UnLove Me - The Angels Warriors MC Complete Trilogy Box Set (7 page)

I wake up to movement in my room, knowing it’s Glenna I stay still, feigning sleep. Lilly and I didn’t get to bed until late. I offered the spare room for her to stay in for the night, but she wanted to get home to her bed. I think she partially just wanted to see the damage Vinny may have left behind, considering he told her his shit would be gone by the time she got home. Asshole.

I hear her move closer to me on the bed, and then she goes for it. I let out an “oomph” as she jumps on me. Damn, I was going to scare her, thinking maybe she would lean over to kiss my cheek or crawl in with me. She won this round.

“You little monkey!” I say to her, laughing as I tickle her round warm tummy.

“Morning, Edie,” she says, giggling.

I pull her in close, cuddling her and smelling her watermelon-scented shampoo from last night. “Morning, G-Baby. I guess we should probably get up and get you off to school, huh?” I wipe at the corners of my eyes, trying to force myself fully awake.

She yawns. “Yep, Miss Hale wouldn’t be happy if I was late. If I am, she gives out lines, and I would make you write them for me,” she says, giving me a cheeky grin.

“In that case, we better hurry up,” I say, getting out of bed. Miss Hale, Monica, isn’t a fan of mine; most likely because when we went to school together, she really had the hots for Jasper, and he paid her no attention, no matter what she did. She was also Roni’s cousin- enough said. Whenever I wasn’t around, she would try to get all flirty with Jasper. When she would fail at her attempts, and see us in the hall later on making out by the lockers or in the cafeteria, she would glare at us.  Jasper graduated at the end of the year that I started high school. Starting off tenth grade without him there sucked, but he would still show up every day for lunch, and take me to and from school every day. It was sweet.

While we eat breakfast, I hear the sound of bikes coming down the road. “The Angels are back?” Glenna asks me, looking confused.

“Yes, baby, we’ll probably be seeing them quite often. They’ll be helping us out for a little while,” I say, smiling slightly at her.

She nods her head, looking relieved about that. “Good. I like that Mr. Zip guy. He’s funny.”

I grin at her. “His name is Vinny, Glenna. He used to be one of my closest friends.”

“You were friends with the Angels?” she gasps, her voice full of shock and amazement.

“Yes. I was friends with Mason and Vinny. Jasper used to be my boyfriend a long time ago,” I let her know. No point in lying about the relationship Jasper and I once had.

“Used to be your boyfriend? Why isn’t he now?” she asks.

“He broke my heart,” I say quietly, turning away and going to the sink to wash the dishes.

She doesn’t speak again but looks like she’s heavy in thought and just quietly finishes up her breakfast. A few minutes later, the sound of bikes is gone, and there is a knock on the front door.

I grab the red and white checkered dish towel and dry my hands as I make my way to the front door. I fling the towel over my shoulder and open it.

“Oh my God! You’re really back!” I see Betty and she shouts out in glee. Betty is older, about late forties. She’s always been a bundle of love though. I remember when my mom would take me to Betty’s bakery, and Betty would sneak me more cupcakes than I could possibly eat.

The time I bet Mason I could streak around town without getting caught, Hilary called her ahead of time, and she had a big box of donuts ready for me on the bench outside her bakery, so I could just grab it as I ran.

After making the bet with Mason, since there was no way I would ever eat a frog, I went over to Lilly and Hilary quickly.

“You guys need to call Officer Dennis. Tell him about the bet, and ask him to please grab Mason so I can win.”

Lilly giggled. “Done.”

Hilary smirked. “Only good thing about this bet is seeing his butt,” Hilary said... Always boy crazy, that one—especially over Mason. She was always anywhere he was, or she tried to be anyway, but I think he was just as crazy over her.

“You,” I said to Hilary. “Call Momma B and ask her to set donuts outside for me to grab.”

“Will do.”

I went back to Jasper and Mason, and we quickly stripped. Before Jasper even started the countdown, I was off.

I heard sirens and Mason shouting, “You little shit! I’ll get you back!”

I looked over my shoulder, and saw Officer Dennis dragging Mason into the back of the cruiser. I laughed. Awesome.

Running as fast as I could, after seeing Mason get picked up by the police, I spotted Betty quickly come out of the bakery with a huge box. She set it down on the bench outside the door. Looking up, she saw me running down the street.

Her face formed a huge ass grin, and she shook her head and walked back inside.

I stopped just long enough to grab the box before I took off running again.

Going in for a hug, Betty wraps me up tight. “Don’t you ever take off like that again, young lady! You should have come to me. I would have shot that bastard in his face if he tried to get you back,” she tells me firmly in my ear.

“I love you, too, Momma B,” I say into her hair, quickly wiping away a tear that’s streaming down my cheek.

She keeps me in her arms, but pulls back, taking a good look at me, her eyes trailing the scarring on my face. “You’re still beautiful, Eden.” I shut my eyes; hearing that brings pain. I wasn’t conceited growing up, but I did know I was beautiful. Now, I’m not.

Stepping back, I notice there are more people here than just her; Mona, my friend Hilary’s mom, Ann, Lilly’s ma, and of course, Jasper, Mason, and Vinny, along with two other men I don’t know. At least, I don’t think I know them.

“Uh, hi?” I say to the group, feeling slightly awkward and embarrassed. The whole lot of them is a bit overwhelming this early in the morning.

“Hi, Edie,” Mona says, smiling at me. She was always so sweet to me, although to anyone else, she would have rather cut their throat.  I’m not really all that surprised to see her wearing a biker’s cut, looking all tough.

