Seeing Forever

by Vanessa Devereaux

  “Call Jake,” he said into the mouthpiece.

  He listened as the number rang and then heard Jake’s voice answer.

  “Hi Jake, it’s Luc and I think I’ve just done something really stupid.”

  Chapter Twelve

  Katey rested her head on the back of the bath. The warm water felt so good and her muscles started to relax. She closed her eyes feeling awful that she’d left Luc like she had, but she felt like an amateur at the whole post-sex thing, and she’d fled. She’d rushed to her car, forgetting that it was out of gas, but surprisingly it had started and the tank had registered full once again.

  She driven away and half the way home, regretted the cowardly thing she’d done. It would have been bad enough if she’d treated any man that way, but Luc being without his sight, had made it more of a crime.

  The whole thing with losing her virginity had been so intense, the emotion she’d felt and yes, it had been physically uncomfortable too. A tear ran down her cheek. She hadn’t had an orgasm and she’d looked forward to experiencing one for so many years, especially when she’d overheard other women’s conversations about them.

  Maybe she was frigid or had a physical problem. If only her mom was still alive she could chat to her about what had happened tonight. Luckily Ruth and her dad had gone out to the movies so she had the house and bathroom all to herself.

  She topped up the hot water and leaned back again. Katey put her hand under the water and fingered her opening. It was sore and ached but she wanted Luc to make love to her again. After the cold way she’d acted, she doubted that would happen.

  She couldn’t hold it back any longer, and burst into tears. She wanted Luc but guessed she’d never have him.

  ****

  Luc paced up and down in his living room. He was sure that poor Willow was as confused as hell wondering if he needed to escort his master in the living room, out of the room, or what. He fingered the watch the nurse had given him. It was past eleven. The time Katey said she’d be here.

  He sat down, resigned to the fact that she wasn’t coming, and probably wouldn’t ever again. Jake had put his mind at ease. ‘Sometimes working relationships morph into romances.’ He’d felt better hearing that but now he was back to thinking he’d been an idiot for crossing that fine line.

  It wasn’t such a big deal as far as training Willow went, but the truth was Katey brought him comfort and calm in his now scary and dark world. He needed her in his life.

  He was sure he’d heard a car on the driveway and then a car door opening and slamming shut. He stood and almost fell over in his rush to get to the door. Willow rushed to him and he fumbled for the harness.

  They arrived at the front door before she even had chance to ring the bell. He opened it back and smiled.

  “Katey, you’re late.”

  “Luc, it’s Sadie Sutton.”

  His heart sank.

  “Can I come in?”

  “Sure.”

  “Katey’s on her way,” said Sadie getting hold of his arm and leading him back into the living room.

  “You spoke to her?”

  “No.”

  “Then…’

  She tapped him on the arm. “Trust me when I say that I know these things.”

  Sadie kept her hand on his arm and for some strange reason, he believed her and knew everything between him and Katey wasn’t as bad as he’d thought.

  “I thought I’d stop by to see how things are going.”

  “Fine. Willow’s been doing a good job, and Katey’s been working hard training him to work with me.”

  “I’m glad to hear that.”

  If Katey was on her way, just where was she?

  “Oh, and before I forget. I’ve brought you two tickets for the symphony concert on Saturday. I thought it would be ideal for you to go along with Katey. I checked and service dogs are welcome in there too.”

  “I don’t really think…”

  Sadie put her hand on his arm again. That was weird, going out on the town was the last thing he wanted to do but right now he was so looking forward to it.

  “Then that’s all settled. I’ll leave the tickets on the table here. I must be getting back to my office … no need to show me out.”

  He sensed that she was leaving the room. “Ms. Sutton.”

  “It’s Sadie, and yes.”

  “Thank you.”

  “Just a special treat for my clients.”

  Luc tapped the arm of the couch hearing the car backing out of the driveway and then he heard another one pulling up outside the garage door. He wouldn’t get his hopes up this time. Once again it might not be Katey.

  The doorbell rang and Willow nudged him.

  “Okay, okay.”

  He stood and sensed that Willow was looking forward to Katey’s arrival as much as he was because he could hardly hold him back. He slapped the wall and then found the door handle and pulled it open.

  “Hi.”

  Shit, he went weak at the knees just hearing her say that tiny word.

  “I thought maybe you weren’t coming today but then Sadie Sutton stopped by and said not to worry.”

  “Sadie was here?”

  “Yes, you must have passed on the road because she left only a couple of seconds before you.”

  “No, I didn’t pass another car.”

  That was strange, but all that mattered was Katey was here now.

  “I got a call about a job application so it detained me. Sorry I’m late.”

  Willow walked him to the living room and by the scent of her perfume he could tell that she was close beside him.

  “I’m sorry about yesterday.” There, he’d said it.

  “I’m the one who should be saying that. I was rude and shouldn’t have left like I did but I didn’t know how to react after we’d had sex.”

  He reached out, feeling just air at first but then he made contact with her arm.

  “I guess I was acting like a typical male and instead should have held you, snuggled with you.”

