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  “What do you think?” I asked, turning to look at Lucas.

  “Do you like them?” he asked. I nodded, smiling at him. He leaned over to kiss me softly. “Then I like them,” he said.

  “I’m going to leave you two alone now,” Alice said, standing up with a smirk. “Thank you so much for letting me do this, Ellie. I’ll send you the pictures tomorrow.”

  “Thanks, Alice,” I said. I stood up too and walked her over to the door. She surprised me by turning around and wrapping me in a hug.

  “You make him happy,” she said. I felt myself blushing, growing flustered for some reason. She laughed, hugging me again before she left. I turned to Lucas, who was standing behind me. He was still shirtless, and I put my hands on his chest, tilting my face to kiss him. He kissed me back, taking my hand and pulling me out to the balcony, shutting the glass door behind us.

  “What are you doing?” I asked, smiling as he pulled me onto his lap in one of the chairs outside.

  “Do you know what I spent all night thinking about?” he asked. I leaned against him and he wrapped his arms around me, his lips near my ear.

  “What’s that?”

  “I was thinking about being alone with you. About all the things I’m going to do to you the moment we get some time to ourselves.”

  “Tell me,” I said to him.

  “Oh, are you still in charge tonight?” he asked, his voice playful and teasing as he nipped at my lobe. “Are you telling me what to do?”

  “Yes,” I said. He pressed his lips to the spot just below my ear and I felt him smile against my skin. His hands were resting on my hips but they moved forward, sliding along the outsides of my thighs.

  “Well, I think about fucking you all the time, but tonight was different.”

  “Why?”

  “Because usually in my imagination, you’re spread out naked on my bed with me on top of you. But tonight I thought about what it would be like to watch you ride my cock.”

  “Oh,” was all I could say. I felt myself squirm on his lap just imagining it. It wasn’t something that I’d done very many times, nor was it something I enjoyed, but thinking about doing it with Lucas was completely different.

  “Would you like that?” he asked, planting a kiss a little lower on my neck. “Do you think you’d want to fuck me like that?”

  “I—I haven’t really done it very much,” I said, blushing. “I’m not sure I’m any good at it.”

  “God,” he muttered, his voice almost a groan. “God, that’ll make it even fucking better. You’re going to do such a good job, angel. I can’t wait to see your face when your little pussy takes my cock as deep as it can.”

  “Will you help me?” I asked him. “Help me learn how to do it?”

  “Yes, baby, I’ll help you,” he promised. Our bodies were grinding together, his face in my neck. Occasionally he would kiss and bite the skin there as he spoke, sending waves of desire through my body. His hands were on my thighs and he spread them apart, lifting my dress up slightly.

  “What else—what else do you want to do to me?” I asked him. I craved his words as he touched me, craved the images that he put in my mind. His hand was on my pussy and he was stroking it gently through my panties, teasing me.

  “I want to make you scream,” he said. “That’s why we can’t do this now. I want to hear you moan for me while you come.”

  “What else?” I breathed as he dipped his hand into my panties and started stroking my bare wet pussy, slipping a finger between my lower lips to trace my slit up and down.

  “You know how I said I think about having you underneath me?”

  “Yes,” I told him, whimpering as he circled my clit with the tip of his finger, not touching it directly.

  “Sometimes I think about what your face would look like if I fucked you rough like that,” he said, nuzzling my neck again. “If you were underneath me with your legs wrapped around me while I fucked you nice and hard. I have a feeling you’ve never been really fucked before. Am I right?”

  “Never like that,” I said to him. Sex with all of my exes had been tepid—I’d never even imagined that sex could be anything like what I wrote about in my novels, yet I knew that it would be with Lucas.

  “Good,” he said as he slipped his fingers inside of me. He slid them in and out, breathing against my neck as he curled them inside of me, rubbing my clit with his palm.

