Wayward Son (Jensen Family #3) (41 page)

“I like Kiera
,
but I need to
get my life sorted out before I can say to her, well ok, I live there and you
live here but I’ll be a good boy and see you at weekends if you want to giv
e it a go and to be honest, right now if I told her I
wanted to be with her but had to go home, there’s no way she would believe I’d
be going home alone every night
.
”

“I don’t believe it
.
” Angel
admitted.

“If she didn’t have to finish college, I’d suggest
that she came back home with me for a while just to see if
we do get on when it’s just us
,
but that’s not going to happen. I don’t want to hurt her, believe it or
not I do have a heart, it’s going to be hard to leave her
and she
is so totally my type that
a few more weeks with her will have me hooked
.
I think that’s why I’m so determined to
go home, I’m not ready for a committed relationship, I like screwing around,
maybe in a few years. I will let her down gently
.
”

“Wow, you can actually be nice
.
” Angel
said.

“Yes I can, I don’t go all out to hurt people and I will do my best to
explain it to Kiera
.
” Novak replied.

“Thank you.”

Gavin heaved a sigh of relief
,
this
conversation could so easily have gone a different way if Novak had been even
slightly irrita
ted to start off with and he wasn’t
relishing getting caught between his best friend and his girlfriend.

“So we’re good?” he asked for confirmation “We’re all friends?”

“You and I will always be friends
,
” Novak grinned at Gavin
.
“No matter what
.
”

The sun w
as coming up by the time the three of
them finally went to bed, having cleared the air; Novak proceeded to tell Angel
of the dubious exploits he had shared with Gavin including the fact that Gavin
had been expelled from his previous two schools.

“You got e
xpelled twice?” Angel questioned.

“Yeah, but only once from each school
,
” he answered as he removed his clothes
and climbed into bed.

“What for?”

“The first time was for fighting, the second time
,
” he paused
.
“I’m not sure I should tell you this
.
”

“It can’
t be any worse than your hotel room
capers
,
” she answered
now fully versed of exactly what he and Novak had got up to together.

“Ok, the second time I was expelled for
almost
having sex in the biology section of the
library with the principles daughter
,
” h
e cringed at the memory.

“The biology section? That’s really unimaginative
.
”

“I thought it was a genius idea
,
” he laughed a little, she felt the rumble of it in his chest under her
ear
.
“I told the principle we were studying
for a test on the human reprodu
ctive system, I got
marched off the school grounds so quickly that my feet didn’t touch the floor.
Mum was livid, Dad thought it was funny, I was grounded for months.”

“It’s surprising you actually got accepted into another school”

“There are provisos I ha
ve to comply with in
order to stay at the college. I’m not allowed to hit anyone and there’s to be
no nudity except in the showers so they will be watching you and I very closely
once they cotton on to us being an item
.
”

“It won’t be a problem
.
I have abso
lutely no intention of getting naked with you on school
grounds
.
”

Kiera stirred as Novak slid into the bed beside her and pressed his body
to her back, letting his body relax, he was asleep within moments.

Novak jumped in his sleep and turned onto his ba
ck
which woke Kiera from an already restless sleep. She looked across at the
sleeping male form and fully understood why he was nicknamed the blond God,
even with his hair stupidly short he was an exceptionally good looking man, she
loved his confidence an
d just the sheer size of him
and then her mind hit upon what had caused her to toss and turn in her sleep.
She reached over and shook Novak
,
in fact she shook him several times
before finally slapping his chest.

“Kiera, what the fuck?” he mumbled, his voic
e
thick with sleep.

“You came in me
,
” she accused.

“What?” he was rubbing his eyes, frowning, still laying on his back.

“When I cut your hair, we had sex, and you didn’t use anything
,
”

“I didn’t hear you complaining then and you could have stopped me
,
” he
grouched
and closed his eyes
.
“Go back to
sleep
.
”

“You seem to be missing the point
,
” she jabbed him in the ribs, his hand swiftly grabbing her wrist and
removing her hand from his side.

“Don’t do that again
,
” he warned,
releasing her hand.

“You came in me
,
” she repeated.

“So?” his voice becoming increasingly irritated.

“I’m not on the pill or anything, don’t you get it?” she persisted.

