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

her face in her hands. “I’m sorry, Dear,” Glory whispered. “I’ll do some digging through my spell books and come up with something else. We’ll keep trying. Something will work; I just know it.”

“I appreciate that,” Eden breathed.

“You look exhausted,” Anson said. Duff lifted her from the chair and into his arms.

“How about we take you to bed and you can get some rest. That way, when Glory finds a new spell, you’ll be ready,” Duff said. He loved the way she rested her head against his chest, snuggling into his arms.

“Thank you,” she whispered.

“You don’t ever have to thank us for taking care of you, Eden,” Anson said.

“Night all,” Glory called after them. They called back over their shoulders and took Eden to Anson’s room. He had the king-sized bed and the most room for the three of them. Duff carefully let her slide down his body and when her feet hit the floor, she looked up at him.

“Don’t look at me like that, Baby,” Duff warned. “You need rest. Then, we can play.” Eden’s adorable pout made him want to kiss it from her lips. Anson turned her to face him and began stripping her.

“Well, at least one of you seems to be on board,” she teased.

“I’m not,” Anson said. “Duff’s right—you need rest. I just want you naked in between us while you sleep.”

She groaned out her frustration, causing them both to chuckle. “You two aren’t playing fair,” she insisted.

“We never promised to play fair, Eden. We did make you the promise that we’d take care of you and that involves making sure that you don’t drop from exhaustion,” Anson said. “Up in bed, Baby,” he ordered. She took his offered hand and crawled into bed, making Duff rethink his decision not to make her theirs again tonight. Watching her crawl across the bed in only her bra and panties made him half crazy with need.

“You’re not exactly playing fairly yourself, Honey,” Duff warned. He and Anson stripped down to their boxer briefs and climbed in on either side of Eden. He loved the way she fit between them so perfectly. She was theirs and whatever came next—past, present, or future wouldn’t change that.

Eden

Eden woke in her dorm room and looked around. “How did I get back here?” she whispered to herself. The last thing she remembered was falling asleep between Anson and Duff at their father’s house. The spell that she and Glory tried to cast hadn’t worked, or had it?

She threw off her covers and stood; shivering as soon as her bare feet hit the hardwood floor. “Where is my rug?” she whispered. Eden looked around the room and realized that all her things were gone. “Shit,” she breathed, hurrying over to the dresser that sat under the window. But instead of holding her things, someone else’s belongings littered the top. Her laptop was gone, the new bedding that she bought to spruce up the old room—all of it was gone.

She looked through the drawers and found a brown leather wallet, pulling it out, hoping that it might give her some clue as to what was going on. “Theodore Graystone,” she whispered, looking at the picture of her father on his driver’s license. “Nineteen ninety-one. It worked.” She tossed her father’s wallet back into the top drawer, as if it had scorched her skin, and slammed it shut.

She needed to find the guys. If her spell worked on her, then it probably worked on both of them. At least, that was what she was hoping because she wouldn’t be able to complete their plan without them. For this to work, she needed Anson and Duff to hold up their end of the bargain and help keep her aunt from her gruesome fate in the woods.

Eden rummaged through her father’s clothes and found a pair of sweatpants with a drawstring that would fit her. She pulled them on and grabbed one of his t-shirts, pulling it over her head. She just needed to find a pair of shoes and she’d be good to go. She found a pair of sneakers and pulled them on. They were way too big for her, but at least she wouldn’t have to run around campus barefooted.

The key now was for her to get across campus to the woods and try to find the guys. If their plan worked, they were supposed to meet her in the woods where Bianca was found. She slowly opened the door and looked down the empty hallway, deciding the coast was clear, she headed for the stairs that led down to the main entrance.

“Looks like Theo had some company.” She turned to find a guy standing against the wall, arms crossed over his chest, a smirk on his face.

“Eww,” she breathed. If this guy only knew how gross his assumption was.

“Don’t pretend that I didn’t just catch you coming out of Theo’s room,” he said.

“Listen, buddy, you have no idea what you’re talking about. How about you pretend you didn’t see anything and I can get on with my day.” The guy chuckled and she knew that the possibility of her being able to just sneak out of Graystone Hall, undetected, was a pipe dream.

“Not a chance, Honey. You were caught red-handed, sneaking out of the men’s dormitory.” Ahh-yes, she forgot that Graystone Hall used to be a men’s only dormitory, and the rules used to be a lot stricter back in her father’s day, about sneaking a woman into his room.

“Okay,” she breathed. “We’ll just do this the hard way.” Eden screamed at the top of her lungs as if she was being attacked.

“What the fuck are you doing?” he asked. Guys were starting to poke their heads out of their dorm rooms, wiping the sleep from their eyes, to see what all the commotion was about. She reached for the guy, pulling his hands onto her waist, holding onto his arms so he couldn’t pull free. Poor guy didn’t