“I’m hanging on by a thread here, Millie.”Luka groaned.
“What?Why?”I asked, blinking up at him.
“Because you’re mine, and I can’t stand the idea of another man touching you.It’s driven me crazy since you left my bed all those months ago.And now you’re telling me that…that…” Luka vibrated with anger.“I want to rip his dick off and shove it down his throat so he chokes on it.”
A laugh bubbled out of my mouth.“Crazy how we’ve both had the same fantasy.”
Luka shook his head.“I don’t know what I’m doing with you.I wanted to give you time to realize I was a better man than you expected me to be—”
“I know that, Luka.”I placed my palms against his cheeks.“You deserve better than me—”
“Stop.Right fucking there.I wantyou.I’ve wanted you from the beginning.Nothing’s changed there.”
“Um…” I looked down at my bulging midsection.“Pretty sure a lot’s changed.”
“I hate when people decide what’s best for me,” he snapped, parroting my words.Anger quivered from his lips, his muscles.“And I hate being told what I should think or feel.I’m me—I know.”
I sucked in a breath.“Of course, Luka.Of course.”I leaned so my forehead touched his.I wasn’t aware yet what caused him to respond so vehemently to my words sometimes, but Luka had a past that haunted him, too.That much was obvious.
“I want to take you to bed and brand you as mine all over again,” Luka said.
His tone remained clipped, his words coming too fast.He was worked up, no doubt from the altercation with Trent, but also from whatever demons rode him.
“I want to fuck you so hard you’re hoarse from screaming my name.Mine.Over and over.I want to make you so drunk with pleasure, so boneless from orgasms, you can’t think or feel or remember anything but me.”
“That…” I swallowed.My pulse thrummed in my neck and my core warmed.“Sounds amazing.”
He pulled back, so I clutched at his collar.
He frowned.“But I need to leave you alone, let you recover from our trip, from seeing that—”
“No, Luka.Don’t do that to me now.I get to decide for me, too, right?”
He paused, eyes searching as the silence drew out between us, taut.Delicious.I shivered, leaned in, and pressed my lips to his.
His breath crashed over my mouth, heating it and causing me to shiver again.This man waspotent.
“Are you sure?”he asked against my lips.Not pulling back, not taking space from me.
“I’m so sure,” I murmured.
“Fuck,” he groaned out before he sealed his lips to mine.Our tongues and teeth dueled for supremacy—though I planned to lose the fight.Luka’s dominance excited me, but more, it made me feel safe, protected.
Maybe that was fucked up—I was a little or a lot messed up from my time with Trent—but Luka felt right.He gathered me in his arms, and I was home.
Safe.
Cherished.
I never wanted to leave.
Luka
She smelled like heaven—grapefruitand lilacs—and tasted divine.I’d missed the softness of her skin and the breathy little moans that slipped past her lips as she grew more and more turned on.I did that to her.I knew because she whimpered my name.
Biggest fucking turn-on of my life.
I swooped back in for another kiss, the passion drugging us both.Her tits were bigger, heavy against my chest, her nipples hard little points that speared against my sensitized skin.I slid my hand to her nape, tipping it back so I had access to her neck, which I nipped and licked and sucked and kissed until we were both writhing with want.
