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Kane stood to his full height, pulling Lucie against him as her body trembled from her orgasm. He couldn’t help but smile as he held her close. Lifting her into his arms, he carried her back inside, heaving the sliding glass door closed. That was all the show their neighbors would be getting tonight. The rest was just for him.
By the time they reached the bed, Lucie was pulling away from him, and the mischievous smirk told him she was coming up with a devious plan. “What?”
“You know that little saying... turnabout is fair play?” she asked, a gleam in her chocolate brown eyes.
He nodded, pulling her up against him once more, cupping her ass with his hands and grinding his steel hard erection against her core.
“I’m thinking you should have to stand outside while I use my mouth on you,” she whispered, her eyes fluttering closed as he continued to grind against her, making sure to rub his cock over her clit.
“Baby, we can go down to the beach for all I care. I’ve got no shame. I’ll let you suck my cock anytime you want.” It was no less than the truth. Kane didn’t care who watched.
The understanding in her eyes made him smile. He liked that she didn’t seem turned off by the idea. As far as Kane was concerned, there’d be plenty more public encounters like that in their future. But for now, he needed to be inside of her.
Wrapping her long hair around his fist, Kane pulled her head back so he could look down into her eyes. “Did you like what I did to you?”
Lucie nodded, but he knew she needed a little more clarification of what exactly he meant.
“Did you enjoy feeling my tongue in your ass?”
Her innocent gaze turned molten as she sucked her bottom lip into her mouth.
“Tell me, Lucie. Did you like when I played with your ass?”
“Yes,” she whispered, her body reacting as she began rocking her hips against his, grinding her clit along the length of his cock.
“I want to fuck your ass,” he told her, never breaking the eye contact. “Have you ever had your ass fucked, baby?”
“No.”
Her response was immediate, and he saw the hesitation flash through her beautiful eyes.
“I need to fuck your ass, baby. Right now.” Kane wasn’t sure why he needed to take her in such an aggressive, primal way, but he needed it more than his next breath. Maybe because he needed her to trust him and by allowing him to take her that way, she would have to. If she said no, he wouldn’t push her, and within seconds he’d be buried deep in her pussy.
He hoped she didn’t say no.
He sensed that she didn’t know what to say, so he chose to give her two options. “I want you to move over to the bed and lay down. It’s up to you now as to how this plays out. I want to fuck your ass, but I’ll take anything you’re willing to give me, baby. It’s up to you.”
Lucie continued to look up at him as though she needed more encouragement. Kane leaned forward, tilting her head by pulling on her hair so he had better access to her neck. Placing biting kisses along her jaw, he continued until his mouth was level with her ear. “Lie on your stomach if you want me to fuck your ass. Otherwise, lie on your back.”
It was as simple and easy as that. The way she continued to rub her pussy along his cock, Kane was quickly getting to the point that he didn’t care what they did next as long as he was buried inside of her. Releasing the grip on her hair, he took one step back, then another. Lucie’s soft, persistent moan was almost the death of him, and when she turned toward the bed, he just stood back and watched.
She climbed onto the bed on all fours, moving to the center with her beautiful ass facing him, the swollen pink folds of her pussy visible between her legs. Just when he thought she would turn over onto her back, she stilled, resting her upper body on her forearms, her head pressing into the mattress.
Kane’s heart soared nearly out of his chest. The woman trusted him not to hurt her, although she had never done this before. Moving closer to the bed, Kane opened the drawer of the nightstand and pulled out the bottle of lubrication he had deposited there earlier.
“Move back toward me,” he instructed as he flipped open the cap.
When Lucie did as he told her, Kane moved forward, pushing her legs wider so that he could maneuver between her legs. Brushing his stomach over the backs of her thighs, he placed one hand on her back, forcing her upper body deeper into the mattress.
Leaning forward, he nipped the firm, supple skin of her ass cheek with his teeth, feeling the way Lucie flinched beneath him. Separating the firm globes with his fingers, Kane trailed his tongue over her lower back, down the crease of her ass until he found the tiny, delicate hole that he was looking for. Gently he began reaming her with his tongue, reveling in her soft moans and the way she began thrusting back against his mouth.
He teased her like that for long minutes before standing once more and grabbing the lubrication from the bedside table. Holding one hand on her hip, he squeezed the lube down the crease of her ass. The shiver that moved through Lucie had Kane’s cock jerking.
