Chapter 10 #2
I removed my cut, letting it hang over the doorknob to my left.
“And what did you mean, Hōkūpa?a?” With a twirl of my index finger, I indicated for her to turn around.
Despite her next words, she turned without hesitation. “This isn’t how I wanted you to find out! I was coming out to tell you, I swear. I bumped into Rory in the kitchen”—I let out a low growl at the sound of his name—“and stopped to talk to him. I swear, though, I was coming to find you.”
“I believe you,” I said honestly. Once the knots of her bikini top were undone, I let the material fall to the floor.
Lu turned back towards me. Her eyes kept shifting, like she was searching mine for something. “Okay… I’m a bit confused,” she hedged.
I squatted, lowering her shorts to the floor. She placed her hands on my shoulders to balance as she stepped out of them. “What about?”
“You’re… Well, you’re not freaking out.”
I stood. “Should I be?”
Her eyebrows scrunched, confused. “I mean, not specifically. But I expected you to be. You don’t want kids.”
I nodded. “Very true.” I lifted her up against my chest, but didn’t enter her yet. Instead I walked us to our bed where I sat down and then fell onto my back. With her laying over me, I scooted myself into the center of the bed before shifting the pillows beneath my head how I wanted them.
Lu’s face fell. “So you don’t want this baby?”
I paused. “Not want this baby?” Now it was my turn to be confused. “What the fuck would make you think that?”
Lu sat up on my abdomen and slapped her hands down on my chest. “God-fucking-damn-it, Aloiki! For once in your fucking life, just say what you’re thinking here! Because now I am the one freaking out and I have no idea what the hell you want from me!”
“What I want from you?” I followed her upright, making her slide down onto my lap. My erection was pushed down by her ass between my legs. “I want what I have always wanted. You, Lu. Just you. And if you think I don’t want this baby then you’re sorely mistaken, because I do.”
She swallowed hard, but her confusion didn’t lessen at my words. “Why?” she demanded. “You’ve made it very clear you don’t want kids.”
“I don’t,” I repeated, entirely honest. “But a kid with you? Fuck, Lu, I hadn’t even known I wanted that until ten minutes ago. Your baby? Our baby? I want it more than I ever thought possible.”
Lu’s shoulders sagged and I saw the relief clear as day on her face. “Thank you. I mean, thank you for not fighting me on this.”
Why would I fight her? My eyes narrowed slightly. “You always said you didn’t want a baby either. Do you want this?”
She nodded definitively. “I think I’m like you. I didn’t know I wanted it until I saw that pregnancy test. Like it woke something dormant inside of me and now…” She smiled widely, a look of excitement on her face. “I want this, Aloiki. I want our baby.”
I matched her joy. My chest hadn’t felt this light in a long time. “You do realize you have no choice now?”
Confusion flitted across her features again. “About what?”
I kissed her, long and hard. “Now you have to marry me.”
Lu laughed, relieved. “I was already going to do that.”
“Yeah, but now you have a deadline.” I looked down at her flat belly between us. “No more delaying, Lu.”
Sadness crept into her eyes. “Not until we know about Nishi. Even if it means our baby is born before we get married, Aloiki. I just… I need to know.”
I knew she wasn’t saying this as an incentive for me to find her best friend faster, even though essentially that’s what it was.
Her hesitation was because she wanted Nishi at her wedding.
They’d already vowed to be each other’s Maid of Honor, and Lu felt like she was betraying Nishi for wanting to get married without her.
I got it. If it was Tangaloa missing, it would be awkward not to have him there to witness our union, but it also wouldn’t stop me from making Lu mine as soon as possible. It pissed me off even more that I was unable to provide Lu with an answer.
I pushed her thick hair back, away from her face. “I need to marry you, Lu. Even if it’s just so it’s legal and then we have a celebration later. It’s killing me that you’re not mine in every way possible yet.”
She bit the inside of her lip. “I’ll think about it,” she finally agreed.
“Well, you can think while I fuck you.” I gripped her shoulders.
“And so there’s never a doubt as to who is inside you, trying his damnedest to put another baby in you, you get to watch.
” I flipped her around on me so her back was to my chest. I nipped her ear.
“I will marry you, Lu. It’s not up for debate. ”
On her knees over my legs, she nodded. “I know.”
“Good.” I reached my hand over her hip to feel her.
