by K E Osborn
“I don’t even know your name,” she says and I chuckle.
She agrees to fuck me but doesn’t know my name? What a slut!
“Caleb,” I reply and she giggles annoyingly and places her hand on my chest.
I smirk and take another sip of my beer.
“So, is that your record for the shortest amount of time to have a girl agree to go home with you?” she asks and takes another sip of her champagne then places it on the bar and swivels to face me.
“I don’t know what you mean. I’m not normally this forward,” I joke and she throws her head back and laughs so hysterically loud, it’s not only annoying, but it’s kinda embarrassing. I look away and rub the back of my neck hoping people aren’t looking at us. I mean I like being the centre of attention, but not because some slut is being an absolute idiot.
“Okay, it wasn’t that funny,” I say turning back to her trying to make her shut up.
She raises her eyebrow at me and smirks nodding her head. “Mm-hmm,” she murmurs sarcastically and swivels back around.
I look around the room and thankfully no one is looking at us. Everyone is in their little groups, and the music and noise are quite loud so no one overheard her ridiculous cackle. She turns back to me and her brows are furrowed and she looks quite confused.
“My drink is gone,” she says.
I look at the bar and notice her glass isn’t there anymore. She must’ve drunk it all and the waiter took away the empty glass. Stupid ditz doesn’t even know when her drink is empty. I don’t want her to cause another scene so I turn and face the bartender and wave at him, he looks over and I point to Angelica, he nods and starts to pour another champagne.
She shakes her head like she’s baffled by the missing drink and I roll my eyes. She’s so not my type, but I want something different so Angel will have to do tonight.
The bartender brings over her new drink and she picks it up and smiles.
“Thank you, Caleb,” she tries to say my name in a sexy way, but instead, she just sounds more like a dying cat.
Man, why do I do this to myself? Find the ditsiest woman in the place and leave with her. It’s always the same and I guess tonight is no different. Angel will do for tonight, and then when I leave her, I can wallow about how much of a jerk I am to women. Even though I know I treat them like shit, I can’t help myself. They’re all the same, begging for a piece of me and when I show them what I’m capable of then they all hate me for not wanting more from them. I can’t do more. I tried once and it failed, so what’s the point?
“Caleb?” I hear her screechy voice and it breaks me away from my thoughts.
“Huh?” I ask and she frowns slightly.
“Weren’t you listening to me?”
“Yeah, sure, Angel. Let’s go outside, I need some fresh air,” I say and walk off not waiting for her, but I know that she’s following me anyway. I walk outside and stand by a makeshift heater. It’s cold out tonight and I need some warmth until I can leave and get all fired up with Angel.
“Caleb. So you’re Colt’s nephew then, right?” I nod and smile as she steps closer to me. “Are you into music as well?”
I smile a genuine smile because the thought of music always makes me happy. “Yeah, I sing in a band with my cousins and two other family friends. We’re gonna make it big someday just like Slayed.”
“Wow! So you’re totally going to be famous?” she asks bouncing up on her toes in excitement.
“You’re one of the most common household names in the world and you’re excited because I might be famous one day?” I ask with an incredulous chuckle.
“Well, you have to understand, Caleb, that since the…well, since what happened, people don’t generally waste their time with me. The only reason they invited me here is because Daddy built a marina for one of Colt’s holiday homes.”
I feel a smidgen of sympathy for her, but then I realise she’s just using me like I’m using her. She’s benefiting by climbing the social ladder and I’m using her plainly for sex. Well, I guess she’ll be in for a shock later when I don’t call her back. I chuckle to myself and she furrows her brows at me.
“Look, I know what happened to you and it was pretty shit if you honestly didn’t know about the animal testing but, to be honest, Angel, I don’t care about that. All I care about is stripping you naked and making you scream my name with every thrust inside you. Do you think you can do that for me?”
She opens her eyes fully and smirks. “You’re really not backward in coming forward are you, Caleb?”
