In A Heartbeat (3 page)

“Well ok then, I guess, uh… it was nice to meet you. I will see you around.”

I begin to turn to walk away as he
takes a step forward and then slowly edges me back against the wall behind me. His hands grab me on each side of my hips, and he lowers his mouth to mine. He begins to very slowly brush his lips over mine.

I see his eyes darken as he stares into my eyes with only a few inches separating us.
He exhales and closes his eyes. His hands glide up my sides and he softly cradles my head in both hands. He starts to move his thumbs slowly and I am completely lost in this moment.

He opens his mouth just slightly as
the tip of his tongue slides over my lips from side to side. I am watching his sensual movements and waiting patiently for him to kiss me. Talon opens his eyes and brushes his lips across my forehead as he pulls away and exits out the door down the hall.

I can’t move. My body is frozen in this spot. I lift my fingers to my lips just a
s I see Ivy looking at me.

“That was freaking hot! My heart is beating out of my chest from watching you guys. Ev,
did he get your phone number?”

“No. He never said a word to me. I am so confused. He seems into me, but hesitant about something. I really like him Ivy.”

“I can tell. He obviously likes you too or he wouldn’t have attacked you like that.”

Chapter Two

Talon

This girl is getting to me. Can I do this? Damn it. I just need to get my ass in that bus. If Taron would
quit thinking the dressing room is his personal fuck pad, I could have just regrouped in there. I haven’t had an urge to get to know a girl in a long time. I can’t even seem to speak when I am around her. I feel like this girl is going to rip to shreds the wall that I have built around myself.

I hate feeling like this. I was ju
st so used to being with Nicole. We dated for almost three and a half years, but we knew each other since we were kids. We graduated high school together and moved here as freshmen two years ago. We were inseparable. I thought I loved her. It seems I didn’t even know what love was.

She had a rough time before we started dating. Her parents were going through a terrible divorce and she started taking pain pills to ‘deal’ with it. She never would tell her parents that she was taking pills.
I was able to help her get past it our junior year in high school. I was at her house enough to go through her things and make sure she wasn’t taking pills again. She seemed happy that we were dating and her parent’s divorce was finalized.

Last year when we moved here, our relationship became even stronger. I was
even considering the thought of moving in with her once we finished our sophomore year in college. She was taking birth control pills. I am now very aware that they are not 100% effective. When I found out she was pregnant, I’m not going to lie, it scared the shit out of me. But as the days went by, I realized that we had created a life together. It really hit me hard the day we got to hear the heartbeat. I knew at that moment I would do anything for my baby. That is the day I realized what love is. The due date should be tomorrow.

“What are you doing out here brother?”
Holden snuck up behind me.

“Just getting some air. Where is everyone? I thought we were going to finish this night off at the house.”

“They are coming. Hope you are ready, this bus will be full tonight.”

Of course it will be. I need to get the hell out of here. The damn air is suffocating me. I have been carrying this weight since the day I lost everything.

“Talon, are you alright? You look pissed off about something.”

“Yea, I just need to get away from this place.
It reminds me of that fucking horrible night.”

“I will go round everyone up.”
Holden knows I don’t really want to talk about it. I am tired of thinking about it. I am tired of hurting over it. I will never recover from it.

“Hey
,” I hear a soft voice from behind me. Eaven has found me. I look over at her.

“I’m sorry, I should leave you alone. I didn’t mean to make you angry.” She lowers her head and starts to walk away. Angry? She didn’t make me angry.

Shit, she must have read the expression on my face and assumed it was something she did. “You don’t have to leave, I am not mad at you.”

She stops and turns to look at me
. I can’t seem to do anything except look into her eyes. I want to crawl inside her soul and stop feeling. If I could just stop this pain for a minute everything would be better. She walks up to me and grabs my hand and places it on her heart. She closes her eyes and wraps both of her arms around my hand and hugs it tight against her chest. I can feel her heart beating as fast as mine is. She doesn’t even know me and I can tell she sees my pain. She leans her body against mine and we stand there.

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Eaven

He is hurting. I just want to take it all away for him. I can feel my heart beating so fast. If I lean into his chest, I bet I will be able to feel his beating. I can feel him tense up. I don’t think he is breathing. I squeeze his arms a little tighter and nuzzle my face against one of his hands. Finally, he exhales and leans his head on mine. We are not saying a word, but saying so much to each other at the same time. We stand like this until we hear people coming out of the club. He takes his hands from mine, but only moves back a couple of inches so that we aren’t touching. Holden is following everyone trying to herd them all to the bus. I see Ivy falling back with Holden.

“We should probably get on the bus before everyone else. Otherwise, you might just have to sit on someone’s lap.”
Talon warns me.

We walk toward the bus. I don’t know if I should try to sit with him or not? I decide
that I will lead the way so that I can sit first and see what he does. This bus is just a huge RV that used to be my aunt and uncle’s. Luke took it over as his band bus, and apparently the drunk cab for the club. I can’t even imagine trying to drive it.

I walk to the very back and sit on the left side
of the bed. Talon follows me back there and sits with me. He smiles and says “This should be interesting.”

What is he talking about? Luke takes
a seat beside us along with a cute little redhead. Asher files in and sits at the table area with his arm candy. The bus fills with people I have never met. I hear Holden yelling, “Taron, get in the bus before I leave you here.”

