The Beast and the Homecoming Queen (15 page)

“Shut up
, Kaden.” Justin says and throws some clothes at him. “Quinn we need to talk, about last night.”

She nods there is so much she wants to know. “Last night you took me under your protection, and Justin took you under his. Which means I belong to you, and you belong to Justin. No one can pick a fight with me without going through you and now Justin.” Kaden says, and moves next to Justin.
“And we need to live with you. Our dad isn’t going to be happy that you stood up for Kaden, and that I stood up for you.” Justin says and looks down. Quinn wonders if he is still mad at her. She did hit him pretty hard last night.

“Why did you stand up for me?” She asks Justin, and Kaden looks away.

“I'm going to make a phone call, and I think you two need to talk…alone,” Kaden says and walks away.

Justin looks up at her, and she doesn’t know what she sees on his face. “Quin
n I have watched you from a distance for the past three years, I wasn’t allowed to talk to you or be with you until it was close to your change. Your father wanted nothing to do with the pack, and he threatened to kill any pack members that set a foot on his land. When I first saw you, you made something inside of me open, and I wanted to be the one that made you happy until the end of time. I am in love with you Quinn, and somewhere inside here.” He touches her chest, and smiles. “You feel the same thing about me. You love me, even if you don’t want to admit it.”

Quinn thinks about it and she doesn’t know if love is the word she would use.

“Justin.” He shakes his head.

“Quinn take your time to admit to yourself. Just know that you have two guys that love you.” He smiles and takes his hand away from her. “I am still pretty mad about last night. I can't believe you put yourself in danger. You could have been killed.” Justin frowns at her.

“I couldn’t let Kaden be killed because of me. Justin, I care about him too.” Quinn admits to him.

Justin nods. “I know. D
o you still want to be my girlfriend?”

Quinn doesn’t answer him for a minute, but sh
e closes the space between them and frames his face with her small hands. “Justin, I have dreamed about being your girlfriend for three long years. Yes, I still want to be your girlfriend.”

Justin smiles, and wraps his arms around her. “I was hoping you would say yes.”
Justin chuckles, and she smiles. “I remember the day I realized I loved you. It was two years ago and you were soaking wet from the rain. You and Breanna were laughing and then you slipped and fell on your butt. When you burst out laughing, I saw your light and I fell in love.” Quinn laughs, she remembers how embarrassed she was. She landed in mud and it was all over her, she went home that day.

“I looked like a drowned cat and you picked that moment to fall in love with me.” She looks up at him, and he smiles.

“Quinn I’m not going to lie to you, when I was told you were promised to me I was mad. I didn’t want to get married, and werewolves marry for life. But you seemed too sweet for me, and at the time I thought Jenna was going be my one and only. My duty was you, and I fought it for a while.” Quinn looks down and away from him, she is his duty. “Hey, Quinn look at me.” She slowly brings her eyes up to meet his, he smiles. “That was before I knew you, before I fell in love with the blonde that would slap any guy that made fun of her because of that beautiful blond hair. And before I saw you talking about your sister, how much you love her even though she is a half-breed.”

Quinn's eyes widen and her heart sinks. Her sister is a werewolf, oh my god. “Lizzy.” She whispers, what will her stepmother do when she finds out?

“My love don’t worry, I have been watching your sister. She is doing okay, but she needs someone who can help her when she changes.”

Quinn looks away again. “What is this about you and Kaden moving in?”

“Well since Kaden is under your protection then he is your responsibility, and you are now mine. In my father's eyes, we are men and out of his house. If you aren’t okay with it that's fine, we will find somewhere else.”

Quinn looks back at her boyfriend, and shakes her head. “I have the room at my house, plus I like ha
ving you there; you cook me food, and keep me warm at night.”

“You like me
, or my brother being there?” Justin asks.

Quinn looks up at Justin. “Please don’t do this, I have a connection with him. But it doesn’t mean I want to be with him.” Quinn reaches up and grabs his face. “I am with you.”

