Winning Her Love

by Hazel Gower

  Chad was already wound up tight from staring at her and wanting her so bad. He was primed for a fight. He searched for the fuckwit Lana had been talking to so he could beat the crap out of him. How dare Tim try to get Lana to fuck him. She was his, and no one was going to fuck her ever again but him. What kind of idiot said stuff like what he’d said to Lana? A dead one, he thought as he spotted Tim chatting with a blonde by the bar.

  “Wait here, Lana. I’m go—”

  “No. Chad, don’t. Enjoy the party, it’s the start of your season. Come on, introduce me to another guy? A nice guy who likes kids and doesn’t want to take me to his room the first time we meet. I’m ready to find someone.”

  He stared down at the small hands on his chest as Lana stood in front of him blocking his path. Her touch sent a burning need through him so much so his body ached for the petite bundle of fire who stood in his way. Fuck this shit. He needed to stop being a pussy and claim what he knew was his, and Lana was his. “No fucking way.”

  Lana stepped to the side and linked her arm with his, moving them in the opposite direction from Tim who he’d been going to beat the crap out of.

  “Fine, help me find your sister so I can tell her I’m out of here. I’m calling a taxi and going to pick Olivia up, and then we’re going home.”

  “I can take you home.” He wrapped his arm around her waist and walked toward the exit.

  “Nah, this is your party. Well, sort of, you are their star player.”

  Chad rolled his eyes. He may be the star player but he was sick of parties like these, where he was the center of attention and nameless faces praised him and fawned over him. There was only one person’s attention he wanted, and she was currently in his arms with no idea how he felt. Lana didn’t care that he was a famous athlete, she didn’t care how much money he earned or what his fame could get her, she hung out with him because she liked him, Chad Douglas. He chuckled because he bet even after all these years Lana still didn’t know what position he played or how much he earned.

  “I’ll stay if you can tell me what position I play.”

  “Hey.” She playfully whacked his chest. “That’s not fair. You know I’m not into sports.”

  He winked down at her, loving the easy banter they had between them. “If you don’t like Rugby League, why did you come to a Rugby League party?”

  Lana sighed and tried to pull herself out of his hold, but he wasn’t giving her up. “I didn’t. Steph wanted to come, and at first I said no, but she nagged me. I still said no. I told her I had no one to look after Olivia, but the other day she stopped taking no for an answer and went on and on about how your parents were eager to meet Olivia and wanted to babysit. I still was unsure, but she went off her brain when I told her that I’d been on five lunch dates, as Olivia was in daycare then and I was ready to start dating. So she convinced me to come here, claiming it would be the place to meet men.” Lana rolled her eyes. “She twisted my arm and practically begged me. Steph’s words, and I quote, ‘we will go to my bro’s party and find you some hunk to get it on with.’ I didn’t have a say after that. You know Steph, so I thought I’d come and support you. If I found a hunk of a man all the better, but if not I knew I’d be happy just to see you. I haven’t seen you in years. So here I am for you.”

  “Do you even watch my games?” He smiled, liking that Lana was there for him.

  “Not on the TV.”

  He laughed and walked toward the exit again. Lana had been to one, maybe two of his games when he first started but hadn’t come back again even though he had family seats. “You and Olivia are coming next week to my first game of the season.”

  “Umm…we are?” She bit her bottom lip, sending a jolt straight to his cock as he homed in on the action. God, he wanted her. No more fucking around. Lana was going to be his.

  “Yes.” Chad had loved Lana for years. He should have gone to England and brought her back years ago. He’d just been waiting for the right time to make his move. Well, at least that’s what he told himself. She’d broken up with her last boyfriend Richard over three years ago when he’d told her he was gay. She’d been devastated, and it had taken a while to convince her that she hadn’t turned Richard gay. In the end Richard had to come and explain that it wasn’t her, that he’d always been gay, and she was the reason he thought he might not be, because he found her so attractive—beautiful even. She had obviously gotten over it since she had a child with another man. It was the reason Chad hadn’t gone to England to get her, he’d been hurt that she could get over their night so quickly.

