Page 31 of Deadly Aloha
I didn’t know which ‘they’ she was referring to, but it didn’t change my answer. “Because I let a group of Bloody Scorpions go with a truck of heroin to better the odds of getting to you.”
Lu’s eyes widened. “What? Why? But?—”
“Don’t ask me that,” I growled. “Don’t you fucking ask me that. Especially not when I’m finally back inside you. You, Luana Palakiko, will always be wortheverything. Your safety willneverbe sacrificed for anyone else’s.”
Her cheeks flamed. “That’s not… I mean,mahalo. But I hate the idea of all that heroin being out there, polluting our island.”
Fuck if those words didn’t make me harder. “Me too,” I told her honestly. “That’s why I told Jameson I’d accept his offer of a cut. I’m going to build a chapter of the Royal Bastards here.”
Lu’s eyebrows scrunched. “I’m not sure I know what that means.”
“It means I’m the President of the Royal Bastards O‘ahu Chapter, and you,” I thrust up inside her, “are my Ol’ Lady.”
Her breath caught at my movement. I gripped her hips, slowly rocking her back and forth on my cock. She put a handon the center of my chest to steady herself. “Your Ol’ Lady? Isn’t that like your wife?”
“You’ll be that too,” I assured her with full confidence.
She raised an eyebrow, but I felt her fingers twitch against my hard chest. Like she instinctively was trying to grab for my heart. She didn’t need to: it was already hers. Always had been, always would be.
“There’s still a lot to figure out,” I told her, keeping our pace slow and steady. “I’m going to need your help with it. Need you at my side to do this, baby.”
But she shook her head. “I can’t, Aloiki. I have to find Nishi. You promised?—”
I flipped us so fast on the couch that she barely had time to let out a squeak of surprise before she was on her back on the cushions with me hovering over her. Gripping her hands between one of mine, I held them over her head. I hiked her left leg up to my right hip, driving into her as far as I could go. “I willneverbreak a promise to you again,Hokupa?a. You areeverything. I am doing thisfor you. To keep my promise to you. The Royal Bastards have reach off this island that I do not. A boat left Hale’iwa three weeks ago, just as the others would have last night if we hadn’t stopped them. Chances are Nishi was on that boat.” I spoke softly but sternly. She needed to know just how serious this situation was. How much danger she’d put herself in by letting herself be captured by the Bloody Scorpions. “If she’s alive, Lu, I swear to you, I will find her. I will bring her home to you. But it might take time to discover where that boat went to and if she was even on it.” I pulled my hips back before sliding into her again. “You need to swear to me you’ll workwith me, Lu. That you won’t go running off half-cocked because you hear a smidge of information as to where she could be.” I started to pick up my pace, increasing the pressure of my weight on her wrists. “I can’t lose you again, Lu. Iwon’t. You’re mine. Entirelyand utterly mine. I’ll give you time before we make this legal, but it changes nothing. A fucking piece of paper changes nothing. You’re cominghome. You’ll be at my side as I build my club, and you’ll workwith meto find Nishi. Do you understand?”
Her large almond eyes stared up at me. Her breathing was heavy, and she seemed conflicted. I could see it. She wanted what I was telling her. I understood her hesitation, even if I didn’t like it. I’d broken one promise to her already. How could she trust that I wouldn’t break another?
“What about your job?” she asked.
I knew which job she meant, but I was nothing if not an asshole. “My surf shop?” I dropped my mouth down to one of her delectable breasts, twirling her hard nipple between my teeth. “If I get too busy, I’ll sell it or get employees. Hell, pretty soon I’ll have prospects who will be only too happy to do my bidding.”
Her breath hitched as I closed my mouth over her tit, hollowing my cheeks as I sucked the tight bud into my mouth. “That’s not… That’s not what I meant! You have another job, Aloiki!”
I popped off her nipple. “You were my partner once on camera. Would you be willing to do so again?”
Her eyes flared, and I knew how much people watching her have sex turned her on. She liked being admired, being desired. I liked controlling who, besides me, got to give her that. “What about you?” she asked instead of answering. We both knew what her answer would have been, regardless. “Would you still be performing with the other girls?”
If she’d been watching my channel then she had a good idea just how many ‘other girls’ there had been in recent years. I wasn’t embarrassed by that, but there was a large part of me that regretted that it hadn’t just been her.
I shook my head. “Same rules apply, Lu. Just you for me and I get to say who gets to have you.”
There was something there, something different in her expression. But her jaw tightened like she was trying to put distance between us. “Doesn’t have to be. You can sleep with who you want.”
What was she playing at? “I want to sleep with you.” I bent my head to bite her other nipple before adding, “Just you.”
She shook her head. “Don’t do so on my account. You have to make a living, after all.”
I lifted my head, posing myself over her more. I didn’t stop my relentless thrusts inside her. “What are you getting at, Lu? I don’t believe for a second that youwantme to sleep with other women. So what exactly is the point of this conversation?”
She shook her head, but wouldn’t look at me. “No point. Just saying, you don’t have to change anything for me. Live your life as you’ve been.” Before I could question her further, she asked, “When’s your next shoot?”
She said it so casually. Like my cock wasn’t inside her. Like I hadn’t just declared myself and my intentions to her. Like, albeit in a roundabout way, I hadn’t just proposed to her again.
“Tonight,” I told her honestly. “We’re rentingNight Lighttonight for a humiliation and free use shoot.” She wanted to act blasé about it, let her. I’d give her all the details and figure out just what she was doing.
“Good,” she nodded. Again, it was so casual. I needed to break her out of whatever this was. Needed to remind her just who she belonged to, who wasinsideher. “I hope you have fun. I remember how much you like changing up the locations of a shoot.”
That was it? ‘Have fun’? What the fuck?
