do that every night for the next sixty years?”

“You liked it?”

“What’s not to like? What the hell got into you anyway? Seriously.”

“Like I told you, you’ve been so good to me I just wanted to say thank you.”

“Love the sentiment baby, but you don’t ever have to thank me. Especially not for doing what’s mine to do.” We laid in silence for a long time until the din of the voices next door drifted through the walls. It was time to go. I looked down at her in the moonlight and my heart did its dance.

“I love you squirt.” Sometimes the emotion just hits me out of nowhere, like now. Just a rush of heat and all the other crazy emotions, that went straight to the heart. And when she gave me back the words with those same things shining in her eyes, nothing else mattered.

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The buzzing in my head wouldn’t stop as the blood thumped in my ears. I did the stupid breathing exercises the doctor had said to do when this happened, but it wasn’t working. I needed some action, and I knew just what to do.

Dragging the goodie bag from under my bed I looked through everything one more time. Last time I had been too hasty. That stupid bitch could never get anything right. I don’t know why I’d listened to her in the first place. Now there were cops crawling all over the place and I’m afraid it’s only a matter of time before they look my way.

If only she’d died, then there wouldn’t be anyone alive who knew of my involvement. Sian couldn’t remember shit so I wasn’t worried on that front, but I still had a score to settle. That bitch thought she could use me and then toss me aside like I was nothing. I knew when she called that she was only using me, but there was something in it for me so I really didn’t give a damn. Now she was acting like she didn’t want anything to do with me, but she didn’t know who she was dealing with. Tomorrow I’ll show them all.

The thought was enough to calm me down some and I laid back across the bed. Anger burned bright in my chest as I tapped my fingers against it, but I knew now that it would get me nowhere. Like the therapist said, it was best to let the anger simmer; hold it just beneath the surface, before making a move. Only that dumb bitch and I differed on what those moves should be. After tomorrow they’ll be sorry they ever fucked with me in this town.