The Beast and the Homecoming Queen (22 page)

Quinn narrows her eyes, maybe coming to find Kaden wasn’t a good idea. She should have sent Justin. “I don’t--”

“Did you know when you lie, your heart speeds up
? There is no reason to deny it,” Kaden says, and still doesn’t look happy. “I can't believe you slept with him. Do you know what that did to me? I wanted to break down your door, and kill him. I wanted to rip out his heart.”

“Kaden
, that isn’t fair. I’m sorry that I hurt you,” Quinn says, and stands up. “I don’t know what to do anymore. I need you there for me, I am finding something new about me and my family every day. I could really use a friend in my corner.”

Kaden grabs her arm. “This is what I’m talking about,
it’s not fair to be the one in your corner as your friend. Quinn I want more that your bloody friend. I am in love with you, and you are killing me inside. Every time I see you with it, a part of my heart dies.”

Kaden's lips crash down onto hers, and he holds her close to him. Her lips feel like they are tingling, and her body automatically moves closer to his. When she is around him there is a pull that she can't explain. Quinn pushes on his chest, and as soon as his lips are off of hers she slaps him hard across his cheek.

“What the hell are you thinking?” she yells at him.

“Quinn
, you want me! You know damn well we should be together, not you and golden boy.” Quinn can see a pink hand print forming on his cheek.

“No! I am with Justin, and I love him.” Now she has to tell Justin that Kaden kissed her. Quinn doesn’t see that ending well.

“Quinn, I will fight for you until I am dead, and werewolves live a long, long time. You are my mate, I can feel it when we touch. I don’t care what Justin says, you aren’t his.”

Quinn can feel her tears in her eyes, Kaden is breaking her hear
t. “I don’t care what you think, I am Justin's mate. Kaden, we need to get to school, we will talk later.”

She starts walking away, when Kaden yells. “Sweetheart, you are my one and only. I will fight to win your heart or I will gladly die trying.” Quinn gets in her car and drives away, not caring if Kaden makes it to school or home.

At school she is reminded that she missed first hour again. Quinn tells the office that it won't happen again, and heads to her next class. She is so happy that she doesn’t have Kaden or Justin in her classes. Now Breanna is a different story.

“So you are glowing, are you finally going to talk to me?” Breanna asks, and sits down next to Quinn.

Quinn stares at her best friend, and nods. “Justin and I....” She raises her eyebrows, and Breanna covers her mouth with her hand.

“Oh my gosh! That is awesome!
Tell me more.” Breanna claps her hands together, and a few people look their way.

“Shh, there's more. Lizzy is home, and Kaden confes
sed his love for me, many times,” Quinn says, and lays her head on the desk.

“Quinny, that is awesome about Lizzy. I know how much you missed her. And about Kaden, well
you have not one but two guys that love you. A little part of me hates you,” Breanna says, and Quinn slowly lifts her head.

“There's more. Kaden just kissed me, and I didn’t push him away at first.” The one thing she promised Justin was that she wouldn’t cheat on him with his brother. She broke that promise within a few days.

“Okay I really hate you. Are you going to tell Justin?” That is the million dollar question. She knows she should, but worries for Kaden's safety.

“I should tell him, but I don’t know. It didn’t mean anything, plus it will kill the after
glow,” Quinn says and bites her bottom lip.

“Yeah 'I kissed your brother and en
joyed it' is a huge buzz killer,” Breanna says, and the teacher walks in.

The first half of the day, went by pretty fast and she voided Justin like the black plague. Now that its lunch time she knows she will be seeing him, and he'll know something is up. Quinn and Breanna walk to the table where Justin, Mark and Kaden are already sitting.

“Do you think if I make a run for it, they won't notice?” Quinn asks and looks down at her feet as she walks.

“Quinny I don’t see that happening, since Justin and Kaden are staring at you. With the smirk on Kaden's face I think you need to tell Justin or Kaden will, and I think he will en
joy every minute of telling him,” Breanna says, and Quinn looks up to she that stupid smirk on Kaden's face, and she sees Justin looking between her and Kaden.

“Crap,” s
he mumbles, and Breanna laughs.

“Yeah, have fun telling Justin,
” Breanna says, and walks towards Mark.

Quinn walks towards Justin. “We need to talk.” Justin says, and she sighs. Quinn
glances at Kaden, and he looks worried.

She nods, but wants to be alone with him. She doesn’t want to tell him in front of everyone. “Yeah can we go outside?” He arches one dark eyebrow, and nods. Justin slowly gets up
and they walk out of the lunch room together without touching.

Justin and Quinn walk outside, and
sit on a bench. “Want to tell me why you are avoiding me?” She doesn’t say anything, she just looks at her hands that are folded in her lap. “Is this about last night, about what we did?”

Quinn looks up at him, and he looks hurt and scared. She takes his hand, and shakes her head. “No last night was better than I imagine. I do need to tell you something.” Quinn takes a deep breath and Justin raises his eyebrows. “When I found Kaden, he kissed me.”

Justin rips his hand away from hers, and stands up. When he turns around his eyes are bright yellow.

“You promised me!” Justin closes his eyes.

“Justin, it didn’t mean anything.” Quinn says and stands up. She touches his face and he jerks away.

“I can't have you touch me, not right now.” He opens his eyes, and
they are almost back to normal. “I trusted you and you kiss the one person I begged you to stay away from. I gave you my heart and you crushed it in your hand.”

Quinn can feel her own heart breaking with his words. “I love you, not him. Please believe me, please.” Tears run down her face, she can't lose Justin.

“But you love him too. I know you do, I can see it. Do you know what it does to me to see you two together?” Quinn can feel her tears forming in her eyes. “Quinn I need to think, we'll talk later.” He turns around and walks away.

With every step he takes her heart breaks more and more.

