Undone: A New Adult College Bad Boy Romance (Mature Young Adult Fun Contemporary Romance) (45 page)

Chapter 2

Kyle and Nate stayed with me until closing time, and even then they insisted on walking me home. “I’m fine. I walk home all the time.”

“No, let us walk with you, please.”

I opened my mouth to protest, closed it and shrugged. “Alright. If you really want to.”

“We do.” Nate beamed as he pulled the door open for the two of us and we stepped out into the night air. I pulled my fake leather jacket over my shoulders as a shiver escaped me. I led the way towards my place.

“So you live with your parents you said?”

“Yea, there’s not much real estate here for rent and I just don’t have enough saved up for me to feel comfortable going out on my own, though they spend half the year in another country so it’s pretty much like it’s my own place. They’re away right now.” I added in case they wondered.

“It must get lonely.”

I shrugged. “I don’t mind. I’m not much of a social person anyways.”

We walked together in silence for the rest of the way home, not that it was very a very long walk. We headed up the front steps and I pulled my set of keys out from my pocket.

“Thank you, for walking me home and for standing up for me earlier.” I wasn’t sure how I was going to face those guys again… but I’d have to eventually- or you could just leave now. Go traveling. I reminded myself.

“Would you guys like to come in for a cup of coffee, or tea? Or something stronger?”

The two men exchanged a look. “Sure.”

I pushed the front door open and they followed me inside.

“You’ll have to excuse the mess a little. I… well honestly I really hate cleaning.” I kicked my boots off and padded through the living room into the kitchen. “Are you guys staying in town for the night?”

“No, we stopped in at the hotel down the street but they were booked, we’ll drive until we find somewhere else to stay, or just crash in the car.”

I opened my mouth to tell them they could stay here, but… that wasn’t a smart idea was it? They’d saved me, that much was true but the fact of the matter is that they were two random men, and werewolves at that. I probably shouldn’t have even invited them inside. I bit my lip as I put the kettle on and turned my attention to them.

“You can stay here for a while if you need to.”

“Thanks Sarah.”

I shrugged. I didn’t get lonely really, but it was nice to have these guys around.

“So if you don’t mind me asking, what happened to you two?”

“You mean how did we become werewolves?”

“Yea.”

It was a touchy subject for some people, others didn’t care at all. I wondered how these guys would react to it.

“I don’t remember.” Kyle shrugged. “It happened when I was little, my mom said we were camping and I went off to play in the woods. I came back around nightfall with a bite mark in my leg. My parents freaked but it had already begun to heal, to scar even. They were so scared they didn’t take me to the hospital; instead they waited to see if I’d heal all the way up.”

“Did you?”

“Yes.” He laughed softly. “I woke up the next morning right as rain.”

“Wow.” My brow furrowed. I couldn’t begin to imagine how they must have felt when they saw him. “Then what?”

“Well, a month later… the full moon and… well it wasn’t pleasant, let’s just leave it at that.” He forced a smile of his lips.

I gave him a quick nod. Of course I wasn’t going to pry. The kettle popped and I rushed to pour us each a mug of tea.

“What about you Nate?”

“I was attacked a couple years ago.” He didn’t say anything else and I didn’t prompt him to. Instead I handed them each a piping hot cup of tea and nodded to the sugar on the table. “Milk is in the fridge.” They nodded to let me know they’d heard me.

“Where’s your bathroom?”

“Just down the hall.” I pointed towards it. “Second door on the right.”

Kyle nodded and set his coffee down on the counter. Nate and I locked gazes.  Felt my cheeks flush. “I hope I didn’t overstep any bounds. “

“You didn’t.” He took a sip of his coffee.

“It must be hard.”

“It is, but Kyle helps a lot with that. It’s nice to have someone who knows who, what, you really are and still accepts you.” His tone sounded like he was thinking about the past. I bit my lip and stepped towards him.

“There must be some good things about it.” As I came to a stop in front of him I realized just how close I’d gotten to him.

My body burned, and it wasn’t because of the hot mug of tea I was holding. His eyes didn’t move away from mine.

“There are a few perks.” He admitted with a smile.

As the smile flashed over his face my heart skipped a beat. It was gorgeous. I bit my lower lip, wondering what it would be like to kiss him. Judging by the look on his face he was thinking the same thing. His eyes roamed over my body. A body I suddenly realized was still in my ugly work uniform.

