Faith (My Misery Muse) (8 page)

I rolled back over and pulled her against me
but she wiggled away and sat up and looked at me.

“Don’t think this changes anything, Drake.”
Then she got up and got dressed.

What the hell just happened?

Chapter 13

Mags

Devi had called me earlier in the week asking
if I was interested in joining her on an adventure. The guys had
been gone almost three weeks now, and I could tell she was bored
without having Seth around. To be honest, I was missing Drake as
well. We had talked every day for the past three weeks but we
always kept it light, not wanting to get into the issues around us.
I had found, though, that I looked forward to hearing his voice
every day. I was starting to think that things between us could
work, that we could do the whole relationship thing. I was getting
excited about seeing him again; I wanted to see where this took
us.

I walked into Pin’s Ink to
find Devi, Ash and Jules singing along to
Hey Ho
, while Cris and Max looked at
them like they were both crazy, so basically things were normal
here. I hadn’t been by in a few months so it was good to see Cris
and Max.

I gave them both a hug then was attacked by
Jaks who was jumping around with his mom and Jules.

“Were going on a venture, Aunt Mags!” he
yelled.

“Do you know what the adventure is?”

He shook his head. “Mommy, won’t tell me, she
says it’s a secret.”

I nodded. “She wouldn’t tell me either.”

He shrugged then went back to dancing with
Jules.

“You ready?” asked Devi.

“Ah hell, are we going to get arrested?” She
had that glint in her eyes that usually ended with us in
handcuffs.

“You have no faith in me.”

“Nope, I have a wrap sheet because of
you.”

She stuck her tongue out at me. “Those aren’t
just from me, you know.”

I nodded. “You’re right, some are because of
Cin.”

“Yeah, uhm she wasn’t invited for this
adventure.”

I laughed. “She still whining about
Seattle?”

“Yep, and I don’t want to hear it.”

“So what are we doing?”

“It’s an adventure.”

“Shit, Cris do you have bail money.”

He nodded. “Yep.”

“Okay, let’s go.”

Devi grabbed Jaks’ hand and Jules, Ash, and I
followed them out of the shop towards our cars. “Where we
going?”

Devi got a sly smile on her face. Damn, we
were fucked. “Drake's.”

We were at Drake’s adventuring, we had a
blanket laid out for Cait and Quinn to lie on and Jaks was running
around helping us. We were all laughing and having a great day. I
knew we would be in some serious trouble when he got home, but it
was too much fun to be concerned about it.

I heard a sharp inhale from Devi and looked
over, making sure she hadn’t hurt herself and saw what made her
gasp. Jules was bent over and her shirt had ridden up and there
were bruises covering her back.

“What the hell?” Devi yelled walking towards
Jules.

Jules looked confused for a second then must
have realized what had Devi pissed and pulled her shirt down.

“It’s nothing,” she murmured.

“The hell it is.”

“Seriously, it’s nothing, okay, just drop it,
Devi.”

“I’m not going to drop that Jules. Who the
fuck did that to you? I will cut off their balls!” she yelled.

“Devi, stop!” Jules yelled back. “It’s
nothing, really.”

I grabbed Devi’s arm which was reaching for
her shirt and shook my head at her when she looked at me. We had a
conversation with our eyes, neither willing to let it drop, but we
weren’t going to pursue it here.

“Fine,” she snapped then walked off to check
on the girls. I let out a breath and went to help Jaks.

Drake

I pulled into my driveway trying to figure
what the fuck had happened in my front yard; I couldn’t quite
figure out what I was seeing. I glanced over at Sam trying to see
what he was thinking but like me he was staring out the window. I
got out of the car and walked over to what looked like a flock of
those cheap plastic flamingos had taken roost in my front yard. As
I got closer, I noticed there were lawn gnomes standing among them.
What the hell?

Sam walked up beside me cocking his head to
the side and pointed. “Is that…” Then he started laughing until he
was gasping for breath.

I looked to what he was pointing at and saw
it, they weren’t just lawn gnomes, they were zombie lawn gnomes. I
closed my eyes, took a deep breath, then looked again. There were
zombie flamingos and a few flamingos with Santa hats.

