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It wasn’t that I didn’t know guys could be assholes. It was that it was sexist as hell to decide I couldn’t handle it. Guess what? Girls could be evil too.
Most hockey players were attractive. There was something in the sheer size of them and their natural cocky energy. Honestly, it should’ve been a deterrent, but something about all their red flags enticed girls like moths to a flame.
If I wanted him, I was going to have to be brave, and I wanted him so freaking bad.
She was everything I had ever wanted, my seductress in an innocent package. I wondered if she had any idea just how much control she could have over me.
“Why me?” She spun and tilted her head. “What?” “Why did you call me and not Marcus? You know he’d have come.” Several moments passed before she answered. “Because I wanted it to be you.”
Strong fingers reached back between the doors and the front seat and wrapped around my bare calf. Lucas’s fingers kneaded my muscle in slow, purposeful motions, and I matched my breaths to the rhythm. Without words, he was telling me I was safe. That he was here, and God, it was melting me from the inside.
But right now, there was only one girl I gave a shit about, and there was no way I was fucking that up with some nameless puck bunny.
“You know if they’re screaming like a porn star, they’re faking it, right?”
“Do you know who that asshole was?” “Some hockey player.” I laughed without humor, moving in closer until we lined up from thigh to chest. “Hockey players are only after one thing.” “You’d know, wouldn’t you?” She wore a devilish smirk and brought her mouth to a hairsbreadth from mine. “I want a hockey player.”
“I’m going to make you come so hard. You’ll forget everything but the fact that I’m the only one able to give it to you.”
“You never even looked at me.” He laughed and kissed me again before speaking against my mouth. “I’ve never looked away.”
“Lucas, this means something to me.” His fingers dug into the back of my hair, his thumb and forefinger massaging my scalp, and his low words reverberated through me. “You’ve always meant more to me. I should’ve told you sooner.”
I wasn’t sure I’d ever truly believed I could stay away from her. Not when she looked at me with wide, clear eyes straight into my soul, like she knew every part of me. I didn’t deserve her—hell, no one did—but I had the rest of my life to change that.
“I love her, and I’ll fight for her, Marcus. Even if that means fighting you.”
She was like the fucking sun.
“I need you to make me forget.” Fuck. My control snapped like a band, and I dug my fingers through her hair, securing her mouth to mine.
“I’m going to make you come so hard you won’t need to forget because you won’t be able to think.” I slid my hands higher until the heat of her stomach scorched my palms. “And before you come down from it, I’m going to do it again.”
“Babe, I could never stop loving you.”
Her eyes were a stormy blue, and in that moment, I didn’t care about anything else besides her.
“Fuck, you’re pretty when you blush.”
“I remember everything about you.”
His weight grounded me in place, an anchor to this world.
“You bringing her out tonight?” Warmth filled my chest. “I’m never doing anything without her again.”
“I have loved you since the day you moved in next door. I’ve spent my time loving you when you weren’t looking, afraid that if I had you, I wouldn’t survive losing you.”
“You’re mine now, Piper, and I’m never letting you go.”
“You have always been mine, Piper. I’m going to marry you. You’re just not ready for me to ask you yet.”
