Unbreakable

by Amie Nichols

  The keys are on the dash and he grabs them to start it up. “Wow! I only have to turn it once and it starts. I can get used to this!” He smiles at me taking my hand and kissing my knuckles. I am so happy he is accepting my gift.

  “Well, let’s see what this baby can do!” I smile at him. He backs out of the garage and we’re off. He speeds down the lane and turns onto the road.

  “She’s got some power,” he excitedly tells me as he punches the gas on a clear stretch of road.

  Chapter 18

  We drive around for an hour telling each other of our day.

  I tell him about the deed and he listens attentively, but I can tell he is upset about something.

  “What’s wrong?” I ask him.

  He tells me his experience at Grand National Bank and how everyone was very rude to him. “They were so stuck up in there. They wouldn’t give me the time of day. The woman took one look at my application, saw my occupation as a handyman, and told me this was not the bank for me,” he looks sad as he tells me the story. “The woman was so snotty and rude. She actually scoffed at me when she saw my application, like how dare I waste her time. She never even ran a credit report. “We will not be loaning you any money, and you can show yourself out,” is all she said. I can’t believe people treat other people that way,” he continues his story almost looking ashamed of the experience.

  “I can. Jane and her friends treated everyone that way,” I say remembering how horrible they were to me and everyone they thought wasn’t ‘good enough.’

  “I even heard her say to a coworker that I was nice to look at and that she wouldn’t mind having me alone for an hour. That maybe I should consider another profession, a gigolo. And, the worst part is, I think she wanted me to over hear it. They were so catty and mean,” he says obviously hurt by how they thought of him.

  “It was so humiliating to be berated in front of other people, and all I could think of was you,” he admits, sorrow in his voice. “You lived with that your whole life,” he looks at me with admiration. “I don’t know how you did it. I was only in that bank fifteen minutes and I wanted crawl in a hole and hide.” He reaches over pulling me to him and kissing the top of my head.

  “I’m so sorry you had to go through that,” I tell him, “but you know what has healed me these last few months?” I look at him and smile, “Getting even.” He can tell I’m getting keyed up. “I have millions of dollars in that bank. First thing tomorrow, I’m going over there and pulling it all out.” I smile at the thought, I can hardly wait. I’ve been having so much fun putting rich snobby people in their places.

  “Lilly, I don’t need you fighting my battles for me,” he states kissing the top of my head again before I pull away.

  “It’s not about fighting any battle. I don’t want my money at any bank that treats people like that,” I defend. “I am doing it, and you can join me for the show if you want, but I am going with or without you!” I exclaim.

  “I like it when you’re all fired up,” he winks at me. “I think it’s time I get you home, you ruffian, and channel that passion into something else,” he growls raising his eyebrows and grinning at me.

  “How about after the bank tomorrow, we head to Lafayette to check that situation out,” he adds and my stomach drops, unsure if I want to know about the mystery property. I can handle anything with Luke at my side so I agree.

  Since Luke is going to be in my bed at night, I brought up the idea of moving some of his clothes to my room, so he doesn’t have to leave half naked in the mornings to shower and change.

  “That sounds like a good idea to me. It only makes sense, since I plan to spend every night with you for the rest of my life.” He beams at me when I ask him.

  When we get back to the mansion, Luke decides to move some of his stuff in before supper. I go to my room to make room in the closet and the dresser. Someday I will take over the master, and we will have all the room we need then, but we can squeeze for now. After I’m done, I walk into the kitchen wondering why Luke hasn’t brought anything in yet. I look out toward the cottage and I see Jeffrey and Luke having a heated conversation. Simon’s standing back awkwardly and I remember hearing that his car was broke down so he is relying on Jeffrey for a ride. I step out on the patio and hear part of the argument.

  “Jesus, Dad, I know what I’m doing. I love her and I’m not going to hurt her,” Luke says loudly.

  “Yeah, so why do you have to move in already? You’re moving way too fast. Give her some space already!”Jeffrey shouts back.

