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

the riot act for pretending that he didn’t want Eden Graystone. He sometimes forgot that Duff could read his every thought and saying that he didn’t want Eden didn’t exactly translate to his overly active brain. All he could think about doing was kissing her and his brother knew it. Lying to Duff wasn’t going to be something he could do but keeping his feelings from Eden was possible. The question was—did he want to? The honest answer was no.

He leaned into her space and brushed his knuckles down her soft cheek. Anson liked that she didn’t wear much make-up. She honestly didn’t need it. Eden was a cross between sexy as fuck, with her curvy hips and ass, and cute as a button with her dimples and freckles that speckled her nose and cheeks. Yeah—she was his walking wet dream and kissing her right now wasn’t something he’d be able to stop himself from doing.

He could hear her heart beating and her breath hitch. She wanted to kiss him too, he didn’t need to be a mind reader to see that. “Tell me to stop now, Eden,” he breathed. His lips were so close to hers that he could feel her hot breath on his skin.

“Why do you want me to tell you to stop, Anson?” she questioned. “Do you want to kiss me?” she asked.

“More than I’ve ever wanted anything,” he admitted. “But this is a bad idea,” he whispered. “Our families don’t like each other and my brother—”

“What about Duff?” she asked.

“I promised I wouldn’t do anything with you, without him,” Anson breathed.

“Wait—what?” she asked.

“Duff wants you too, Eden. We both do,” Anson said.

She moaned and wrapped her arms around his neck. Pulling him down to seal her lips over his. She was taking what he was afraid to give her and God, it was hot. Everything about their kiss turned him on and for just a minute, he wanted to give her everything he had just seen in her thoughts.

He felt his brother on the other side of her dorm room door before he even knocked. “Shit,” he breathed.

“I take it from your reaction that it’s your brother,” she said. “Did you use your Jedi mind powers to call him here?” she asked. Anson laughed and got up from her bed to let his brother in. Knowing Duff, he wouldn’t be ignored, and waking up Eden’s entire dorm wouldn’t end well for any of them.

Anson pulled the door open and smiled at his brother. “I thought we agreed to wait until she was ready for what we want with her. I thought you promised not to go after her on your own, and then you go and kiss her, Anson?” Duff asked.

He reached out into the hallway and grabbed a handful of his brother’s jacket, pulling him into the room. “You’re going to wake up the whole dorm, asshole,” Anson whispered. He shut the door behind his brother and they stood in the middle of the room, mimicking each other’s stance, arms crossed over their massive chests.

“Oh good,” Eden said. “A pissing match. You two do this often?” she asked.

“Do what?” Duff asked.

“Act like five-year-olds,” she said.

“We are not acting like five-year-olds,” Duff insisted.

She looked him up and down and smiled, “All you needed was to stomp your foot and you’d look exactly like a petulant child. Your brother was playing with one of your toys and you’re angry and want it back. Well,” she said, crossing the room to where they both stood. She put herself in the middle of them and placed her small hands on each of their chests. “I’m not something that either of you can play with and I’m not going to be the center of your little tiffs.”

“Little tiff?” Anson asked.

“Sure—you know, a spat,” she said. “I won’t have you two arguing over me like this. I kissed Anson. He didn’t kiss me. Honestly, he was taking too long to decide if he wanted to kiss me, and I got sick of waiting. So, I kissed him.”

“Oh—he wanted to kiss you, Princess. He wanted it so badly that his need woke me from a dead sleep. He wanted to kiss you but he was also worried about our family's feud and the fact that he made me a promise,” Duff chided, shooting his brother another angry look.

She faced Duff and Anson smiled. Eden was going to be a handful and if she was going to do what she was thinking, she was going to knock Duff for a loop and Anson was going to enjoy watching it happen. Eden looked back at Anson and smiled.

“Oh shut up,” she said. She knew that he was in her mind, reading her every thought.

He held up his hands as if in defense, “Hey—I didn’t say a word,” he insisted. She seemed satisfied and turned back to face Duff.

“You’re jealous that I kissed him, aren’t you?” she asked. Duff looked her over and hummed his agreement. “Well, that’s easy to fix,” she said. Eden pulled Duff down to kiss him and when he wrapped his arms around Eden’s waist and lifted her against his body, Anson framed her back, trapping them between the two of them. She was just where they wanted her—stuck in the middle of them both and Anson wasn’t sure how or why she felt so right there, but she did. Eden Graystone wasn’t supposed to be theirs but she was and Anson was sure there wasn’t anything the three of them would be able to do to change that fact.

Duff

He was asleep and dreaming about Eden when he felt the need from Anson radiating off of him. He woke to find his brother’s bed empty and as soon as Duff connected to him, he knew that Anson was with Eden, and he was up to no good.

On their walk home last night, Anson promised that he wouldn’t go after Eden on his own. Duff was just