21. Scarlett
Scarlett
Luke walked me back to his place. I hadn’t really spent much time at Luke’s house when he shared it with Juliet, and even less time in Wyatt’s house.
He unlocked the door and opened it, gesturing for me to enter first.
The living room was small and opened to the kitchen behind it. A short hallway had two doors on the right and one on the left. There were no dishes in the sink, no mess in the living room. Everything had a spot and was properly put away.
Luke’s hand trailed around my waist from behind me. He leaned in, talking quietly in my ear. “We can take this as slow as you want, Letty. I don’t want you to think that just because you’re here, something needs to happen. I’m just glad you feel this thing between us too.”
I tilted my head to the side to open my neck to him. As soon as his lips made contact, a moan slipped past my lips. My body was tingling like a live wire had been placed against my skin. Luke pulled me closer to his body, tightening his hold on me.
“Luke, I need you to kiss me again,” I told him. My breath was coming hot and fast.
He wasted exactly zero time before he gripped my chin in his strong hand and tilted my head back to capture my lips, holding me in place against his solid chest. His hand that was on my waist traveled down my belly and cupped me through my jeans.
No one had ever made me feel so turned on. His tongue mingling with mine was so much better than I’d ever imagined. My ass pushed back against his groin, and I could feel that he was just as turned on as me. I pushed against him again and was rewarded with a pained groan.
This didn’t feel real. I couldn’t believe I was making out with Luke Wilder. After all the years I had spent pining for him, we were actually here. I needed my hands on his body. I needed to touch his skin.
I swiveled around in his hold so that I was facing him. “Can I touch you?”
“You can do anything you want to me, Letty. I’m fucking powerless right now.”
I tugged at his shirt, pulling it up. He helped me take it off him, dropping it to the floor by our feet.
I placed my hands on his bare chest, my gaze fixed on the skin-to-skin contact before I lifted my eyes to his.
The most beautiful olive-green color met my gaze with so much depth and emotion.
His hands fell to my hips, and although his thumb was caressing my skin, he didn’t move to undress me.
“Are we really doing this?” I asked. It felt too much like a dream. Like I was going to wake up and find myself in my bed, alone .
The pulse point at the base of his throat beat rapidly.
He touched my face so tenderly my breath caught in my lungs.
Then he scooped behind my thighs, lifting me in the air.
I wrapped my legs around his waist and held on.
Luke walked me down the short hallway and into the bedroom.
Every step he took ground my core against the hardness in his pants.
I kissed him fiercely as I clung to him as tightly as I could, only breaking contact when he set my feet back on the floor.
“I want you, Scarlett. I want you so fucking much. But if things are moving too fast, you have to tell me to slow down.”
“Luke, I’m going to be honest with you because I think it’s important…”
“You can tell me anything.”
“I’ve wanted you since the very first day I met you, and no matter how much I told myself that it was wrong and inappropriate to want a married man, I could never get you out of my head. You were the person I judged every other man against. And none of them stacked up. Not even close.”
Luke’s eyes darkened. “Fuck, Letty. Have you been fantasizing about me for four years?”
A nervous energy ran through me, but it was too late to try to deny it now. And I didn’t want to. I could tell Luke anything. There was no one I trusted more than him. I nodded at him, pulling my lip in between my teeth while I waited for his reaction.
The growl he made sent heat through my veins and directly to my pussy.
“I don’t know if I can measure up to what you’ve got in your brain, but I’d be honored to try.”
He kissed me lightly on the lips, jaw, neck, moving to the sensitive spot behind my ear. My shirt was gone in an instant. I reached behind me to unclasp the strapless bra I was wearing and let it fall with my top.
Luke backed me up to the bed and laid me down. His body covered mine, continuing his trail of kisses as he made his way down my neck, past my collarbone, sucking my hard, peaked nipple between his lips.
I let out a gasp as Luke licked and sucked one breast before moving to the other.
He moved lower, his mouth leading a path down my abdomen.
I was already writhing before he got to the button of my jeans.
My hips came up, and my pants came off with a quickness.
I opened my legs to him. I was by no means a virgin, but in all of my experiences, I had never felt as secure as I did with Luke.
There was no room for embarrassment or shyness with us.
I kind of thought it would be awkward to cross this line with my best friend, but it was just the opposite.
Luke made me feel desired and sexy and more comfortable in my skin than I could have imagined.
“You’re so fucking wet, Letty. It’s making me crazy.” He bit the inside of my thigh with a growl before placing soft kisses to my skin. “I want this underwear gone,” he complained.
I lifted my hips again, placing my core in his face. His mouth covered my pussy over my panties, and I moaned a response.
“Take them off, Luke. Please.”
