The Beast and the Homecoming Queen (18 page)

“Wait!” Lizzy yells. “I do love chocolate.” Kaden turns around and give her his killer smile. Quinn's little sister giggles.

After Kaden and Lizzy walk away, Quinn turns to face Rose. There was a time when she thought she would have been her mother, and she hoped they would be close; that never happened. Since her father married Rose she treated Quinn like she was nothing but burden. “What the hell is wrong with you? I don’t talk to you in month, and when I leave you a message asking about my sister you text me back saying she is nothing to me.”

Rose smirks
, and shrugs. “I can't do it anymore; your father was the main parent. Lizzy is yours now, her bags are in the car. I can't handle her moods anymore.”

Quinn can't believe what she is hearing. If she ever had a child, she would never leave them no matter what. “Justin, will you get Lizzy bags?”

“Sure,” Justin says, and kisses her cheek as he walks by her.

Rose grins at her. “Two boys at your house on a Sunday morning.” Quinn doesn’t feel like she owes her stepmother any answer. “Fine, I have some papers for you to sign. I am signing Lizzy over to you, you will be her guardian.”

Quinn glances at the paper in her stepmother's hands. “Why?” She thinks is simple question.

“Because I never wanted kids, and I knew your father would have left me if I didn’t. So I had Lizzy.” Justin walks up with three large suite cases, and nods towards Quinn. “Look I’m not cut out to be a mother, and I thought you would want her here not foster care.”

She can’t believe what she is hearing. What kind of mother would put their own child into foster care? “I do, give me the papers.” Quinn reaches out to grab the page and Rose pulls them out of her reach.

Quinn narrows her eyes on the other woman
. “What else do you want Rose?”

A slow evil smile forms on Rose's face. “I want one hundred-thousand now.” Quinn's mouth drops open, she wants money. It has always been about money.

Quinn thinks about how much money she has inside the house and knows she has five times that in the safe. “Fine come in, and I will get it for you.” Quinn turns around and walks back into her house.

“Justin
, I need you in here please,” she says up the stairs.

Justin comes down an
d smiles at her. “Yes, my love.”

“Watch her,” s
he whispers, and he looks pass her then nods.

Quinn walks into her dad's office, only he knew the combination until he died. Now she knows it, and she will be the only one to ever know it. Along with the combination, there is now a thumb print scan that she had just
put in. Quinn grabs one hundred thousand and walks to her dad's desk to grab something to put it in. She doesn’t want Lizzy to know her mother sold her.

Quinn walks back out to the living room to find her stepmother sitting on top of Justin, and that isn’t the worst part. Justin hands
are on Rose's butt and his lips on hers. “What the hell!” she yells, and Justin rips his lips away from her stepmother. Quinn can feel her heart breaking in a million little pieces. This is why she never fell in love, why she kept her heart to herself. She was scared that someone would rip her heart out and spit on it.

“Quinn.” Justin pushes Rose off o
f him, and she shakes her head.

“No I don’t want to hear it. Rose
, give me the papers.” Rose stands up and smiles, she hands Quinn the papers, and she signs them. “Here is your money I never want to see you again. Now leave.” Rose takes the money and walks away, she stops at the doorway.

“Justin, if you want to see me again, I put my number in your pocket.” She walks out of Quinn's house and she looks back at the man that just broke her heart.

“How could you do that with her?” Justin shakes
his head, and closes his eyes.

“Quinn I don’t know what happened. The last thing I remember was you walking out of the room, and then you walking back in.” He opens his eyes and there are tears in them. “I don’t know what happened, and I know I sound like I’m lying. But I’m not.” He gets on his knees in front of her, and looks down at the floor.

Kaden's laughter fills the room, and she looks at him. His smile falls as soon as he sees Justin on his knees. “Hey Lizzy, we have a lot more junk food in the kitchen. I had to hide it so Quinn wouldn’t eat it all. Go find it.” Lizzy giggles and heads back into the kitchen. Justin still has his head down, and hasn’t moved. “You have alpha submitting to you.” Usually Justin would say something smart to Kaden, but he doesn’t move. He keeps his head down, and doesn’t move at all.

