Outside the Box

by Rochelle Paige

  We focused our attention on the game and watched as Luka got called for a penalty. Jason skated over, pulled him away from another guy, and went with him over to the penalty box. They talked for a moment and Luka nodded before shutting the door and sitting on the bench. It wasn’t often that he got called for stuff, and he seemed pissed this time around.

  It only got worse when the other team scored during their power play, and I knew he felt guilty for letting his team down. I watched him closely as the game continued and felt like something was off. We’d managed to tie the game up and he was playing hard, but he seemed to be skating more slowly than usual. He also made some mistakes that normally didn’t happen with a couple of missed passes and letting the puck get past the blue line when we were playing in the offensive zone. I hoped that it was just because he was tired from the other games and not because his leg was still bothering him. They still had three months left in the season if they made it to the NCAA championship tournament like Luka was hoping they would.

  By the last two minutes of the third period, Luka’s team was winning by one goal. He and Jason skated onto the ice together for another shift and Luka glanced up at me. He flashed me a big smile and I figured he’d gotten his second wind and was ready to play hard so they could win the game. I kept my eye on the clock as time wound down, and they shut down the other team’s offense to secure the win. It was a great way to end the tournament for his team, and I was looking forward to celebrating with him tonight.

  “Woohoo!” Lucy cheered next to me. “They did it! Two out of three isn’t bad, even though Alex was in net for the loss. I’m hoping this win will put him in a better mood tonight.”

  “And if not?” I asked.

  “Then I’ll just have to do what I can to make it up to him,” she answered while wagging her eyebrows.

  ****

  We didn’t wait around the rink very long. Since Alex hadn’t played, he came and found us in the lobby pretty quickly. Lucy gave her room key to Alex to pass along to Luka in the locker room, so I sent him a quick text before leaving.

  Me: Meet u at hotel

  Luka: :)

  Me: I have a surprise for u

  Luka: I’ll hurry

  I went up to the room to get things ready before he got there. I was thrilled when I realized earlier that I had packed black lingerie for the trip because I was about to be very naughty. Luka had made it pretty clear that he loved seeing me in black, and I wanted to fulfill that promise I had made to him to wear it for him again when I was going to be bad. Dirty hotel sex should certainly fit the bill.

  By the time Luka made it to the room, I had everything exactly the way I wanted it. Lucy had grabbed her bag before she’d gone to meet Alex in the guys’ room, and Luka had his stuff with him now, so I didn’t need to worry about any interruptions. He was all mine until he had to meet the team in the morning to head back to campus.

  The sheets were pulled down on one of the beds, and I’d moved a couple of pillows over to the other bed so they wouldn’t get messy. I laid a towel down in the middle of the bed and tucked my scarf under the one pillow that remained. I’d already sliced the ends off the grapefruit and made a hole in the middle, so it was ready to go. I’d placed it in the bedside table so Luka wouldn’t see it. My plan wouldn’t work quite as well if he knew what was going on.

  I had my black lace bra and panties on under the hotel robe and quickly dropped it when Luka sat on the bed.

  “Aubrey,” he groaned as he reached to pull me down on his lap and kissed me passionately.

  He ran his hands across my back and up into my hair as things started to spiral out of control. I slid off his lap and onto the bed. Luka looked at me oddly when I pulled the scarf out.

  “I don’t think that really goes with what you’re wearing right now,” he said.

  “Do you trust me?” I asked as I grinned wickedly at him.

  “You know I do,” he answered.

  I crawled around so I was kneeling behind him. I pressed my boobs against his back as I whispered in his ear, “Enough to let me blindfold you for a little bit? So we can try something new?”

  “Are you sure I can’t be the one to blindfold you instead?” he countered. “I promise to do wicked things to your body if you let me.”

  “Maybe later,” I offered. “But with what I had in mind, I definitely need to be able to see what I’m doing.”

  Luka’s swiveled his head to look at me, and his eyes lit up at my words. “You’ve been planning something naughty, haven’t you?”

