Chapter 50 #2
“Hey, sunshine.”
I turn to Nico on his crutches. My brow furrows. “Are you going to be able to come tomorrow?”
“I certainly hope so.” He winks and the smile he gives me makes my insides flutter.
“It shouldn’t be an issue.” Eli wraps his arm around my waist from behind, drawing me into him. “If his parents protest, we’ll just kidnap him.”
I lean into Eli’s warmth. Nico’s injury might change some things, but I need him there tomorrow. I want to feel close to all my guys and hold on to them tight before the storm.
Nico cups my cheek and trails his thumb over my jaw. “You’d be surprised how much I can get done while resting.”
Grabbing the front of his shirt, I go up on my toes to try to reach his mouth. Eli tightens his arms around me and my feet lift from the ground.
“It’s good to have friends.” Nico smirks before capturing my lips. His kiss is devastating as usual. I could spend all night reexploring each of them, figuring out how being in love changes us. Or doesn’t. We’re still who we were.
Nico pulls away and Eli lowers me back to the floor. He turns me in his arms and kisses me. I surrender beneath him. I’ll still fight, but right now, I just want to bask in the fact these men love me.
Eli’s kiss softens, and he rests his forehead against mine. “This week, kitten.”
My eyes open to his darkened brown ones. I push my hand into his thick brown hair. “What about this week?”
“I’m claiming Jack’s and my night.” Eli smirks.
My mouth opens, but I close it. I’d almost forgotten about the bet. But remembering how they won makes me press my thighs together against the ache.
“I look forward to it.” My cheeks feel warm.
“We also need to go out on our date.” Nico’s voice makes me turn to look at him. He smirks. “Maybe Sunday night before everything starts snowballing on us.”
“I’d like that, but only if you’re allowed before surgery on Monday.” A little chill races through me. Nico’s having surgery on Monday.
“I’ll be good, sunshine.” He kisses my temple.
I slide out of the way to let him and Eli leave.
No games tonight. No sex. I wrap my arms around my waist as Luke speaks quietly to Eli and Nico before they head out the door. It doesn’t feel right. Luke locks up behind them.
He turns out the kitchen light. “Do you want anything to drink?”
I shake my head. Caden took care of the boxes before he left. All that’s left is for Luke and I to go to bed. My stomach twists into a knot, knowing he’s going to the guest bedroom like he has recently.
I get it. He respects my mom and that’s awesome, but... He told me he loves me. They all did and now I have to go to sleep alone, which feels almost blasphemous.
He closes the distance between us and draws me into his warm arms. “We have tomorrow night, princess. And a lot of other nights in the future.”
I don’t wrap my arms around him, because I won’t let go if I do.
“Come on.” He takes my hand and leads me to the stairs. At the door to my bedroom, he leans in and kisses me. I taste his longing and want to lose myself in his need.
When he backs away, his eyes are heated. “Good night.”
I open my door and walk into my room. It’s late, but I sit on the edge of my bed and stare at the door. How many times has someone snuck into my bedroom? But somehow I don’t think that’s going to be tonight.
They volunteer early tomorrow morning. I’m not sure how long I sit there, but finally, I rise and change into pajama shorts and a tank top. I pause in my bathroom door and stare at my cold bed.
Fuck it. I turn out my light and quietly open the bedroom door. Listening, I wait to see if Mom is still up. There’s no sound in the hallway, so I pull the door open farther and slip out into the hall.
My heart pounds as I quietly close my door and move to the guest bedroom. I glance toward my mom’s door as I try to be as quiet as possible when I turn the handle. My pulse races, but I slip through and close it just as quietly, before turning the lock.
Yes, someone could unlock it, but at least it gives us a little warning. The room is dark, but anticipation buzzes through me. There’s a bit of an adrenaline rush to sneaking in like this.
I move toward the bed with my hands outstretched to find it.
My hand is grabbed and I crash down on the bed. His mouth covers mine, capturing any sound I might make. I melt into Luke’s arms, straddling his lap.
He’s sitting against the headboard. Was he waiting for me?
I pull away. “Why didn’t you come in?”
He brushes the hair away from my face, but that doesn’t help me see. The room is dark and he’s just one of the shadows in it. A very solid shadow beneath me.
“If I snuck into your room and we got caught, your mom would think I don’t respect her rules.” He kisses my jaw, trailing sparks on my skin. His hands pull my hips in tight against his erection.
“But if I sneak in, I’m just being a bad daughter?”
His lips smile against my skin and heat pours through me. “A very naughty girl.”
He kisses down my neck and slips his hands beneath my tank top. My skin tingles beneath his touch and I suck in a breath. I trail my fingers down his bare chest to the edge of his boxers, feeling his muscles tense beneath my touch. My fingertips graze the tip of his cock, and it jerks.
“Luke?”
He pushes down the strap of my tank so he can continue kissing, sucking, and nibbling my shoulder. His hands slide up my ribcage to below my breasts.
“What?”
Something soft flutters inside me, making me nervous. “You love me.”
He chuckles as his lips find their way back to my neck and he bites me gently. I arch into his body, and his thumbs trace the underside of my breasts.
“You love me,” he replies and lifts his head to hover over mine. “You’re mine, Harper. Ours. No one is going to change that.”
I thread my fingers into his hair and rest my forehead against his. Whatever is happening around us weighs on me. “What if—”
He shifts us so quickly I gasp as I land on my back on the bed. He surges between my legs, rubbing his cock against my sensitive pussy. We have too many layers between us. I want them gone.
“No one, Harper. They may not understand us, but you’re mine and no one will ever take you from me.”
A little shiver races through me.
“No one will take you from me,” I whisper it, but the weight of those words fall over me. This isn’t some high school thing anymore. We’re connected. We’re part of each other.
His mouth captures mine, tormenting me as we push and shove at each other’s clothes. He pulls away for a second, tossing clothes off the edge of the bed, before returning to our kiss and everywhere we touch is skin on skin.
His heat envelopes me as his cock presses against my entrance. When I lift my hips, he sinks into me. He groans into my mouth and my breath catches. We’ve been like this so many times before, but this is the first time since I found out he loved me.
“Say it,” I whisper against his lips, wrapping my legs around his waist and keeping his cock locked deep inside me. I need to hear it again. His cock jerks, but he doesn’t try to draw away.
He pushes my hair back from my face. I can’t see him, but I feel him everywhere. My pussy pulses around him.
“I love you, Harper. More than I’ve loved anything in my life. You’ve been so open to me when you should have been pushing me away. I can’t imagine my life without you in it.” His lips brush over mine as he rocks his hips against me.
My heart fills like a hot air balloon. I’m not sure any of this can stay inside me. No one has probably told Luke those words before. I swear to myself I’ll never hold those words back from him anymore.
“I love you, Luke.”
He thrusts deep inside me. “Say it again.”
“I love you.”
He thrusts hard and deep and I moan. “Again.”
“I love you.”
I hold on as he fucks me while I whisper I love you to him over and over until I can’t speak anymore. My insides tighten like an overwound toy before I explode all around him. He claims my mouth before any noise gets out.
He thrusts in deep as he finds his release, groaning into my mouth as his cum fills me. It triggers another release in me and my pussy milks his cock as my mouth opens beneath his in a silent scream.
He comes down on top of me as we both pant for breath. I push my hand into his hair and he turns his head to kiss my wrist.
He draws me in tight against him. “I love you, Harper.”