Page 19 of Deadly Aloha
My reality was that if I couldn’t marry Lu, I wasn’t marrying anyone. That wasn’t because no one compared to her. I’d neverdonea comparison. There was only one Lu. It wasn’t worth wasting my time.
Lu matched me in every way. And the best part—or perhaps the worst—was that she was never afraid to call me on my shit. I pissed off a lot of people, including Lu. She used to say that I would either be her first husband or her first murder. I’d have to suffer through these cheesy rom-coms she was addicted to watching, and the entire time all I could think was how gratefulI was that Lu and I were not like the couples on the television screen.
We fought, we bickered, we screamed, and wefucked. Man, did we fuck. There was nowhere off limits for us. I never minded bringing a second or a third man into our bed because I knew, at the end of the day, she wasmine. Always and forevermine.
Our passion wasn’t easy, and it was rarely gentle. If she didn’t walk away with bruises and my back wasn’t scratched to hell, I’d worry if one of us was on death’s door. There was one thing from the beginning that we agreed on, and it was no kids. Neither of us wanted them, which was a relief to say the least.
I felt Lu’s nostrils flare as her mouth pressed to mine. Her hands, only seconds ago trying to push me away, now dragged me closer, her nails biting into my skin. Our tongues battled for dominance, neither willing to submit.
The lacy material of her bra tickled my skin, so with a practiced hand, I removed the offending garment. Lu was always her most beautiful when she wasn’t wearing any clothing.
Her hands were everywhere on me, marking me with her claws like a rabid animal. She caught my bottom lip between her teeth, and pulled. Hard. I groaned, but did not retreat. I wanted more,neededmore.
Her hair wrapped around my fingers like snakes, and I pulled, forcing her chin up.
Everything around us faded to nothing. That’s how it always was with Lu. Like we were in a bubble of us that no one else could penetrate, regardless of who was near us, touching us, watching us. There was her and me. Something cold pressed up against the back of my hand. I don’t recall us moving, but somehow we’d shifted to where Lu’s back was up against the wall of the storage building.
No sooner had that registered to me did she leap up against me. Her long, toned legs wrapped around my hips as I sandwiched her between my hard chest and the brick wall.
The thin lace of her underwear was no match for me. It tore almost too easily, as if it knew that battle would be lost from the start.
My cock was so hard, it hurt. I’d suffered through some unfortunate cases of blue balls in my life, but nothing compared to this. If I did not get inside Lu, and soon, life just simply was not worth living. She tasted like fire, all hot possession and a bit of spice.
Her hands squeezed their way between us, her nails scraping my navel. I growled into her mouth, absolutely reveling in the knowledge that I had her marks on me again. I needed to leave a mark on her, a predatory need to claim my territory for all to see. This woman wasmine.
Seconds after my self-made jean shorts were around my ankles, I was back inside her. The surge of emotions that took me made my ears roar like a pot about to boil. Anger warred with guilt. There was no denying that I had broken a promise to her, but how dare she,how fucking dare she, leave me like that? Was what we had so fragile that she could remove her ring so fucking easily? To tell me that she would marry me, to vow to be mine, and then walk away like that? I was so fucking pissed at her, at myself, that I could barely breathe. And I hated myself for having gone back on my promise, but who knows what would have happened if I hadn’t? Why couldn’t she just have had faith in me that I would have been all right, that I knew how to take care of myself?
Then there was the hypocrisy.
Lu hadleft mebecause she thought I was going to get myself killed fighting to protect our homeland, and yet here she was purposefully getting kidnapped by the fucking BloodyScorpions. Which absolutely would have been a death sentence if I hadn’t been here. I had no idea where Nishi was or what had happened to her, but I knew it wasn’t anything good. The Bloody Scorpions were not a club of aristocratic gentlemen who stood around all day smoking cigars and talking shop. They were ruthless and relentless. Hiro had seen them starting to take pictures of the women tonight, which were telling enough as to what had been in store for Lu.
Had she honestly thought that she would be brought to a random, clandestine location where she would just bump into Nishi and the two of them would stage a coup to escape? Lu was no fool. She had to know how unrealistic that expectation was. But it was the only explanation why she would try to get kidnapped by the same man who had taken her best friend.
My anger rose because I didn’t need to know the specifics to know what would have happened to her if she’d succeeded. She would have been sold for her body, raped by depraved men who thought they could own her, hooked on drugs to keep her compliant, tortured to please a sadistic master, and eventually killed for simply existing. Fear replaced anger at how easily I could have lost her, and never even known it.
My hips surged forward, claiming what was mine and no one else’s to touch. She moaned and squeezed me, like she was trying to hold me inside her. To make me stay. Christ, I wanted to. I’d live inside this woman, if it were at all possible. Our touches turned frantic, a need to make up for time lost. I was so fucking pissed at her, for her, that I was beyond rough. If the wall had not been at her back, we would have surely been on the ground.
I finally broke our kiss. In my need to leave more than scrapes and bruises on her, I latched my mouth onto her bare shoulder and bit. Her cry reverberated through my soul, piercing me with barbed hooks. I held onto her harder, my anger and my love for this woman carrying me over the precipice.
There was no woman in the world like my Luana, and there never would be. She was everything. I’d been a fool to let her walk, to not hunt her down and force her to understand. She had no choice. She wasmine.
We separated slowly.Both of us a sweaty, gasping mess. For a single minute following the haze of bliss, our bodies flooded with endorphins, our bubble remained. Our temples pressed up against each other and we rode that high to the bitter end, the pulse of her inner walls gradually slowing around my deflating dick.
Then suddenly her touches changed. She started pushing me away from her as she scrambled to get to her feet. I could have moved back, could have obeyed her desire to put distance between us, but I wasdoneliving life her way. It was my turn now.
I was still inside her, though I unfortunately knew that wouldn’t last much longer. As she tried in vain to push on my chest, I hiked her legs up higher on my hips and slammed my pelvis against hers.
Lu’s cry was a mixture of a moan and a whimper as I imprisoned her between my body and the wall. She stopped fighting me for a second, until she got her hands free again. She renewed her efforts, trying to move my shoulders this time, but I was as unmovable as the stone behind her.
Not wanting her to harm herself in her desire to leave, I put one hand protectively behind her head and the other possessively collaring her throat. It did not escape my notice that her legs were wrapped around my hips of their own accord. Shecould have dropped her legs, but a part of her was still clinging to me.
I could get lost in Lu’s dark eyes. Her anger and the fact that they were currently glaring at me did not abate their beauty. I felt like I could drown in their black abyss. But I had to resist the urge.
“What the fuck were you thinking?” I sneered in her face. “You don’t get to put yourself into danger, Lu.Ever. For anyone.”
“Nishi—”
“For anyone,” I repeated, tightening my hold around her throat so she knew just how serious I was. “Do you have any idea what you dying would have done to me? What if I hadn’t been here tonight, Lu?”
