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Easton
Cole’s in bed after a long day at the zoo. He passed out fast. I grab the monitor from my room and head for the kitchen intending to grab snacks so we can hit the game room for our workout and a movie. I texted Luci some photos of Cole, but she’s in the middle of her girls‘ night. No response yet, which is what I expected.
Jackson and Becker follow me. “You have another date yet?” Jackson prods me as he catches
me checking my phone again.
Becker grins. “Yeah, does she know she’s off the dating market?” I elbow him.
“Haven’t had time to get to any of that. I overwhelmed her enough yesterday.” I say honestly.
Kingston already stands in the kitchen with Baker. He eyes us meaningfully. “Your mother has
company again tonight.” He says lowly.
“Again?” Becker asks.
The sound of heels coming our way makes me want to ignore them. It’s probably Vivienne. I
hear Becker curse and turn fast. It’s even worse than Vivienne.
Ambra Dennis
My rebound girlfriend from hell.
She stands there smiling coyly at me. She’s what you’d call visually stunning. Tall, around five eleven, and leggy like a model. She’s got a larger chest than most models and her face is flawless. With big green eyes and thick, red hair that hangs right to her shoulders, she commands second glances. Makeup is usually perfect along with her designer clothing. Tonight she’s wearing a jade green silk dress that’s strapless and it drapes around her to her knees. Gold heels with straps that wrap up her feet and around her ankles seem ridiculous for visiting my mother. Like I said, stunning visually unless you know her even remotely and realize her beauty is a mask hiding a monster. She’s hideous in my opinion, and I honestly feel
bile rise every time I recall dating her.
“Hi Sexton, how are you?” Her voice comes out seductive and all I can muster is revulsion at
the cringe nickname.
“Ugh, we all just ate so keep s**t like that to yourself.” Becker growls at her. He hated her not long after we started dating.
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She gives him a tight smile, laying her hands on her hips. “Becker, still a mouthy bastard aren’t you?”
“At least I use my mouth for wit and not what you do with yours.” He fires back coldly.
And the mask slips showing the temperamental b***h she is. “No wonder why no one wants you and only your brother.”
“Why the f**k are you here? Does hell know you got out again? I’m sure you don’t have permission to be this close to normal people?” I ask coldly.
“I came to see you. I heard you might be missing me.” My mother, she has such great taste in
people. Ambra exaggerates her hip movements to come closer causing my lip to curl. She’d
shoved Cole away from her angrily because he got his sticky fingers on her dress. He was two
and it was her first time to see him. When he hit the floor, she almost died at multiple hands.
Jackson nudges me. “You’ve been missing misery and despair? Here I thought you were pretty
happy.”
“Funny…. Always that brotherly solidarity. Where’s the kid tonight? Does the little dormouse
take him home with her?” Her bright red lips pull back in a sinister smirk as my blood runs
cold. Luci’s demeanor last night….
“You saw them?” My voice is icy.
She examines her nails idly. “Her and the boy. He’s grown a lot. You chose well. The maternal
type who shielded him behind herself from me when I tried to say hello. She was spitting nails
at me with those ordinary eyes and had the gall to tell me not to speak to him. Your mother
made sure she knows her place. Though she still defied her and sent him to Baker. Afraid of
what he’d hear. I told him I’d be seeing a lot of him soon. He could be advantageous for photo
ops.”
My mind seriously debates if it’s acceptable to hit her. Female or not.
“Step the f**k off Ambra! If you don’t, I will go see what damage a hockey stick and a few flying pucks can do to that precious convertible of yours out there.” Kingston breathes out
furious. He doesn’t take threats to Cole well at all.
“Whatever. Your mother won’t allow that. Easton, you should think about what we could offer each other right now.” Do some women drink delusional coffee daily?
“You mean like unending darkness from you and the overwhelming urge from me to shove you
off the nearest cliff? Get the f**k out or I’ll make sure my father takes care of any future you
hope to have no matter where you go.” I don’t often use Dad, but it’s justified here.
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The mask slips totally off now as she sneers before raging. “You’ll wish you had me on your
arm. I’m the most up and coming model in the U.S. right now.”
Becker scoffs. “Not sure if anyone told you but it’s a big, big world out there, Ambra. And easy to travel from continent to continent these days. Why should Easton limit himself to the U.S.?”
Jackson folds his arms. “And if you’re so up and coming, what do you need Easton for? Maybe
his last name.”
Kingston glares at her. She tried to seduce him after we were together which went over like a ton of bricks. “Sounds like she might not be able to live on her up and coming budget.”
Ambra definitely has expensive tastes and her father had cut her credit cards up more than
once.
She glares at him as he laughs and attempts to walk out haughtily, only to almost slip on the
floor as she turns into the foyer.
“Sorry Miss Dennis, I didn’t realize anyone was coming and I had to mop up a sticky spot.” Baker says mildly eliciting Becker to howl with laughter. I wait to hear the door shut, knowing
where I need to go.
