Chapter Five

 

* KELSEY *

 

I should have resisted. I should have pushed him away and stormed off angrily, kicking sand in his face for good measure.

But I couldn’t. How could any woman resist a man like Luke Foster? Perhaps there were women out there stronger than me who would have been able to pull away from a kiss this perfect, but I doubted there were many of them.

Besides, what did I have to be angry about anymore? Ruby had been exactly right. Ruby was always right about men, so I should have known. Luke had been obsessed with me from the moment he saw me in that bar. What he saw in me over every other woman in there, I still wasn’t sure. But if he was going to insist on kissing me and calling me the most beautiful woman he’d ever met, I figured I might as well give in. Especially when he was wearing only athletic shorts. He’d been running barefoot and bare-chested, leaving me with quite a view of his incredible body.

His incredible body that was now connected to mine at the lips. This was crazy, and it would never go anywhere. But it had been ages since a man had touched me. It had been ages since I’d felt such excited flurries in my stomach. I was setting myself up for a heartbreak and I knew it, but with Luke’s lips on mine I couldn’t bring myself to worry about that right now.

Then, to my dismay, he pulled back.

“I’m sorry,” he said. His voice sounded low and husky, which sent a fresh thrill through me. “I’m getting carried away here. I’m all sweaty from running, and I’m sure you’d prefer to make out with a guy who had showered. What if I take you to dinner tonight? Anywhere you want. We can sort of start over and I can treat you like a proper gentleman instead of being a jerk.”

I stared at him in disbelief. I knew he was making an effort to be considerate, but right now I was so turned on that I couldn’t have cared less about a little sweat. Besides, he didn’t look all that sweaty to me. The fresh sea breeze had quickly dried what little sweat had been on his forehead when he first approached me.

“Listen, buddy. I don’t care about a little sweat. And if you want to take me to dinner tonight then you better keep kissing me, damn it.”

Luke’s eyes widened, and then he laughed. “Well, well. Looks like my sexy librarian has a feisty side.”

I would have rolled my eyes at the fact that he’d called me a sexy librarian, but I didn’t have time to react before he pushed me backward onto the beach blanket I’d been sitting on. His lips found mine again, this time with a greater urgency and hunger than before. He pushed his tongue into my mouth, and I thought I was going to burn up from the heat right then and there. The world around me seemed to disappear, and there was only him. He lay beside me with one hand on my face and one on my ass as our tongues danced under the morning sunlight.

I thought in that moment that I had never been truly kissed before. I had never felt anything like what I was feeling right now. My mind continued to scream at me that this was crazy, but with every passing moment I paid less and less attention to those screams. I was lost in a deep sea of desire, just from Luke’s kiss.

When we first started making out, I hadn’t expected more than a kiss right now. I thought I was okay with a little tongue action, and that perhaps if we did go to dinner later we might continue to explore each other’s bodies in a bit more detail afterward. But it only took a few minutes for me to realize that I wanted more, and I wanted it now. I wasn’t usually the type of girl to go from hating a guy to wanting him to make love to me in the span of a few minutes, but there I was: wanting nothing more than for Luke to take me then and there on that secluded beach.

I suppose I had never truly hated him. I had been angry when I thought he was ditching me for Ruby, but I had still wanted him. And now that I knew that I had definitely misunderstood that situation, I wanted him more than ever.

Luckily, it looked like the feeling was quiet mutual. If the huge erection poking out against his gym shorts was any indication, he was thinking about sex just as much as I was.

He pulled away from our kiss for a moment, breathing heavily just like I was. His eyes grazed across my body before coming back to meet my eyes, and the hunger I could see in his expression made me breathless.

“Kelsey,” he said, his voice a pained whisper. “I want you.”

I didn’t say anything. Instead, I reached to take his hand that had been on my face, and I slid it down to one of my breasts. He closed his eyes for a moment, taking in the feel of me. When he opened his eyes again, he was like a different man. He was still Luke, but there was a deep, primal hunger in his eyes. I knew as soon as I saw that look that he was going to take things all the way with me on that beach, and I could not have been more thrilled.

