DUSK - Esther Machethe (best book club books txt) 📗

I was pushed down the bed and she crept over me. Well.

 “How about you sleep over tonight so I can help you relax?” Angeline purred seductively as she trailed kisses across my jawline and down my neck. My body shivered in delight and she took that as a yes. She sat up and took off her top, throwing it on the floor beside the bed. Instinctively my hands skimmed all over her skin, I am a hormonal teenager after all so it’s bound to happen.

I claimed her mouth in a hungry kiss which she willingly reciprocated and was reaching up to unclasp her bra when the shrill sound of my ringtone went off. I groaned and was about to reach for it when Angeline held my wrist; “Don’t, it will go off after a while.” She murmured seductively, her blue eyes had turned a shade darker than her normal color, before I could decide, the room went silent again and she captured my mouth for a heated kiss.

In less than a minute, my phone went off and I broke away from her to see who was calling. I pulled my phone from my pocket and checked the caller ID.

“What do you want Jared?” I almost barked at him making him laugh.

“I assume I interrupted something between you and your girl, anyway, I just wanted to ask if you could come over at mine’s tonight, I have something.” He said the last part seriously.

“I’ll try, but if not, maybe I’ll come tomorrow..?” I tried to sound casual but my voice was really betraying me.

“Fine, I’ll send over more info.” He said before the line went dead. I turned to look at Angeline who looked a bit confused but tried to shrug it off.

“So, where were we?” I smirked at her as I walked towards the bed. I was about to kiss her when her phone went off this time. She looked apologetically at me as she scurried off to pick her call. I sighed as I collected my shirt from the floor and headed towards the door. This was definitely not my night so all I needed was a freaking cold shower tonight.

I walked out the room and found her in the hallway whispering angrily at her phone and kissed her forehead and walked out the front door. I got into my car and headed home. I couldn’t think straight and my car almost got smashed by a trailer twice.

All I could think of was those few moments I spent with Angeline; her kisses which were hot as hell, her smooth skin not to mention that pair of lacy---- damn I had to get my thoughts in order. I switched on the radio and to my dismay, all stations had a love song going on.

“Hey you with the red dress on, I need to find a way to take it off…” I switched it off when it reminded me of that red top Angeline was wearing with that short skirt that dangled above the knees and those tall tanned legs. I just want to pull--- there goes my sanity again. I ran a hand over my face and tried to get myself together but nothing was working. I took out my phone and dialed a number.

“Well, that was fast, you done yet?” Jared teased, making it clear that he was mocking me. I sighed in defeat.

“I need you to pick me up man, I can’t get it together.” I mumbled making him laugh.

“I’ll get a cab since you have a car.” He said before I heard shuffling then the line went dead. I sat on the passenger side of the car and let my thoughts take over since I couldn’t, for the life of me, get her out of my head. I was almost doing it in my head when someone knocked on my window. I groaned furiously and sat up to find an amused Jared.

“Dude, don’t tell me you were fantasizing about her,” he laughed at me, I could only grumble at him. How is it that today everyone is being a cock-block even to my dreams? The more I thought about it, the more I became frustrated and I noticed Jared kept sneaking curious glances at me.

“What? C’mon say it” I hissed irritably but he only laughed at me making me even more irritated.

“You look like a constipated person with a raging boner.” He laughed even more. Deep breaths, I wouldn’t want my car to be stained with his blood.  I tried to reason with myself until I managed to finally calm down. I didn’t notice then Jared parked the car until when he knocked on my window again.

“Come on, you need a cold shower before you see what I got.” He said as he walked away.

An hour later I stepped into his ‘bat-cave’ as he liked to call it, all clean, fresh and focused and walked over to his computer.

“I found the footage.” He said in a monotonous tone.

My head scrunched up in confusion, “what footage?” I tried to understand what he was saying but he only turned the screen towards me and I watched as Chloe/Dusk snapped a guy’s neck. I stared at him in shock, it couldn’t be.

