Page 32 of The Secret's Out

Chapter Eight

Josie

Friday I woke to Simone jumping on my bed. Once I was coherent enough, she demanded to know what was up with my attitude the previous night. I explained everything, all the thoughts I had flowing through my head. How I thought I didn’t deserve the attention of the two men.

She cackled and said, “Honey, you’re crazy. I knew they were all talk. Christ, any female can see how they feel about you. It’s hard for them to even take their eyes off you.” She beamed then and squealed.

Which was when my bedroom door burst open and in it stood Caden and Eli wearing nothing but boxers. Their chests rose and fell rapidly and their guns were drawn to the room.

Simone burst out laughing, laying across my bed holding her stomach.

I offered a grimace and a shrug, then said, “Sorry, um, she was excited about something at school today.”

Caden relaxed first and with a smirk, as though he knew I was lying and had been in fact talking to her about them, shook his head and left the room.

Eli rolled his eyes and placed his hands to his waist, still holding his gun. Before he wandered off, he muttered, “All women are crazy.”

The morning started out frantic, after Simone and I took the time to talk, we realised we were late for class. We quickly dressed, me in jeans, a tee and a jacket, while Simone went for a skirt, tights and a woollen jumper. The guys stood waiting, with smirks upon their handsome faces, while we rushed around the house getting organised. On the way out, I grabbed a banana for breakfast and climbed into the passenger side of Simone’s car. When the back door opened, I jumped and looked behind me to see Eli climbing in the car.

“W-what are you doing?” I asked.

“Babe.” He smiled. “You didn’t honestly think we’d let you go to uni on your own? I’m doing half the time and Caden will catch up later.”

“But, why?”

“Sweetheart, no one fucks with you. We need to make sure all those fuckers got the picture or else they deal with us.” He reached out and gently touched my shoulder before pulling his hand back and saying, “Don’t stress, Josie. I won’t even be in your classes. I’ll wait outside for them to finish.”

“This is going to be so much fun.” Simone clapped, started the car and began to drive.

“But...” I started before shoving the banana in my mouth and doing up my seat belt.

“Seriously, babe. Just go with it.”

It wasn’t like I had a choice, really.

Remaining silent, I smiled. If I were honest with myself, I was glad there wasn’t a choice. I had been worried with how the day would turn out. Knowing Cameron, he would be fuming over the altercation they had the previous day.

Having Eli at my back eased my troubled thoughts.

It wasn’t until lunch did I find out how difficult it was to have Eli with me. He stayed true to his words and stayed outside the lecture room. However, the looks he got from the female students irritated me. I knew there were many good-looking women around and they’d zoned in on the rough, handsome biker.

Never had I had so many girls come up to me in class to see if I could introduce them to Eli. When I didn’t respond, they glared at me. I felt bad for the barest of heart beats, but that quickly passed as I didn’t want Eli to think I was pushing other women onto him, not when my feelings for him were strong.

Groaning, I got up from my seat and walked out of the room. It was my last class before lunch and then after, I had only one other, but that would go for another two hours.

As soon as I passed the door, I spotted Eli standing opposite me, only he was surrounded by at least five women. I grumbled under my breath. I wanted to stomp my foot, waltz over there and stake my claim.

But I didn’t.

“Hey,” someone said beside me.

Looking up, I quickly took a step back. A guy I didn’t know stood before me. “Um, hi.”

He smiled. “Sorry to scare you. I’m Kevin.” Thankfully he didn’t hold out his hand to me. “I’m in a few classes of yours and, ah, sorry I wanted to see, uh, now that you’re not, um with Cameron.”

I gasped. “I was never with him.”

“Sorry.” He blushed. “I know, what I mean is, I heard Cameron has backed off and, now that he has, I wanted to know if you would like to...go out to the movies or something.”

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