by Tessa Elaine
“Did you run all the way here?” He asks with a knowing smile; my whole family knows what she means to me. Everything.
“No, what did she say?”
“Slow down, have a seat, and I will tell you.”
I take the seat across from my dad and clench my fist in my lap. I want him to get to the point, but going off on my father will get me nowhere. He is a very patient man.
He reaches over to his computer, pushes a few buttons, then sits back in his chair. Next thing I know I hear Sebastian Breck's voice. He’s threatening someone about their property, calling them little girl and a brat with mommy and daddy issues. He goes on about the town and you can hear the hate in his voice. My fists clench, my nails dig into the palm of my hand when I hear our name.
Then I hear Elena's name, I'm out of my chair in seconds. The force of me standing so fast sends the chair over.
“Son, calm down.” My dad says, but he knows that won't happen.
“Did he threaten her? How did you get that? Has he come near her?” I'm losing it and halfway out the door.
“Boy, if you don't get your head on right you're going to make things worse. I have everything under control.” I freeze and try to take deep breaths to calm myself. It's not helping.
“Dad, tell me, did he go near her?”
“No Lucas, that was left on her phone. She called me this morning to give us a heads up, I told her I would take care of it and keep an eye on the ranch.” I let out a sigh of relief and run my hands down my face, at least he hasn't been around her.
“Can you find out where she is? I need to go to her now.” He just rolls his eyes, picks up a pen, scribbles something down on a piece of paper, and hands it to me. I look down, it's an address.
“This is hers?”
“Yes, that's her address” I'm almost to the door and ready to head to Washington. “Son”
“Yes sir?”
“Bring our girl home.”
“I intend to.” I nod my head at him and head for my truck. I'm at my house packing my bags and making arrangements with my secretary. I'm not sure how long I will be gone, I need to make one last call. The phone rings for a while and I almost think he won't answer.
“What’s up man?” Wyatt finally picks up.
“I need a favor,” I tell him, there's a long pause on the other end.
“Okay?” He finally says, like he's waiting for me to ask.
“I need you to keep an eye on things for a little while. I'm heading to Washington and I'm not sure how long I will be gone. Think you can do that for me?”
“Damn it Lucas, you can't take off every time Elena bails.”
“Wyatt”
“No Lucas, you listen. Your sister is going to lose her shit. What do you think your parents will say? How the fuck do you think this kind of reaction is okay?” His concerns are understandable, I did take off last time she left. This time it’s different, I'm coming back with her.
“Wyatt, shut up. I'm not taking off again. I'm going to get her back, I'm bring Elena home.” He doesn't say anything. Does he not believe me or does he not think she will come back to me? I don't know what I will do if she doesn't come back with me. I won't take no for an answer. She's mine, we belong together.
“Lucas? Did she say she was coming back with you?”
“No, not exactly. That asshole Breck left her a voicemail threatening my family and her. I need to go to her. I need to convince her we belong together.” He doesn't say what I thought he was going to.
“I got you man, bring your girl home.”
“Thanks brother, I owe you.”
I hang up with my best friend and head to my truck. I think about calling her, but decide to surprise her instead. She might not see me if she knows I'm coming. The drive is long and it makes me anxious. I can't wait to see her, to hold her in my arms, to kiss those soft lips again.
I finally make it to Seattle Washington, in record time. I was hauling ass. I pull up to the apartment and check the address again to see what door is hers, 3A so she's on the top floor. I make my way up the steps and find her door. I hesitate for a second before I knock. She loves you, she said so in her letter. Stop being such a chick, I tell myself.
raise my fist and finally knock. I don't have to wait long before a tall redhead answers the door. This must be the roommate. She looks me over from head to toe and smiles.
How can I help you?” She asks.
“I'm here to see Elena.” I tell her. She looks me over one more time then turns and yells
“Hey Elena, did you order a stripper gram?” What? Is that a thing?