  “Very, very naughty,” I promised.

  “I wouldn’t want to ruin your plans,” he murmured as he turned his head back around so I could tie my scarf over his eyes.

  “Not when they are going to be so much fun for you,” I whispered in his ear. I moved on the bed to make room for where I wanted him to be and pushed him down so he was lying on the towel. “But you need to be naked for what I have in mind.”

  Luka helped me pull off his clothes, and I checked the scarf to make sure he still couldn’t see before I opened the drawer and pulled out the grapefruit to set it beside him on the bed. He gasped as I licked down his chest and swirled my tongue around his nipples before moving farther down. I nudged his legs apart so I could sit between them for better access to his body. I teased his belly button with my tongue, dipping it in and out several times. My tits were brushing against his dick as I moved, and his hips jerked up in time with my movements.

  I slithered farther down so my mouth was directly over his cock and blew gently on it before licking the bead of pre-cum that was about to drip down from the tip. Luka’s hands slid up my back and into my hair to hold me there.

  “Your mouth feels even more amazing when I can’t see anything,” he groaned.

  I sucked him deep into my mouth and slowly slid my mouth off him. “Just wait,” I promised. “It’s going to get even better.”

  I reached over to pick up the grapefruit and slowly slid it down his cock. His hips lifted off the bed, and I pushed them back down so I could control the pace.

  “Holy fuck, Aubrey,” he gasped. “What the hell is that?”

  Instead of answering him, I licked the tip of his cock as I pushed the grapefruit on him until it rested at the base. Juice was already dripping down his balls, so I sucked each one into my mouth to clean it off.

  “My surprise,” I whispered right before I closed my mouth around his length and turned the grapefruit at the same time.

  I bobbed my head up and down, moving quickly over his shaft with my mouth. I moved my hand more slowly, wanting him to feel the difference more starkly. My hot, wet mouth sucked hard and fast while my hand twisted the cold, wet grapefruit round and round. In a matter of minutes, his hands were fisted in my hair as he pumped his hips so he could drive his cock into my mouth as far as it could go until I was blocked by the fruit.

  “It’s like I’m fucking you while you’re sucking me,” he groaned.

  “Mmmmmm,” I hummed against him as I squeezed his balls with my free hand.

  “I can’t take it much longer. You better pull off if you don’t want me to come in your mouth,” he warned.

  That only made me suck harder, wanting desperately to send him over the edge. He bucked underneath me and shot his hot seed deep into my mouth. His hips pumped several times as his cock spurted over and over again. I waited until he was done and moved my head back so I could swallow.

  “I think you liked that,” I said as I slid the scarf up and over his head.

  Luka looked down at his softening cock and his eyes bugged out. “What the fuck?” he asked. “I thought you’d bought something at a sex shop or online or something. But a grapefruit? How in the hell did you even come up with that idea?”

  “Lucy,” I admitted, but I didn’t get any further before he stopped by placing a finger over his lips.

  “Nope. I don’t need to hear any more. The last thing I want to do before I try to blow your mind the w
ay you just did mine is think about what Alex is doing with Lucy in our room right now,” he growled before pouncing on me and showing his appreciation for what I’d just done. Several times, until the early hours of the morning.

  chapter 12

  luka

  If someone had told me eight months ago that, after Kat and I had broken up, I’d meet someone I wanted to build a future with soon, I would have told them they were crazy. Then I met Aubrey and couldn’t get her out of my mind. I didn’t think she realized that I remembered bumping into her in the elevator, but I did. The guys had dragged me out that night yet again in the hopes that I’d get back on the saddle, but I’d spent the night avoiding easy pussy and thinking about the hot blond who’d run into me instead. I hadn’t known who she was and I hadn’t planned on going there, but thoughts of her still kept popping into my head.

  When she showed up at the library for a tutoring session, I should have known that I didn’t stand a chance. I fought the attraction as hard as I could, worried about her reputation because I knew she was different and could have the power to hurt me if I let her. But even as I denied it, deep down inside, I knew there was just no chance that I wouldn’t eventually make this girl mine. And now she was.

