Chapter 10 #3
‘Is it your legs?’ She couldn’t reach those, pinned under the weight of his body.
He shook his head. ‘I’m OK, just give me a sec,’ he croaked.
Her heart was still racing with fear. They were surrounded by the branches of the fallen tree and she couldn’t move to help him. ‘Have you broken something?’
He shook his head again, still wheezing in pain. ‘Are you OK?’
‘Yes, where are you hurt?’ She felt around his back again.
‘My balls,’ he groaned.
‘What?’
‘You kneed me in the balls when I threw you to the ground.’
‘Oh my god.’ She tried to rearrange her legs so she wasn’t putting pressure on them. ‘Are you OK?’
‘I will be in a minute. ’
She let out a sigh of relief. ‘I should hope so, we need everything working down there for when we have more incredible sex.’
His eyebrows shot up. ‘There’s going to be more incredible sex?’
‘There better be. You’ve ruined me for other men.’
A smile spread across his face but then he frowned. ‘But you thought I had an ulterior motive for buying you all the gift shop stock.’
Her hands were still around him so she stroked them up his back.
‘I never thought that, not for one second. You’re one of the kindest, most wonderful men I’ve ever met and I trust you completely.
And I’m sorry if I made you think otherwise.
When you asked me if that’s what I thought, I did have to stop and analyse whether my experience with Ryan was making me angry and defensive or whether I was just annoyed with you for not telling me and lying to me about the kitty.
Turns out I’m just annoyed with you. I’m still annoyed with you and this doesn’t change that. ’
‘What doesn’t change that?’
‘This.’ She reached up and kissed him and she felt him smile against her lips as he kissed her back.
She pulled back to stroke his face. ‘I am still very annoyed with you,’ she said softly.
He grinned. ‘I know.’ He kissed her again and it made her needy and weak.
She pulled back again. ‘Especially because you let me spend thousands of pounds of your money. I would never have done that if I’d known. ’
‘I know. But it made it easier to give it when you thought it came from a kitty, and you still fought against it, demanding to pay the kitty back.’
‘I know a few thousand pounds is probably nothing to you, but it’s still your money. I will be happier once all the gift shop stuff is going back.’
He shook his head. ‘The gift shop stuff stays. If you want more incredible sex, you’re going to have to let me have that.’
She let out a laugh of outrage. ‘You can’t blackmail me with sex.’
He kissed her neck, just below her ear, sending pleasure darting through her stomach.
‘It’s your choice really, hot sex every morning,’ he kissed her again, trailing his mouth down her throat.
‘Every night.’ He kissed her again. ‘And probably even every lunchtime. Or you return the gift shop stock.’ He kissed her on her shoulder, at the bottom of her neck.
‘You have to decide what’s more important, your principles or an endless supply of really hot sex. ’
She closed her eyes as he moved his mouth across her chest, following the V-cut of her dress. She gasped as his lips grazed her breast. ‘My principles are very important to me,’ she said and she was surprised by how desperate her voice sounded. ‘But so is hot sex.’
‘It’s a tough choice.’ He moved his mouth to her heart.
‘I think,’ she stroked a hand through his hair. ‘When I’m not angry anymore, you should show me that hot sex again and then I can make an informed decision. ’
‘Good idea.’ He pushed himself back from her, lifting the branches away from her, and then held out a hand to help her up. She took it and he pulled her to her feet and then, still holding her hand, he marched towards the house.
‘Where are we going?’
‘We’re going to have make-up sex.’
‘But I’m still annoyed with you,’ Flick protested as she hurried to catch up with him. ‘And now I have blackmail to add to your list of heinous crimes.’
‘Then we’ll have angry sex.’
She looked back over at the tree, lying completely intact on the floor. ‘What about the wonky tree?’
‘It’ll still be there when we get back.’
She had no more words of protest as he marched through the house, up the backstairs, straight into their flat and into his bedroom. He turned her so her back was against the wall and then he kissed her.