I grin at her. “Hey, Moaner,” I say teasingly, using a name that Hilary and I started calling her when we were fourteen. I was sleeping over at the house one night, and Mona had her boyfriend over at the time. It was not a fun night, that’s for sure, due to all the moaning and banging. The next morning, I accidently called her Moaner Mona, and Hilary busted up laughing. The nickname stuck.

Hilary and I were laid out in our sleeping bags in the living room, watching Bring It On when the front door opened.

Our heads popped up, and we saw Mona stumbling in, her hands all over some guy.

“Great! Hope you brought ear plugs, Edie,” Hilary grumbled.

“Is that Officer Dennis?” I asked.

“Yeah, they do this once a month or so. It’s gross,” Hilary stated, shuddering. “Hey, Mom, take that shit to your room.”

I looked over and saw Mona’s face was red, and Officer Dennis had his shoulders shaking, probably laughing his ass off. “Hilary, you don’t cuss.”

I looked to Hilary, who had her brows raised. “Mom, you do it, like all the time. If you can say fuck, I can say fuck, and so on.” She ended it smiling sweetly.

Mona’s eyes narrowed. “Watch it.”

“Kids,” Officer Dennis said, grabbing Mona’s hand and dragging her off into the bedroom.

About an hour later, I began to understand why Hilary mentioned the ear plugs.

“Oh, yes, right there. Harder.”

My eyes bugged out. “Really?” I asked Hilary.

“Yup, wait until the headboard starts going.”

I heard more moans and started to giggle.

I woke up the next morning to banging in the kitchen and the smell of bacon. Yum.

Hilary shoved me. “Get up. Mom’s making food,” she said sleepily. Nothing kept Hilary away from her bacon, no matter how tired she was.

We went into the kitchen, where Mona was dancing around in her robe, humming some song.

“Hey, kids,” she said, smiling.

“Moaner Mona,” I let slip out before thinking.

Hilary burst out laughing. “From now on, that’s what I’m calling her,” Hilary said.

Mona’s face goes red in embarrassment. “Never gonna let me live that down, are you?” she asks.

I stick my tongue out slightly, biting it as I smile. “Coming in?” I ask, moving back a bit and opening the door wide.

When Vinny starts to come in, I push him in the chest. “You,” I sneer.

He runs a hand over his face. “Don’t, Eden.”

“I don’t want you here, just so you know. Only reason I’m letting you in is because my baby sister likes you,” I tell him.

His face falls, and he winces. “I’m sorry, Eden,” he whispers as he walks past me, but then stops. “I know what you’re keeping secret. You need to tell him. I won’t say shit, because, trust me, I have secrets too.”

I stiffen. He knows? Oh, God, did Lilly tell him? How does he know?

Everyone files into the house, looking around. “Uh, make yourselves comfortable. I need to finish getting Glenna ready for school.” Everyone just smiles- well, except for the men, and I walk back to the kitchen.

“Okay, are you done?” I ask Glenna, stepping in the room.

“Sure am,” she says, skipping into the living room. “Auntie Ann!” she screeches.

Coming out of the kitchen with Glenna’s book bag, I watch her run over to Ann, hugging her while jumping up and down. “Did you bring me chocolate?” she asks, whispering loudly.

Ann’s eyes flitter around. “Not so loud. You know Eden doesn’t like you having so much chocolate.  That’s our secret.”

Well, that explains why every time she comes back from Ann’s house, she’s more hyper than a toddler on sugar.

Feeling eyes on me, I look around, searching it out, and that’s when my eyes connect with Jasper’s.  I quickly turn away and look at Vinny, who seems to be brooding.

“I need to get Glenna to school, then I have to head off to work,” I tell the group.

“Wait up. That’s why we’re here,” Jasper says. “Betty, Mona, and Ann have all agreed to help you out. Ann and Mona will help with Glenna, so you don’t need to pay for a sitter, and Betty has agreed, since you work so much, to help out with the cleaning and cooking. Breaks and T-Bags will take care of the outside stuff.”

“Uh, I don’t need that much help. I called you up to keep my father away, not to take over my life. I don’t need all this. I can cook and clean and do yard work. I’m not useless,” I tell him, getting angry. “And, actually, if you could have someone else take over that’s not you that would be great. I really don’t want you around.” I feel a bit crowded with everyone stuffed into my small home. It’s making me feel claustrophobic, and I break out in a light sweat.

“Ladies, can you get Glenna to school? Boys, start on the outside. Eden and I need a chat,” he tells the room, ignoring my last statement.

I stand up straighter, anger coming off me in waves. “I have to get to work, and as I already told you, I’m more than capable of taking care of myself and Glenna.” My voice comes out louder than I anticipated, but he’s pushing too hard.

Jasper shoots me a warning look to shut up.

I grind my teeth together so I don’t blow up and scare Glenna. She comes skipping over to me, not paying attention to the tension in the room, and gives me a big hug. She has no idea how much we’re at risk. Being a kid, she doesn’t have a care in the world. I wish things were that simple.

“See you after school, Edie,” she says to me with a big smile.

“Yeah, G-baby, love you,” I say, smiling warmly down at her and handing her a jacket—it’s cool out this morning.

“Love you, too,” she says, skipping back over to Ann, who takes her hand as they walk out of the house.

The boys I don’t know take that time to head out to my garage, getting the mower and weed whacker out. This is probably the last time the grass will need to be cut until spring. Guess I should be glad I don’t have to do it myself.

Mason, Vinny, and Jasper are the only ones left in the house. Mason looks amused. Vinny is still staring at pictures of me, Hilary, and Lilly, just glaring. And Jasper is staring at me as if he wants to wring my neck.