Free At Year's End (The 12 Olympians) by Sandrine Gasq-Dion Page B

doing?” he whispered.
    “He’s trying to find what’s hidden.”
    Chance stopped and tilted his head. “It’s in the wall. It’s a key of some sort.”
    “Where?” Jaxon walked to the living room wall and ran his hands over it.
    “It’s behind concrete.” Chance opened his eyes and ran his hands over the wall. He tapped on it. “Right here.”
    “A key?” Justice punched through the wall . Pulling away at the sheetrock, he found the wall of concrete. “What the hell? This was an addition.”
    “Well , yeah, they don’t make walls out of concrete these days. Unless you ask for it and you live in a state where you need concrete walls.” Jaxon eyed the wall. “Claws or jackhammer?”
    “We have something that may work ,” Lorenzo grinned.
     
    The small explosion rocked the wall behind him and Jaxon chuckled. They all walked back into the house to see a chunk of concrete blown out of the structure. Chance leaned over it and ran his hands across it.
    “We got the right piece, but we need to be careful getting it out. We could damage the key.”
    “Okay, we’ll take it over to James and see what he can do with it.” Jaxon surveyed the room and nodded to Caden. “We got everything? Elijah’s new clothes?”
    “Yes, we can go.” Caden put his hand out to Lorenzo. “We shall leave you to this?”
    Lorenzo shook Caden’s hand. “It will be our pleasure.”
    Dimitri chuckled.

~Chapter Six~
     
    Jaxon stood against the wall as the club shook from the music. Saturday night was in full swing and Cuffs and Stuff was rocking. Elijah stood onstage with the rest of the guys as the drunks in the club took their turn singing. When the Salvatores had returned to Skylar’s with the moving van, they decided not to let Elijah know yet what had happened to his adoptive parents. As much as Elijah hated them, he had no idea what they really were and that would be opening up another damn can of worms.
    Jaxon sighed in frustration. Elijah need ed to know who he was and what was coming. The microphone squealed and then Skylar was under the lights.
    “Good evening! How’s everyone on this lovely Saturday?”
    The crowd roared and Skylar raised a hand to quiet them.
    “We know, we missed you too last night. Some of us still go to school !”
    L oud hissing and some boos came from the audience.
    “But, we ’re here now and ready to rock your world! Put your hands together for Ryder Winters, Stone Marinos, Dasan Black, and Nate Valentine and last, but certainly not least, Elijah Newman!”
    Elijah came to the front of the stage with Ryder and looked over the crowd. He smiled as his eyes met Jaxon’s. He turned and wiggled his butt to the roar of the club. They really liked his ass. God knew why. Elijah laughed and leaned into Ryder.
    “We have a special song for Jesse Salvatore tonight!”
    The club lights sought out Jesse at the bar and shone on him.
    “ We know how much you love boy bands!” Elijah shouted.
    Jesse scowled and flipped them the bird.
    “Aw, come on now!” Elijah motioned to Skylar by the karaoke machine. “Put your hands up for One Direction!”
    The music started and Elijah winked over at Jesse as he began singing ‘Kiss You.’
    The crowd went crazy as he, Ryder, Stone, Skylar , Nate and Dasan moved back and forth across the stage. Elijah sang his part and moved to let Skylar up front. He locked eyes with Jaxon and winked at him. Jaxon winked back and Elijah thought his knees would go out. Hot damn but that man could make him sweat just by looking at him. Elijah laughed as Dasan leaned over into the crowd singing his part. Stone jumped in front of them as the song went to the bridge. They all stood together and belted out the ‘yeahs’.
    Elijah snapped to attention when his part of the song came around. He undulated his hips and shook his ass as he delivered his lyrics. Jaxon had moved to the front of the stage as more and more clubgoers were reaching out to touch them. PJ and the guys were