Becker closes his eyes before talking in a high pitched voice. “Ahhh, now this house is clean.
All evil spirits have left.” He waves his hand in front of him grinning.
“Listen for Cole for me. Need to check on Luci.” I can only imagine what nonsense they told
her last night. No wonder she was subdued after dealing with a dragon and a damned
succubus the devil wouldn’t want around.
Jackson waves me off with an urgent look. “Why are you still here? Move!”
I toss him the monitor and sprint to the garage. Struggling with staying under the speed limit, I debate calling her. In the end, I wait. Might get no answer. Her light peeks through the blinds in the front window. I’m buying her curtains tomorrow so no one knows when she’s home. “Luci.”
I knock on the door, calling her name.
She opens it, staring at me worriedly. “Is something wrong?”
I push her back inside and lock the door behind us. “You met Ambra.”
Her face hardens at that name. “Met is probably the wrong word, Easton. Did you have a type for outrageously beautiful models?”
“She’s a f*****g hag, Luci.”
Her nose scrunches up in confusion. “Is there a second one? Because the one I met is
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stunning. Even I could see why you’d be attracted to her.”
“No. She was an angry rebound that shouldn’t have happened. I wish I’d never touched her or
taken her anywhere. She upset you.” I can see it. Which means whatever she said hit a nerve.
“She upset Cole. Took a while to convince him she was lying..”
I cup her cheek, forcing her to look at me. “She upset you. What did she say?”
“After she attacked Cole, she asked me if I’d tried crawling into your bed yet. Warned me not to
let any slight attention from you turn my head because I’m an unattractive dormouse and
there was no way after women like her, you’d ever remotely be attracted to the ordinary help.”
She says softly barely meeting my eyes.
“Luci, do you think I don’t want you compared to her?”
“It’s not…that wasn’t what I thought. But you obviously wanted her at some point. She said you
dated for months.” She lays out quickly. “Seeing her and the others, you and I don’t make
much sense. Not that I’m even sure there is a you and I. I mean, I shouldn’t presume just
because Friday night…you might not want anything else to do with me…..fleeting attraction due to availability or something….” She begins rambling and I run my fingers along her ear to bring her focus back to me. “Luciiii.” I call her name softly. When I see her eyes clear and meet
mine again, I decide I need to go all–in to curb her doubts about me.
“Three months with her and I was a miserable ass when I asked her out initially and then even
worse later being involved with her. Revenge rebound and I’m not remotely proud of that fact. Looking back, I’m ashamed of myself, sweetness. She’s a vapid witch that wishes I wanted her a fraction of how I want you. We make sense, Luci, and I’ll tell you why at the risk of
scaring the f**k out of you. I can’t stop thinking about you. Every time you leave, I have to restrain myself from following you. Talk myself out of keeping you with me because you make me feel hopeful for myself again. The way you care about others, especially Cole, it affected even me. Forced me to open up to someone again. And I’m so damned attracted to you, I can’t think straight sometimes. You haunt my dreams and when you’re around, I want nothing more
than to kiss you senseless before I strip your clothes off and take you
to my
bed.”
I crash my lips to hers and thrust my tongue inside her mouth to kiss her desperately; letting my feelings for her take over my usual control. She responds to me instantly and I continue to dominate her mouth, kissing her over and over again. Lifting her up, I wrap her legs around my waist. Pressing her back against the wall, I rock my hips against her knowing she can feel how hard I am. I only break away to kiss down the front of her throat and down as far as the opening on her sweater allows. I move back up and kiss her hard once more before backing
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off to talk.
“Still think I don’t want you?” I kiss down the side of her neck as I wait for her answer; nipping her enough she hisses, but not in pain. “If Cole wouldn’t ask questions, I’d mark your neck up and down, so everyone knows you’re taken.”
“Taken?” She questions me and I nod.
“I’m dating you, which means I don’t see anyone else. And I don’t share sweetness. What’s mine is mine only. I don’t move slow usually and only did to not scare you. Understand?” I stare down at her possessively.
She stares at me in wonder and not an ounce of fear. “Luci, do you agree? Only me and only you.”
“Ye…yes.”
“What I said doesn’t scare you…” I muse and she opens her mouth to speak. “Wait Luci. I’m guessing people label you as dumb or timid because you pause to respond making sure you didn’t miss something or were unfocused. You worry and pause and they mistake that pause
completely. You’re smart as a whip and not timid. Am I right, sweetness?” I know I am. And it’s
got to drive her insane being thought of so wrongly.
“Yes. How did you know?”
“Because I’ve heard the answers you give; your witty comebacks. If people would pay attention
to you, they’d see it too. You won’t doubt I want you again, Luci.”
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Easton might be a tad possessive if you hadn’t already noticed his reaction to Banning before. Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate. I wish you a lovely holiday. I may not update tomorrow but will be back for sure the next day.
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