Alpha Hero: The Complete Series

by Hope Ford

  I look at Luke and there’s no mistaking the look in his eyes. I’m sure it mirrors mine. I tear my gaze away and look down at Anna. She’s smiling up at the two of us with hope in her eyes. I can’t turn her down. There’s no way I can say no to her.

  I finally nod my head at them and only after I agree does Luke open the door and let me out, watching me the whole time until I’m in my apartment.

  Luke

  As soon as she shuts the door and I hear the lock, I shut our door and look down at Anna. She has her hand in mine and already I know she’s attached to Carly. Who wouldn’t be? She’s everything I would want in a woman… if I had the time for one.

  “So did you have fun today, bug?” I ask her as she pulls me over to the couch.

  She bounces up and down excitedly. “Yes, we went to the park and Carly actually played with me instead of just watching me. She raced me on the slide and I beat her. She got caught going down it and she told me it was our secret.”

  She gasps then, worried that she told the secret.

  “It’s okay. I won’t say anything to her,” I promise.

  I walk with her to her bedroom and help her get settled on the bed. “What book do you want to read tonight?”

  She looks at me strangely, and I pull the weathered book off the shelf. I don’t know why I ask. She always chooses the same one. I pull it off the shelf and hand it to her while I get settled into the chair next to her bed. I lay my head back and wait for her to start.

  “Luke?”

  With my eyes closed, I say to her, “Yeah, honey?”

  “Do you think Carly likes me, like enough to stay?” I hear her words and know how heavy this conversation is going to be. It’s what I was afraid of. Already she’s attached.

  “Anna, we don’t even know her that well—well, except that she’s had one parking ticket and there’s no warrants out for her arrest,” I say to her.

  She looks at me weirdly but it doesn’t sway her. “I know her. I know her a lot,” she persists.

  “Yeah, but we don’t know how long she’ll be here. She may have a family waiting for her or something. We just don’t know…”

  “No, that’s not true,” she grunts at me. She sits back up in the bed. “She’s like us. She doesn’t have anyone. Her parents are dead too. And she doesn’t even have a brother. But we have each other, so I think we should be her family, Bub. We should.”

  Tears are welling up in her eyes and I know I don’t have the heart to argue with her on this. The only thing I can do is try and protect her as much as I can. It’s been less than a day, and already we’re both thinking of having her in our lives.

  “Scoot over,” I tell her. She scoots over and I lie on my back next to her. She curls into my arm. “Are you going to read the story, or do you want me to?”

  She looks like she’s about to argue, but instead she brings the book up and starts reading. I know the story by heart, but tonight when the little girl finds her family - it has a little more meaning to it now.

  6

  Carly

  I knew this was a bad idea. From the minute I got into the truck with them, I knew that Anna was up to something. She’s playing Little Miss Matchmaker and her brother isn’t doing anything to stop her. We ride to the restaurant talking about any and everything.

  It gets a little awkward when Anna starts talking about my car. She was all excited about the park assist camera that looked like it was on top of the car looking down.

  “That is a nice car,” Luke comments.

  I try to shake it off and mutter, “Thanks.”

  When I don’t expand, even though I know he’s wondering how I have a car like that, he doesn’t ask, but he looks at me curiously.

  At lunch, I try to pay for my meal and I completely insult Luke. I try to tell him I can pay for my own, but he seems really worried about showing me that he can pay for the meal. It got so heated that I didn’t even offer to pay for the movie. I guess I never thought about it before, but I’ve always paid my own way. Always. Even on previous dates I’ve had. Money seems to be a sore subject with him and I plan to not bring it up again.

  After lunch we go to the movie, and Anna insists on me sitting next to her brother. So I’m sitting in the middle. Anna is engrossed in the movie and I don’t even think she’s blinked once.

  The feel of Luke’s thigh pressed against mine in the dark theater makes me jerk my leg back from his.

  I draw my attention to the big screen and reach into the bucket for some popcorn. Instead, though, I’m grabbing Luke’s hand. I try to draw back, but he doesn’t let me. Instead, he holds onto my buttery hand and lets it fall to his leg, holding me there.

  Unsure of what to do, I reach with the other hand for some popcorn and turn my body towards him. When I do, I can’t help but notice that he’s staring at me. We sit like that for so long, I can feel the heat rush my body and the sweat trickle between my breasts.

  He releases my hand then and surprised, I sit back in the chair and stuff my mouth full of popcorn. The feel of his arm going around me and cupping my shoulder has my whole body tightening. He pulls me to him and when I lean into him, he kisses the top of my head, inhaling me at the same time.

  We sit there just like that for the longest time and it’s the safest and happiest I’ve ever felt in my life.

  Luke

  It’s no time at all before I have to go to work. We left the movie theater and even when Carly tried to pull her hand from mine, I held on to it. I’ve thought about it a lot today, being out with her and Anna. I liked being out with them. I liked having Carly’s hand in mine. It felt like it was us against the world. And even though I don’t know a lot about her, I know enough to know that I want her and I want to see where this goes.