  I couldn’t speak anymore and I didn’t think he could, either. He was having trouble holding himself back—even more so than usual. His cock beneath my ass was rock hard and throbbing, and I rubbed myself against it even as my climax started to grow. I moaned and he put his free hand over my mouth, stroking my pussy even harder until I came all over his probing fingers. I shuddered on his lap, trembling until my body calmed. He stood, lifting me with him, and turned me around to kiss him.

  “We’ll have a night together soon,” he promised, looking into my eyes. His expression was soft but hot at the same time, and his kiss was the same way when his lips took mine. “Goodnight, Ellie.”

  “Goodnight,” I told him, and when he left with Luna I went into my bedroom to lie down. I couldn’t get him off my mind and hadn’t been able to since I’d met him. It made me worry to think how much I was letting my guard down around Lucas. I was letting him in, letting him get to me, and I knew from experience what that could mean—it would be heartbreaking to find out he only wanted me for sex or that he had been seeing someone else this whole time. I’d sworn to myself not to let him get too close but I already had, and at this point I knew there was no going back.

  10

  Lucas

  “So what is up between you and Ellie?” Alice asked, her leg propped up on my knee. “Are you dating or what?”

  “I don’t know,” I said. “We haven’t even had a real date yet.”

  “That’s your own fault,” Alice said. “I’ve offered to let Luna stay over multiple times.”

  “I know, but I’ve been working. And you know I hate the idea of leaving Luna with you all day and all night. I don’t want her to think—”

  “Luna is never going to think you don’t love her or that you’re not coming back for her, Luke,” Alice said. “You know that. You’re just using it as an excuse. Why?”

  “It’s not an excuse,” I insisted, although I knew that she could see right through me no matter what I said.

  “It is,” she said. “Why are you so afraid to go out with Ellie?”

  “I’m afraid to let Ellie get too close. After what happened with Maria…” my voice trailed off as I thought about it. I’d fallen in love with Maria and though she’d given me the greatest gift of my life in the form of Luna, in every other way she’d failed both of us.

  “Ellie is nothing like Maria,” Alice pointed out, and I smiled just thinking about how true that was. Ellie was everything Maria wasn’t—sweet, kind, and funny.

  “You’re right,” I said. “But that just means she doesn’t deserve to have to deal with someone like me.”

  “You need to give yourself a break. You made a mistake with Maria—”

  “Luna was not a mistake,” I said, my voice coming out sharper than I’d intended it to.

  “I know,” she said, her voice gentle. “I mean, you fell for the wrong person. It happens to everybody. But now you get a chance to fall for the right one.”

  “Maybe,” I said, though I knew that every word she spoke was true. “So Luna could stay with you tonight?”

  “Yes,” Alice said. “Please. Go get laid.”

  I laughed, ruffling her hair. I stood up, going into Alice’s spare room, which she’d set up as a playroom just for Luna. I knelt down on the carpet in front of my daughter, who was playing quietly with her Barbies on the floor.

  “Baby,” I said, smiling when she looked up at me, her big blue eyes full of adoration. “Do you want to spend the night with Alice tonight?”

  “Yeah!” said Luna brightly, standing up and throwing her
arms around Alice. “Like a slumber party?”

  “We can have a slumber party,” Alice said, picking Luna up and holding her on her hip. “We can stay up late and watch scary movies your dad won’t let you watch.”

  “Hey, now,” I warned, though I knew that Alice was joking.

  Luna gave me a hug and a kiss goodbye as I told them goodnight and left, feeling my heart flutter in my chest just thinking about seeing Ellie on my own, the things I could finally do to her. By the time I got home, I almost ran up the stairs to her apartment. I knocked on the door, wishing I’d thought to bring her flowers.

  “Hi,” she said brightly when she answered the door, looking adorable in a pair of oversized sweatpants and a t-shirt that didn’t quite cover her entire midriff. I wanted to take her into the bedroom then and there, but I knew that wasn’t why Alice had wanted to take Luna for the night. Now was my chance to take Ellie out on a real date, and I was going to take it.

  “Hi,” I said, leaning in immediately to kiss her pretty lips.