His gaze met mine, heat, desire, and lust swirling around, a mirror of my own feelings. He hooked his fingers beneath the sides of my panties and dragged them down my legs. Before my hips hit the mattress, his mouth was on me.
His name was the only thing my brain could comprehend, the only word on my lips, the sound of it pulled deep from my soul on a moan.
My fingers raked through his hair as his tongue flicked my clit rhythmically.
Pressure coiled in my belly in no time. I knew I was close.
It wasn’t just the euphoric sensations of his lips on my pussy.
It was so much more. It was Luke being here with me, in this moment.
My orgasm ripped through me, and Luke didn’t let up, not until he had licked me clean and worked me through the tremors that racked my body. He pulled himself up to my face, his lips finding mine in a hard kiss.
His hard length pressed into my thigh, and all I could think about was getting my hands on him.
“That was… holy hell, that was amazing,” I told him, still trying to catch my breath.
“You are amazing.”
I trailed my fingers down his chest until I got to the waistband of his jeans.
“Letty,” he breathed.
“If you think I’m amazing now…” I said, pressing on his chest until he flipped us over, “just wait until you see what I can do.”
I undid the button of his pants, and that was all it took. Luke pulled them off, along with his briefs, in a frantic move to rid them from his body.
Precum was already pooling at the tip of his impressive cock.
I only spent a quick moment admiring him before I flicked my tongue out and licked his head.
The muscles in his abs tensed, and I loved it.
My fingers wrapped around his base, and I stroked him a couple of times, enjoying the feel of him in my hands.
I tapped his tip against my tongue before sealing my lips around him.
“Fuck, fuck, fuck,” he groaned. “Your mouth is pure fucking heaven.”
I swirled my tongue around his head and took him as deep as I could. I pulled off him with a pop, licking up the length of his cock.
“You look so pretty with my dick between your lips, Letty. So fucking beautiful.”
His hands were in my hair, holding it away from me. I sucked him to the back of my throat and worked him with my hands.
“Like this?” I kept my eyes on his as I lowered my head, taking him in my mouth and pulling up again slowly, then again. His muscles tensed as he barreled closer to his release.
“Just like that, baby.” His voice was strained as his hand tightened in my hair.
I bobbed shallowly, focusing on just the tip, before taking him to the back of my throat again. Luke’s cock was so big, his thickness making me gag.
“Fuck. I’m going to come,” he growled. As much as I appreciated the warning, I wasn’t going anywhere. I wanted to finish him in my mouth and swallow everything he gave me.
His body stilled as he spilled his release down my throat.
He pulled me up to him and wrapped me in a sweet embrace.
“Christ, woman. That was incredible.”
I lay on his chest, smiling to myself. My fingers traced small circles on his pec as I listened to his breathing start to slow.
Realization hit me out of the blue. Luke had been divorced for approximately thirty-six hours, and I was already lying in his bed. What if this didn’t mean the same thing to him that it meant to me?
“Luke?” I said quietly.
“Yeah?” His hand was in my hair again, playing with my curls absently.
I was trying to figure out what I wanted to say exactly. I wanted to make sure he was in the right headspace for what just happened between us. I wanted him to not regret this tomorrow morning. And I really didn’t want to be a rebound for him.
“Hey, whatever is going through that beautiful head of yours, you can tell me,” he said after I took too long to answer.
I inhaled a deep breath, the mixed scent of our releases mingling in my nose.
“I know you’ve only been divorced for like one and a half days, and maybe this wasn’t the best day to take this step. If you wake up tomorrow and realize that this isn’t what you want, just know that I’m still going to be your friend.”
Luke’s hand had stilled in my hair, his entire body frozen beneath me.
“Do you think this was a mistake?”
“No. God, no. But if you did, I would understand.”
He peeled away from me so that he could look me in the eye. He held my face gently in his hands.
“Letty, I need you to listen to me and listen carefully. You with me?”
I nodded my head as best I could.
“Good. Scarlett Ruth Hart, I am not going to regret this. Not tomorrow, not next week, not next year. I would never risk losing you if I wasn’t completely in this.
I want to keep exploring how much more our friendship can be.
Yes, my divorce did just come through yesterday, but Letty, my marriage has been over for a long time.
This wasn’t some onetime thing that I wanted to get out of my system.
You mean way too much to me to play with you like that. ”
“You mean the world to me, Luke. Promise me that no matter what, we’ll still be friends.”
He brought my face to his and kissed me. If Luke decided at some point that we were better off as friends, I needed to know that I wouldn’t lose him.
“I promise,” he whispered.
A sense of relief hit me. I curled into his side and wrapped my arms around his chest. He held me tightly, placing a soft kiss to the top of my curls. I still couldn’t believe that I was here with him, but at the same time, nothing had ever felt more right.