I step closer and take hold of her waist pulling her body flush with mine. I watch as her breath hitches again and she licks her lips. I think I can even feel her trembling a little. She’s affected by me and I plan to make tonight worth her while.
“With you, Angel, I’ll be coming backward and forward all night long. I just hope you’re up for the ride?” I whisper moving in closer to her lips.
She gasps and moves her hands up around my neck and laces her fingers together in my hair. “I’m game if you are,” she says.
I smirk and lean forward pressing my lips to hers forcefully. I don’t want her thinking in any way that tonight will be soft love making. I don’t do that. I fuck and I fuck like it’s that last time I’ll be able to. I really hope she’s game, because I’m going to show Angelica Braithwaite the night of her fucking life. I kiss her hard and I’m lost in my mind thinking of Indi while I’m kissing Angel when suddenly something knocks into us making our heads crash together forcefully. I pull away raising my hand to my sore head. I straight away notice Annie laughing and then stumble to the ground.
“Jesus Christ, Annie. What the fuck?” I glare at her, wondering why the fuck she just ran into us. She laughs harder and then hiccups while she moves from side to side as she sits on the ground, almost like she’s dizzy.
“What’s wrong with you?” I ask looking down at her and hoping like fuck she hasn’t been doing what I think she’s been doing.
She giggles and shrugs which are followed by another hiccup. I furrow my brows and shake my head. “Shit! Annie, are you drunk?” I ask squatting down beside her to look into her eyes, but she shakes her head and then frowns as she gags from the sudden movement.
“For fuck’s sake! I better get you out of here before any cameras snap this,” I say hoping no one has already seen the underage daughter of a rock star thoroughly inebriated. She laughs as I scoop her up into my arms. She wraps her arms around my neck and I’m glad she can hold on, but she’s now completely ruined my night with Angel. I’ll have to take care of Annie and deal with the ramifications when her dad finds out she’s been drinking.
I look at Angel who’s smirking at Annie and I lean in and kiss her cheek.
“Rain check?” I ask.
“I drink your stole!” Annie blurts out in her drunken stupor.
I crease my brows at Annie while Angel frowns and shakes her head. “Look after her, Caleb,” Angel says and I grieve the loss of the really great fuck session I was going to have tonight, which is now replaced with looking after my bloody, drunken cousin. Annie swings her arms out almost causing me to drop her as she giggles. Stupid brat!
“Weee, I can fly like a bird,” she says and tries to swing around in my arms making it increasingly harder to hold onto her.
“Jesus Annie, stay still.” I start the walk from the back of the beer garden toward my car. The security guard isn’t at the door, so I sneak out hoping like fuck no one sees us. I walk us over to my car and look down at Annie’s eyes rolling around in her head.
“You’re my cousin and I love you, Annie, but you can be a fucking idiot sometimes.” I place her down on the ground and grab the keys from my pocket. I press the button and it beeps.
“Beep beep, like the Road Runner,” Annie says and now I’m becoming mad. I just want to get her in the car to take her to the hospital. I know she’s never drunk alcohol before and God knows how much she’s had to drink tonight. I want
to get her checked out to make sure she won’t get alcohol poisoning.
“Get in the car, Annie,” I say forcefully as I open her door. She twirls in a circle and then slumps into my car laughing her head off at nothing. She really is wasted! I shut her door and walk around to the driver’s side and slide in putting my keys in the ignition.
“Sorry for ruining your smoochy time with Princess Hair Extensions,” she says and I actually chuckle, because in this shitty situation that was actually pretty funny. I relax a little thinking maybe she isn’t as wasted as I thought she might be.
“Buckle up,” I say and she grabs the seatbelt and pulls, but she’s pulling too hard and the safety is catching. She starts to laugh hysterically thinking it’s hilarious and I shake my head at her.
“Your belt is broken,” she tells me and I huff leaning over grabbing her belt and pulling it over her body and buckling her in.
“Wow, you’re like a magician.”
I roll my eyes. “How much did you drink, Annie?”