Screw all the rules about waiting a certain amount of time. Screw all my worries about where Luke would be off to in a month. Screw all the heartbreak that waited for me on the horizon if I let Luke do this. In that moment, I didn’t care. All I wanted was to feel him inside of me. I’d spent my whole life wanting to feel wanted, and right now, I finally did. Sure, I’d been with guys before. But none of them had ever craved me the way I could tell Luke was craving me right now. His hunger for me was even more of a turn-on than his perfectly sculpted body—and that was saying a lot, because his body was damn near perfect.

Luke wasn’t content to continue touching my breasts through my t-shirt and bra. With a low, rumbling roar, he reached down to pull off the t-shirt, then deftly unclasped and removed the bra. I had sat up a little to help him with the task of removing my clothes, but now he pushed me down onto my back and took in my naked breasts. I was breathing heavily at this point, which meant my breasts were rising and falling rapidly. I ached for him to grab them with his large, strong hands. My nipples were hard and alert, begging for his touch.

For a moment, though, he only sat back and looked at me.

“You’re incredible,” he whispered reverently. And then, he dipped his head down and took one of my nipples in his mouth. He reached for the other nipple with one of his hands, twisting the hard nub between his thumb and forefinger. I closed my eyes and drank in the ecstasy of it all.

The morning sun beat warmly down on me, but its heat was nothing compared to the heat that was radiating through me from Luke’s touch. My core was growing hotter and hotter. A tingling pressure was building there, and I felt like my body was putty in Luke’s hands—his to do whatever he wanted with. All I wanted was for him to never stop touching me, because it felt more spectacular than anything I’d ever experienced before.

Between my legs, I could feel the juices of my desire dripping out. I was so wet for him. So ready. And he’d barely even begun teasing my nipples. With every moment that passed, his touch on my body became more intense. He used his teeth to nibble and twist at my hard nubs, and I arched my back in an attempt to hold in all of the pleasure flooding through me. If I felt this good just from what he was doing to my breasts, how was it going to feel when he did even more to me?

I was about to find out.

With a satisfied growl, he moved back from my breasts and slid down to grab the hem of my cotton shorts. He slid his thumbs through the elastic waistband of my shorts and pulled them off swiftly, leaving me dressed in only a boring, beige pair of underwear. I would have worn sexier underwear if I’d known this morning was going to involve a romp on the beach with Luke, but that had been so far out of the realm of possibility that I’d never even considered it.

Not that it mattered. He didn’t seem that interested in my underwear. In the next moment, he was tearing it off my body as well, leaving me fully naked before him. I wanted to reach up and pull his shorts off, but I suddenly felt shy. What was he thinking of me right now? Did he like the way I looked naked?

His eyes roved back and forth across my body, still with that primal, hungry look. He let out a low grunt of approval, and then bent down to position his face between my legs. I didn’t have time to protest or think about what was about to happen. Before I could say anything, he had driven his tongue deep inside of me, lapping at the juices of my desire that were spilling out more and more every second.

Normally, I would have been freaked out by this, wondering if he would be put off by the way I smelled or tasted. But I didn’t have time to worry much about that before a much stronger emotion took over: pure bliss. The fire inside of me grew so hot that it felt like it was consuming me. The tingling pressure in my core built until I felt like I was going to burst. I felt my release swelling, but I held back as long as I could. I wanted to drag out this perfect moment forever.

Luke shifted his movements slightly so that now his tongue was passing back and forth across my clit, and that was what undid me completely. I moaned out as I arched my back, but I could no longer contain the passion within me. I screamed with pleasure as the waves of my release came, crashing over me as spasm after spasm rocked me from within. The heat and tingling radiated out to my entire body, and I felt like I was drowning in pure pleasure.

As the tremors within me slowly faded, Luke pulled out of me and slid up so that his body hovered over mine. With his face mere inches from my own, he smiled and spoke to me in a husky voice.

“You’re perfect. And you absolutely are the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met. I can’t believe you don’t see it, but I’m going to do my best to show you over and over how much I can’t get enough of you.”