***

Justin walks back into the lunchroom, he sees his jerk brother. There are so many things he wants to do to Kaden, but he settles on talking. Quinn wouldn
’t be happy with him if he hurt Kaden. He walks over to Kaden and glares down at him “We need to talk,” Justin says.

Kaden smiles as he stands up. “Yeah
, I figured we would.”

Justin turns around, and he knows Kaden is following him. He walks to where he knows him and Kaden can be alone. Justin turns around and wants to beat Kaden to death.

“You kissed Quinn,” Justin says, and he watches the smile on Kaden's face spread.

Kaden nods. “I did, and she loved every second of it.” Justin clutches his fist at his sides. “You knew I would know what was going on with you and Quinn last night.” Justin doesn’t say anything he just narrows his eyes. “Why would you do it? She is my freaking mate!” Kaden yells as he steps closer.

“She isn’t your mate, she can't be your bloody mate. In werewolf history there has never been an alpha and omega mating.”

Kaden grins, and stops in front of Justin. “I know my history, alpha. It doesn’t mean she can't be the first to be mated with an omega. Quinn is special, and she is going to make an amazing leader.”

Justin feels his blood boiling, he pushes Kaden. “You don’t think I don’t know how amazing she is? She gave her heart and body to me, not you.” Justin glares at Kaden, and he isn’t smiling anymore.

“You think just because you love her, and
yes I know she loves you too, that she will leave me and run into your arms? You are so very wrong, she would never do that.”

It's Kaden's turn to glare. “What if she doesn’t want to be with you, are you going to stop her?”

Justin closes his eyes, he would die if Quinn didn’t want to be with him, but he would never force her to be with him. “If she didn’t want to be with me, I would let her go.” Justin can feel himself calming down, and he slowly opens his eyes. “When you love someone you want them happy, no matter if it kills you.” Justin smiles as he thinks of Quinn. Her love for him is pure and innocent.

“I want her to be happy with me
, not you,” Kaden says.

Justin nods, he understands. “Kaden
, I know you do, but Quinn wants me. I’m sorry you love her, and you are getting hurt.” When Justin found out about Kaden he was so mad, he always wanted a brother, but his dad claimed it would be too much competition.

Kaden laughs. “You don’t care about me, you love that she wants you and not me.”

Justin shakes his head and walks to his brother. “I do care about you, Kaden you are my brother.”

“That never mattered before.” Kaden glares at Justin.

Justin shrugs. “It has always mattered. I was mad at our dad not you, he was the one that cheated and lied.” Kaden doesn’t say anything he just stares at Justin. “Look we need to work on us being nice to each other, or Quinn is going to get hurt. She loves both of us, and if one of us walks out, it will kill her.”

Justin would
never be the one to walk away. He would have to be dead to leave Quinn. He did see the hurt in her eyes when she found out Kaden was gone this morning.

“Let's make a deal to act like brothers when we are around Quinn, and if we need to fight we won't do it in front of her.” Justin puts his hand out to shake, and Kaden nods.

“Fine, I am only agreeing to this for Quinn,” Kaden says as he shakes Justin's hand.

“Fine with me,
” Justin says, and smiles.

Chapter Seventeen

New friendship

“You look like you could use a friend,” a male's voice says, Quinn turns around and sees Jax.

“How much did you hear?” s
he asks, and sits back down. Quinn doesn’t think her legs would have held her much longer.

Jax smiles, and sits next to her. “I heard enough.” Quinn leans forward and puts her elbows on her knees. She rests her head in the palm of her hands. “I take it Justin is your mate.”

Quinn sighs. She doesn’t know what to think. “He says that I am, but I don’t know. I love him, but I just don’t know what to think and feel.”

“Have you thought about having two mates?” Jax asks, and Quinn lifts
her head to look at him. She looks into his pale green eyes, and he grins.”

“Does that happen a lot?”

Jax smiles. “I have never heard of it, but you can always be the first.”

Quinn laughs. “Great just what I need.” Jax laughs, and Quinn looks at him. She smiles at him, it's really nice to be around someone that doesn’t want anything from her, or does he. “What are you doing here, Jax?”

A small smile forms on Jax face, and he runs his hand through his sandy blond hair. “I was just checking on you. I am your solider.”

Quinn a
rches one eyebrow. “You are just checking on me, that's all?”

Jax laughs, and shrugs. “Quinn I think you are one of the most beautiful girls I have ever seen, but I also think you have too much on your plate. You have an alpha that is marking his territory, then you have the omega who thinks you are his one and only. I don’t want to be in the middle of that war.” He stands up, and turns to face her. Quinn laughs, she really doesn’t like being in the middle of them either.

“Thank you for following me.” She smiles up at him.

“Want to go hang out, and get away from high school drama?” He gives her a killer grin, and Quinn is pretty sure that no
women have turned it down. She knows that Justin would be really mad if she left with Jax, and she doesn’t want him any madder at her.

“Jax I don’t think that is a good idea. Justin would freak out.” Quinn stands up and smiles.

“I will say he is an idiot, you are too beautiful to be left out here crying.” Jax touches her cheek. “I am just a phone call away, and I will bring the silver bullets.” Quinn laughs, and he puts his hand out.

Quinn stares at it, and raises one blond eyebrow at him
. Jax chuckles. “Let me see your phone.”

Quinn reaches in her back pocket and hand her phone to
him. He turns it on and smiles. “Here, now my number is in your phone. I wasn’t joking. Call me and I will be there. With or without the silver.” Jax winks at her.

“Quinn!” Her eyes widen when she hears Justin's voice. Crap.

“What the hell!” And there is Kaden. Double crap.

Jax laughs and t
akes her hand. “I do have sliver in the car, we can make a run for it.” Quinn takes her hand back and shakes her head.