“Crap
,
” he was fully
awake now
.
“You should
have stopped me
.
”

“Don’t make this all my fault. What are we going to do?”

“Ho
w about you stop freaking out and wait until
your period is late?” he snapped
.
“It’s done, we can’t take it back
.
”

“You’re such a bastard
.
”

“What do you want me to do? Suck it out of you?”

“If you think it would work genius
,
” she hissed, tears forming.

“Do
n’t cry
,
” his voice softened, he could deal with
almost anything but a crying female
.
“We’ll find a
chemist in the morning and get you the morning after pill ok?”

“Ok
,
” she snivelled.

“Good, now can we please go back to sleep?” he slumped back onto the pil
lows, the entire conversation vanishing from his mind.

Kiera watched him for a while not believing that he was actually able to
sleep after their conversation. She was far too worried and pissed off to be
able to sleep now, she pulled on a t-shirt and some
lose fitting jogging trousers and went downstairs.

Novak was the last to surface the following day, entering the kitchen and
greeting his friends, he wrapped his arms around Kiera and whispered in her
ear, noticing that the others in the
room had stopped
to watch them. S
ubtlety was not his strong suit and he was giving himself away, stepped
back, pinched Kiera’s bottom, got slapped in return and poured himself a cup of
coffee.

“Cosy
,
” Gavin
commented when the big man sat beside him.

“Shut up
.
” Novak repli
ed reaching over to nab a piece of toast
.
“Dude, I need to find a chemist
,
” he spoke quietly to Gavin.

“How come? We have enough condoms to last us through a holocaust
.
”

“Kiera has a headache
.
”

“You have explained the only sure fire cure for that I take i
t?” Gavin nudged his friend.

“Yeah, unfortunately, the old Novak charm seems to be on the fritz so I
need to get her pain killers
,
” he lied, Gavin
promised to give him directions after breakfast.

Chapter
15

“Guys, I’m heading home later today
,
” James ann
ounced as they cleared away the
breakfast things.

“Why? We have a whole weekend ahead of us
.
” Novak asked.

“I’ve got to give a presentation and I need time to prepare
.
” James answered
.
“It’s been great but I really do have
to go
.
”

“We’ll miss you bud
.
”
Gavin said
.
“How are you getting home?”

“Gabby is going to drive me home and spend a few days at my place
.
” James’ grey eyes twinkled
.
“So we’ll be leaving around lunchtime
,
” he finished.

“Oh James
.
” Angel wrapped
her arms around James
.
“You will come
and
see us again soon?”

“Of course, or you could always come and see me
,
” he suggested.

“Er, nah
,
” Gavin answered
.
“It’ll be a while before I go back up
there
.
”

“Don’t go without saying goodbye
.
” Novak shot as he and Kiera left the kitchen, directions to the n
earest chemist in hand.

With the departure of James and Gabby and with Gavin having to work on
Sunday, the four remaining youngsters decided to head back to Kingston the
following morning. On the way home, Angel had called her parents, finally
catching up
with her mother at the health club.

“Oh, honey, you won’t be able to get in, we had the locks changed
.
” Linda explained that someone had used
Angel’s keys which she had left in Quinn’s car to try to break into t
he house necessitating the changing
of the locks.

“Looks like I’m coming back to your house
,
” she told Gavin as she hung up
.
“I’m locked out, Mum and Dad have
changed the locks
,
” she noticed
his smile
.
“Why are you so
happy?”

“You coming back to my house, means I get the chance to finish wh
at I started this morning
,
” he said referring to their earlier
bedroom liaison where Angel had turned him on so much he had been unable to
hold back
.
“I’m still
horny as hell
,
” he continued
.
“And I didn’t get the chance to go down
on you
.
”

She blushed
.
“St
op it, you’re embarrassing me
.
”

“Why are you embarrassed?” he asked, his hand resting on her leg
.
“You can’t deny you enjoy it and I love
the taste of you, it should be bottled
.
”

“Gavin!” she gasped
.

“What?” he laughed
.
“I’d be down
there for hours if you’
d let me
,
” he admitted.

“Doesn’t it bother you that I’m not as experienced as some of the other
girls you’ve been with?”