“Is this what I think it is?” he nodded once and uttered a single word that made me shiver in fear.

“Saturday.” From the look he gave me, I thought he knew and he watched me expectantly but must have noticed my change in mood since he softened his stance and sighed.

“Look, you don’t have to tell me now but I really don’t understand how your ex-girlfriend is able to do that to a huge guy, did you know anything about it?” Jared blurted on, a sign that he was confused and didn’t know which honestly was a good thing, I was still safe. I put on the best poker face that I could manage and looked him in the eye.

“I’m sorry man, but I can’t tell you anything, it’s for your own safety and you don’t want to mess with these guys. Just let it go.” He looked at me for any traces of lies but he must have seen none because he nodded and deleted the footage. He was about to say something when his phone interrupted him, he glanced at the screen then he walked out the room without another word, his face held no traces of emotion, weird.

I peered through the small gap hoping to hear something; hell anything to give something away would be very useful right about now. The only thing I heard was ‘done’ and ‘yes sir’ before he hang up and took a deep breath. He started walking towards this room and I briskly moved away so that he wouldn’t know I heard something.

“Who was it?” I asked, feigning curiosity.

“It was this guy who wants me to start working as soon as tomorrow.” He said in a depressed tone.

“But you hate working and your dad is loaded, why work?” I asked because to me it made no sense.

“My dad wants me to start earning my use since he wants me to take over the company soon so it’s either I work or he cuts me off from his life.” He sighed but I could tell something was off about him, something just didn’t add up. It was my phone’s turn to interrupt us and the caller ID showed someone who I couldn’t ignore even if I wanted to.

“She called me back, looks like I will get some action after all.” I faked a smile as I walked towards the door. His laughter was the last thing I heard as I closed the door and answered my phone.

“What took you so long to answer?”

“Sorry ma’am but Jared saw the footage; I think we might have a problem.” I said as I walked towards m car. It’s going to be one hell of a long night.

CHAPTER SIX

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In all my years, I was bound to pick up some skills and especially when it came to Alec.

I’ve known the guy since I was five and we had just moved into the neighbourhood. He was the first boy who approached me and offered me to play with him and his toy truck. Since then we were practically inseparable and we became closer than brothers.

Alec was always the golden boy; every parent wanted a child like him while back then I was the rich loner new kid whose parents were never home and always hung around him until the twins came around and they joined our little family.

Part of my training was that I had no familial attachments but I was being paid to blend in so that I can protect the subject without arousing suspicion. I always had the cover of a billionaire dad and absentee parents but no one else apart from the HQ knew that.

Alec never kept any secrets from until four years ago when he told us that there was a new girl who was moving to our school. I asked how he knew and he said that he had run into her on his way here which I later found out was a lie.

Now, normally we didn’t care what happened at school or about who was at school but Chloe was a different case; Alec always kept a watch over her, at first I thought it was because he liked her but it got creepy, he always wanted to know where she was and what she did and before we knew it he was her boyfriend. I found it weird that he wanted a girlfriend because however much he was a golden boy, he however, was not the kind of guy to get committed to one girl and he proved me right as he cheated on her many times with so many different girls that I even lost count.

I was suspicious and I even told him to break up with her once and for all but he always said it was never the right time, to me that sounded like he was waiting for something. That Saturday morning I got a call from HQ that someone had been researching information about my supposed family and that’s when I knew he had gotten suspicious of me so I went to his place to hang out and that’s when he abruptly decided to go to Chloe’s house on that same day saying that he wanted to break up with her, I knew that it wasn’t the whole truth but I chose to run with it until I got a call few hours later that the main house was under attack but the threat was cleared but there was one witness.

This was the hardest news I had to bear but I had to carry out the assignment that I had been given that morning. When I picked up Alec from Chloe’s place he seemed confused and even dazed at first then a bright smile broke from him like he had just achieved the greatest thing in life. I tried asking but he said he had finally broken up with her and that he was happy he was finally free but I suspected it was a complete lie. He didn’t even hang