  This is the first time I’ve ever brought a woman I liked around Anna and I know it’s under weird circumstances with her kid sitting and all, but I just feel different when I think of Carly. She makes me look at the world in a whole new way.

  I held her hand to my truck and I held it to walk her to her apartment. She said she needed to grab some stuff for tonight, but I know she just needed time. That’s fine. I’ll give that to her, but I plan on making her mine before the week’s over. Any thought I had of protecting my and Anna’s hearts is out the window now. After seeing her with Anna today, I know she would never hurt her. All I have to do is take care of mine now.

  I get dressed for work and wait in the living room while Anna cleans up her room. She’s excited for tonight’s sleepover and it gives me a little peace to see her smiling again. When Carly walks in, I can see the insecurity on her face. She’s nervous and won’t look me in the eye. I peek down the hallway and see Anna still working on her room. Walking over to Carly, I reach for her hand. “You okay?”

  She nods her head, but doesn’t look at me.

  I tip her chin up and force her to look at me. “Honey, what’s wrong?”

  She shakes her head at me. “Nothing’s wrong. Don’t you have to go to work?”

  Nodding my head, I tell her I do. “It will probably be midnight before I get home. But I know it’s going to be a slow night.”

  She smiles out the corner of her mouth. “A slow night is good, right?”

  I just shrug my shoulders. “Not really. It just means I know you’re going to be here sleeping in my apartment and I won’t be here. That’s why it’s going to be slow.”

  Her eyes lift to mine then and I know she wants to ask me something. “But… we just met.”

  I shrug my shoulders. I know it’s crazy. But I’ve never felt this much attraction to someone this quick before. I just want to hold on to it. “I know… it’s fast. I know we just met, but I want to see where this goes. I want to get to know you better.”

  The smile on her face then about brings me to my knees. I can’t resist reaching in and claiming her lips. As soon as we touch, her gasp opens her mouth to me and I sweep my tongue in to taste her. Her hands slide around my waist a
nd I cup her cheeks in mine. I angle her face to deepen the kiss, until all I’m thinking about, all I want is her.

  The only thing that drags me away from her is knowing that Anna is in the other room. Then I pull away, holler bye to Anna and then kiss Carly one more time with a promise to see her later.

  I want to ask her to sleep in my bed, that the thought of her being there will get me through the night, but I don’t. I can tell she’s unsure already and I don’t want to put more pressure on her.

  7

  Luke

  It was a long night and I’m finally home. I’ve already checked in on Anna and she’s fast asleep in her room. Carly is asleep on the couch and I’ve been sitting on the coffee table for a good ten minutes watching her. She’s breathtaking. I know I should wake her. I know she probably wants to sleep in her own bed, but the thought of her leaving stopped me.

  I reach over and brush her hair away from her face. “Carly,” I whisper.

  She doesn’t move.

  I try again. “Carly.”

  She jerks then, her eyes wide open, staring back at me.

  She starts to get up, but I stop her. “Wait.”

  Her body stills and she looks at me under hooded eyes. “Are you okay?”

  I nod my head at her. “Yes, I just don’t want you to leave.”

  Her smile is quick and she sits up, letting her legs hang off the couch. From where I’m sitting, her legs are sandwiched in mine. I scoot to the end of the table, trying to get closer to her. Wanting to feel her against me.

  I cup her cheek, running my thumb across her soft skin. “I want you, Carly.”

  She covers my hand with hers. “You don’t even know me.”

  Because I can’t fight it anymore, I lean closer and kiss her gently. “I know enough.”

  She tips her head to the side and she’s looking at me like she’s trying to solve the world’s problems. It’s heavy, whatever’s on her mind, but before I can ask her about it, she says, “There’s things you don’t know about me, Luke.”

  I shrug my shoulders. “I’ll find them out when you want to tell me.”

  She stands up then, and I have no choice but to stand too. I grab on to her hand and she looks down at it. I know she’s going to leave, she’s going to walk out of here, but man, what I wouldn’t do to keep her here a little longer. “Stay…”

  She gasps and I rush to say, “Nothing will happen that you don’t want to happen. I would be happy just to hold you all night.”

  I know my words surprise her, but nothing shocks me more than the words that come out of her mouth. She nods her head. “We’ll have to be quiet.”

  Her face flushes and she pulls me down the hall. I follow her, my dick already hard, wondering how in the world I’m going to keep that promise to her.

  Carly

  What am I doing? I know I should walk out that door and never come back. There’s so much we don’t know about each other. Heck, there’s so much about me that he doesn’t know, and he’s going to be upset when he finds out.

  But I can’t help myself. The thought of being in his arms is enough to make me go against every conservative thought in my head. I shut the bedroom door and turn back to him.

  He sits on the edge of the bed and takes off his boots. I stand there watching him. When he’s done, he takes off his shirt and the sight of his naked torso has me rubbing my legs together and the friction makes it feel even more unbearable.

  He has a tattoo on his ribs and I want to see it up close, see what it says. I take a step toward him and he walks around the bed and pulls the covers back. “I can sleep in my pants if that will make you feel better.”

  I look between him and the bed. I know he’s a gentleman. I know if I wanted to lie in his arms all night he would let me. But that’s not what I want. I want to be close to him. I want to feel him inside of me, his arms around me and I know I can’t stop it…not now.