Taron makes this grand entrance. He stops midway and glares at me. He prowls towards us and says
, “Lil bro, what have you brought me?”

Talon quickly says
, “Not a damn thing.”

“This is my
bed. Everyone knows this.”

Talon stands and looks his brother in the face and says
, “Not tonight.”

Holden
grabs Taron by the shoulder. “Sit your ass down. We are just going home. You can sit somewhere else.”

Great I have chosen to sit in the
bed of the self-absorbed horny twin. How many body fluids are in my vicinity from prior ‘rides’? I need a shower.

I notice Ivy in the front of the bus right behind the driver
’s seat. Taron sits with her. I feel really bad for making Ivy have to deal with him. She won’t mind sacrificing since she knows exactly where I am and who I am with. She makes a great wing man. It is kind of nice to give her a break from always being the pilot.

Holden
finally gets everyone situated and starts up this beast. Luke decides he is going to stare down Talon for sitting with me.

“What is your deal, Luke?”
This is awkward since Talon is sitting between us and I have to lean over him to talk to Luke.

“Why aren’t you sitting with Ivy where you belong?”

“What are you talking about? I can sit where I want.”

“
What made you choose to sit here?” Luke says while glaring at Talon.

“Luke get over yourself, I am not dealing with you tonight.”
I say, hoping he will drop his whole demeanor.

“The hell you are not. You will listen to me.” Luke snaps back at me and I can feel Talon tense up.

“Luke, talk to me some other time. I want to enjoy the rest of the night. I don’t want to fight with you. Please don’t try to be my big brother and save me from myself. You were just telling me earlier that I don’t have any guts and I need to live a little.”

I can see Luke struggling with something. He wants to say something to me, but pulls back. I don’t know if it is because Talon is his friend and he is trying to decide what to say or what is going on with him.

Talon looks at Luke and says “Don’t worry. I won’t hurt her.”

Luke frowns and says “I guess I should be glad you didn’t decide to sit with Taron back here. I would physically remove you from this bed myself.”

“The fact that Taron usually sits here, makes me w
ant to physically remove myself.” Both guys laugh at me.

I s
coot back and enjoy the rest of the ride. I decide to twist open the little window so the wind is blowing on my face and through my hair. I look over and notice that Talon is resting his head on the wall behind us and the wind is hitting him as well. It is a perfect cool breeze that is very refreshing after the heated moments of tonight.

After we make a couple of stops to let
some people out, we get to the Walker house. I can tell there has been some female influence on the décor in their house. Talon is showing me around. They have a decent sized kitchen with an island in the middle. There is a small table on one side of it. Their living room has a giant TV with large speakers on each side. I also notice game controllers sprawled out on the floor in front of it. There are three couches lining the walls in this room. I notice everyone is going to the backyard and decide I need to find Ivy.

“I should probably find Ivy.”
I say, thinking the tour has ended.

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Talon

“I guess I will show you my bedroom later then.” I want to spend more time with Eaven. She is gorgeous and I miss spending time with a girl. I want to feel more of her softness against my skin.

“Let’s find Ivy first and then I would love for you to show me your room.” She seems nervous and intrigued at the same time.

“She is probably out back with everyone else. I will show you the way.” I grab her hand in mine and lead her to the backyard.

“OH MY GOD
, Ev, they have a hot tub!” Ivy squeals at Eaven when she sees her.

“Are you doing alright
, Ivy?” Eaven says as we close in on her.

“Yes”
she replies slowly. I can tell Ivy is curious.

“I am going to spend time with Talon in his room for a bit. Will you be ok out here?”
Ivy is smiling at us. I can tell she is a fan of whatever it is we have going on.

“Don’t you dare worry about me!
You go and enjoy yourself. I will be just fine out here.”

“I am sorry you got stuck with
Taron on the bus.” Eaven seems genuinely sorry for making her friend sit by my brother, who if I remember right, Ivy slipped away with at the club. What is up with that?

“Don’t be. I rather enjoyed
Holden putting Taron in his place every time he got out of line. I will tell you all about it tomorrow.”

“Sounds good.”
Eaven says as I pull her hand toward me. We start back into the house and Luke gives me the glare down. I nod to let him know that his message was received.

We enter my room and I close the door. She seems a little timid. It is taking everything I have not to rip her clothes off of her. I am positive it wouldn’t take much for me to see her tits. I want to feel every inch of her body.

“You have a drum set in your bedroom!” Eaven says pulling me away from my savage thoughts. “You will have to teach me to play sometime.”

“I can give you a little lesson right now if you want.” I smile because I have a vision of her sitting on my lap as I guide her through the movements.

“Ok.”

I take a seat on my stool and pat my leg for her to sit. She smiles at me and slowly encourages herself to sit on my lap. Now if I could just get her to turn around and straddle me this would be even better. I lean in and inhale. Damn. Her hair smells good. She is undoing me. I am already getting
hard and we haven’t even started.

“Our first lesson will be the bass drum
s. My kit has two so you are learning to play double time. You will use the footplates on the floor to control the beaters that will strike each of the drums. Place your feet on those pedals. Push up and down when you want to strike the drums.” She does what I say and she starts beating the drums uncontrollably. Talk about chaos. I am thinking this is not going to be near as hot as I first imagined.

“Hold up.
It is the rhythm for the entire band. Imagine counting.”

“She slows to a one, two beat.”

Thump Thump