  “Then let’s say we’re both to blame and start over.”

  Wow, he’d never met a woman who didn’t insist that she was right. Katey was quite something.

  “Okay, and you can start by giving me a kiss,” he said.

  He closed his eyes as her lips went on his. That had been a mistake. Now his libido was in overdrive again. She pulled away.

  “Sadie left two tickets for the symphony orchestra concert on Saturday night. Service dogs are allowed in there so it probably will be a good test for Willow.”

  “I think that’s a great idea. Do you have anyone to go with you?”

  He smiled. “You want to go?”

  “You asking me out on a date?”

  “You know, I think I am.”

  ****

  Katey almost regretted that she’d volunteered to pull weeds in Luc’s garden. She guessed no one had done it for a long time. She wiped her brow with the back of her hand as the tennis ball Luc had thrown for Willow rolled close to her knees. She threw it into the middle of the lawn as Willow raced after it.

  “How you doing?” Luc called over to her.

  “I’m getting there.”

  “You need some help?”

  “You sure?”

  “I wouldn’t ask if I wasn’t.”

  She sat with her legs crossed and watched as he got up and slowly made his way to her. Willow rushed to his side and guided him away from the rose bushes he was heading toward. Jake had done such a great job with the shepherd, so what they needed her for, she didn’t really know. However, she’d never tell Luc or Jake because now she liked hanging out at his house and being in his company.

  Suddenly she felt sad. What would she do when the time came for them to part ways? Sure she’d told him she’d stop by and take Willow for a run in the park, but it wouldn’t be the same. And truth was she’d just applied for a part-time job at the local pet warehouse. She couldn’t live with her dad and Ruth for much lo
nger, so she’d need to find more steady employment very soon.

  Luc knelt down and she touched his hand to let her know she was right beside him.

  “How about we pull weeds together?” she asked.

  “Sounds like a deal.”

  She wrapped his hand around hers and lifted the first one out of the soil.

  His breath tickled her ear as he moved in behind her and shifted his body behind hers.

  “Smells like the lavender’s in bloom,” he said, raising his nose in the air.

  “Yep.”

  “Would you snip a piece of it off and let me smell it up close?”

  “Sure.”

  Katey took the clippers and cut off a few heads of the flower. She put it close to him and he held her hand as he took in the scent.

  “I miss seeing them. They’re from my late mother’s garden and they were her favorite. When we sold Mom’s house, Josie took half of them and I planted the rest here.”

  “They are beautiful.”

  He let his hand linger on hers and looked up at her before reaching up and outlining her lips with his fingers. Luc leaned in and kissed her.

  “I want to make love to you again,” he whispered.

  “I’d like that.”

  “I don’t think we should do it out here, though, do you?”

  “Probably wouldn’t be a good idea,” she said as they rested their foreheads against one another.

  “And this time be prepared for a mind-blowing climax…I have my reputation to think about.”

  Chapter Thirteen

  “Poor Willow must wonder where we disappear to and why this room is sometimes off limits,” said Katey, as she ran her hand down Luc’s stomach.

  “At least he gets to rest.”

  Katie turned onto her side. She ran her pinkie around the tip of his cock. “Since you’ve lost your sight do you feel things more intensely?”

  “Funny you should ask that because I’m not sure if that’s normal or if it’s because it’s you, but right now, it’s the experience of a lifetime.”

  Katey wrapped her hand around his shaft and moved it up and down like he’d shown her. Luc groaned.

  “You keep that up and I’m going to come before I get inside you.”

  He flipped over onto his side so they were facing one another, his warm breath now on her shoulder. Luc reached out and felt along her collar bone and then headed south until he found her nipple. He rolled it between his finger and thumb, turning it hard. It throbbed in time with her heartbeat.

  “Are your nipples light or dark pink?”

  She’d never thought about it before and had to glance down so she described them accurately.

  “I’d call them dusty pink.”

  “My favorite color and I bet they taste good, too.”

  Katey pushed her head back as Luc began sucking on her nipple and then playfully and gently pulling on the very tip with his teeth.

  His hand rolled over her belly and down into her pubic hair.

  “And I’m guessing these are pretty curls.” He kissed her while letting his finger glide downwards.

  She didn’t have to be asked this time, she parted her legs for him, resting one over his calf.

  “A guy ever play with your clit before?”

  “Nope.”

  He didn’t say anything but began stroking it until it ached and throbbed like her nipples. She rested her chin on his shoulder, suddenly feeling relaxed, euphoric almost. And while he might not see it, he could probably feel her almost drooling on him.

  Luc picked up intensity, circling it and then rubbing his finger across it until her jaw dropped open some more. Her legs felt tingly and her belly, well something was happening in there too. She groaned and dug her fingers into his arms.

  “Katey, just relax honey, just let me do all the work.”

  Was this it?

  He pressed one more time and she felt the room spin and heat travel throughout her pussy.

  I’ve just had my first orgasm.

  She moaned and didn’t know why but felt the need to run her tongue along his collarbone.

  “I take it you came?” said Luc.

  “Did I ever.”