“Not at all! I love your innocence and the way you try to be demure even
as you are grabbing me and pulling me into you
,
” he glanced at
her reddening cheeks
.
“I love it when
you bite me and scratch me as you lose control, I love the sounds you make and
the way you respond to me when I teach you new things and I love the way you
blush when I give you slightest hint that I want you
.
”

“I hat
e you
,
” she squirmed
.
“You like making me blush
.
”

“Guilty
,
” he smiled
.
“But I’m afraid you are going to have
to get used to it because I want you Angel, every second of every day I want
you, I can’t see that changing any time soon
.
”

“How do you feel?” Nov
ak asked having bought
and got Kiera to take the morning after pill
. F
rom previous experience
,
he knew Kiera would be feeling
nauseous.

“I’m ok, I feel a bit sick but I’ll be ok
,
” she answered.

“So no up chuck any time soon?” he asked.

“No
.
”

“Kiera, we nee
d to talk
,
” he stammered.

“Uh-oh
,
” she replied.

“Just hear me out
,
” he paused,
taking a deep breath
.
“This last week
has been great, I’ve enjoyed your company immensely but we both know sooner or
later it has to come to an end
.
”

“When are you going home?”
she asked sullenly.

“I’m here until Thursday, we have a few more days if that’s what you
want, but I am leaving Thursday
.
”

“I suppose you do have to go back to your job at some point
,
” she rationalised.

“Yeah, that and I have a few lose ends that need
tying up, I won’t be able to get any more time off until after the summer
.
”

Kiera turned in the seat to look at him
.
“By lose ends, you mean girlfriend
don’t you?”

“Yes
.
”

“How come you are just mentioning this now?”

“I fell out with her before I came down
here,
when I go back one or the other of us will end it, I didn’t think telling you
about a dead relationship was relevant
.
”

“Perhaps things would have been different if you had.” Kiera answered
“You cheated on her, that’s low. I don’t suppose you’ll be te
lling her about me when you go home?”

“I won’t be telling her anything except goodbye
.
”

“It might have been nice to have been able to make up my own mind about
sleeping with you
.
I might not
have done had I been aware of all the facts
.
”

“You did make up
your own mind Kiera. I didn’t
force you into having sex with me and you were the one who was being rather
suggestive in the back of Gavin’s car
,
” he pointed out.

“Fair point
,
” she shrugged
.
“I like you Novak and I thought maybe
we could have something goin
g here
,
but obviously I was just a holiday
fling for you
.
”

“You are a little more than that. I’d like to spend more time with you
but if I’m honest, I would probably fuck it up, I’m not ready for a
relationship let
alone
a long distance one
.
”

“The fact tha
t you are down here, flirting and
being downright dirty proves you can’t be trusted. You need to grow up
.
”

“I do, and I will in my own time. I’m sorry if I hurt you, it wasn’t my
intention to
.
”

“Sorry doesn’t make it better
,
” she said sadly
.
“What happens
if
it turns out I’m pregnant?”

“You won’t be
,
” he replied.

“I think you’d better drop me off home when we get to Kingston
.
”

“Oh this is not good
,
” Gavin said as
he pulled into the drive way to find his route to the garage blocked by several
cars.

“It look
s like you have visitors
.
” Angel said.

Gavin pulled on the handbrake and switched off the car
.
“That’s my Grandparents car
,
” he pointed to a Mercedes
.
“And that’s my Great Grandparents car
,
” he pointed out an ageing Aston Martin.

“Nice
.
” Angel
commented.

“
The other Merc is the solicit
ors, you’ve met him, the Bentley
belongs to my
Uncle Matt, the Jag to my Great Uncle John, the Saab is Aunt Tessa’s, I have no
idea who owns that
,
” he pointed to
a BMW
.
“This is going to be fun
,
” he muttered
.
“Looks like you ar
e about to meet my family
,
” he grinned at her. “Lucky
you
!
”

They found the front door was unlocked and stepped into the empty hallway
,
hearing talking and laughter coming
from the back of the house.

“We might just be able to sneak up to my room and avoid
the whole nasty affair
,
” he mused just as Monica came out of
the kitchen.

“Gavin
,
” she came
towards him with her arms open
.
“There you are
,
” both hands reached up and grasped
either side of his face, pulling him down to her so that she could plant kisses
on his
cheeks
.