“Is that”—laugh—“a gnome”—laugh—“eating a
flamingo,” Sam gasped out.

“God Damn It, Devlin!” I yelled, which caused
Sam to fall on his knees laughing.

I closed my eyes and pinched the bridge of my
nose, and took a deep breath. My HOA was going to have a fucking
field day with this.

My cell started ringing, I pulled it out of
my pocket hoping to see my fucking sister’s name but instead was
Eli.

“Hey Eli,” I clipped out, all I heard in
return is laughter. “Eli, you there?”

“Yes,” he gasped out.

“Uhm okay, what’s up?”

“Your sister.”

“Zombie flamingos and gnomes?” I asked.

“What?” he laughed harder. “No.” I heard him
attempt to take a breath. “With X, he has”-laugh—“two reindeer
mounting each other with Santa watching”—gasp.

“He what?” I asked fighting off laughing
myself.

“And a sign that says, 'Do it X treme'.”

“Oh hell.”

“X is pissed, but laughing his ass off.”

“Yeah, I know the feeling.” I looked over to
find Sam with his phone out taking pictures. “Hey get
pictures.”

“Already done,” he said. “So what’s this
about zombie flamingos and lawn gnomes?”

So I filled him in on what I found in my
yard, which had him in hysterics again.

I finally got off the phone with him and
called Seth, when he answered he was pissed. “My fucking wife moved
all of the furniture into the front yard and arranged it exactly
like it was in the living room including the Christmas tree and
presents.”

“She was here and at X’s too.”

“Oh fuck, what did she do?”

“Uhm she set up two Christmas reindeer in his
front yard so they were uhm, copulating and I have a yard full of
flamingos, zombie garden gnomes, zombie flamingos, and Santa
hat-wearing flamingos.”

When he stopped laughing, “Have you seen my
wife?”

“No, I was calling to see if you had.”

“She’s hiding, she’s not stupid.”

“Mags?”

“Yeah, that’s my guess.”

“Okay, I’ll head over there.”

He snorted. “Yeah, I bet you will, when you
see her tell her to get her ass home with my kids.”

“Will do man, see ya.”

I hung up and looked over at Sam. “I’m going
over to Mags’ place.”

He nodded, and then went in the house; I got
back in the car ready to bust my sister’s ass.

Chapter 14

Mags

The day following our ‘adventure,’ Devi was
at my place hiding out. We knew the boys would know where to look,
but she didn’t want to help Seth put the furniture back into the
house. I still couldn’t believe I had agreed to help her with that
particular adventure, though what she did to Xavier’s house was
priceless. Both our phones had been ringing for the past half hour
and we’re both waiting on someone to start pounding on the door
looking for her, knowing her, whoever it was, was going to be
fucked with, Devi bored was not a good thing.

We were sitting at the
computer googling guys and listening to
Avenged Sevenfold,
our latest
crushes, when someone started pounding on the door.

“Devlin Shaye Taylor, I know your scrawny ass
is in there,” bellowed Drake through the door. She, of course,
started giggling; I rolled my eyes and went to open the door.

“Hey, Drake.”

“Where is the li'l shit?”

“In the living room.” I moved out of the way
and let him in; wondering what was going to come out of her
mouth.

She didn’t even bother looking at him. “Hey
do you think Seth would be pissed if I slept with Matt?”

Drake stopped cold and had a look of utter
confusion on his face. I had to cover my mouth to stop from
laughing. “Matt?”

“M. Shadows” Devi answered looking at the
computer screen.

“Uhm, yeah pretty sure Seth would be pissed,
wait, isn’t he married?”

“Well, yeah but so am I,” she popped off.

At this point, I couldn’t breathe from trying
not to laugh at the sight of Drake's face.

“See most couples have lists of who they can
sleep with if ever given the chance. Well, I know my top three so I
thought why not give it a try.”

“Devi, it’s not going to work.”

“Huh, what’s not?” she gave him an innocent
look, she almost pulled off.

He sighed and ran his hands through his hair
pulling at the ends a sure sign she was getting to him—bad move on
his part.

“Seth wouldn’t go for it,” he said. “Plus, I
am pretty sure you wouldn’t want him sleeping with anyone else,
quid pro quo and all that.”