My cheeks flushed as I cleared my throat. “It’s ugly, eh?” I motioned to it.

He shook his head. “No. I think you look cute in it.” His cheeks turned bright pink.

My heart skipped a beat.

My ears perked as I heard something. We weren’t alone. I’d forgotten. I stepped away from him quickly, regretting the fact that it wasn’t just the two of us; regretting that I had to step away.

It was too late. Kyle already stood in the doorway, his eyes locked on us.

I opened my mouth to say something, but it was too late.

Something pounded against my door. My pulse quickened- I honestly didn’t think my heart could race much faster- as I turned to the door.

Kyle stepped forward.

“Do you smell that?”

“Yes.”

“Smell what?” I took a deep breath. I couldn’t smell anything. “What are you talking about?”

“Decayed flesh.”

“But not dead.” Nate said.

“Vampires.” I didn’t need to think about it to know what they were talking about it. I raced to the living room and pulled open the coffee table. I grabbed the garlic water.

Vampires were common out here, we had garlic hanging above the door but they must have found a way around it. I swallowed dryly.

“Sarah, go upstairs. We will deal with this for you.”

“No.” I wasn’t a little girl. I was going to fight my own damn fights.

“Sarah!” A male voice called from outside. “Sarah, come see me. I wasn’t done with you.”

My mouth fell open. I hadn’t been wearing my name tag when I slapped him. How did he find out my name?

Kyle and Nate turned to me.

“You really should go upstairs.” Nate agreed with his friend.

“No.” I shook my head. “I’m not going to run away from him.” I held the garlic water in my hand as I reached for the knife that had been boiled in it. Another staple most houses had in the area- vampires were really common.

The two men looked at each other than shrugged. “I’m not going to try and control her.” Kyle said.

“Nope.” Nate agreed. “Let’s go kill this son of a bitch.”

They stepped towards the door.

***

Seconds ago I’d wanted to hit my best friend. I was trying to decide if I should kiss her or not and she pops up. Jealousy written all over his face. I just wasn’t sure if he was jealous of me or her.

Now here I was about to stare down a vampire with him, and I was pretty sure any hard feeling he had towards what he’d just seen were about to go into the vampire. “Are you ready?” I asked. The change threatened to take over already.

Kyle nodded. I turned to Sarah. Despite the fact that she refused to go upstairs and hide she looked scared. “Have you ever seen a werewolf Sarah?”

She shook her head.

“Well, you’re about to see two. Don’t worry; we’ll still have… most of our control. We won’t hurt you.” The last four words were a promise and one I intended on keeping, even if it meant my own life.

My fingers curled around the door handle as Kyle reached out for the deadbolt. Our eyes locked and I nodded.

He ripped the deadbolt aside and I yanked the door open.

I was surprised to see only one of them; I wasn’t surprised to see his fangs at the ready. He lunged towards me.

Chapter 3

I stood in the kitchen watching what was unfolding. The vampire faced down both werewolves, quickly tossing one to the side and turned to the other one. The change had already begun to take over and

I was having a hard time figuring out which one was which. I’m pretty sure the one the vampire had his hands on was Kyle, at least his fur was pretty black if you asked me.

The vampire tossed him into the wall. I cringed. Mom’s going to kill me. I thought as I took a deep breath. The vampire turned his attention to me.

He smirked. “Good idea bringing a couple of guard dogs home with you, but it was a waste of time… and their lives. It’s a shame you’re going to get them killed.” He stepped towards me.

I took a deep breath trying to control my breathing. I’d never actually faced down a vampire before. My mind raced trying to remember everything I’d been taught. Aim for the neck, never for the heart. Garlic in the mouth works too. Whatever you do never let them bite you- anywhere. It doesn’t just have to be the neck. I swallowed dryly, licked my lips trying to restore some moisture to the suddenly dry skin and stared at the man stepping towards me.

I guess this will teach me to be careful who I hit in the future.

“What’s wrong? You’re not nearly as spunky as you were at the restaurant.” He laughed.

My fingers clutched the knife in my hands as he came closer and closer. This was it. I lunged towards him knowing that this was life or death.

The blade connected with his flesh. I grimaced at the sound of it, rushing away from him.

A growl behind him. My eyes locked on the wolf flying through the air, by now fully transformed.