  The sex was amazing. Mind-blowing even. But it was more than that. I liked spending quiet time with her, too. Like right now, as she helped me make dinner in my kitchen. I could easily picture years spent with her just like this.

  “Hey, you,” Aubrey whispered as she wrapped her arms around me and tilted her face up to mine. “Everything okay?”

  “Perfect, now that you’re here,” I answered, dropping a kiss onto her lips.

  Jason was out of town to see his parents, so we had the apartment to ourselves. Since Valentine’s Day was only a couple of days away, we were celebrating tonight with a candlelit dinner for two because I had hockey stuff going on the rest of the week. We didn’t get complete privacy as often as we’d like since I had a roommate and Aubrey’s bed in her dorm room was small enough that we preferred to stay here. So when I’d asked Aubrey where she wanted to eat out tonight, she’d asked if we could just stay in instead. Sometimes she was just so damn sweet and easy to please. It made me want to do more for her when she was like this.

  Aubrey put out the candles I’d bought and set the table while I finished making dinner. I’d bought things I knew she would enjoy eating because tonight was supposed to be all about Aubrey. I opened a bottle of her favorite wine to go with the meal and brought her a glass.

  “Go ahead and sit down while I bring everything out to you,” I urged her.

  “You’re going to spoil me,” she replied.

  I grabbed our plates from the kitchen and placed them down on the table. “That’s the plan for the night, moya printsessa.”

  I watched as Aubrey tasted her food and she smiled at me. We ate in silence for a few moments before I laid down my fork.

  “I wanted tonight to be special for you, Aubrey,” I began. “Not just because it’s Valentine’s Day though. I just wanted to make sure you know how much you mean to me.”

  “Oh, Luka,” she sighed. “Thank you.”

  I reached over and held her hand in mine, rubbing my thumb over her palm. “No, Aubrey. I need you to listen to me. When I met you, I wasn’t exactly at my best. My life had changed a lot, and I let it make me a little bitter. I hadn’t planned on meeting someone like you though.”

  “I wasn’t that much better, Luka,” she said.

  “But you didn’t fight it like I did, and you need to know that was more about me than you. Any guy would be lucky to have you in their life, and I’m just glad I didn’t let my own stupidity stop me. If I had, then I would have missed out on so much,” I tried to explain.

  Aubrey shook her head at that. “There’s no way I would have let that happen, Luka. I knew I wanted you when we met and I was finally ready to go after you myself.”

  “It’s still a good thing that I pulled my head out of my ass and came to my senses so you didn’t have to do that,” I said, chuckling softly.

  We finished our meal and enjoyed the dessert Aubrey had brought with her before my phone rang. I glanced down, saw that it was my mom, and showed it to Aubrey before answering.

  “Hello, Mama,” I greeted my mom. “Happy Valentine’s Day.”

  I listened as she apologized for calling and explained that Kat’s mom had phoned her to see if I was home for the weekend. Apparently, Kat’s and my parents had finally found out why we had broken up and all of them were extremely angry with her. Since the school year was almost over, her parents were letting her finish it out while keeping her on a tight leash.

  “Mama, this is no longer any of my concern. I know you haven’t met Aubrey in person yet, but you’ve talked to her on the phone. She means a lot to me,” I explained to my mom as I locked eyes with Aubrey across the table. “Kat is my past, Mama. Even though you’re still friends with her family, there is no place in my life for her anymore. I belong with Aubrey now.”

  I watched tears roll down her beautiful face as she heard my words. Aubrey stood up and came around the table to climb into my lap. I held her close while I listened to the rest of what my mom had to say. She babbled excitedly because she was so pleased that I was happy again. She had worried about me after the breakup and spent months hoping that Kat and I would get back together even after she knew that I was dating Aubrey. It was hard for her to understand why I was so certain that nothing would ever happen with Kat again, and she just didn’t know Aubrey well enough to see why we were so good together even though our backgrounds were so different.