She huffed out a breath and nodded her head.
“Good point.” Then went back to her search. At this point, I
couldn’t hold it in anymore and fell on the couch laughing.

“I’m glad you find all this funny.”

“Your face was—” I couldn’t finish.

“Devlin, why did you fuck with my house?”

She gave him a confused look. “What’s wrong
with your house? I went by yesterday to check on it and everything
was fine.”

He growled which caused me to laugh
harder.

“Devi, go home, Seth is looking for you.”

She waved him off. “He knows where I am.”

“Wait, where are the kids?”

She looked over at me and shrugged. “I don’t
really know where they are.”

His face started turning purple and I knew I
had to intervene at this point before she gave him a stroke.

“All three are with Ash,” I responded before
he could wrap his fingers around her throat.

He nodded. “Devi, go home.”

“Fine,” she grumbled. “Oh and by the way
everyone is coming over to our house tomorrow for Christmas
Eve.”

“All right, see you tomorrow.”

She leaned up on her tiptoes and gave him a
kiss on the cheek. “Bye bro, bye Mags.”

I looked at Drake. “I love your sister.”

“She’s a pain in the ass,” he grumbled.

“Yes, and you love having this Devi
back.”

“Yeah, I do.”

“So how was it?”

“Interesting, I learned about what I would be
doing, not much different than my current job. I think it will be
fun though, only thing I am not looking forward to is being X’s
babysitter.”

I wrinkled my nose at that. “Oh that’s just
mean.”

He walked over to me and wrapped his arms
around my hips, leaned down and nuzzled my neck. “So where is my
princess?”

“Ash took them all to go Christmas
shopping.”

He nodded. “Miss me?”

“A little,” I replied breathlessly. He was
nuzzling the skin behind my ear, damn near making me fall to my
knees.

“You dyed your hair, I like the red,” he
murmured.

Drake

I brought my hands around to her hips and
pulled her close and started nipping and kissing down her neck and
back up to her ear. “How long until they come back?” I whispered in
her ear.

“I…I don’t know,” she stuttered.

“Mmm…”

I slipped my fingers under the hem of her
shirt and rubbed circles on her stomach. “That feels good,” she
murmured.

I slid my hand up until I brushed the outer
edge of her breast waiting to see if she complained; when she
moaned, I cupped her breast, rubbing my thumb over her nipple, bent
down and brushed my lips against hers. I pressed more into the kiss
and swept my tongue against her bottom lip, with a whimper, she
opened up to me, and I tangled my tongue with hers. She tasted of
mint and coffee, and I groaned kissing her harder, she reciprocated
by running her hands under my shirt across my abs causing me to
moan.

I grabbed her hip with one hand and pulled
her closer, rubbing my aching cock against her stomach and pinched
her nipple at the same time. She reached around and dug her nails
into my back and I was lost. I pulled my hands away and she started
to complain until I grabbed her ass and picked her up, turned
around and pressed her into the wall still kissing her. She wrapped
her legs around me and put me in the perfect position to rub
against her.

She began to wiggle against me and I damn
near came in my jeans. I broke away from her mouth and began to run
my mouth down her neck and across her collar bone. She pressed more
into me causing us to both gasp.

“Come for me, Mags, come on.”

She moaned loudly and began to move in
earnest. She looked glorious with her head tossed back, eyes
closed, mouth shiny and slightly open. I pressed against her as she
rubbed across my cock, and my eyes nearly crossed. She started
trembling and I knew she was close. I removed a hand from her ass,
reached up and pinched her nipple and she screamed my name.

I reached down and unbuttoned the button of
her jeans, and was reaching for the zipper when I heard pounding on
the door followed by, “Aunt Mags were back, open the door.”

I put my head against her neck and felt like
crying, I was being cock blocked by a five year old.

I looked up at Mags and her eyes were still
glassy, and she had a dazed look on her face. “Baby, we gotta
move.”

“Why?”

“Ash’s here with Princess.”

“Oh, oh oh shit.”

She started wiggling to get down and when I
let her down, she slid down my body right against my aching dick
and I nearly whimpered. Mags fixed her clothing then went to
answered the door while I readjusted myself—I needed a cold
shower.