“I'm not a stripper,” I say and she just laughs. “My name is Lucas Wayne; Elena and I grew up together.” Her eyes go wide like she knows exactly who I am.
“The Lucas? Montana Lucas?” She asks and I just nod once.
“Elena, you need to get your ass out here. This stripper is all yours.” Has this woman lost her mind?
“I'm not a stripper,” I tell her again and I hear Elena yelling from down the hall.
“I'm coming, I'm coming!” Her voice is a balm for my soul. I have missed this women with every breath.
“That's what she said!” Her roommate says and that makes me laugh, until I see her walking down the hall.
Her head is down and I can see her smiling. When she gets to the end of the hall and looks up to see me standing in her apartment she stops. Every emotion crosses her face in just a few seconds. I can't say anything, I just stand there taking her in. she's only wearing a long night shirt and house slippers, her hair is in a loose braid over one shoulder. She's absolutely stunning, no makeup, ready for bed, I can picture her in our bed every night like this.
“Well isn't this awkward. Lucas, it was nice to meet, I should be going.” I hear her roommate say, but I can't take my eyes off Elena.
I see her give her roommate a dirty look, but I don't know what that was about. Her roommate tells her bye and heads out the door leaving us alone in silence. I smile while she stands there checking me out. Those beautiful eye run up and down the lengthen of my body stopping at the top of my pants. When she looks back up that stunning blush she always has for me spreads up her neck to her cheeks. I can't stay away any longer.
I take a step toward her, but she jumps and ask, “Want a beer?”
A beer? Why the hell would I want a beer? I want her. I didn't drive eight hours for a beer, I could have stayed home for that shit.
She sprints to the fridge like she's trying to get away from me. I follow her over and when she bends down to get a beer her night shirt comes up, I'm instantly hard. I groan at the sight of her perfect ass, I haven't had my hands on her in too long. I walk right up behind her so when she stands and steps back her back is to my front. She jumps and sucks in a breath but doesn't make a move to get away.
I run my hands down her arms and grab the beers and put it on the counter next to her. I slowly turn her so she's facing me, needing to see her eyes. I run my hands back up her arms, over her shoulder, and up her neck. My hands rest on her jaw and her eyes are closed.
“Elena, darlin’ look at me.” I whisper. She opens her eyes slowly and sighs.
“God, I have missed those eyes.” I tell her. She doesn't say anything so I continue.
“Did you mean what you said?” I ask her, but she looks confused. “In the letter.” I remind her and she closes her eyes again and tries to look away. “Look at me Elena, did you mean it?”
She looks me right in the eyes and whispers, “Yes.” That's all I needed, as long as she loves me as much as I love her, nothing else matters.
My lips crash down on hers and she pauses in my arms for a moment and then starts kissing me back with the same eagerness. She tastes like heaven, like home. She moans softly and I snap. Lifting her up and pressing her back to the fridge. She wraps her legs around my waist and rubs her body against mine. I am completely lost in this woman. She pulls away breathless and says my name.
“Lucas” she's going to stop me, I don't want to stop. I just want to get lost in her, in us.
“Baby, I have missed you so much.” I tell her kissing from her ear, down her neck, to her shoulder. “I need you darlin’, I can't live without you.” I see her eyes fill with tears and my heart breaks. I put those there.
“I'm so sorry Elena, I'm sorry I didn't listen to you, I'm sorry I left you there with that asshole. Darlin’ please forgive me.” Her tears spill from her eyes and I can't stand it. I kiss them away, starting with one cheek and moving to the next. Whispering how sorry I am.
“Baby, I messed up.” She wraps her arms around me and pulls me close.
“Lucas, I love you. With everything I have I love you. But you leaving me and thinking I could do that to you or someone I was engaged to hurt so much.” I feel it coming, please don't say we can never be together.
“I don't know how this could ever work. You don't trust me, I live eight hours away, and we have both changed so much.” She rests her head on my shoulder while I still have her pinned to the fridge.