She shrugs and then I can see her happy expression fall into something I don’t want to see. She turns pale and frowns then starts to gag.
No fucking way is she puking in my baby!
“Oh, no you don’t,” I say and rush from my side of the car around to hers. I open her door as she gags again and I undo her seatbelt. “Annie, lean forward.”
She leans out of the car with her head hanging down. “I don’t feel so good anymore,” she whispers. I take a step back and she leans forward as her stomach heaves and she throws up all over the pavement. I throw my hands in the air in frustration as she pukes her guts up. At least it wasn’t inside my car, and I guess, at least she’s getting some of it out of her system.
She heaves again and I shake my head. “Fuck Annie,” I say as she spits the last of it out of her mouth. I walk to the boot of my car and open it to grab a bottle of water. I always keep bottled water in my car mainly for the drive back home after fucking some random. Fucking is thirsty work, you know.
“Drink this,” I say as she leans back into the car and her pale face is now sweaty. She doesn’t look well at all. I can’t believe she got wasted like this. Colt is going to murder her!
“Are you gonna yak again?” I ask. She shakes her head, slowly resting it back on the car seat as she closes her eyes.
I start to wonder why on earth she’d do something like this? Was she just trying to get drunk or did something trigger her to do it. I don’t know, but I need to find out. But not now, right now she can rest.
“Okay, I’m gonna buckle you up again,” I explain as I lean inside the car. Her eyes are still closed and I’m pretty sure she may have passed out. I get back in the car and start the drive toward the nearest hospital. The whole way there, I keep looking over at her to make sure she’s okay, but she’s dreaming. I can tell because she’s mumbling about Aston as she sleeps. I can’t really make out what she’s saying, and every now and then she jolts awake but falls asleep almost instantly again.
I pull up in the emergency bay and rush around her side and pull her out of my car, closing the door with my hip. I race her through the double sliding doors and the reception nurse looks up at me straight away.
“Please, can you help her? She’s had too much to drink,” I say and the nurse nods.
“Isn’t she a little young for you to be drinking with?” the nurse asks and I flinch back and shake my head.
“Umm, I think you have this all wrong. She’s my cousin, and it’s her birthday. She got a little too excited and drank too much. Can you help her sober up or not?”
She half smiles and nods. “Follow me,” she says and walks into the emergency area. I follow her and even though I work out and I consider myself to be quite strong and muscular, carrying a dead weighted seventeen-year-old girl is not as easy as I thought it would be.
She walks us into a bay and nods at the bed. I place Annie down onto it and she moans slightly and I stiffen wondering if she’s going to puke again. She doesn’t and has quickly fallen back asleep.
“Has she taken anything other than alcohol tonight?” the nurse asks and I shake my head.
I bloody hope not!
“No, she wouldn’t. She’s smart…normally,” I reply while the nurse begins to attach some sort of machine to Annie.
“Should we call her parents?” the nurse asks and I shake my head.
“No, I’ll do it when she wakes up. Let’s not worry them before then.”
“Okay, well, I need to put some monitors on her chest, so I suggest you leave the room for a moment while I take down her dress.”
“Oh, yeah, of course. I don’t want to see that,” I say and she finally cracks a smile. I walk out into the waiting room and pace the floor running my hands through my long hair. Annie better be all right or I don’t know how I’m going to explain this shit to Colt!
“Caleb?” a sweet angelic voice chimes and it rocks me to my very core.
I turn around to see her. My heart thuds ferociously and if it wasn’t already broken I think it’s now shattering into even more pieces. She’s even more beautiful than I remember and I’m sure I look crazy just standing here wide eyed and open mouthed staring at the woman I’ve loved my entire life.
“Indi?” I murmur and her name rolls off my tongue sending a vibration through me that sets me on fire. Just the sight of her and I feel weak.
“What are you doing here?” she asks walking up to me.
