Chapter 80 - EZ'S WAKE UP CALL

I could tell that it was definitely late morning when I woke up. At first it was hard to figure out what it was that had woken me. Then I heard the incessant buzzing of my phone on the bedside table. My phone was ringing.

Just as I reached for it the buzzing stopped. I leaned over and picked it up just as it started buzzing again almost immediately. I saw that it was EZ. Why was he calling me so early? Unless he had a reason to be up he usually slept until past noon.

I answered the phone just before it stopped buzzing again.

"Hey, EZ."

"Don't you hey me you horrible, horrible woman." I could hear that he was extremely angry but I didn't know why.

"What's wrong? Why are you so mad?"

"Why am I so mad?" I heard him take a few deep breaths. "Why am I so mad?" He emphasized it this time. "I am not just mad Jacy, I am rightgeously fucking pissed off at you."

EZ was breathing heavily at the moment. It was clear that he was trying to hold in his screams and yells. That was good because EZ could go one of two ways when he was mad: angry diva and whiny diva. I just really didn't want to hear either of them. 

"OK EZ, what did I do to piss you off?" I thought it best to diffuse the situation as best as I could. While I was trying to diffuse the ticking time bomb that was my best friend I watched as Kyle rose from the bed and headed for the bathroom. That traitor, he was abandoning me.

"You want to know what you did. Are you seriously telling me that you see nothing wrong with the way that you've behaved recently?" When EZ got really, really mad he went way beyond angry diva. His flamboyant tone of voice would slowly disappear and would be replaced by what sounded like something straight out of Hell. He could growl as fiercely as any shifter I had ever met before and he was capable of glaring at you so hard you felt holes forming in your flesh.

I was sincerely glad that EZ and I weren't in the same room right now. Truth be told, he scared me when he was like this.

"I can't think of anything that would make you go Hell crazy like this."

"You fucking disappeared on me Jacy. And before you backsass me I am not talking about you running off to Arkansas to avoid your man. I am talking about how you talked to me on the phone the other day then you disappeared. You weren't the next one to call me. Nope. That honor went to Kyle." EZ was huffing and puffing quite hard while he screamed at me.

"And what was it that your lover boy had to tell me when he called? Oh, just that he had barely made it in time to save your life." Uh oh. I knew that he had known about the incident but I didn't know he was flipping out this much over it.

"But I called you the next day." I pointed out, trying to make sure that he knew I had already called him. It seemed like he had forgotten.

"Yes, you did. But then you disappeared again. Did you forget the rules, Jacy? Did you forget what you were supposed to do?" That growl was getting even louder as he spoke. "You're supposed to call me every night while you're out. If you're in a position that you can't call then you need to text me to let me know you're alive. After we spoke on the phone you went three whole nights without contacting me. Do you have any idea how fucking worried about you I have been?"

"I'm sorry EZ, I just got busy, and sidetracked. I sincerely wasn't thinking about it. I am a horrible person." I was hanging my head in shame as I got out of bed so that I could get dressed.

"Well, make it up to me." He was sounding a little more perky, or at least a lot less angry at the moment.

"How do you want me to make it up to you?" I was confused now, but the situation had been settled and at least I didn't have to worry about EZ anymore for the time being.

"Take me out to breakfast with that hottie of yours." his voice sounded a little more happy as he mentioned Kyle. "I need some eye candy right now."

"Careful." I chuckled. "You'll get diabetes if you keep chasing the candies."

"I don't care. Now open up. I was in such a rush when I woke up this morning that I forgot to grab my key." 

It took a moment for his words to register in my mind. While I was processing them I saw Kyle coming back into the room in nothing but a pair of boxer briefs. He looked like he had freshened up a little and was heading to get dressed by his closet.

"What was that?" I asked him to make sure I was computing it all properly.

"I said open up." I heard a pounding on his side of the line. "I don't have my key so I need you to open up." He laughed before adding one more word. "Now." 

I had a bad feeling about what was going on and what was about to happen.

"Wait a minute, EZ. Where are you right now?"

"I'm at your place you ditz. Don't you hear me pounding on the door?"

Oh my Goddess, I knew that's what he was getting at. How in the hell had I let a situation like this happen. Who knew how Bastian was going to react to EZ pounding on the door like a maniac.

I was still only half dressed since I had been talking on the phone the whole time. I had managed to slip on some clean panties, some socks, and a pair of comfortable jeans, but that was all. The only thing I had on my upper body was a powder blue cami that was still bunched up around my waist from when I had been laying in the bed.

I didn't have time to waste though, I needed to hurry. I ran from Kyle's room and down the hall to the front door. I could hear the banging now that I was closer to the front of the condo. It was loud and incessant. It had only been about thirty seconds or so since EZ had started to pound on the door and Bastian might have still been asleep at the time so it wasn't that much of a surprise that he hadn't opened the door yet. Hopefully I could get to him before he came face to face with a shifter that I didn't yet know completely.

Kyle had noticed me running and took off after me. He got to me before I had even opened his front door.

"What's going on?" He asked worriedly. "And what's that banging sound?"

"That is EZ trying to get me to open my door." I managed to unlock the door. "But Bastian is the one in there and I don't know if he will be that receptive to having been disturbed like this."

Kyle didn't say anything else, he just pulled the door when I had it unlocked and ushered me into the hallway.

It all seemed to happen in slow motion. I was moving closer to EZ who was about fifty feet down the hallway. I watched as EZ's fist collided with the door repeatedly. I was about to yell for him to stop. I was going to tell him that I wasn't home. There was so much that I needed to say to him but it was too late.

The door to my condo opened up. The large heavy door swung in fast as Bastian opened in angrily. I could see the man who had slept at my place. He was standing there with his shirt off, his chest bare and well defined. The complexion of his skin was pale and smooth, it seemed perfectly matched with the snowy white of his hair and pale blue eyes.

Bastian was tall, intimidating, and good looking , and he was looming over EZ like the bird of prey that he was. EZ just looked up at him with a shocked look on his face. Neither of them seemed to be moving. It looked like I might be able to get to them before something bad actually happened.

Oh please let me save my friend from whatever is about to happen to him. I do not want to lose Bastian as an ally but I can't put EZ in danger at all. Please, Goddess, let them get along at least a little bit.. Do me that one kindness.