  His thirty-first birthday was a month away and he wanted to have Lana at his side. He wanted the whole world to know that Lana was taken, that she was his and he was hers. Fuck, he wanted to brand her property of Chad Douglas. He wanted her name to be Lana Douglas. He was determined to have what he wanted. He was sure if Lana’s daughter was anything like her he’d love her just the same.

  He spotted his sister Steph standing at the exit with her phone in her hand. As she looked up a huge grin came over her face. “Hey bro, Lana, I was just about to call you. I’m ah…heading out of here. Are you all right to give Lana a lift home, Chad? I spoke to Mum and Dad and they said Olivia was asleep and not to worry about her, Lana could pick her up tomorrow.”

  Hell yeah, he was okay to give Lana a ride home. “Yeah, sure. I was just about to ta—”

  “No. I can catch a taxi.”

  “Nah, I already said I was taking you home. Go, Steph. I’ll look after Lana.”

  Steph smiled at him. “You always do.” She winked at Lana. “I’ll call you tomorrow.” His sister turned and left the party.

  “Chad, go have fun. I’m fine to get myself home. I might even call David. He’s the guy I’ve been on a couple of dates with, and he asked me out tonight before your sister bombarded me.”

  Argh… Fuck no, he wasn’t backing down anymore. Who was this David? Dragging Lana along, he left the party. “I told you I was leaving. Let’s go.”

  When they were in his car on the way to his house he cleared his throat and asked, “So who’s this David?”

  “Um…he’s this hot cop that was going to give me a ticket but asked me on a date instead. I said yes and we’ve been on about five or so lunch dates and he came around for a late dinner once after I had Olivia in bed. He’s…nice.”

  Chad grinned and relaxed when she called the guy nice. Even he knew if a girl was interested she didn’t call you nice. Chad knew he had to make his move. He wanted what his parents had, and he knew with Lana he could have it. He turned down his street.

  “Want to tell me why we’re going to your place and not mine?” Lana raised her eyebrows at him and crossed her arms over her ample breasts.

  He pulled into his driveway, opening his garage and parking inside. “Sure, because I want to show you something.” He was going to show her who she belonged to. Who she could love, and who she would spend the rest of her life with.

  Lana frowned, opened her door, and followed behind him as he got out of the car. She waited as he unlocked the door and tapped in his security code. Lana looked around his house and placed her bag on the kitchen bench before she wandered toward the lounge room. He put his keys and phone next to her bag and followed her.

  Unable to take the burning ache any longer, he made his move. Chad stopped her at the hall and gathered her to him, capturing her surprised mouth to his own. She recovered quickly, kissing him back and running her hands over his body. Her touch drove him mad, and he was so eager to have her he backed her against the wall and yanked her dress down. He was desperate to get her dress off so he could see the body he’d dreamed of. Shoving it to the ground, he moved away enough to appreciate the sight of her in only black lacy underwear and black high heels.

  Wow, she was beautiful. Her hair was a mess as it fell over her shoulders, her warm brown eyes were wide as she stared at him, and her mouth formed an ‘o’. He tugged his own clothes off, dropping them to the ground to
join hers, and stood before her naked, ready for the claiming he was about to give.

  “What on earth are we doing, Chad?” she whispered in a breathless voice.

  “What I want. I can’t hold back any longer.” He groaned as he pulled her to him, taking her mouth to his and letting his tongue explore.

  He glided his hands over her body, resting on her breasts and caressing them before tweaking her nipples to hard, pointed tips. Eager to taste other parts of her, he trailed kisses down her neck, nipping, biting, and tasting. Fuck, she tasted sweet, like sugar, and smelled of the flowers she worked with all day.

  He looked up at her from her breasts, eager to know she was with him and was okay with this. “Tell me you want this.”

  Lana blinked and without saying a word nodded her head.

  “Once I have you this time, I’m not ever letting you go, Lana. I lost you once, never again. You will be mine.” He smoothed his hands down her stomach, resting them between her thighs, and dipped his hand into her panties, sinking a finger into her wet pussy. “Ah, Lana, you naughty girl…you’re soaking wet. You want me as much as I want you.”