I need to look her in the eyes for this conversation, so I turn with her still in my arms and walk to her couch. I sit and adjust her to straddle my lap, she is still laying in my shoulder.
“Baby, will you look at me for a minute?” She sits back with her ass on my thighs and my hands go to her waist. I rub slow circles on her hips while she wipes her eyes. When she calms a little I finally speak.
“I know the way I acted was uncalled for. Having you back in my life and knowing it was only for a short time was slowly killing me. When this guy showed up in his expensive car and flashy clothes claiming he was... your fiancé.” It's still hard to say that word, thinking of her being with someone else. She's looking down playing with the hem of her shirt. I place my finger under her chin pulling her eyes back to mine.
“My world crashed. The only thing I could think was I had lost you for good. You were heading back to Seattle to get married, start a family, but it wasn't with me.” She’s shaking her head and I know she thinks I'm crazy.
“Lucas, I would have never slept with you if I was with Dorian. I'm not that kind of women, you should have known that. I thought what we had was special.”
“So special, darlin’,” I tell her. She has to know what we share is unlike anything in this world. Can't she feel it?
“When we were at the ranch packing my parent’s things I couldn't stop thinking about what you said that morning.” Now I'm the one that’s confused, after running into her ex the rest of the day is kind of a blur.
“You said you hadn't thought of a way to make me stay.” Oh yea, I did say that.
“That whole day that's all I could think about. You want to know what I came up with?” Is she saying there's a way I can make her stay?
“Yes?” I say and she smiles at my uncertainty.
“There was nothing you could do to make me stay.” My heart sinks, so it was useless. I drop my head to my chest. I have to think of some way to assure her we belong together. I'm not ready to tuck my tail between my legs and head back to Eureka. Her soft hands slide up my neck and cup my face. I look up at her through my lashes and she gives me a soft smile.
“You couldn't make me do something that I was already planning on doing.” It takes me a second to register what she just said. My head snaps up and she starts to giggle.
“Did you just say you were planning on staying?” Please say yes, please. My heart is racing like it's going to beat right out of my chest, could I be this lucky? She looks me in the eye and I know she's stalling because she can see the elation on my face. Her smile grows and she nods her head. I'm on her so fast, she squeaks when her back hits the couch. I have her pinned beneath me.
“Say it” I tell her, she is laughing. “Say it, darlin’.” I need to hear the words out of her mouth.
“How could I leave my heart, Lucas? You have had it since I was a kid, it just took my seven years to find it again. I told myself I would regret it for the rest of my life if I didn't hold on to what we have. But when I thought you didn't trust me or that you didn't love...” I cut her off right there by placing my finger over her lips. I won't even let her finish that sentence.
“Elena, I have always and will always love only you. Darlin’, I have loved you every day of those seven years we were apart. As for the trust, that was on me not you. My insecurities of never being enough for you.”
“You are enough, Lucas. You are everything.” I lean in and kiss her slowly, putting everything I feel into this kiss. It starts out soft and sweet, she slides her tongue in between my lips caressing and circling my mouth. I bite her bottom lip needing to hear that noise she makes.
“Mmm...” There it is. The kiss grows more urgent and I can't stop.
“Tell me to stop, Elena. If you're not ready for this tell me now.”
“Don't stop Lucas, never stop.”
Fuck yes, that's what I wanted to hear. I break the kiss long enough to pull her shirt over her head. Her gorgeous tits with her perfect nipples already hard for me. I take one in my mouth, swirling my tongue around it, biting just a little, wanting to mark her. Her back comes off the couch when I bit her nipple with a little sting. Both of her hands go to my head running her fingers through my hair, trying to pull me closer.
“Baby, I have missed you so much.”