“You are just promise me one thing. That you won't cheat on me with my brother.” Justin closes his eyes. “If you think things will go that far, please break up with me.”

Quinn doesn’t want to hurt him, she likes him a lot and always has.
She knows she has hurt him with Kaden and hates herself for that. “I promise,” she whispers, and he opens his eyes.

He takes her hand off of his face and holds them. “You know I would never make you be with me, right?” She nods. “Good, and you know you aren’t just a duty to me, that I really do love you.” Quinn nods again, but looks down. Love is
a very strong word and doesn’t know if that is what she is feeling yet. “Let’s get home.”

Kaden walks up and smiles weakly at her. Thank god she
has a four bedroom house. “Okay,” she says and follows Kaden to the truck.

Kaden opens the door for Quinn, and she smiles at him. She moves to the center and knows that it’s going to get weird between the three of them. They will have to fix this soon, because they are all going to live together. Justin gets behind the steering wheel, and starts his truck.
Kaden’s leg brushes against hers, and the same heat she has felt from the first time is still there. She wonders if it’s because of her wolf or if there is something else.

Quinn’s whole body is sore
, and she leans her head back; she closes her eyes and sleep takes her over.

“Sweetheart we’re home.” Kaden’s voice wakes her up, and she groans. Slowly she lifts her head, and sees her large two story white house. When she was little she asked her dad to paint the front door red, because she saw it in a movie and wanted to
be the girl with the red door; he painted her bedroom door the same red.

Quinn
gets out of the truck with Justin’s help, and she turns away from him she walks up the granite walkway and puts her keys into the red door. “There is a guest room, and Lizzy's room; there are also a few bedrooms in the basement. You two gets to decide who gets what.” They nod and walk pass her up the stairs.

Quinn walks in the kitchen and opens the
refrigerator; a large steak catches her eyes. Her stomach growls in response. When she turns around she nearly drops the steak, Kaden is standing a foot from her.

“You
just scared the death out of me,” Quinn says, and Kaden smiles.

“Sorry,” h
e says with his sexy grin that tells her he really isn’t sorry. “Let me cook for you.” Kaden nods down to the steak, and she hands it to him. She really hates cooking. “Go sit, you had a long night and you like you might pass out.”

Quinn walks over to the table and sits down. She watches Kaden cook in her kitchen, he moves very graceful.
She realizes she doesn’t know that much about the two men that will be living with her.

“Kaden will you tell me about your mom?” She wonders if this subject is a no go, Kaden turns around
and looks at her pain is written on his face. Quinn feels bad for asking, and is about to tell him he doesn’t need to ask her, but he shakes his head.

“She was a waitress at a
rundown restaurant, and barely made enough for my sister and I. She worked every day to have food in the house. She never asked for handouts, and if anyone offered she would turn them down. My mom never told me who my father was, and after a few years of asking I stopped. It wasn’t easy for me and I had a temper that I couldn’t control. About a year ago I got in some big trouble and was arrested. She told me she had enough with me, and I was a piece of shit that will never amount up to anything. She left me in jail and when I was told I was bailed out and the charges were drop I thought I would see her but I saw Chris. He told me he was my father, and we had to talk; he told me what I was and why I had a temper.”

Quinn stares at him, and wants to know more.
She can’t believe his own mother would leave him like that, if she has a child she would never do that no matter what they did. The one thing that she really wants to know is what he did to get arrested. “What did you do?”

Kaden looks away. “Do you really want to know?” She doesn’t an
swer, and he looks back at her. “Of course you do. I got in a fight at school, the jocks were picking on me and I beat the crap out of one of them.”

“How bad?”
she bites her bottom lip, and he turns his dark blue eyes back to her.