  He circled one of her nipples with his tongue and she moaned. Chad swapped breasts, circling the other nipple and gently sucking it. He kissed his way down her body and hooked his fingers in her underwear and yanked them down. Then he lifted her, sitting her on the edge of the hallway vanity, and spread her legs. With the first swipe of his tongue he felt her legs shaking against him. He nestled in closer and swept his lips back and forth over her clit, slipping his tongue out to lick and suck on her. Her thighs squeezed around him. Her breathing came out in gasps the more he explored.

  He chuckled as her hands came down to grip his hair and she spread her legs further apart and leaned back on the dresser, careful of the mirror. He sank a finger deep into her core and moved it in and out. Sucking on her clit, he grinned against her pussy lips as her thighs quivered around him. He added another digit and pumped them in and out of her faster. Lana moved with him now, and her moans had him sucking harder, devouring her, eager to taste her release. He scraped his teeth over her clit and spread his fingers inside her tight, wet pussy. He nipped her clit, and that was all she needed to fall apart and come against his mouth, pulling his hair as her body tensed and pulsed.

  “Chad.” She screamed his name over and over as her thighs clenched and he lapped her cream.

  Chad licked her skin as he nibbled his way back up her body and lined the tip of his cock up to her pussy, rubbing it along her puffy lips before pushing his way home. For barely a moment he thought about protection, but he knew he was clean, he’d just had a physical, and Lana wasn’t a girl who slept around. Lana was his, and he would do anything to keep her now that she’d let him claim her. He’d waited years for her, he wasn’t waiting any longer. This time he wasn’t giving her up.

  Fuck, she felt so good. He’d never been bare with any other woman, and knowing it was Lana he didn’t know if he’d last long. When he was seated to the hilt he looked up into Lana’s face. Her eyes were closed and her mouth slightly open as she basked in her bliss. He loved this woman and shouldn’t have waited so long to claim her. She opened her big, warm, passion-filled eyes and he moved, easing out before he slowly pushed back in, savoring her squeezing muscles.

  “You’re mine now, Lana.” He brushed his lips over hers. Buried to the hilt, he rested his forehead on hers. “I’m never letting you go.”

  Chad took her lips in a possessive kiss, showing her all his pent-up need and want for her. She wrapped her hands and legs around him, her heels resting on his arse. She held on tight as he propelled into her over and over again, showing her the powerful, all-consuming need he had for her. Tonight he was going to brand Lana, by the end she would know who she belonged to.

  Lana started to slide back, and he gripped her hips, holding her in place. Chad grunted as she moaned and arched into his thrusts. The tension in his body built, and he fought to hold off coming until Lana had her release. Gazing down, he ground his teeth and pounded into her. Fuck, she was gorgeous, with her face turned up, her mouth open as mewling noises escaped, and her eyes glazed with ecstasy.

  The effect she had on him was unbelievable as his body tightened and wound up like a coil ready to explode. He needed her to fall over the edge so he could let go. Her groans and noises were turning him on so much that his usual control was almost nonexistent.

  Leaning down, he circled her nipple before sucking it into his mouth and giving a light pull on it then repeating the process with her other one. Her body combusted around him. She dug her nails into his back and grinded her heels into his arse as her pussy sucked him in and held him in, squeezing and milking his cock.

  “Holy fuck,” he yelled as her pussy clasped him in a vise-like grip and pulsed around him. Letting himself go, he held Lana tight and let her milk him of everything he had. “Lana.” He groaned as he emptied himself into her.

  He came to rest on her and they leaned against the mirror for a moment before he groaned and moved off her, pulling her high heels off and dropping them to the floor. Gathering her against him, he lifted her off the vanity and carried her to his room where he gently placed her on the bed.

  Easing himself on the bed, he gathered Lana to him and gave her feather-light kisses over her lips. “You haven’t said much. Tell me you’re okay with this. Tell me that you want this. You want to be mine.”