  I don’t answer him. Instead, I slowly start taking off my clothes. He stares at me in awe, and it gives me the courage to finish what I started. I pull off my bra, trying to ignore the fact that even though I’m young, my large breasts probably aren’t as perky as he’s used to. I pull my panties down my legs and I want to hide the soft swell of my belly and my thick thighs, but I don’t. When I get up the nerve, I look at him and I’m glad I do because the look on his face tells me everything I need to know.

  He wants me.

  His hand goes down to cup his hard cock in his pants and he shifts, trying to make himself comfortable.

  I take a step toward him, but he takes a step back. My eyes flick up from between his legs to his face. “Luke, if you don’t want…”

  His once stiff body softens. “Oh, I want you. I want you more than I’ve ever wanted anything else. But honey, if you put your hands on me, it’s going to be over before it’s started.”

  I cock my hip out and put my hands on my hips. His words touch me and urge me on, making me more determined that this is the right thing for me to do. “Well, then, how do you expect us to, you know…”

  He clears the distance between us and I can feel his hard body pressed against my soft one. His chest raises with every inhale and I meet him breath for breath. I arch my back, pressing my hard nipples against him, loving the feel of his rough skin and the hair on his chest as it caresses my aching peaks.

  “Luke?” I ask him with surprise in my voice.

  A tremor goes down the length of my body and I say his name, wondering how he can make me feel this way without even touching me.

  He raises his hand and cups my breast and there’s no stopping the moan that leaves my mouth. He covers my lips with his and swallows my cries as his other hands slides between us and he strokes his finger through my slick folds.

  He breaks the kiss only to say to me, “Fuck, Carly, you’re so wet.”

  I reach for the button on his pants and start tugging them off, sliding them over his slim hips, tugging them off his feet.

  I sit on my knees on the carpeted floor and look up at him. His hard cock is right there, right in my face and the temptation to reach out and grab what I want is too hard to resist.

  I wrap my hand around his girth and kiss the tip of his hardness. He sucks in a deep breath and I revel in the feeling of being in complete control. His hands tangle in my hair and he holds me to him.

  I open my mouth wider, taking him in as far as he can go. When I feel him hit the back of my throat, I swallow, wanting him even deeper.

  He groans and it fills the room. He pulls on my hair and the roughness of it has me moaning around his cock. He pulls again, but I suction my lips around him, refusing to let go. I start to move then, up and down on his cock, and I can’t help but move faster, grip him tighter, and suck him harder. I want it, I want his cum to shoot in my mouth and I want to swallow it down. I want him… all of him.

  He tries one more time, pulling hard on me to stop, but I moan my “no” against him and the sensation puts him over the edge and now instead of pulling me off, he’s holding me to him, moving in and out of my mouth as his hips thrust erratically.

  When he comes, I swallow him down, taking every last drop until I’m finished and licking the last few drops from his sensitive tip.

  8

  Luke

  I lay her back on the bed and stand over her, staring at her perfect body lying on my bed. Her curves are enough to shake me to my very core. She’s beautiful, the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.

  “Luke?” she asks me groggily.

  I should let her sleep. She looks so tired, but after that, there’s no way I can walk away from her now. No. I need her now more than ever.

  “Yeah, honey?” I say to her, stroking my hand along the side of her breast.

  Her legs widen like an invitation and I slide my hand down her trembling body until I’m stroking her soaked core. I pull her around so her ass is to the edge and because I can’t wait another minute, I need her juices coating my cock, I slide
my length along her wet slit.

  Her legs go around me and I can feel the heels of her feet digging into my back. Her body is arching and she’s lifting her hips off the bed to meet me. I know what she wants. I know exactly what I need to do to fill that void inside her.

  I keep stroking her and my cock should be soft. I should be limp now, she just got me off and science would say it’s too soon. I can’t perform. But ever since I met Carly all I’ve been is hard. I’m a walking medical miracle, but even though I just shot my load down her throat, already I’m full again and about to bust if I don’t get inside her soon.

  Tired of the game, she reaches between her legs and strokes my hard cock, once, twice and the third time, she holds me to her, lining up at her opening and urging me on.

  I slide into her slowly at first, her pussy vibrating around me, holding me, clenching on to me. She moans as I fill her and I lean over to kiss her, to keep her quiet and to taste her while I’m filling her up. She’s on my tongue, she’s on my cock. But I still can’t get enough of her. I move my hips back and forth, each time moving further inside her until I’m buried balls deep inside her and I don’t know where she begins and I end.

  She meets me thrust for thrust and when I feel her tightening up around me, putting a chokehold on my cock, I fill her up, shoot my cum so deep inside her I know it will be coming out of her for a week. I fall to my elbows around her and mesh my lips with hers. I can’t get enough. It will never be enough.

  Carly

  He climbs into the bed beside me and wraps me in his arms. We’re still both breathing heavily and what I thought would be uncomfortable is not at all. It’s not awkward in the least. But probably the fact that he’s holding me like he can’t get close enough is the reason why it’s not awkward.