She wrapped her arms round his neck, pressing herself up against him and she could feel how much he wanted her.
‘Everything working OK down there now?’ Flick asked. ‘I’m not giving up my principles for faulty goods.’
‘Everything is fine, you’ll see for yourself in a minute.’
She undid his jeans and pushed them down around his bum and then slipped her hand inside his shorts. He was rock hard. He let out a moan as she moved her hand around him .
‘Everything seems fine, but would you like me to take a closer look?’
‘We’ll never get to the make-up sex if you do, or if you keep touching me like that.’ He took her hand from his shorts and kissed it. ‘And I would much rather hear you scream than anything else.’
She smiled at that.
He kissed her again as he reached round her back and unzipped her dress, letting it fall to the floor. Without taking his mouth from hers, he removed her bra too, before filling his hands with her breasts.
She quickly wrestled him out of his t-shirt and wriggled out of her knickers, then pushed his jeans and shorts down.
He stepped out of them. ‘You have zero patience.’
‘Not when it comes to you.’
He smiled and kissed her again, moving his hand between her legs. His touch was perfect, knowing exactly what she needed, her body responding to him instantly, and that feeling started coiling in her stomach as if it had simply been waiting there, waiting for him.
She pressed herself up against him, desperate to feel his body against hers. She could feel herself tightening, standing on the edge, her movements getting frantic as she needed that release.
‘Luke.’
‘I’ve got you.’ He bent his head and took her breast in his mouth and she shattered, falling apart so fiercely that she was thankful he was holding her up. She clung to him as waves of pleasure rode through her .
She was still shaking as she came down from her high. He kissed her on the forehead, stroking her arms and shoulders. ‘You OK?’
‘I’m with you, I’m definitely more than OK.’
He smiled and kissed her, as she stroked his face.
He pulled back slightly and grabbed a condom from the drawers. After a moment, he lifted her, she wrapped her arms and legs around him and he slid perfectly inside of her as if he was made just for her. His eyes were on hers the whole time as he set a slow, exquisite pace.
‘You’re not good at the angry sex,’ she teased.
‘You want me to be more ferocious?’
She stroked a thumb across his lips before giving him a sweet kiss. ‘I’m not sure you have it in you.’
He gave a little growl that sounded more like a kitten purring and she let out a snort of laughter. ‘Oh my god, I love you.’
He stilled, the smile falling from his face. ‘What?’
Oh god, the horror of telling him she loved him the second time they were making love. Why had she said that? Did she love him? She knew she was falling for him fast and hard but this felt too soon even for her.
‘I didn’t mean that . It was more the kind of “I love you” that you might say to a friend.’
‘A friend?’ Luke said in surprise, which was understandable considering he was buried deep inside of her.
‘Not a friend, you’re much more than that, but it was a different kind of “I love you” than the “I’m in love with you” kind. It wasn’t that. You don’t need to worry. ’
‘OK. I’m not worried.’ Although he was still looking at her as if he was.
‘Let’s just put that in the “never happened” box too.’
He let out a little sigh of relief and smiled as he started moving against her again. ‘OK. But that box is getting rather full and it’s only been a few days.’
She stroked his face and kissed him, trying to distract him from her faux pas, even though she felt a little bit hurt by his reaction to it.
Of course he wasn’t going to fall in love with her after a few days and she was silly to let her heart get so carried away.
She just needed to enjoy it for what it was.
He shifted her higher and she gasped as he touched that sweet spot inside of her.
She tried really hard to concentrate on what he was doing, how wonderful it felt as he made love to her, and that feeling that was already building again in the pit of her stomach.
She tried not to think about how she really needed to leave her emotions at the door when it came to Luke.
He was leaving in a few weeks, she couldn’t let herself fall in love with this brilliant, kind, wonderful man because it was quite likely when he left, he’d put her in the ‘never happened’ box too and move on with his life for good.