CHAPTER NINETEEN THEO
CHAPTER NINETEEN
THEO
Ishould turn around and walk Lucy back to her room instead of leading her into mine.
The light blinks green and the door unlocks as I hold the card to the pad. I glance at Lucy from the corner of my eye and push open the door. She steps inside first and I follow, letting the heavy door fall shut behind us.
Lucy kicks off her shoes, spinning on her heel, turning to me.
Her auburn hair is in loose waves, framing the sides of her heart shaped face.
The silence stretches between us, electricity and tension swirling in the air.
I can’t let myself overthink this. She didn’t have to come here with me, but she did.
I take the first step, closing a fraction of the distance between us. “I don’t want you to feel like you have to do anything you don’t want to do.”
Her eyebrows tug together. “I’m not here because of obligation, Theo.” She steps closer. “I’m here because I want this.” Her blue eyes trail down to my mouth before bouncing back up to my gaze. “I’ve been waiting for you to break your promise.”
I slide my fingers beneath her chin, tilting her head back. We’re standing so close I can feel the heat from her body. “And ruin our friendship?”
She lifts her arms, sliding her hands around the back of my neck. “For you to kiss me.”
I lift my left hand, cupping the side of her face as the other cradles her chin. I search her eyes once more, my face inching closer to hers as her eyelids flutter shut.
Those five words are all it takes. Five words I swear I’ve been waiting a lifetime for, thinking I’d never hear them.
How much time have we truly wasted?
I have no interest in wasting another second.
I breathe her in, my lips brushing hers as I push her back against the wall. I revel in the way she feels—soft and warm, everything she is—before wholly consuming her. I can’t stop myself as I press my lips harder to hers and there’s nothing gentle about the way I kiss her.
It’s like I’m a man dying of thirst and she’s the answer to my prayers.
I drink her in, drinking from her well. Lucy’s mouth melts into mine, her tongue sliding against the seam of mine as she deepens the kiss.
My hands are in her hair, cradling the back of her skull as her nails dig into the back of my neck, both of us moving with desperate urgency.
She clings to me, our tongues tangling together, lips melting. She tastes sweet, like cherries and I catalogue it as my new favorite flavor. Her body shifts, leaning into me with a soft moan. I swallow the sound, my chest constricting, my heart thumping against my rib cage.
I always knew it would be like this with her. Consuming. Enchanting. Deadly.
Time is suspended and nothing else fucking matters. Nothing but this. Nothing but her—the girl who’s always held my heart, but never knew it. The girl I’ve been waiting a fucking lifetime for.
The one I’d wait an eternity for, if it’s what I had to do for her to be mine.
My hands slide down to her curvy hips and I spin us around, guiding her deeper into the room until the backs of her legs are knocking into the bed. She slides her hands into my hair, pulling me down onto the mattress on top of her.
There’s no logical thought between either of us, only a primal need to get as close as we possibly can. The air around us is electric and all I can think about is her. Lucy, Lucy, Lucy. She’s everywhere. Under my skin, in my marrow… just as she’s always been.
Her knees fall onto the bed and I swear to god, I could pass away when she lifts her legs, wrapping them around my waist, pulling the front of my pelvis directly to hers. My cock is as hard as a fucking rock, throbbing as she lifts her hips, a soft sigh escaping her as she grinds against my dick.
Fuck, I need her.
“I need you, Theo.” Lucy moans against my mouth, her body molding to mine. She breaks away, her eyes searching mine with a fire burning deep in her irises. “I need this.”
“Luce…” Her name falls from my tongue like a prayer. We shouldn’t do this—this is going to ruin everything. “Tell me what you need, love.”
Her lips are back on mine, hands sliding through my hair, nails scraping my skin.
My hand slides along the side of her face, down the side of her neck as I cage her in with my opposite forearm planted against the bed.
Her legs tighten around my waist and I rock into her, my cock rubbing against her.
Lucy moans into my mouth, her fingers gripping my hair as she instinctively lifts her hips again.
I smile against her mouth, rolling my hips in circles, my cock rubbing against her clit through our clothing.
My hand slides down the length of her body, my fingers dancing over her exposed skin with her T-shirt pushed up her torso.
“Touch me, Theo,” Lucy breathes against my mouth, her hips rocking into me again.
Her words only fuel the fire of desire. A fire I know I should extinguish before it’s too late, but alas, it’s not something I’m capable of doing.
My hand slides up her torso, her soft and supple skin rippling beneath my touch.
She wiggles her body, her hips moving in a thrusting motion as I start to rock my hips.
I want to strip her bare and bury myself deep inside her.
I want to rip away every layer between us until there’s nothing but us, melting into one another.
She inhales sharply as my fingertips brush against the underside of her breast. I suck her bottom lip into my mouth, nipping at her flesh as I slide my hand over her bra, pulling the material beneath her breast.
“Oh my god, Theo,” Lucy rasps as I trail my lips along her jaw and down the side of her slender throat. She arches her back and I pull away, taking in the sight of her. Her clothes are disheveled, her hair a tangled mess, lips parted, eyes closed.