I stumbled over my own feet and felt, my ass hitting the floor hard. I grimaced but couldn’t look away from the wolf. He landed on the back of the vampire, pinning the creature down with ease. The vampire yelled, trying to break free. A sharp bark and the other wolf barked back as he limbered to his feet and limped towards the vampire. He threw the wolf off him and rolled to his feet, he lunged towards the black wolf. I whimpered as I watched them fall to the ground in a heap. The wolf yelped, the vampire cried in pain.

The brown haired wolf gained his feet, glanced at me and then stepped towards the heap of two men- no monsters- fighting.

I stepped towards them too. There was no way Nate was going to be able to separate them two. It would be too dangerous if he tried to help his friend, but I could. I unscrewed my garlic water, thankful my family always made garlic water instead of holy water. The vampire looked up at me. With one hand he reached out and grabbed my neck. I gasped, suddenly not being able to breath. Come on! My mind screamed. I reached out with the bottle, his eyes widened as his mouth opened. I dumped the water over him.

He cried out, letting go of my throat. I stumbled back, trying to put distance between us as I gasped for breath. The wet wolf snapped at the vampire’s throat. I grimaced closing my eyes just in time, but I couldn’t plug my ears.

My stomach turned as I felt my dinner rise into my throat, threatening to come all the way up. I swallowed hard hoping that I could keep it down as I hear flesh being torn from a body.

I squeezed my eyes shut so tight I started seeing white, but it didn’t help. Finally, after a couple of seconds not being able to hear anything I opened my eyes.

My cheeks flushed at the sight in front of me. Two men, both no longer wolves and very, very naked. I looked down quickly, but not before I’d seen more than I could have ever hoped for.

“Damnit,” Nate muttered. “I’m sure I saw them somewhere around here.

“Did you actually manage to get yours off before changing?” Kyle sounded jealous.

I cleared my throat. “There are some clothes in the upstairs bedroom on the left… first door you come to. They might not fit you well but they are my older brothers… or you could try my dad’s but I’m guessing they are too big for you.”

“Thanks, I think I’ll have to take you up on that… unless you want me walking around the house naked?”

My cheeks burned. Kyle chuckled softly as I heard footsteps heading towards the stairs.

“You can open your eyes now.” Nate sounded amused as he spoke.

I wasn’t sure that was what I wanted to do. If I opened my eyes I’d have to face whatever was in front of me. But I forced myself to, and thankfully it wasn’t as bad as I’d thought it would be. There was a hole in the wall from where the vampire had thrown Kyle, and the couch was knocked over. There were a couple broken picture frames and there was the body.

There wasn’t nearly as much blood as I’d thought there would be, then again vampires don’t actually have blood in them unless they’ve feed recently. I frowned. I’m going to have to clean this up. I realized.

I turned towards the stairs as Kyle made his way down. Shirtless and in a pair of my brothers pants, that fit a little too tight. He gave me a smile. “Thanks.”

“Anytime… I wasn’t going to make you walk around naked.”

Kyle chuckled but didn’t say anything; his eyes sparkled as they locked on mine. I felt a shiver run down my spine, though not an unwelcome one.

“So,” I forced myself to come back to reality. “Do you guys want to help me get this body outside so we can burn it?”

The two men looked from one to another. “Um, sure. We can do it if you want us to though.”

“No.” I stepped towards it, determined not to get left out. “I’ll help.” I grabbed his arms. Nate went for his legs and together we lifted him up.

Kyle jumped for the door, making sure it was open wide enough. Nate and I struggled with the body until we got it down the porch steps and I dropped it without any grace. “Alright.” I looked around for a good spot. Fuck it, this was good enough. I padded back into the house, ignoring the mess that was there and grabbed a lighter from the kitchen junk drawer. I snatched it up rushed back outside. The boys had the body ready to burn and by the looks of it had found the jerry can and had covered the body with gas already.

Kyle reached for the lighter and I let him take it. He held a piece of news paper to the flame and lit it up, tossing it onto the body. The three of us stared at the flames, watching as they overtook the body

It didn’t take long to burn. Vampire bodies weren’t like human ones; they went up in smoke quickly and easily.

They risked their life for me. There was no reason for them to, they hardly even knew me but they’d risked their lives for me twice today. I looked from Nate to Kyle. Both were handsome, they were both kind and sweet- and I realized I was beginning to get a crush on both of them. Of course, I have to come between friends. Because that’s the cool thing to do after two guys save your life. I frowned trying to avoid the little voice in my head reminding me I had a house to try to clean.