Fuck! He wanted to slide deep inside of her, but he knew he’d hurt her if he didn’t prepare her first. Using one finger, he teased the puckered hole, sliding the lubrication around before slipping the tip of his finger inside of her.
“Let me know if it’s too much, Lucie,” Kane growled the words, barely holding on to his control.
Gently, he fingered her ass with one finger, the fingers of his other hand digging into the soft flesh of her hip.
“You’re so fucking hot,” he groaned before sliding two fingers into her ass, easing them in slow, then retreating. He didn’t move quickly, knowing there was no need to rush, no matter how hard his cock was or how damn tempted he was to slam inside of her.
Lucie began thrusting her hips back against his intruding fingers, moaning his name over and over as she did. He knew the pleasure had overtaken some of the pain, but there was still no way he’d fit inside of her without hurting her, so he kept fingering her ass as he leaned forward, peppering her back with open mouthed kisses.
“I want to bury my cock in your ass, Lucie.” Kane kept up a verbal litany of things he wanted to do to her, listening to her moans increase as he began scissoring two fingers inside of her, before inserting a third.
“Kane!” Lucie whimpered, and he stilled. “Oh, God! Don’t stop! Please don’t stop!”
A growl tore from his chest as he began thrusting three fingers in her ass, deeper with each punishing drive until he couldn’t hold back any longer. Pulling his fingers free, Kane quickly lubed his cock before moving her up on the bed as he climbed onto the mattress on his knees.
With the hand he had holding her hip, Kane leaned into her, finding her clit with his fingers. When she began moaning his name again, he aligned his cock with her tight hole before pressing the swollen head against her, watching as he slipped inside. A torturous groan erupted from his chest as her body enveloped him, strangling the head of his dick.
“Bear down on me, Lucie,” he commanded, trying to force his fingers to continue moving over her clit, trying to keep her hovering on the edge and not aware of the pain he knew he was inflicting.
When Lucie pushed back against him, Kane slid farther in, one inch at a time until he was sweating profusely and his cock was buried to the root inside of her. He didn’t move, not wanting to hurt her as she whimpered.
He increased the speed of his fingers over her clit, finding the slick entrance to her pussy with his thumb before pressing into her. She was so fucking tight, and so damn hot. He wasn’t going to be able to last long.
Pulling back, gripping her hips with both hands, Kane focused on sliding in and out of her hot, smooth channel, over and over.
“Play with your clit, Lucie,” he told her when the sweat began sliding down his forehead. He needed to fuck her.
When she moved her hand between her legs, he could only assume she was doing as he instructed while he continued to maintain a steady, gentle pace until Lucie was once again thrusting back against him.
“Fuck me, Kane! Please fuck me,” she cried out, trying to force her hips closer to him. With his hands holding her still, she didn’t get very far and he was still scared of hurting her.
“Dammit, Kane!” Lucie screamed, but it wasn’t from the pain. “Fuck me now!”
Kane lost his leash on his control and he began slamming against her, burying his cock to the hilt in her ass, holding her hips and pulling her against him as he pounded into her over and over, faster and harder until the tingling in the base of his spine robbed him of breath.
“I’m coming!” Lucie’s voice broke through the haze that he was trapped in as he tried to hold on until she found her release, but the moment the words penetrated his brain, Kane stilled, spilling himself deep into her.
He didn’t know how it was possible, but the woman continued to intensify his feelings for her as every single minute passed.
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“I don’t need a bath,” Lucie groaned when Kane tried to help her from the bed. She didn’t want a bath, she just wanted to close her eyes and give in to the exhaustion pulling at her.
She’d never experienced the kind of mind numbing orgasm as she had moments before. Nor had she expected to come at all from being fucked like that, but clearly she’d shattered into a million pieces thanks to the most body rocking release she had ever known.
“You’re going to be sore,” he whispered as he lifted her into his arms and carried her to the bathroom a few minutes later.
At some point he must have come into the bathroom and filled the tub because the water was deep, there were mounds of soft, fluffy white bubbles and the gentle hum of the jets rumbled. Kane placed her on her feet in front of the oversized spa tub, allowing her to climb in first. He kept his hand on her arm until he was in the tub with her, lowering himself down behind her.
Lucie slid into the warm water, her eyes closing momentarily as she leaned into Kane, letting the heat from his body, mixed with the perfect temperature of the water soothe her aching muscles.
