“What would you have done?” He asked. He yanked her back and moved over her so he was looking down on her. His hand was at her waist holding her. “Can you honestly say you would have welcomed me home?”
Her eyes were boring into his. “How can I know what I would have done ten years ago Luka? You never gave me the opportunity to make any decision. You made them all for us. I can only say it would have been a lot easier then, than it is now.”
She was partially pressed into his body. Skylar was still familiar to him. She was still the same. She was what he wanted. He just had to convince her of that.
Luka knew how to make her respond to him. He brushed the hair out of her eyes with a tenderness that elicited a low moan from Sky. Then he lowered his head so his lips could brush against hers. Skylar’s arms went around his neck and she pulled him closer. He hesitated. His breath warm on her face. Increasing the need with every inch that he got nearer to what he wanted. Her. Skylar. Just Skylar.
Then he touched his lips to hers. A soft gentle kiss at first. Skylar didn’t pull back. She didn’t tense. He didn’t know what she was thinking. He didn’t want to scare her off so he kept the kiss easy and soft.
Skylar moaned. That sound was his undoing. His hand tangled in the waves of her hair holding her lips to his lips. His kiss became more urgent as his mouth caressed hers. His free hand dipped beneath the blankets covering her. She gasped when his hand touched her bare skin beneath the shorts she wore.
Luka was testing the waters. He wanted to touch all of her. He wanted to feel her skin against his. His fingertips caressed the skin of her belly as his hand slid around her pulling her tighter to his own body. It was so soft and she was so responsive just as she was when she was sixteen. He loved her as much now as he did then.
He moved her shorts down her slender thighs and she didn’t stop him. Luka had to have her naked in his arms. He was surprised when her hands moved to his shorts. She shoved them down too.
“Luka, I have missed you.” The words were torn from her as if they pained her to admit them. He would take it though.
He kicked off his shorts while kissing her throat. Her shoulder. He slid lower and Skylar ran her fingers through his hair. His hands encircled her waist and he moved her tank top up and over her head. She lifted her body helping him.
Skin to skin; he covered her body with his. This was where he belonged. A warm body had given him release but had never given him pleasure. Not like this. He was home. This time he just needed to be inside her. The next time would be slow and less intense. The next time would be about loving each other.
Luka slid inside Skylar. She wrapped her legs around him. The blankets sliding to the side. She was everything to him. She was his. It was like no time had passed between them when their bodies joined.
He buried his face in her neck while he moved; thrust for thrust his breathing increased. She clutched his back; her nails digging into his skin leaving marks in his flesh.
“You’re mine Skylar,” he whispered in her ear.
She didn’t respond. Skylar just held onto him. He grasped her hands hard in his and held them over her head while his body moved inside hers.
“You missed this as much as I did. Tell me that you did.”
“Shut up Luka,” she growled. “You talk too much.”
He chuckled in her ear then he rolled to his back taking her with him. Skylar straddled his body still connected to him. She placed her hand on his abs to steady herself then she brushed her hair back over her shoulder. She moved in slow circles over him. Luka clutched her hips pulling her harder on his body when she wasn’t moving fast enough.
“Baby, you feel so good. I’ve dreamt of you…of this.”
Her head tilted back. Luka knew she wasn’t listening to him. She was seeking her pleasure. Using him and he let her. His hands slid down to her thighs. He held onto her while she rode his body. She looked amazing. Rising and falling on him. Faster, harder. So damn hot like she was when she rode her horses. Wild and free.
He watched the muscles of her belly quiver as she came on his dick and he lost himself. He came inside her. No condom. No protection. Hell, he wouldn’t care if he got her pregnant but he wasn’t sure how she would feel. He fully expected her to shut down in the morning.
Luka sat up and cupped her face in his big hands. He drew her face to his. His lips gently took hers in a soft kiss. “I love you baby. I never stopped. Not one day did I not love you. Tell me you love me too.”
She turned her face into his neck. “Luka,” she only said his name.
He nodded. Then his lips brushed across hers again. “Are you on birth control?” He asked.
She leaned back and stared at him. “Hell yes,” she replied.
He didn’t know whether he was disappointed or relieved. For Ava’s sake he thought it better to wait but he had missed Ava’s early life. Luka wanted another child with Skylar and this time he was going to be present and there was going to be another time. Another baby. He was going to marry Skylar Bradford whether she liked it or not. He would get her to the alter kicking and screaming if he had to.
“You may have my body Luka,” she told him knowing it was true. She couldn’t resist him. “But my heart will always remain mine. He could live with that for now. It was step in the right direction.
**
Skylar woke in the morning with a heavy arm draped across her body. Although she wanted to feel good about the man lying next to her she was scared as shit. She hadn’t lasted two days with him in the house before she let him in her bed.
She slid from beneath him hoping she didn’t wake Luka and went to the bathroom to shower. She didn’t even look back. The sooner Skylar could shower the sooner she could get outside and get to work. Hard work would ease the confusion and craziness going on in her brain right now.