“Fuck, look at you,” I groan, pushing her shirt up to the base of her neck.
My head dips, my mouth finding her breast as I suck her nipple between my lips.
She moans loudly, her hands tugging on my shirt, scratching my skin through the thin material.
I smile against her skin, tasting and teasing, nibbling and sucking on her flesh.
I grind my hips into her, rolling and rocking, rubbing my cock against her clit through our clothes. She’s a panting mess of moans, her nails digging into my skin as she lifts her own hips, rubbing against me.
I bite her nipple and she cries out. “Do you want to come, Lucy, love?” I murmur against her flesh, my eyes flicking to hers as I soothe the indents in her skin with my tongue.
I trail my lips over her chest, up her neck and along the underside of her jaw, stilling my hips.
She whimpers, grinding her pelvis into me.
“Tell me what you need, and I’ll give it to you. ”
“I want to come,” she murmurs against my mouth as my lips find hers. “Please.”
I nip at her bottom lip again. “You want to come or you need to come?”
Lucy growls in frustration, her hands tangling in my hair, tightening her grip. “I need to come, Theo.”
A moan rumbles deep and low inside my chest as I rub my cock against her, rocking into her with enough force, it feels like the material between us could give away. My balls tighten, drawing closer to my body as the sweltering heat in the pit of my stomach continues to build.
“That’s it, baby.” I moan into her mouth, rolling my hips. “You’re so close, aren’t you?”
She doesn’t respond with words. Instead, she kisses me deeper, breathless and desperate. She claws at my skin, as if she’s trying to tear away every single fucking layer between us. “Theo!” she cries out, her legs tightening around my waist as her orgasm tears through her body.
Her body stills for a moment, and I grind my cock against her clit, the heat spreading through my body, spilling into my veins. My face screws up, eyes slamming shut as I groan, still grinding against her as we both chase after that release.
Lucy’s body shakes, her legs have a vise grip around my waist and a damp, warmth spreads between us as I lose myself in my pants. My cock pulsates, the cum spilling from me as our movements still, both of us falling into the abyss of ecstasy.
My chest is tight, my heart pounding, body satiated as my pelvis collapses into hers. Lucy’s hands slide down the side of my neck and over my shoulders as she kisses me with a tenderness that has my toes curling.
Heat spreads across my face and I suck in a shallow breath as we break apart. Her eyes are hooded, glazed with pleasure. The corners of her mouth twitch, but she doesn’t say a word.
Holy fuck—what did we do?
I can’t let myself overthink it. I ease off her, settling onto the mattress with a heavy breath and I turn to look at her as she rolls onto her side. Her eyes trail down to the wet spot on the front of my pants. Her eyes widen as they flash back to mine. “Did you…”
Yes, Lucy. I came in my pants like a fucking schoolboy.
“I—uh, yeah.” A coy smirk lifts my lips. “That was some kiss, huh?”
A smile breaks out across her face and she laughs softly. “It was.” Her tongue darts out to wet her lips. “I’m not complaining, though.” Pink hues spread across her face. “I promise I didn’t plan on jumping your bones like that… it just kind of happened.”
“I’m not complaining,” I repeat her words back to her, my throat constricting as I stare back at her. Neither of us have to acknowledge the shift between us. It’s there. What we had before this moment—it doesn’t exist, not the way it did before.
“Thank you for that,” she says softly, her eyes slowly searching mine. “I’ve had a lot of pent-up… energy, lately.” A sheepish grin drifts across her lips. “Apparently, pregnancy hormones are like an aphrodisiac.”
Blood rushes to my cock. My fingers trail along the side of her face as I tuck her tangled hair behind her ear. “Well, if you need anything again, I’m always here to help.”
Her eyebrows lift. “Yeah?”
“I’m here to take care of you, Lucy.” I reach for her hips, pulling her closer. The thought of some other asshole touching her like this pricks my skin. If she needs a release, I want to be the one to give it to her… not someone else. “In every way you need.”
“I’ll remember that.” She laughs, her lips brushing against mine.
“I’ll be here to remind you,” I murmur, kissing her softly. She kisses me back, her hands sliding along my chest as we momentarily get caught up again.
She pulls away. “I should go back to my room,” she says breathlessly as she rolls off the bed. “It’s getting late.”
“I’ll walk you,” I say, climbing off the mattress.
She turns around, mischief and amusement in her eyes as they flick down to the wet spot on my pants and back to my face. “You sure about that?”
I glance down. “Shit,” I mumble, huffing out a laugh. “That’s worse than I thought it was.”
Lucy isn’t the only one with pent-up energy.
She closes the distance between us, her palms on the fronts of my shoulders as she lifts to softly kiss my lips. “Goodnight, Theo.”
“Goodnight, Luce,” I murmur, resisting the urge to reach out and tug her back to me.
Lucy slides her feet into her shoes, pausing by the door to give me one last glance and a smile before she slips out into the hallway.
I run my hand through my hair, letting out a heavy sigh as I grab the back of my neck.
A smirk tugs on my lips and I chuckle, shaking my head as I play over the chain of events that led to both of us making out and dry humping in my bed until we both came.
Holy fucking shit.