  “Wait ‘til you come with me inside you. They’ll hear you three states away.” He slid his finger inside her and tickled her pussy. Her legs jerked and she grew wetter as he delved even deeper. Last night’s soreness was suddenly gone and forgotten.

  “I have an idea,” said Luc.

  Luc slid his finger out of her, flipped over and pulled her up onto his thighs. He ran his hand back and forth over them.

  “Women always get more direct stimulation on top…well, at least that’s what the ladies have told me, so let’s do it this way.”

  “I’m going to be too heavy for you.”

  He slapped her butt and she laughed.

  “Katey, I’m not lying to you when I say I hate skinny girls. I haven’t seen it but by what I’ve felt I love your body. It’s round, curvy and I can’t get enough of it.” He slapped her ass again. “Nothing worse than spanking a skinny butt.”

  He was a sweetheart. She leaned over and kissed him.

  He ran his hands over her face, outlining her lips and tucked her hair behind her ears as it flopped forward, probably tickling his cheeks.

  “You want to get a condom for me, because I’m in desperate need of getting inside that hot pussy of yours.”

  Katey reached over to the bedside table and grasped the foil package. She tore it open for him. She placed it in his hands and the two of them rolled the condom onto him.

  “Okay, ready when you are, just lift yourself up and then down onto my cock.”

  She still wasn’t sure she wasn’t going to hurt him, but she raised her butt and took his shaft in her hands between her legs and gently introduced his cock to her pussy. She lowered her body, feeling him fill her, but this time with no pain.

  “Feels good,” she said.

  He slapped her left thigh. “I can do some of the work but it’s up to you, to lift yourself up and down.”

  Would she do this right? She remembered the one exercise she’d done when she was trying to slim her thighs, surely this couldn’t be much different. She lifted her butt, feeling his cock scrape the walls of her pussy. Back down she sat, and already it was starting to feel pretty good.

  Luc slid his hands up and down her thighs as she moved up over his body in a steady rhythm.

  “Are your boobs bouncing? Shit, I bet they are, I wish I could see them.”

  He was right they were, and her nipples were rock hard.

  “Okay, baby, lean into me.”

  She tipped toward Luc, resting her hands on his shoulders as he moved his hands over her butt, and thrust upward by lifting his butt off the bed.

  Katey raised her chin in the air. Definitely something different was happening this time around. She was sinking down in a pleasurable warmth, feeling Luc’s cock hit the back of her pussy, causing every nerve ending in her body to go on high alert.

  Oh shit, this is so great.

  She assumed she’d just thought that, but when Luc laughed she realized she’d said it out loud.

  Katey moved up and down faster, holding her breath when she felt her pussy spasm and then heat spreading into her legs, and way down to her toes.

  “That’s it, ride me harder,” said Luc.

  He slapped her butt and that’s all it took for her to see sparks in her eyes and a feeling she couldn’t describe because it was the most pleasant thing that had ever happened to her.

  She shook almost like she was having a fit. She touched her nipples and actually whimpered.

  Luc moved suddenly, flipping her onto her back. He’d slipped out of her but then he nudged her legs, plunged inside her again, and began thrusting.

  “Hope you don’t think this is selfish, baby, but I want to come inside you and not waste it.”

  She watched in the mirror on the opposite side of the wall as Luc’s
sexy butt moved as he thrust in and out of her. A few seconds later she felt a gush inside her and then he quit moving, leaned over and kissed her.

  “I think I’d like to lie here and snuggle with you for a while,” he whispered in her ear.

  Chapter Fourteen

  Luc Frasier being soppy and romantic after sex. This was a first. But then he’d never been with a woman quite like Katey. Her hair tickled his chest as she laid her head upon it. He stroked where it curled slightly toward the ends. He guessed it was beautiful and shiny. If only he could see her. Shit, he was almost considering the operation the doctor had told him about. Not that he’d ever get all his sight back, but maybe he’d see a little of what Katey looked like.

  Almost considering.

  The doctor had told him of the risks that perhaps things wouldn’t go well and he’d be back in the dark again. And he’d hated hospitals ever since his mom had died in one and he’d remembered the smell and all the distinct noises of machines beeping. He’d never forget that tone.

  Katey shifted her body and put her leg over his. He placed his hand on her thigh. Smooth, and probably not one blemish.

  “What are you thinking?”

  Her voice startled him.

  “Nothing.”

  “That’s impossible.”

  “Just how nice this is, to be close to you, holding you.”

  Wishing I could see you and thinking about something stupid like going under the knife.

  “I’m looking forward to our date on Saturday. I’m not really into the symphony orchestra but somehow I think it’s going to be great.”

  That was weird…he’d thought the very same thing when Sadie had given him the tickets.

  ****

  Katey reached behind her back and zipped up her dress. The good news was it still fit her. She slipped her feet into the black pumps that she hadn’t worn since she couldn’t remember when. Taking one last glance at herself in the mirror, she picked up her purse and headed downstairs where her dad and Ruth were watching TV.

  “You look pretty, honey,” said her dad.