out of her mouth were indication of that, the same way she went wild around him. Luke gritted his teeth and kept up his pace, determined to see her come one more time before he gave in to his own oblivion. “Now, darlin’. I know you’re close. Come for me now.”
“Luke.” She shuddered, her pussy milking his cock, stealing away his control. He grabbed her hips and pounded into her, needing his release as much as he’d needed hers. His orgasm tore through him, making his knee buckle. Luke caught them both at the last second, but he had to brace himself on the glass and with an arm around her waist to keep them off the floor. “Fuck.”
“I can’t even…”
Yeah, him either. He hadn’t expected this. Even when he was tossing her ass over his shoulder, he hadn’t really considered that the sex would be mind-blowing.
When she started to straighten, he tightened his grip, not ready to break their contact yet. At some point he was going to have to face that he’d made a mess of things, but he wasn’t ready to. Not yet. “Where do you think you’re going?”
“A shower?”
“Not fucking likely. I’m not done with you yet.” He picked her up and set her on the couch next to the windows. After tossing the condom in the garbage, he knelt in front of her and spread her legs.
Her eyes went wide. “Again?”
“Woman, I’m haven’t had even close to enough of you.” He leaned down and sucked her clit into his mouth. “I hope you don’t have any plans until tomorrow afternoon, because you’re going to miss them.”
Chapter Six
Alexis woke up as the sun hit the curtains across the room. She stretched, loving how sore and used her body felt. True to his word, Luke made sure she didn’t get much sleep at all last night. He lay sprawled next to her, his head buried in his pillow. She propped herself up on her elbows and finally allowed herself to look her fill. Last night, he’d done a damn good job of making sure she was so distracted, she couldn’t get a good view of his body. When they’d finally collapsed in bed together, he tucked them both in and flipped off the lamp inside of ten seconds. It was unreal.
As she shifted the sheet to the side, she realized why. An angry scar wound its way down his side to his leg before exploding over his knee. The flesh looked strange, as if it’d been grafted in. That’s exactly what it is, she realized. Something had torn into him with such violence that she couldn’t imagine there was much left of this leg when it was through with him. Considering what she knew of the war overseas, it had to be an IED.
When he’d given her the curt answer about his knee last night, she’d pegged him for military. Apparently she was right.
Something inside her softened to think of the pain and agony he must have gone through—was still going through, if his limp was any indication. It didn’t excuse his shitty attitude—plenty of men walked away with worse injuries and managed to still see the cup as half full—but it gave her an unwelcome insight to everything Luke. She didn’t like it. This was so much easier to chalk up to a stranger in a strange land who blew her mind and, as a result, gave her back a little sliver of what she’d been missing for so long.
A step in the right direction.
She glanced at the clock next to the bed and mentally cursed. She’d have to hurry or she was going to miss her flight. Plus, she wanted to call and check in with Avery. Maybe apologize for skipping town before the baby shower.
Even thinking about it had her throat closing. Her sister hadn’t done anything the “right” way—planning to use her best friend as a sperm donor and go it alone, despite the plan nearly giving Yé-yé a coronary—but she’d still managed to find happiness with her now-fiancé. And they were expecting a baby, the one thing Alexis had wanted more than anything in the world.
The one thing that was forever beyond her reach.
She’d survived the same cancer that killed her mother, but the cost had been so goddamn high. Her ability to have children, her potential marriage with Eric, the acceptance of her traditional Chinese grandparents. All of it taken away with the surgery that ended up saving her life.
She supposed