  She smiled at me. “Where’s Luna?”

  “I left her with Alice for the night. I was hoping that you’d go out with me.”

  “Tonight?” she asked. For a moment, I grew nervous. I hadn’t even considered she might have other plans.

  “If you can’t—”

  “No, I can,” she insisted. “I want to. Can you give me an hour? I can’t exactly go out like this.”

  “I think you look sexy,” I said to her. “I wouldn’t mind taking you out like that.”

  She laughed, shooing me away. “I’ll see you in an hour.”

  “Fine,” I said, but didn’t let her close the door before giving me one last kiss.

  I went into my apartment and got into the shower, thinking about Ellie and how perfect I wanted this night to be. Luckily, I’d been able to pull a few strings in the car on the way home and had managed to reserve a rooftop table at a local restaurant a friend of mine owned. I’d asked him to set it up like a picnic, complete with a blanket and a bottle of champagne. I only hoped that Ellie would like it; it was the sort of thing that Maria would turn her nose up at while insisting we go inside and find a civilized table. I knew Ellie wasn’t like that, but I was anxious to make everything perfect for her.

  She was waiting in the hallway when I came outside, wearing a pale-yellow sundress that made her look bright and beautiful. I took her face in my hands and kissed her before we made our way downstairs to the car.

  “Do you even have a plan for this sudden outing?” she asked me. “Or are we just going to wing it?”

  “Oh, I definitely have a plan for you, Ellie,” I said, glancing over at her as we drove in the direction of the restaurant.

  “And what exactly does that entail?” she asked.

  I smiled at her but didn’t reply just yet—I only gave her a look that promised more. At a certain point in the night, I wanted to have her on the very edge of her arousal, desperate for my cock and unable to think about anything else. For now, I wanted to talk to her, wanted to take the opportunity to let her show me herself.

  We got to the restaurant and I got out of the car, going around to open the passenger door for her. She raised her eyebrows and when she stood up she kissed me, and I led her inside and toward the back of the restaurant.

  “Where are we going?” she asked as we passed through the kitchen to the staircase that was hidden behind the giant walk-in freezer. I held her hand as I led her up the stairs and onto the roof, where everything was set up facing the sunset. She followed me over to the blanket set up and we sat down next to each other. She looked around in wonder, taking in the view of the sunset and the skyline. I took the opportunity to watch her; she looked happy and radiant in the evening glow.

  “What do you think?” I asked her as I opened the basket where the food had been packed for us. I pulled it out and then poured us each a glass of champagne. She lifted it to her lips and sipped it with a smile on her face.

  “I think it’s beautiful,” she said. “I didn’t even know this place existed.”

  “My friend owns it. He set us up with the roof. I don’t think anybody is going to be up here to bother us anytime soon.”

  “No?” she asked, grinning at me. “So it’s just us?”

  “Does that make you nervous?”

  “A little,” she said, a sly expression on her face. “It depends on your intentions.”

  “I intend to show you a good time,” I said simply.

  “And how are you going to do that?”

  “First, we’re going to eat,” I said. “And then you’ll find out.”

  “Okay,” she said. “That’s fair. So why did you choose tonight to finally leave Luna with Alice?”

  “I couldn’t stop thinking about you,” I said to her. “About the things we can do now that we’re alone.”

  “Sex,” she said, her voice even but reluctant. “You want to have sex.”

  “Yes,” I told her. “Later. Not right now. But I don’t want you to have to muffle your laughter anymore than I want you to cover your mouth when you moan.”

  She smiled. “What a line,” she said.

  I laughed, leaning in to kiss her. “I just want to spend time with you,” I said to her. “We could literally sit here and do nothing and I would be happy.”

  “You’d be frustrated,” she said, her grin becoming wicked. “That might be fun.”

  “As if you could hold out,” I said. “If I remember correctly, the last time we were together you were begging for it and promising to be quiet.”