Kissing my way to her other breast. She is breathing harder while I give her other side equal attention. I kiss my way down her stomach, stopping at her navel and run my tongue around it. I feel her body tighten, she loved that. Duly noted. I make my way down to her panties, they are pink lace. Sexy as hell and I almost feel bad when I wrap my hand around them and rip them from her body.
She moans, “Lucas”
I kiss her right above her clit then down her lips not opening her up yet. I see her excitement coating her inner thighs and running down to her ass.
“God, you're so wet for me.”
I run my hands up her thighs and open her up so I can see that perfect pussy. Pink and soaked, just for me. Her nub is swollen ready and waiting for my mouth. I grip the back of her thighs while I run my thumbs up and down her lips.
“Lucas, please. I need you.” She moans, but I'm enjoying the view. I kiss her clit and she pushes up like she's drawn to my touch.
“I need you on my tongue, I need to taste you before I make love to you.” I feel her shaking in my hands and I can't hold back anymore. I cover her clit with my mouth and she screams.
“Lucas!”
I run my tongue up and down her center, fucking her with my mouth. “Mmm” She tastes so sweet I can't get enough. I lick back up to her clit and push one finger inside her, rubbing her inner walls while I pull her clit between my lips. When I add a second finger I feel her clench around me.
“Lucas, Lucas, Lucas!” She calls out as she comes all over my hand. I pull my fingers out licking them clean and looking her in the eyes.
“I could stay there for hours, but I need to be inside you.”
“Yes, please.” Her body is flushed from her orgasm and glowing from the sweat. I strip as fast as I can and position myself between her legs. I rub the head of my dick up and down her pussy, coating myself in her orgasm.
“Oh my God.” My eyes roll back in my head from just touching her. I'm not even inside her yet and I think I might cum. I line my dick up with her entrance and push all the way in, one smooth motion. I wait just a second, giving her time to adjust. She digs her heels into my ass trying to get me to move and I can't stop smiling.
“I need you to move, please.” I love it when she begs. I pull out slowly and push back in, torturing us both.
Faster,” she says.
“Anything for you, darlin’.” I tell her and start pumping into her faster.
“Yes, yes!” She calls out and that just spurs me on.
My balls draw up tight and I'm about to come, but not without her. I reach down between our body's and press my thumb to her
clit. I circle once, twice, and the third time she's gone. Her pussy squeezes my dick and everything goes white. I come harder than I ever have. We are both breathing hard and shaking, slowly on our way back down. I pull back so I can look at her brushing her hair out of her face.
“I love you so much, Elena”
“I love you too, Lucas.” My heart explodes.
I pull out and walk to the kitchen to get a wet paper towel and walk back to clean her up. It’s then I realize we didn't use protection.
“Shit baby, I am so sorry”
“Sorry for what?” She asks with a look of concern on her face.
“I didn't use a condom, I was so caught up in the moment. I wasn't thinking.” Her eyes go wide and she sits up in the couch so fast I almost fall off.
“It will be okay.” She says, but I think she's trying to convince herself more than me.
“I'm so sorry darlin’, I'm such a dumb ass.”
“It's not all on you Lucas, this is just as much my fault.” I kiss her on the forehead and pull her into my lap. We sit in silence for what feels like an hour, I have no idea what's going through her head.
“Baby?” I say.
“Can we talk about this tomorrow? It has been a long day and I'm tired.”
“Of course, darlin’.” I pick her up, cradle her to my chest, and carry her to her room. I slip into her bed without letting her go. I'm afraid if I do she's going to run again. We settle in and she buries her face into my chest.
“Are you mad?” She asks.
“No” I answer instantly. “No matter what, if I have you I will be happy. Just promise no more running.”
“You have me. All of me, I promise.” I hold her tight and we both drift off to sleep.
Chapter 18
Elena
I wake up to his lips brushing my neck behind my ear. “Humm” I hear him moan. I can feel his erection pressing against my ass. It feels so good. I missed being in his arms, feeling warm and safe. I press my body into him, his grip tightens around me.
