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“Well, you are,” he swore. “Hell, these days, you’re right up there with my mom. Mymom, who’s been my number one since the day I was born. And that’s why I need to do this. So I’ll know… You know?” He lifted his eyebrows at me, hoping I could figure out what he wasn’t saying. Then he whispered, “Don’t you want to know?”
I swallowed and shook my head slightly. “Know what?”
“What’s happening between us,” he answered. “Becausesomethinghas changed. When you decided I didn’t have to stay over anymore, that…” He released a long breath and shook his head as if he needed a moment to collect himself. Then he pressed a hand to his heart. “That really fucking hurt. I’ve been all lost and shit since then, and nothing feels right unless I…” Pressing his lips together, he didn’t say any more. His throat worked as he swallowed. Then he added, “It honestly doesn’t even feel like my place over there, anymore. I just… Everything inside me says I belonghere. With you. And Iwantto be here, like, all the time. So I’m really hoping you’ll be willing to try this with me.”
“God,” I groaned. “My dad really got into your—”
“Forget your dad,” he growled earnestly, still looking at me with those blue, blue eyes. “This has nothing to do with him or what he asked me to do. This is me. And I want to know what all this means. Ineedto know.”
“And you thinksexis going to hold all the answers?” I challenged hotly.
He nodded once. “Yeah, maybe.” His eyes were wide with worry and fear mixed in with a bit of uncertainty. “I’m willing to try it, anyway, because the only thing I know for sure is that I want you. I want you so much it’s blocking out everything else.” Standing up slowly, he asked, “Do you want me back? Even a little?”
“I…”
Oh God. There was no way I could actually admit how much I wanted him back. But there was no way I could lie and say no, either.
His lips spread with a secret male knowledge as if he knew he had me right where he wanted me.
And just like that, all the shy uncertainty I’d seen in him moments before melted away. His eyes filled with sexual awareness. A predator latched on to his prey.
“Then, this is happening,” he said, slowly stalking toward me. “Because I’m not giving up until you say yes.”
Once he reached me, he stopped and hovered above me before leaning his lips down next to my ear. “Resisting it is pointless.”
I sucked in a shuddered breath and glanced up at him, my knees going weak and moisture gathering between my legs.
His teeth flashed with a wolfish smile. “Your nipples sure as hell aren’t telling me no.” He looked at them boldly and sucked his bottom lip in between his teeth. “Is today the day I finally get to taste them?”
“Luke…” I croaked, too scared to let him continue with his verbal seduction.
But more scared to make him stop. Because…what if this was the only chance I ever got to be with him?
I was already resolved to my fate of never getting to share my life with someone who truly loved me. Why couldn’t I just have this one time with Luke to help me through all my future lonely nights? He could be my favorite memory.
I swallowed, and his gaze lowered to my throat, reading my temptation.
He nodded and smiled almost sadly at me. “Take two,” he murmured. “Let’s try this again.”
And he slowly lowered himself onto his knees before me. We kept eye contact the entire way down until he was completely kneeling on the floor and looking up at me in a subordinate position that struck me as being more dominant than anything I’d ever experienced before.
I exhaled harshly, too nervous to move.
“I’m going to touch your ankle,” he warned me, never taking his eyes off mine as his hand extended blindly and found exactly what he was reaching for. His touch was gentle, his fingers warm and tender, and I still jumped the moment he made contact.
His gaze was intent and watchful, gauging every reaction I had.
“It’s okay,” he told me, running his thumbs over the invisible scars left there from Dax’s handcuffs. Then, he smoothed his healing touch up my calf.
I reached out and clutched the edge of my dresser that was nearby, already weak in the knees. My chest was heaving and my throat was working as I looked into Luke’s blue, blue eyes.
“Everything’s going to be just fine,” he said, his voice modulated and cautious, talking me through my anxiety.
I sent him a shaky nod, and the smile that bloomed across his face spread a fiery heat through my midsection. Then, he wrapped his arms around me completely, and he hugged my thighs, pressing his cheek against my stomach as he held me.
He kept me there for a minute until I hesitantly lifted my hand and touched his hair. But as I barely touched him, he looked up.
“Thank you,” he mouthed the words, and then he continued to watch me as his hands slid up the backs of my thighs, under my dress, where he cupped my ass through my panties. Hard.