  “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you the whole story sooner,” I apologized. “I didn’t want to put you and Papa in the middle of everything or have it impact your friendship with her parents. But please don’t mistake that for my protecting Kat. That part of my life is over and I have Aubrey to protect now. So I’d really appreciate it if you’d make sure her parents know I’m done. I don’t want there to be any confusion on anyone else’s part either.”

  I squeezed Aubrey tightly to me as I disconnected the call with my mom. “Sorry about that,” I offered.

  “Luka, you don’t have anything to be sorry about,” she replied.

  “Not even that it happened on our special day?” I asked, wanting to make sure the call hadn’t ruined our night together.

  “Are you kidding me? Listening to you tell your mom how important I am to you made the night even better,” she assured me.

  I captured her mouth with mine for a kiss before standing with her in my arms. My phone rang again and I figured it was my dad wanting to chime in as well after my mom had filled him in on our conversation, so I hit the green button to pick up the call without even looking at the phone.

  “Papa,” I began, only to be interrupted by someone entirely different.

  Aubrey must have seen the shock on my face. “Who is it?” she whispered as I pulled the phone away from my face to hit the speaker button.

  I didn’t want to have this conversation at all. In fact, I’d avoided it for the last nine months. But there was no way in hell I was going to do it with Aubrey standing in front of me and not being able to hear what was being said.

  “Nyet,” I hissed out loud, stopping Kat from saying anything more. “I already heard that your parents know and you’re in trouble because of it. And before you can even ask, no, I didn’t say a word about it to anyone who would’ve talked. I can only guess that someone from high school has been gossiping about what you’ve been up to while you’ve been away at school.”

  “But, Luka, I need your help,” she replied, completely ignoring what I’d just said.

  “And I don’t care what you need,” I answered. “You’re not my problem anymore.”

  Kat changed her tone of voice before speaking again. “I’m sorry I hurt you, Luka. I made a mistake. A big mistake. Isn’t there any way you can forgive me and take me back?” she asked softly, sounding more l
ike the girl I used to know in high school than the bitch she’d turned into at college.

  At that point, I could tell that Aubrey was losing her shit. Her face turned bright red and her fists were clenched tight.

  "Wow. From what Luka told me about you, I knew you were pathetic. But damn, girl. You just hit an all-time new low trying to manipulate Luka into taking you back so you can get your parents off your back. Don’t think for a second that I’m going to let him fall for it though," she roared.

  I could hear Kat sputter on the other end of the line. "And who the hell are you?" she shrieked.

  "Luka’s girlfriend," Aubrey replied smugly, walking over to hug me close to her body as she fought this battle for me.

  "What? You moved on?!" Kat screamed, stunned by the news my parents had apparently chosen not to share with hers yet.

  Aubrey rolled her eyes at me before responding. “Of course he moved on! Why would he be stuck with feelings for somebody who doesn't deserve to share the air he breathes? You must be delusional. Or maybe just really, really stupid. I don’t really care which one it is, but you fucked around behind his back for years and now you think you can just wrap him around your little finger? After you did that to him?”

  “But—” Kat stammered.

  “But nothing,” Aubrey interrupted her. “Luka can be a lot of things, but an idiot is not one of them. Now please leave him alone. For good. Or else.” Then she pulled the phone from my hand and disconnected the call.

  “Remind me never to piss you off,” I joked in an effort to lighten the mood.

  “Sorry,” she whispered as she seemed to deflate right in front of me.

  “Aubrey, no. I’m not mad at you. Not even a little bit,” I reassured her. “Just the opposite, in fact. ‘Cause I just discovered how fucking hot it can be when you defend me.”

  “Really?” she asked. “Tell me more about how hot you think I am.”

  When I looked down at her, it struck me that this girl really was it for me. “Ya tebya lyublyu,” I whispered in Russian, the words slipping out even though I wasn’t ready to admit my love to her in a language she would understand. Not yet anyway.