“I’m in awe of you,” Kane said long moments later, just when Lucie was beginning to drift into that state of euphoric slumber.
She turned her head to the side and forced her eyes open. “Why?” she asked, unsure what he meant by his comment.
“You amaze me.”
“Here I was thinking I was the one being amazed by you,” she said lightly.
“After everything I put you through, to know that you trust me... It humbles me, Lucie,” he said, his voice sounding somewhat sad.
“I’ve never had an issue with trust where you’re concerned. I know you would never hurt me,” she answered, using her hand to swirl circles in the mounds of bubbles across her chest.
“But I did.”
Lucie abruptly turned, but Kane easily stopped her, pulling her back against his chest and pressing his lips on the back of her head.
“You didn’t hurt me, Kane.”
She could understand why he would think that because she had done the unthinkable, hiding her pregnancy from him and never telling him he was Haley’s father. But it never was about trust. She knew that no matter how many times she tried to explain that to him, he wasn’t going to accept it.
“I’ve dreamt about you,” Kane began, his voice low, his hands firm across her abdomen. “After what you told me this morning, I realized they weren’t dreams. They were memories, although they always seemed just a little out of reach. I never could completely see what happened, but now I know. I wish it could’ve been different between us that night.”
Lucie didn’t respond, unsure what even to say to that. There were so many times that she had wished the same thing. Not about the events of the night because, if she were honest, she didn’t want to change the way that it happened. She just wished he had remembered so she didn’t have to spend the next five years wondering why it hadn’t been good enough for him to remember.
“That had been a really dark time for me,” Kane explained. “I’m not sure why that year was harder on me than the others, but I had a difficult time dealing with the anniversary of my brother’s death.”
Lucie didn’t move a muscle. Hell, she wasn’t even sure she was breathing. Her heart cracked wide open from the sadness she heard in his tone. She waited patiently for him to continue, trying not to disrupt whatever it was that caused him to open up to her. She had no idea Kane even had a brother, much less that he had died.
“It would’ve been his twenty-first birthday that year and drowning myself in alcohol had been the only way I knew to deal with the overwhelming loss that I felt.”
Lucie thought back to that night and the days preceding it. Kane had been indulging quite a bit more than he normally did from what she remembered. In fact, these days, she rarely saw him drink anything more than a beer. She hadn’t thought anything of it.
“How did he die?” she asked, immediately wishing she had kept her mouth shut. Kane didn’t move, nor did he answer her for several seconds, or maybe it was minutes. Lucie wasn’t sure, but she didn’t breathe during that time.
“Drunk driver.” Those two words broke through the otherwise silent bathroom, aside from the gentle hum of the motor from the tub jets.
“Oh, Kane,” Lucie’s heart leapt into her throat, “I’m so sorry.”
“He was the drunk driver,” Kane stated firmly, his tone no longer sad.
Lucie detected the underlying anger mingling with the agony she imagined he felt. “He was only sixteen years old, for chrissakes! He was so damn smart; it still boggles my mind why he would do something so stupid.”
Lucie couldn’t help but think back to that night when she had driven Kane home from the club. Had she not intervened, she knew he would’ve gotten behind the wheel drunk. She didn’t want to think about what might’ve happened if she hadn’t been there to stop him.
“Thankfully no one else was hurt. He wrapped his car around a tree. They said he was killed instantly and that his blood alcohol level was more than triple the legal limit.”
Lucie’s heart went out to Kane and his mother for what they had to go through. She was saddened by the fact that Haley would never get to meet her uncle. Kane’s loss explained so much about that night and the way he had treated her. Still, she didn’t see it the same way that he did. He hadn’t hurt her, and never once had she thought he would.
“I love you, Kane,” Lucie said quietly after several long silent minutes. She hadn’t expected to say the words aloud, although her heart was consumed with the love she felt for him.
Kane still didn’t move, but she was almost positive she felt his hands tighten against her stomach.
Maybe it was too soon for her to say the words, but she couldn’t take them back now. She didn’t want to. Even if he didn’t feel the same for her, Lucie needed him to know just what he meant to her. After Haley had surprised them both by calling him daddy earlier in the evening, she was pretty sure he was overwhelmed enough already. Thinking about his brother probably didn’t help either.
At least that’s what she was going to tell herself. There was no way she could accept that he didn’t feel the same for her. Not until she got home where she would be able to fall apart without him looking on.