Quinn is still
heartbroken about what he did to her, but seeing him like this hurts her too. “Justin, I don’t want you to submit to me. You can get up.” He doesn’t do anything.

“Yeah that isn’t going to work. What happened?” Ka
den says and walks over to her.”

Quinn looks back down at Justin's head, and closes her eyes. “He was making out with my
stepmother.”

Kaden's cough-laughs, and Quinn opens her eyes. “Sorry, but what?” He shakes his head, and looks down at his brother. “Well
, if Justin feels that you are his mate, losing you would make him submit to you. But there is something about your stepmother, she didn’t smell right.”

Quinn looks at Kaden. “What do you
mean, she didn’t smell right?”

“You are probably used to it, but she didn’t smell one hundred percent human. I would say witch.”

Quinn looks back down at Justin. Rose is a witch? “Could she seduce Justin, without him knowing?”

Kaden laughs, and she glares at him. “Sorry, and yes. I have a feeling that is what she did. No matter how much I hate to admit this, he loves you and he would cut out his own heart before he hurt you.”

Quinn sighs, and looks back at her boyfriend. She gets on her knees so she is face to face with her boyfriend. His face is down, and what she can see of his eyes, they are blank. “How do I fix this?”

Quinn brings her eyes up to Kaden's dark blues. “There is always one thing that will cure almost everything, true love
’s kiss. If you are really Justin's mate you will be able to lift the curse.” Quinn doesn’t miss the hurt on his perfect face.

She frames his face with her hands. Quinn wonders if she is his mate and if this will work. She forces his hea
d up and brings her lips to his, she feels his arms wrap around her, and she smiles against him lips. Quinn pulls back and Justin is crying, she wipes away his tears. “Justin, what's wrong?”

He lays his head on her shoulder, and she wraps her arms around him. “You are my mate.”
He whispers, and Quinn looks up at Kaden, he looks away looks away from her.

Kaden
clears his throat and smiles. “I will check on Lizzy.”

Quinn nods and smiles. “Thank you
, Kaden.”

Before he walks into the kitchen she hears, “don't thank me sweetheart.”

Quinn grabs Justin’s face and forces him to look at her, his eyes are shimmering with his tears, and his normal grey-yellow look like silver coins. “What does it mean, that I’m your mate?”

Justin beautiful smile appears on his face. “We are meant to be with each other. Wolves mate for life, and I will never love anyone else. I will never want to be with anyone but you.”

“But your dad cheated on your mom,” Quinn says, and regrets it.

“Yes but she isn’t his mate. You are my mate and you are the queen to my beast.” Justin grabs her hand and kisses it. “I love you Quinn, and you will be the only girl I will ever love.”

Quinn smiles, and looks down. She has wanted to hear those words for Justin Keto for three years, and now that she has she thinks of Kaden. “I love you too, you know that.”

“But?” Justin's smile falls, and she knows he realizes that Kaden is on her mind.

“Quinn?” She looks at her sister and smiles. Quinn knows that her and Justin need to talk, and they will later. Right now she needs to deal with her sister. “My mom gave up on me, didn’t she?” Lizzy's lip quivers, and Quinn stands up to walks to her.

“Oh Liz, come here.” She wraps her little sister in her arms. “I have missed you so much.”

Quinn can feel the front of her shirt getting wet. “I miss you too, and I miss Dad.”

Quinn has to close her eyes, she doesn’t like to talk about her dad. But this is her sister, and she is all the family she has left. “I miss him too.” She smiles down at Lizzy.

“At least you have two hotties with you,” Lizzy whispers, and Quinn laughs.

Kaden walked over to Justin, and she smiles at her boys. “They help, and they live here too. Is that okay?” Lizzy turns around and Quinn puts her arm around Lizzy's shoulders.

“Yeah pretty sure I don’t mind,” Lizzy whispers, and Quinn smiles.