She was wet, though I preferred her wetter.
The change of mood must be affecting her more than she was letting on.
I applied pressure to her clit, rubbing it while laying a trail of kisses up and down her spine.
“You know, it’s probably a good thing that you didn’t tell me outside. ”
Her hips started to roll at my touch. She moaned in question to my statement.
I nodded, licking from the middle of her back up to her shoulder blade.
“I’d have bent you over the closest item and fucked you right there in front of everyone.
The club, the construction crew… And absolutely no work would have gotten done.
Because everyone would have stopped and stared, Lu.
Their eyes would have been transfixed on you, all of them growing hard at the sight of your naked body and wishing for nothing more in that moment than to take my place.
” I nipped at her lower shoulder. “But they never will. Because you’re mine.
” She was getting wetter at my words, her hips moving in a more defined motion.
“Always and forever mine. And now you’re carrying my baby. ”
I moved my other hand down between us to grip my cock. I shifted her over me and traced the tip of my cock through the moist lips of her pussy, pushing her hips down so I was right at her opening without actually entering. All the while, I never stopped showing attention to her clit.
Lu started shaking over me. “Aloiki, please,” she begged.
“You want me inside you, Lu?” I pulled my hand away from my dick. “Then you need to put me inside you.”
She was reaching between her legs before my statement was fully out of my mouth. Her hot, little hand gripped the base of my shaft and she rose up on her knees. Liquid heat engulfed my cock as she lowered herself down.
Contentment filled me, just as it always did when I was inside her. It was fucking sappy, but I didn’t give a shit. I was inside my woman, my wahine. I was home. I had found my ‘ohana in a way that had been vacant from my life since my mom’s accident.
I didn’t give a fuck what anyone thought anyway. There was no place I’d rather be than inside this woman. Not on the surf or in the sand, not on the back of my horse or riding on my hog.
Lowering myself onto my back, I brought Lu with me.
The large mirror above my bed was angled on the ceiling, giving both of us an unimpeded view of our joining.
Putting one hand on her throat, I tilted Lu’s head, holding her so she was forced to watch.
My other hand went to her belly where my baby was growing.
I kept my legs spread to not block her line of sight. Bending my knees, I tipped my hips up and back. Her legs were draped over my thighs, spread as wide as I could make them. Reaching over my head to the headboard, I pressed a button on a remote that was hanging from a chain.
I licked up her neck, making her shudder in my grip.
“Keep watching, Lu. Watch as I fuck you. That’s my cock deep in your pussy.
My cock is the only one that will ever be inside you again.
Your body is mine, Luana. I will fuck your ass, your mouth, your cunt, your tits as many times as I want to.
Whenever I want, however I want. On your fucking deathbed, I will still be fucking you because the only way you are allowed to leave this existence is while screaming my name. ”
Lu shattered around my cock, her throat constricting beneath my hand. I held off, not ready to stop. I slowed my pace, but kept going through her orgasm. I had a suspicion that she could have come from my words alone, and planned to one day soon test that theory.
I kept the slow pace going until I knew she was back with me. Then I flipped us, pinning her to the bed, and rode her until we both exploded. Holding her head back by her hair, I forced my left bicep beneath her mouth and then clamped her teeth down onto my hard muscle.
I was definitely getting another tattoo of the imprint of her teeth. The one around each of my nipples, as well as the scratch marks on my back and ass, were hot as fuck. I made her scrub them in the shower, so she never forgot the claim she had on me was just as strong.
I might need to inquire with U?ilani, my tattoo artist, what it would take to get Lu’s name tattooed on my dick.
I pulled the covers up to Lu’s shoulders. Bending over, I kissed the curve of her shoulder before slipping from the bedroom. I did close and lock the door this time. No one got to look at Lu while she was sleeping except me.
Tangaloa and Bacon were unsurprisingly waiting for me in the kitchen.
While they both looked relaxed, there was no hiding the anguish in Tangaloa’s eyes.
Bacon might not see it, but I did. I knew my brother, and I knew what the news of Lu’s pregnancy was likely doing to him.
It did not dampen my feelings, but I could empathize.
“Where’s Rory?” I demanded. The fact that I used his birth name was telling. Once we’d chosen our road names, the rule was they were to be used as a sign of respect.
I held no such respect for Rory now. What happened next determined his fate, but my decision about whether he remained in the Royal Bastards was final.