As the flame turned to ember I mentally shook myself. I couldn’t just stand outside all night and hope that it cleaned itself up. So, I kicked my ass into gear and made my way into the house. Okay… it wasn’t that bad… I guess.

“I’m hungry.” Nate said beside me. I turned to look at him. He crossed his arms over his chest and looked around the room. “Why don’t you put something in the over and we will get started on this mess?”

“Oh don’t worry about! You’ve already done so much for me.”

“Nonsense, we made the mess.” Kyle said before he laughed softly. “We’ll clean it up.”

I opened my mouth to protest but the truth was, I was really alright with them helping and I wasn’t so sure I wanted to do it all on my own anyways. I smiled. “Alright, I’ll get a pizza in the oven, how does that sound?”

“Sounds perfect to me!”

***

Two hours later the house was almost what you could consider clean. Nate, Kyle and I sat on the floor, the pizza rested on the coffee table.

I’d managed to convince them to stay the night, after all they’d been so helpful, and had lent them a pair of my brother’s pajamas. They’d both showered and as I sat between the two of them it felt nice to be hanging out with people.

“Are you normally this eventful?” Nate asked as he tore into a slice of pizza.

“No, I’m normally boring.” I admitted. “As nice as it is to have a little excitement every now and then… I’d gladly have traded it today. But thank you again; I couldn’t have gotten this place so clean without your help.”

They both shrugged and we fell silent for a while. I bit my lip trying to think of how to bring it up, finally I decided on the right way.

“So, I was thinking one of you can take my bed and the other can take my parents bed. My brother’s is a mess, I wouldn’t ask you to sleep on that to save your life.”

“What about you?”

“I’ll take the couch.”

“Oh don’t be silly.” Kyle shook his hand. “Nate and I will just take your parents bed.”

I paused, trying to figure out what he meant by that. Were they together? They glanced at each other and for a split second I thought they might be. But what about that moment I had with Nate? Was that just all in my head? Or had that been why Kyle looked so put off by it?

I felt my heart sink but I didn’t have my answer yet.

I put on a flirty smile. “Aren’t you two worried about awkward boners?” I raised my eyebrows dramatically.

“Nothing I haven’t felt before.” A wide grin spread over Nate’s face. Kyle’s cheeks flushed.

Alright. I had my answer. I took another bite of my pizza hoping that I wouldn’t have to figure out what to say to his comment.

Kyle cleared his throat. “So where are your parents?”

A change of subject. Just what I needed.

“They travel for six months. I’m not sure where they are right now.” I admitted.

“And you don’t go with them?”

“No… my family and I… we don’t get along well. Long trips together tend to get… less than fun when I’m there.” It wasn’t a bad thing, though maybe I said it with a little resentment but mostly towards myself. It wasn’t anyone else’s fault that I chose not to go with them on their trips. “But that’s okay, when I save up enough money I’ll just travel with myself. I’ll like that better anyways.” I forced a smile over my lips as I took another bite of my pizza. I didn’t want to go on about my life too much, after all it was pretty boring compared to them, I was sure of it.

***

I knocked and opened the door. My eyes widened as I saw them. My heart raced.

Crap.

I looked down quickly. “Sorry.” But the image was still there of the two men embraced. Their arms around each other intimately, sharing a soft kiss.

“It’s alright, Sarah.” Nate spoke softly.

When I looked up Kyle still had his arms around Nate. Both were facing me, Nate’s back pressed against Kyle and both grinned.

“I um, was just going to tell you that there were towels in the closet down the hall, in case you two were up before me and wanted to shower.” My cheeks burned as I made eye contact with them. As hot as it was I was beyond embarrassed that I’d walked in on them. Things just seemed to be getting more and more awkward with them the longer I knew them.

I turned to leave them to it.

“Sarah.”

Kyle’s voice stopped me.

“Yes?” I turned back to face them, Kyle was already standing in front of me. He reached out gently, as if to make sure I had time to pull away if I wanted to. I swallowed dryly not moving.

His smile widened as his fingers touched my cheek, moved down to my neck and he stepped closer to me.

“Can I kiss you?”

My jaw dropped. He was asking to kiss me?! But… I’d just seen him and Nate.… My heart skipped a beat as I realized what was about to happen- if I said yes.