I smiled shyly, looking up at him with what I’m sure was a ridiculously dreamy, love-struck expression. For once, I didn’t try to argue and say that I wasn’t beautiful. Because Luke had just done an amazing thing for me. He hadn’t just made me cum. He’d made me feel wanted. He’d made me feel beautiful. No matter where things ended up going between us, I would always be grateful for this moment.

But no matter how happy he’d just made me, I still wanted more. I could feel his thick erection pressing against me, and I knew he wanted more, too. I reached for his shorts and started to push them down. It was awkward and difficult from the angle I was at, but he understood well enough what I was trying to do.

Luke pulled back a bit to look into my eyes. “Kelsey, are you sure? We don’t have to do anything more. I’m happy to have had the chance to make you cum. I don’t want to push you further if you’re not ready.”

“You said you can’t get enough of me,” I said, looking up at him through my thick eyelashes. “Prove it.”

He grinned, and then growled, the hunger in his eyes only deepening. “If you insist.”

He quickly kicked off his shorts the rest of the way, and did the same with his underwear. I could not keep myself from gasping at what I saw.

His erection was huge. It pointed out in front of him, stiff as a steel rod. I had never seen anything so big, and I trembled just from the thought of having that inside of me. Between my legs, I could feel myself instantly growing wet again. My whole body was responding to the sight of him, and he could tell.

“Like what you see?” he asked.

I looked up at his face, and I could see the pride in his eyes. He knew he had a lot to offer a woman. I could hardly believe that he was offering it all to me, but I wasn’t about to complain.

“I want you,” I whispered.

His smile widened. “Good. Because I want you.”

He pushed me onto my back, and I closed my eyes against the sun, which was growing brighter with every passing moment. Luke slid over me once again, only this time there was nothing between us. There was no layer of clothing keeping him back from me, and I could already feel the tip of his erection against my inner thigh, seeking my dripping wet entrance.

It didn’t take long to find me. Luke pushed against me, sliding ever so slowly into me. His thick shaft pushed against my inner walls, forcing them to conform to the shape of him. He filled me completely, and I squeezed my eyes shut tighter, trying to fully take in the wonder of it all. I was trembling helplessly by now, but if Luke noticed he didn’t comment on it.

Instead, he began to move within me. He slid back and forth, back and forth, faster and faster. The movement stirred up all sorts of delicious feelings that I hadn’t even known were possible. He rubbed against every sensitive cell, reaching deeper and further than anyone ever had before. As he thrust harder and went deeper, I felt that I was truly one with him. Our souls were connected in that moment, which was crazy considering that we’d only met a few days ago. But the time didn’t matter. All that mattered was that we were together. We were trusting each other completely, and reaching the heights of ecstasy as one.

There on that beach, with the smell of salt and sand, and the warmth of the sun on my face, I experienced a pleasure I had never known possible. As Luke moved within me, and as the pressure once again built to an impossible level, I let go and let the waves of release wash over me.

Searing hot heat raced across my body, touching every cell of my being. My inner muscles clenched around Luke’s shaft, claiming him as my own. Sweet, heat-filled tremors rocked me from my core, and I thought that if ever there was a heaven on earth, this was it.

Luke was not far behind me. As soon as he felt me cum, he gave in to his own release. He stiffened and thrust into me one last time. He held himself deep inside as he pulsed, giving himself to me completely.

For several long, wonderful moments, we stayed there together, wrapped up in each other and in the wonderful sensations rocking our bodies. When Luke finally pulled out and rolled onto the blanket beside me, he reached to put his arms around me and held me close. There was sand all over the blanket, and we were both sweaty messes now, but neither of us cared. For a few perfect moments, the rest of the world hadn’t mattered. It had only been us. Luke seemed to want to hold onto that moment has long as possible, and so did I. I didn’t expect the romance between us to be permanent or last forever, and I knew that once Luke was gone my heart was going to shatter into a million pieces.

For the moment, though, my heart felt happier than it had in a long time. And for the moment, that was enough.