Kaden raises an eyebrow. “You sure asked a lot of quest
ion, sweetheart. He almost died. If I weren’t pulled off of him I would have killed him. It's easy for our kind to kill.” Quinn's mind flashes to Jenna, she killed Jenna and it was easy. Her heart races and she starts shaking. “Shhh sweetheart, I know it will get better.” Strong arms wrap around her, and she smells sandalwood. He turns her around so her face is on his chest, and he gently runs his hand up and down her back; he whispers sweet things in her ear in a another language she doesn’t understand.

“You know walking in on this doesn’t make me happy.” Justin
says, and she pushes away from Kaden. Justin looks at her, and he looks hurt.

“Dude
, she was upset and I did what anyone would do.” Kaden says, and walks back to the stove.

Quinn looks back at Justi
n and he sits down next to her. “Justin--” He cuts her off by shaking his head.

“No I don’t like to see you two getting cozy. Quinn werewolves are jealous by nature, I don’t want to see anyone touching you. I’m pretty sure you would freak out if I was the one holding a beautiful girl.”

Quinn remembers back where Justin was dating Jenna, and she was jealous. She always wanted to be the girl with him. “I would be.” She takes a deep breath, and prepares herself. Before she killed Jenna she said something about her mother, and she wanted to know. Quinn has a good feeling the two men in her kitchen knows something. “Jenna said something about my mom, I want to know.”

Kaden turns around and mumbles something. “She is alive sweetheart, she was the one that brought me to the pack.” There are some plates left out on the drying rack, and he grabs one. “She is freaking strong, and took me by surprised.” He grabs her steak and sets it in front of her. “Here you go sweetheart.” He winks at her, and she smiles. “I'm going to take a shower. Enjoy.” He leaves, and she is left with Justin and the steak.

As Quinn eats Justin just stares at her, not saying anything. “Pleeease talk to me.” She begs when she finishes her steak.

“Quinn you know how I feel about Kaden, and it seems like you don’t care. I freaking love you, do you know what that does to a wolf? To love someone this much and not get it back in return. I know you don’t love me, but I hope in time it will be me
, not Kaden.”

Quinn gets up and drops to her knees in front of him. She has never been in love, but Justin makes her feel something. She puts her hands on his legs, and looks up at him. After all of these years she wonders if she could love him. Quinn tries to picture her without out him, and she can't it makes her chest hurts.
She tries to think of him with someone else, and him looking at another as if she was his whole world; like how he looks at her. She tries to imagine life without his sweet kisses, and her stomach feels sick. She tries to think about waking up without him and can’t, it is his face that she wants to wake up to every day.

“You don’t have to worry about that.” He looks confused, and she smiles
up at up at him. “I love you, I always have but just didn’t know. When something would happen to me good or bad I would find myself looking for you.” Quinn smiles up at him.

A slow
sweet smile appears on his face, and it makes him look beautiful. “You love me?” Quinn nods, and he puts his hands under her arm pits and lifts her. She is sitting on his lap. “I have wanted to hear those words for your pretty lips since you fell on your butt.”

Quinn laughs and shakes her head. “You are never going to let me live that down are you?”

Justin laughs and shakes his head. “Nope, it was when I found the other half of my missing heart.” He kisses her nose, and groans. “You smell like blood.” Her steak was extra bloody, and she loved it. “I am really happy, but if you don’t get off of me I won't be able to stop myself. The blood makes me really…excited.” Quinn can feel how excited he is; she giggles and gets off of his lap.

Quinn stares at Kaden in the doorway. His long black hair still wet from the shower, and he looks broken. “Justin
, we should get our stuff later today.”

“Sure.” Justi
n smiles at Kaden, as he walks out of the kitchen. “Quinn don’t worry about him he will be fine.” Justin says to her. Quinn holds onto the heart locket, and nods. She hopes so. “This is our home sweet home.”

Quinn smiles because her house is a home again, and she hopes that it will be sweet
. “It is, and I will feel better having people in the house. I will feel safer.”