Wayward Son (Jensen Family #3) (17 page)

“How can my touching say, your arm turn you on?”

“Angel, I’m eighteen, cling film and lino turn me on
,
” he grinned “I’m basically a walking
hormone
.
”

She laughed
,
“Ok, so we can
stay friends, goo
d friends but I should be strictly
hands off
?
”

“Yeah, we can at least give it a go, see how it works
,
” he selected his clothes for the day
then went to the window to open the curtains
.
“
L
ooks like
it’s
going to be a nice day
,
” he said over
his shoulder.
Angel came to stand beside him.

“Hmm, it does, do we have time to stop by my house? I need to change my
underwear
.
”

Gavin glanced at his watch
.
“Shit, no we
don’t, if we don’t get a move on we’re going to be late, use one of my t-shirts
,
” he went to a draw
er, opened it and let her go through his shirts
.
“Look
,
” he said
,
“I’ve got a new pack of boxers, they’re
the wrong size for me, I know it’s not ideal but you can use them
.
”

“That’s cool, I prefer boy boxers
,
” she took the pack
.
“Ok if I borrow
this shirt?
” she held up his AC/DC shirt
.
“I have one the same so hopefully Quinn
won’t notice
.
”

“Sure, no problem
,
” he answered
.
“You can use my bathroom, there’s a new
toothbrush in the cabinet
.” H
e was stripping down to his Calvin Klein boxers as he talked
,
“I’ll
use the
family bathroom
.
”

Angel went through to Gavin’s en suite bathroom
with the image of Gavin in just his boxers implanted firmly in her mind
. It was tiled from floor to ceiling in stark white tiles with deep red
and grey towels hanging from a wall mou
nted towel
heater. She opened the bathroom cabinet to reveal shaving cream and a large
amount of condoms; she smiled and shook her head, removed the new toothbrush
and proceeded with her morning routine.

Gavin was dressed and brushing his hair when she cam
e out of the bathroom
.

“This is going to raise a few eyebrows, thanks
,
” he turned to her and moved his hair
from the left side of his neck to reveal the love bite.

“Yeah, sorry about that
.
”

“It’s ok, good times
,
” he grinned
.
“Your phone was jumping
.
”

She
picked up her phone from the bedside table
and read the text message.

“It’s from Quinn, he wants to know where I am
,
” she told Gavin
.
“What am I going to tell him about last
night?”

“That you and I were studying, it got
late,
I
’d
had
a couple of
drink
s
and
couldn’t drive you home so you stayed in
the guest room. I, on the other hand
,
spent the night banging some ditzy
blonde I picked up at the health club
,
which will explain the love bite if he happens to see it
,
” Gavin answered
.
“Flat out lie I know
,
but he might react to it better than I
got drunk, threw myself at Gavin and let him cop a feel
,
” he finished
.

“You are awful
,
” she laughed
.
“But it might just work
.
”
H
er stomach rumbled
.
“I’m starving
,
”

“We’ll  grab some toast on the way out
,
” he told her
making his way to the door and following her down the stairs.

In the kitchen Suzanne was eating cereal, Paul had just fi
nished spreading peanut b
utter onto his toast when Gav
in and Angel came in. Grinning and totally pushing his luck with Paul who
was hov
ering by the toaster.

“Stick some toast on for us would you Dad, we’re a bit short on time
,
”
He
grabbed some apple juice from the fridge and poured them both a glass
.

“Have mine, I’ll make some more
,
” Paul offered.

Gavin looked at the offered plate and the
thickly spread Peanut Butter.

“You know I
can’t
eat that, I’m watching my weight
,
” he answered Paul, Angel however, took the plate from the older man
.

“Thanks
,
” she murmured
biting into the toast
.
“Since when do
you need to watch your weight?” she asked
Gavin.

“Rugby season is nearly over and I’m a little too heavy for the swimming
season, if I want to strip some seconds off my lap times I need to drop a few
pounds to make the most of my speed
,
” he explained.

“I didn’t think you were actually serious
,
” sh
e
answered.

“He takes his sport very seriously
,
” Paul put in.

“You’re not exactly fat
,
” Angel
observed.

“I know but I am too heavy, I need to tone up a bit more but in order to
do that I have to drop some weight as muscle weighs more than fat
.
” Gavin grabb
ed
the toast as it came out of the toaster and put low fat spread on it
.
“Novak and James will be here later
Dad, is it still ok for them to stay?”

“Yeah, I’ll have the housekeeper make up a couple of rooms
.
”

“Great, we’d better make a move
.
” Gavin told An
gel.

Once in the car and on their way to college, Angel finally answered
Quinn’s text, telling him that she was on her way to college and nothing else
.

“Who are Novak and James?”
She asked, putting her phone in her
bag.

“Novak is my best bud,
practically l
ike
my brother. H
e knows everything about me, I know
everything about him, we’ve had some really good times together and really bad
ones, he’s my rock, the guy I can turn to for anything, he’s one hell of a
guitarist too
.
T
he girls at my last school used t
o call him The Blond God, y
ou’ll see why when you meet him.
W
e grew up together, I couldn’t be closer
to him if he was actually my brother. James is the quiet one, he’s very
discreet, very good at keeping secrets, an awesome drummer, which is how I met
him, he join
ed the band
Novak and I were in.
H
e’s just a solid, stand up kind of guy and the keeper of my conscience.
They are both great guys
.
”

“They sound fun. So, if I want to know your deepest darkest secrets, I
should ask Novak?” she asked.

“Yeah, alt
hough he’ll probably just give you
some bullshit version of the truth. If you want to know my deepest darkest
secrets, you should just ask me
.
”

“I’m building up to it
,
” she answered
as they pulled into the college car park
.
“Crap, Quinn’s waiting
.
”

“It’ll
be ok, stick to the story
.
” Gavin assured.

Exiting the car, they strolled towards Quinn. As they drew near Gavin
murmured to Angel that he’d see her in History and moved to go up the stairs
next to the wall where Quinn was sitting.

Quinn rose as Angel stop
ped in front of him; he
reached out and put a hand on Gavin’s chest, stopping him dead.

“What are you doing with
him
?” Quinn
demanded of his girlfriend.

“He gave me a lift here, I actually stayed in his spare room last night,
we’d had a bit to drink while
we were studying, Gavin
didn’t want to chance driving so I crashed there
.
”

Quinn turned to Gavin
.
“If I find out
you have touched her I’ll kill you
,
” he threatened.

“Take your hands off me
.
” Gavin snarled.

“Now guys, there’s no need for this, Quinn, Gavin
had a girl with him all night, I was in the spare room
.
”

“Yeah
,
” Gavin chimed
in
.
“Sorry if we kept you awake Angel, I
didn’t realise she was a screamer until it was too late
.
”
H
e stepped back, away from Quinn’s hand
.
“Do not touch me again if you value yo
ur hands
,
” he
warned
him before making a hasty exit.

“For God’s sake Quinn, do you have to be so bloody melodramatic?” Angel
huffed as they made their way into the college.

“Me? Melodramatic? I didn’t know where you were, you stormed off for no
good reason
yesterday, you could have been lying dead
in a ditch somewhere, I was worried
.
” Quinn countered.