Becoming (The Naturals, #3) by Freeman Madeline

Author:Freeman, Madeline [Freeman, Madeline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-11-20T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

When Morgan awoke the next morning, the room seemed brighter than usual. She glanced across the room to Joss’s bed to find it empty. Rubbing the sleep from her eyes, she glanced at the alarm clock on her nightstand. The green numbers told her it was just after one o’clock. She rubbed her eyes again and looked a second time to confirm. Flashes of the previous night tumbled through her mind’s eye and the late wake up time made sense. When she, Greg, and Lucas had made it back to the cabin, it had been nearly six.

After a big yawn and stretch, Morgan climbed from her bed, got dressed, and made a quick stop in the bathroom. When she emerged into the hall, she could hear voices coming from the living room.

“You don’t know all the things I’ve done.” Kellen’s voice was a low murmur, so low that Morgan wasn’t entirely sure she’d heard him correctly.

“Doesn’t matter.” Lia’s voice was gentler than usual. “So long as you want to turn away from all the bad stuff. And I think you do—otherwise you wouldn’t be here. You’d still be there.”

Morgan emerged from the hallway to see Kellen, shirtless, draped over a couch across the room from where Lia sat, legs curled under her, a thick book on her lap.

“You really believe someone like me can change?” Kellen asked.

“Depends. Do you believe it?”

Morgan paused at the mouth of the hallway, feeling like she was intruding on something she shouldn’t overhear. Seconds ticked by and when neither Lia nor Kellen spoke again, she continued on her journey into the kitchen.

As she moved through the room, the atmosphere changed. Kellen rolled off his couch and followed. “So, Morgan,” he began conversationally. “Late night?”

“Actually, it’s midday,” Lia called from her couch.

“Actually, no one’s talking to you,” Kellen shot back. Then, turning his attention back to Morgan, he hitched his thumb in Lia’s direction. “She’s crazy about me,” he said in conspiratorial tones. “Look how jealous she gets when my attention is on another.”

Lia snorted.

Morgan opened a cupboard and surveyed her cereal options. “Sounds like a personal problem,” she said to Kellen, not bothering to glance in his direction.

“Nah.” Kellen hoisted himself up onto the counter top. “My only problem is curiosity.” He leaned over so that he was laying on his side, his head propped up in one of his hands. “See, I’m like a cat that way: curiosity just kills me.”

“I’ll send flowers to the funeral,” Morgan said, pulling down a box of generic honey-nut O’s. As she opened another cupboard for a bowl, she caught a glimpse of Kellen out of the corner of her eye. “Would you get off the counter? Nobody wants to prepare food where your sweaty armpit hair has been.”

He didn’t move. “Based on what I’ve seen this morning, I’m thinking it was you, Man Teach, and Boy Wonder out on some sort of super-tippy-top-secret mission last night. Am I right?”

Morgan poured milk over her cereal and headed to the table.

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