  She blushed when she remembered, and I almost regretted saying anything. The look on her face combined with the memory of that evening made my cock grow instantly hard. I’d been on the verge of taking her but had stopped, and she’d been frustrated and desperate to continue.

  “Why did you want to be an actor?” she asked, changing the subject in a way I knew was meant to tease me. It would come back up later, lace itself in and out of our conversation until the need to touch each other grew overwhelming.

  “I always liked it,” I said to her. “I was in theatre in high school. It was just something I took to naturally.”

  “Are you any good at it?”

  I laughed. “I think so.”

  “I know you are,” she said. “The cover turned out amazing.”

  “I’m glad I could help.”

  We were leaning close to each other, neither of us eating. The food had gone untouched but we were sipping the champagne. I turned my face to hers, taking her mouth in a soft kiss.

  “You are radiant,” I said to her, and it was true. She was somehow even more beautiful than the sunset and twice as hard to look away from. She blushed again, as she always did when I complimented her. I had a feeling that it wasn’t something she was used to.

  “Can I ask you a question?”

  She looked at me and nodded.

  “There are some things you said you’d never done before,” I said. “Were they things you weren’t interested in trying?”

  “Um, I guess,” she said. “Nobody has ever really made me want to—to do those things. Not before you.”

  “But you do want to do them with me?” I hated the thought that I might be pressuring her into things she wasn’t ready for, even if she did seem to enjoy them.

  “Yes,” she said softly, kissing me again. She wrapped her arms around my neck, the food forgotten as our mouths moved together. She shifted so her body was pressing against mine on the blanket, nearly on top of me already.

  “You like it when I lick your pussy, angel?” I asked her. “That was something new we tried.”

  “Yes, I like it,” she said as I nuzzled her neck, pulling her fully onto my lap so she was straddling my hips, our chests pressed together.

  “I think it’s time to try something new tonight,” I said to her. “What do you think?”

  “What do you have in mind?”

  I kissed her again, tasting her mouth as I
lifted her dress above her hips. It was then that I realized she wasn’t wearing any panties underneath, but was bare and wet already. I raised my eyebrows at her when I noticed and she gave me a sly little smile.

  “And here I thought you were a good girl, Ellie Waters,” I said to her. “No panties?”

  “I had a feeling they would be coming off anyway.”

  “You were right. But I think we should wait—”

  “No,” she protested. “Please don’t make me wait anymore.”

  I gave a soft growl and kissed her again, beginning to stroke her pussy with the tips of my fingers as our mouths moved together. She reached to unfasten my pants, freeing my cock from its confines. She gave me a shy look when she saw it, her hand barely able to wrap around the whole thing.

  “What is it, angel?” I asked her, stroking her cheek.

  “It’s so—it’s so big,” she said.

  Just hearing those words coming from her mouth almost made me groan. The look on her face, so innocent and sweet, was enough to make me lose my mind. I took my cock in my hand and rubbed the head of it against her clit, making her moan and whimper when I touched the sensitive bud.

  “Just go slow,” I told her in a soft voice, lifting her hips so I could aim my cock into her entrance. I pushed inside of her, feeling how tight she was, helping her lower her hips in an agonizingly slow motion that felt like heaven. I was positive she couldn’t take the whole thing until she sank down on top of me, taking my cock all the way into her perfect pussy.

  She started to rock tentatively back and forth on my lap, moving in deliberate strokes, testing a rhythm. I watched her face as she started to get a feel for what she was doing and what felt good to her, watched her eyes roll back when she found a spot that felt just right.

  “That’s a good girl,” I said to her. “You’re doing so good, baby.”

  She moaned, this time not bothering to cover her mouth. I loved it and didn’t care if anybody heard us. This time I was going to hear every sound she made. Being inside of her was the sexiest thing I’d ever experienced and was worth every moment of the wait. I put my hands on her hips to speed them up when I knew she could handle it, eager to feel her clenching my cock. I was ready to make her come at least once, to start her off soaking wet and ready for the rest of the night.