Eden's Playground: Graystone Academy Book One, BE Kelly [good short books .TXT] 📗

about. When supernatural’s around here find out that you’re a legacy, they tend to treat you differently.”

“I’m betting that has more to do with your last name and less to do with you being a legacy, Eden. I mean, people treat me and Duff differently than others, but that has to do with the rumors about us around campus,” Anton said. She wasn’t caught up on academy gossip and she certainly hadn’t heard anything about the twins.

“Rumors?” she asked. “What kind of rumors?”

“Well, the fact that I found a dead girl in the woods, for one,” he breathed.

“Yeah—that one would be hard to live down,” she said.

“It has been,” he admitted. “Then there’s the whole rumor that Duff and I share women.” She felt as though her eyes were going to bug out of her head. She thought back to the pictures that she just looked at on their social media pages and wondered if that rumor might not just have some truth to it.

He smiled at her and shook his head. “You looked at our pictures?” he asked.

“Well, you did send me a friend request,” she defended. “What—you didn’t check out my pictures after I accepted your friend request?”

He held up his phone with her social media page pulled up. “Yeah—I looked at them. Both of them,” he teased. Yeah, she wasn’t very good at posting stuff on her page, but she was a new student.

“In my defense, I haven’t been here very long and I’m not good at the whole social media thing.”

“So, you don’t like people online or in person. Do I have that right?” Eden looked at him like he had lost his mind.

“What makes you think that I don’t like people?” she asked.

“You thought it, last night at dinner,” he said. Eden sighed and shook her head at him. Duff was right—Anson was never going to stay out of her head. She’d just have to try to keep her thoughts in check. “Good luck with that,” he teased, reading her mind again.

“Okay,” she said. “You seem to know so much about me, unfairly so,” she grumbled. “Tell me, is that rumor true? Do you and Duff share women?”

He stared her down and she wondered if he was going to give her an answer or ignore her question. “Yes,” he admitted. “We share women.” Eden had her answer and it wasn’t what she expected. Not at all.

Anson

Anson was sitting so close to her on the small dorm room bed that their legs were practically touching. It didn’t matter that she had cocooned herself in her quilt—he could feel her heat through the blanket. When she point-blank asked him if he and Duff shared women, he thought about lying to her. That would have been the wise thing to do, but she was right—he knew a ton of personal things about her and giving her that one truth was the least he could do. He had to admit, he liked the things she thought about him and Duff. He knew that she liked them but now, the thoughts that ran through her head, about the two of them putting her in the middle, made him hot.

“Jesus, Eden,” he grumbled. “You can’t think things like that.”

“Well, if you’d stay out of my head, you wouldn’t have to see what I’m thinking about,” she defended. “How does it work, exactly? I mean, I get that you are both with the woman—but, at the same time?”

“You really want to talk about this now?” he asked.

“I do,” she agreed.

“Fine,” he growled. “Yes, we are both with the same woman, at the same time. As for how it works, I’ll let you use your imagination for that, but judging by the pictures running through your pretty, little head, you’ve got the gist of it.”

“Are you and Duff together?” she asked.

“Eww,” he almost shouted. Eden giggled and covered his mouth with her hand.

“Everyone is still asleep, Anson. You have to be quiet. If I get caught with a boy in my room, I’ll get kicked out of the dorm,” she whispered.

“I highly doubt that Eden. You’re a Graystone. Hell, your ancestors built this building. I’m betting that the rules don’t apply to you,” Anson said.

“Well, I don’t want to find out,” she said.

“So, you and Duff aren’t together when you share women,” she asked again. She knew that he was hoping to distract her and get her talking about something other than the topic of threesomes, but it was all she could think about now since he brought it up.

“He’s my brother, Eden. Would you have sex with your brother or sister?” he asked.

“I’m an only child,” she breathed.

“Well, I can promise you that no normal person, or shifter, would want to have sex with their sibling. We share the woman and that’s where it ends,” Anson said.

“Why not just get your own woman?” she asked. “Why share in the first place?”

Anson shrugged, “At first, it was Duff’s way of breaking me out of my shell. I was a very shy kid and we both have the same taste in women. It was just easier to share. Plus, women seemed to dig the whole, ‘two for one’ thing that we were offering them. We made them feel special and in return, I was able to build my confidence.”

“Duff doesn’t seem to suffer from confidence issues,” she teased.

“You noticed that, huh?” he asked. A smile played with the corner of his mouth.

“I did,” she agreed.

“Yeah, well, as I said, I was the one with confidence issues,” Anson whispered. “Duff was always the charming one—you know, the one girls flocked to.”

“Oh, I don’t know,” Eden said. “You seem pretty charming yourself.” He could read her every thought and he knew that if he leaned in right now, she’d allow him to kiss her, but would that be for the best? Duff would be pissed if he moved in on Eden without him. On their walk home last night, Duff read him