After dinner Quinn and Lizzy are doing the dishes.
She told Justin since he and Kaden cooked she and Liz would clean up. Lizzy wasn’t too happy about that plan, but Quinn smile and told her she gets to dry, and she gets to wash.

“So Justin is your boyf
riend, and Kaden is his brother?” Lizzy asks, as Quinn hands her another plate.

“Yes.” Quinn doesn’t really know what to consider Kaden is to her. He says he loves her, but she doesn’t love him. She is his protector, and is
supposed to fight his battles. Like Justin is hers, and would die for her. He is also her mate, and she is his. Quinn feels too young to be tied down to Justin, but she does love him, and won't give him up.

Quinn looks at her sister, and she looks like h
er. She has a short A line hairstyle, and bright blue eyes. Lizzy got that from her mother. She also has freckles that cover her cute face. There is something that Quinn isn’t too happy about; her little sister is growing up. Her body is developing, and she is only thirteen.

“You are lucky! Gosh Kaden is so hot, and I like him. He seems really nice. I haven’t got to really talked to Justin, but he is just as
hot as Kaden in a good boy way,” Lizzy says, Quinn smiles. She hands her little sister the last dish to dry.

“Liz, I have
missed you so much. Tomorrow I will take you to school, and I will also get you a phone.” Lizzy squeals and closes her eyes. “But I will limit your use on it, it will be so I can reach you. I will make sure you have my number as well as Justin's and Kaden's.” Lizzy hugs Quinn, and she smiles.

“Can I have a green case for my phone?” Quinn grins, green is Lizzy's favorite color. She shared that with their dad.

“We'll see, now go get ready for bed,” Quinn says, and Lizzy kisses her cheek.

Lizzy nods, and jumps in place. “I love you big sis.”

“I love you lil' sis.” Quinn laughs, that is their thing. She watches Lizzy leave and Kaden walk in.

“Where's Justin?” s
he asks, and Kaden looks away from her.

“Laying in your bed.” Kaden says, and puts some ice in a cup. “You know just because you are his mate, I
’m not going to stop loving you,” he says with his back to her, and she already knows that.

“Kaden, I am so confused right now. I do love Justin, but there is something with you. I can't explain what I feel you because I don’t know. I haven’t known you long enough to say I love you.”

Kaden turns around, with ice water.

“Don't you believe in love at first sight?” Kaden asks and takes a drink.

Quinn shakes his head. “I don’t believe in love at first sight. Lust yes, but not love.” Kaden grins and walks to the table.

He puts his i
ce water on the table. “With male wolves it's like love at first smell. Before we even see the woman we can smell her, and we can fall in love. I know women can fall in love with men that way too.” Kaden smiles which makes his dark blue eyes smaller. “Tell me do Justin and I smell different to you? Is there one smell you are more drawn to?” His grin on his face tells her he knows, and she crosses her arms against her chest and narrows her hazel-blue eyes.

Quinn thinks the best thing to do to him is lie, but wonders if he will see through it. “I have no clue what you are talking about.” Kaden laughs, and shakes his head. “I'm going to bed, I have to leave extra early tomorrow. I have to take Lizzy to school and then I will be late coming home. I’m going to get three sets of keys made. Good night Kaden.” She smiles, and he winks.

“Good night sweetheart.” She hears him say as she walks out.

Quinn quietly shuts her bedroom, she doesn’t know if Justin is sleeping. She takes off her
sweatshirt; she likes to sleep in tank-tops. She takes her pants off and slips on her shorts, then climbs into bed.

Quinn lies on her back, and stares up at the ceiling. Justin's warm hand takes hers, and she turns her head to look at him.

He smiles, and he takes her breath away. “I love you, and I am sorry.” Quinn turns on her side to face her boyfriend.

“Honey, it wasn’t you. I love you too. Good night my sexy wolf boyfriend.” He arches an eyebrow at her.

“Sexy hun? How sexy am I?” His voice is deeper, and very sexy.

Quinn giggles, and his smile widens. “I think you know how sexy--,” she yawns, “you are.”