  “She has had a lot of space from me, and by the way, thank you so much for informing about the intruder.” I hear Luke shouting now.

  “I knew if I told you, you would drop everything and come back.” Jeffrey yells back.

  “Ummm, yeah, damn straight I would have. You had no right to keep that from me, Dad.” Luke’s face is getting beet red. “Dammit, Dad, I left her just like you told me. I stayed away after the crash just like you told me.” Luke is still talking loudly, but not shouting now. “I love her and she loves me. You are not going to keep us apart anymore.”

  Maybe I shouldn’t interfere, but I don’t like Luke arguing with his dad about me. I walk up to them. “You guys working late tonight, huh?” I interrupt the argument between them and they both stop suddenly. “Make sure you mark down your overtime,” I say awkwardly. I can tell they are both really mad.

  “Yeah, just wanted to finish up some stuff, Lil. Luke was just telling me you want him to move into the house.” He’s now looking at me. “Just wanted to make sure you guys are thinking clearly,” he explains. Luke looks furious. I want to comfort him, protect him from this. I walk up in front of him, turning around, so that my back is to Luke’s front.

  “Thank you for your concern, Jeffrey. You’ve always been there for me, and I’m grateful for that,” I tell him sincerely, “but I’m thinking clearer now than I have ever. Things are starting to make sense to me finally,” I explain and stare directly into his eyes.

  “I think maybe you guys are going a little too fast, and I don’t want you to get hurt,” he says. I can feel Luke tense up behind me.

  “I know you think I’m fragile, but I’m not. Maybe I don’t know much, Jeffrey, but I do know that I can trust my life with Luke,” I continue as Luke wraps his arms around my waist, clasping his hands together at my belly button and pulling me up against him.

  “We are both adults, and I think what we do is, well, none of your business.” I bluntly tell him. “So, if you please, don’t worry about us. We are both new to this sort of relationship and we will learn together.”

  Luke kisses the top of my head and I hear him whisper, “I love you.”

  “Okay, okay. I’m sorry. I just think maybe things are going too fast. I guess, like you said, you have to learn for yourselves.” Jeffrey raises his hands and finally giving up. “I’ll see you guys tomorrow,” he says, waving goodbye and Simon follows him.

  In one swift move Luke spins me around and throws me over his shoulder. He is carrying me into the house and I can’t stop giggling. As we pass Miss Finnegan as she yells, “You guys going to eat?” I look up at her as we fly through the kitchen and I’m not able to say a word through my laughing.

  “Later!” Luke yells back at her and he hauls me to the bedroom.

  He sets me on the bed, my feet dangling off the side, and kneels in front of me. He takes my foot and starts to undo the strap of my sandal to slip it off. Lifting my bare foot to his lips, he softly kisses the instep.

  “You have been very take control today, Miss Sumnor,” he says as he takes my other foot to undo its sandal. “It’s my turn.” He kisses the instep of my other foot and starts to trail kisses up my legs. My insides start to flame again and my breath quickens. “Do you know how much you turn me on when you get all feisty?” He purrs reaching my thigh, still kissing as he goes.

  I try and catch my breath as his hand starts to inch my dress up. He spreads my legs a little
and starts to kiss my inner thigh. “Ohhhhhh,” I breathe and lay back on the bed enjoying it very much. He pushes my dress up to my belly and I feel his kiss reach my panties.

  “These blue lacy panties, I told you I would be taking them off,” he growls, and my belly tightens at his touch.

  “You are so beautiful, Lilly,” he says as his lips trace the top of my panties. He stands up and moves me so my whole body is on the bed.

  He kneels on the bed, his legs astride mine, and lifts my dress up over my head so I am lying there in my lacey panties and bra. I sit up so I can start working on the buttons of his white cotton shirt. I fumble with the buttons, but finally reach the last one and he slips it off. I run my hands up his hard chest, trailing kisses on his stomach, and I feel his muscles quiver under my lips as electricity runs through me. I work my fingers to the waist of his jeans and undo the button and zip down the fly. His erection, very obvious through his jeans, springs free when I pull his jeans and boxers down.