  She sighed and untangled herself from his embrace. “I would never have thought this was a possibility. To tell the truth, I’m not sure how I feel. What we did felt so familiar to me.” She closed her eyes and ran her fingers through her hair.

  Resting on his elbow, he stared at Lana, gauging what he should do next. Had he waited too long to tell her what he wanted? Would Lana give him a chance, give them a chance? “I want everything with you, Lana. I’ve waited for you to be re—”

  “No. Don’t you dare say you waited.” She stood, tugging at the sheet and wrapping it around herself. “I know you, Chad. You haven’t waited for me. You fuck every woman who throws themselves at you. Oh God, I just became one of those women.” Lana ran out of the room.

  Jumping out of bed, not caring about clothes, he went after her.

  * * * *

  Lana couldn’t believe what she’d done. She’d done the stupidest thing ever. She’d had sex with a Douglas—Chad, the biggest slut of the lot. You would think she’d learned her lesson after what happened with Olivia, but no, she was an idiot. She had no idea why she’d done something so stupid.

  Steph wouldn’t like what had happened. Steph hated when her friends went after her brothers. Lana remembered how upset Steph had gotten when Lana had mentioned her crush on Chad. Steph was the baby of the family, a surprise child. Her mother was in her mid-forties when she got pregnant with Steph. Lana had told Steph she was over Chad, because she didn’t want to lose her friendship.

  Oh God, what had she done? Dropping the sheet, she shoved her clothes on as quickly as possible, just wanting to get away so she could wallow in her stupidity. To think of why she’d let herself have amazing sex with Chad and why it felt so familiar, like she’d done it before.

  A magnificently naked Chad gathered her to him as she leaned down to put her shoes on. “Angel, don’t go. Stay. Talk to me.”

  She stood and gazed up at him. He was so tall, it made her feel small and fragile against him. “Talk to you about what? How I just stuffed up my friendship with my best friend because I did the stupidest thing I’ve ever done in my life? What happened? I thought we were friends. I vowed after what happened with Olivia that I’d never do anything stupid like this again. Oh God, your parents have insisted I go to your family dinner on Sunday, how on earth will I face them? I can’t look at your parents after what we did.”

  Lana felt her whole body shaking. As much as she’d fantasized about Chad, she knew it could never happen. She tried moving out of his hold, but Chad held her tighter.

 
She loved Chad’s family. His parents had always treated her like one of their own, and she would be devastated if this changed how they treated her. Lana loved her parents, but Chad and Steph’s parents were just so much fun. They had family night every Sunday, even if it was a Rugby League night. They all went and supported Chad. Lana had been invited every time but Rugby League...well, sports in general weren’t her thing.

  Tilting her head up, he kissed her. His lips locked to hers and his hands rubbed her body, bringing a fire burning through that before Chad she’d never felt. On a groan, Chad pulled away and picked her up, holding her by her arse, and walked to his lounge room.

  “Hey, put me down.” She fought to get out of his embrace, angry that a side of her wanted to relax into his hold and enjoy all he had to offer no matter how temporary it might be or what problems it would cause.

  “No, Lana. We are going to talk, and you need to calm down.” He sat on the sofa and moved her across his lap. “I should have done this a different way. I wasn’t thinking clearly. When you said you were dating again and talked about that guy, I cracked. I have wanted you for years. I just don’t want to be your rebound guy. I want to be your it guy.”

  Lana sat still on Chad’s lap, shocked at what he was saying. She opened her mouth and knew she must be gaping at him like a fish. She shook her head and rubbed her eyes, and ears, maybe she’d heard him wrong. “Um…can you say that again? I think I’m more worked up than I thought and I’m hearing things.”

  Chad’s fingers stroked up and down her back in a soothing motion. “Lana, being with you wasn’t a mistake. I have wanted you for years. I don’t know anyone I can just talk to and relax with like I can with you. When I would come and pick you and my sister up from parties or chaperon you out, I always had a blast. What I felt when I was with you I have never had with anyone else. I wanted to be ready for you. I needed to know you were ready. You weren’t before.”