I swallow hard and resist the urge to lean out and hold her hand. “I haven’t seen you since you left six years ago and all you can say to me is, what are you doing here?” I ask with a smirk and she shakes her head and smiles.
“It’s nice to see you too, Caleb,” she says, then frowns and goes to walk past me.
My heart starts to race and I panic thinking that she’s leaving me again.
“Indi, wait,” I say reaching out and caressing her arm. She stops in her tracks and looks sideways at me.
“Caleb,” she whispers.
I exhale as those stupid goofy butterflies swarm in my stomach at the feeling of her soft and delicate skin against mine. I can’t help myself as I lean in closer to her. It’s like my lips are magnetised to hers and all I want to do is kiss her. I can’t help the pull I feel toward her, so I lean forward and gently peck her soft, supple lips.
He leans in and his lips touch mine and I’m suddenly powerless against him. I haven’t seen him for six years and it feels like I’m right back to being a teenager and lusting all over him again. I can’t help but get lost in the moment as I kiss him back. Moving my hand up to the back of his head, I run my fingers through his shoulder length hair, the hair that I always relished. He hasn’t changed. He smells the same, he looks even better, and my body is reacting to him the same way it always did. My heart is thumping in my chest so violently I feel sick and my stomach is twisting in knots – good and bad knots. I’ve missed him. I thought about him every day since I left, but right now my memory is taking me back to the place where Caleb and I ended.
Walking out of the classroom, I haven’t seen Caleb at school all day and I wondered if he’d even came after our fight this morning. I walked across the yard and noticed Caleb walking out of the building with a girl on each arm. I stopped and hid behind a tree and watched to see what he was doing. Last night he told me he wanted a relationship and now it looks like he’s flirting with not one, but two of the sluttiest girls in school. They were chatting, but I obviously couldn’t hear what about because I was too far away. One of the girls was now walking away while the other was looking at Caleb like she wanted to devour him. It churned my stomach. He loved me, at least that was what he said, and I know I turned him down, but it didn’t mean that I didn’t love him in return. I did, and because I loved him, well that was the reason we couldn’t be together. He saw how my mum loved my dad and how it destroyed them both. I couldn’t let that happen to us, so I told him we couldn’t be together. But I had every intention o
f telling him I loved him too. I just needed some time to get my head around the fact that I was making the right choice by not being in a relationship with him.
I watched as Maddie pushed Caleb up against the wall. I gasped as he smiled at her and she leant in to kiss him. My heart dropped through my chest and it felt like the whole world was falling away from me. The guy I loved was kissing another girl. He wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her closer. My eyes started to well with tears at the utter betrayal and hurt I felt at that moment. How could he do that to me? He said he loved me, and now he was snogging on with Maddie Saint Claire? What a lying arsehole! I continued to watch like a deer caught in the headlights of a car when Maddie dropped to her knees and started to undo Caleb’s zipper of his pants. I brought my hand up to my mouth as a sob escaped, trying to stop myself from screaming at him as she pulled his cock out. I couldn’t watch anymore so I turned and ran back to Caleb’s home.
No one was home when I got there, which was perfect for what I had to do. I needed to hurry because my decision to leave would only be made harder if he’d came home. I raced into my room and packed all my things into two bags. I squeezed everything I could in and rushed out of the door sobbing the entire time.
My world was falling apart around me and nothing I do could wipe the image of Caleb about to get a blowjob from Maddie out of my mind. I slammed the front door and turned to look back at the home I was a part of for nine months. I’d be eighteen in another month, so legally I still needed a guardian. I’d let Hux know where I was when I figured out where I was going. For now though, I’d have to think quickly. I had enough money saved to rent a flat, so I needed to start looking. But for the time being I’d have to stay in my car.
Hux and Macy had been so good to me, and leaving without saying goodbye was breaking my heart. But Caleb had broken it already, so I guess hurting for them only made this worse. I quickly rushed down to my car and threw in my luggage. I got in and drove. I had no idea where I was going, but I needed to find a park or something, somewhere where I could search for a place to stay.