  “You see what you do to me, sweet girl,” he declares as I take in the sight of him.

  I smile up at him licking my lips. He stands up and hurriedly takes off his jeans in one smooth motion. He lies on top of me and takes my mouth with his. Sliding his tongue in with force, he takes control of the kiss, and slips his hand around my back to find the clasp of my bra. He stops kissing me and looks down.

  “Oh, it’s in the front.” He smiles and moves down, kissing between my breasts before he undoes the clasp freeing them. He moves to one and cups it with his warm hand while he trails kisses over it then moves his mouth to my nipple. Lightly biting it, he sends shock waves through my body. I moan as he moves to the other one and does the same thing. My hips rise to meet him and his erection throbs against my panties. He moves down my belly kissing as he goes, and before I know it, he rips my panties off like they are made of tissue paper. “Hope you weren’t too attached to those,” he growls as his mouth reaches my sex.

  The fire between my legs is so intense. I want him so much. He blows lightly then he starts to twirl is tongue around my bud. My hips buck in the air at the sensation.

  “Luke!” I shriek at the pleasure. I run my hands through his hair as he continues to pleasure me with his tongue. Just when I feel that I am going to explode, he returns to me smiling from ear to ear.

  “You taste really good baby,” he groans and takes my mouth with his again. I feel him enter me with a powerful thrust and I want every inch of him. I raise my hips to meet his thrusts. I feel myself about to burst when my orgasm releases, the pleasure takes over my body. My head tilts back into the mattress, and I scream in pleasure as he thrusts hard into me a few more times. Seconds later he orgasms, low moans coming from his throat.

  He falls next to me and I turn on my side to face him.

  We lay next to each other in post coital bliss, our breathing returning to normal. I run my fingers in his chest hair, and place tiny kisses on his chest. “What are you thinking about?” I ask as he lies there staring at the ceiling.

  “Just how much I love you,” he answers placing his arm under his head to look at me. “And how much I enjoy this, enjoy everything with you, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you,” he says grinning at me. “How I’ve always known that I wanted this.”

  “Hmmmm,” I murmur happily at his answer and rest my head on his chest. “I feel the same way.”

  I hear my tummy grumble and realize I haven’t eaten since this morning. Luke hears it too and laughs at me.

  “Hungry baby?” He says still laughing

  We get up and I look at the clock. It’s nine o’clock. Miss Finnegan always returns to her room by eight. Jacob went out with his friends again, so I decide to throw on Luke’s cotton button up shirt, and nothing else.

  “Me like,” he says as he walks out of the bathroom in only his jeans. His ab muscles are rippled, and the sight of him makes me gasp. He grabs me around the waist and pulls me to him.

  “You look very sexy in my shirt baby.” He smiles down at me

  “You say that about everything!” I tell him and start to lead him out the door so we can grab something to eat before we go to bed.

  “Well, I can’t help it. You look sexy in everything.” He swats my behind as we walk out of the bedroom.

  In the kitchen, I search the fridge for the left over clam chowder to heat up for Luke and me. Sitting on a stool at the island, I hear him whistle through his teeth as I bend over to grab the plastic container that holds the leftovers. There’s a lot there, and then I think she probably ate by herself since Jacob went out and Luke and I were otherwise engaged.

  I turn around and smile at him, as he sits there watching my every move.

  “Enjoying this?” I ask noticing his silly grin.

  “Very much!” he says raising his eyebrows.

  After heating up some chowder, I sit next to Luke facing him as we eat our hot bowls of soup.

  “Is there enough left over for me?” Jacob says walking in from the garage entrance. He looks really nice wearing black dress pants and a button up blue shirt and tie.

  “Yeah….. Plenty.” I cough, surprised by his early arrival home. I am wearing nothing under Luke’s shirt. I cross my legs and make sure everything is covered. Looking down, I see I need to button up a few more buttons, and do that quickly.

  Luke grabs my chair and scoots it toward him. He lays his arm over my lap as if to say, she’s mine no looking. Jacob notices this and just shakes his head then walks around the island grabbing a bowl. He takes some chowder out of the pot. Leaning on the island across from us, he starts eating.

  “How was your night?” I ask him noticing he doesn’t look happy. “You were out with the guys, right?”

  “On a blind date actually,” he says not looking up at me. “There won’t be a second,” he adds before I can ask.

  “Not your type I take it?” Luke asks sympathetically, and I’m stunned at his kind reaction.

  “You could say that. She was very attractive and all, just very superficial. She kept asking me how much money I make, what are my goals to make more, and on and on,” he scoffs, looking at Luke while he talks.

  “Oh, that’s brutal. Sorry man. At least there are more fish in the sea, right?” Luke sounds generally upset for him. Jacob just nods and gives us a little smile before he walks over giving me a kiss on the cheek. He pats Luke’s shoulder then excuses himself for the night.

  Luke’s arm still resting over my lap, he moves his hand and gives my thigh a squeeze.

  “I bet we could think of someone to set him up with,” Luke says turning to face me. I don’t know what happened, but the dislike Luke had for Jacob has seemed to dissipate all of a sudden.

  “So you like him now?” I ask, the curiosity getting the better of me.

  “I never said I didn’t like him. He is a good looking guy who was...who is doing something I should have been doing,” he answers, his hand resting on my knee while his thumb rubs circles around my knee cap.

  “Even though I don’t think he needs to stay on as a body guard, I can see that you guys have a bond, and I know that you won’t be letting him go,” he says with sincerity, and acceptance to the fact that I have no intention of letting Jacob go.

  “We do have a bond. He’s the brother I never had. I love him to pieces. He’s now part of my family,” I tell Luke, standing up I swing one leg over his lap so I am straddling him. My legs dangling on either side of the chair and he wraps his arms around my waist holding me on his lap firm. I run my fingertips across his forehead and down the side of his cheeks.

  “But what we have, is totally different,” I say seductively.

  His eyes smiling, he looks at me with such love and happiness. He’s so cute. I take his face in my hands and start kissing him first on each cheek, then on each eye. Gently, I run my lips over his, lightly biting his bottom lip.

  “I’d hope so,” Luke says as his hands travel up my back. He cups them over my shoulders whil
e he trails kisses along my jaw and below my ear.

  “I love you, Lilly Sumnor,” he whispers before his lips take mine. We are lost in each other. His hands travel back down, grabbing my butt firmly. He stands up holding me, still not interrupting the passionate kiss, as we turn our faces in opposite directions exploring each other’s mouths. I wrap my legs around his waist as he begins heading for the stairs. I trail feather light kisses to his ear and down his neck.

  Before I know it, we are back in my room and making love again, passionately exploring each other’s bodies in every way possible.

  Chapter 19

  I awake the next morning with Luke wrapped around me sleeping soundly. I don’t want to disturb him, but I need to use the bathroom. As I try to sneak out from beneath him he stirs a little, but doesn’t wake up. I pick up his button up shirt that was thrown on the floor last night in our haste to be naked and wrap it around myself before I enter the bathroom.

  When I come back out, he’s sleepily sitting on the edge of the bed with just the corner of the sheet draped over his lap.

  “Good morning, gorgeous!” I greet as I walk to him. I stand between his legs and wrap my arms around his neck giving him a hug. He slips his hands in the shirt parting it so I stand exposed to him; he wraps his arms around my waist and brings me in closer.

  “Good morning, beautiful flower,” he says with his mouth against my belly, his stubble tickling me. “I slept so sound last night,” he mentions still holding me tight, the side of his face firm against my tummy. I play with his hair and think he might have fallen back to sleep like this.

  “Are you ready for our road trip?” I ask and he mumbles something I can’t understand. Finally letting loose of his grip, he lies back in the bed throwing a pillow over his face. My face goes flush seeing him like this. His muscles are rippled. The lower abs dip in below his belly button leading to his happy trail, which ends at the small portion the sheet is covering. I stand there and stare at the gorgeous specimen that is lying in my bed.