The NSC Boxset: Heart of Stone (172 page)

She yanked at my hair as I took her hard nipple between my lips and pulled at it with my tongue, triggering a long groan from her.

I removed my mouth and looked up at her, just gazed at her as my heart beat hurriedly and my blood fired rigorously.

She gave me that soft smile of hers, the one that made my heart swell and my gut clench as she cupped my face. “I don’t deserve you” she whispered sadly.

I pursed my lips at her, “I’m never gonna let go. Never gonna give up, Red. I don’t wanna hear no, only yes, yes, fucking yes.”

She smirked at me before she lifted her breast back towards my mouth and I obeyed her silent command and sucked on it hard. Her eyes rolled back and her back arched as I slid my hand down her stomach and gently slipped my little finger into her to check her pain level.

She was very wet and she moaned, in an aroused way not a painful one, so I followed it with my middle finger, still torturing her breasts and testing her soreness.

“I’m good, Lucas; honestly . . . I’m ready for you. I think I’ve always been ready for you” she breathed on a moan.

I positioned myself at her and she frowned, “Condom?” I just shook my head and nudged into her slowly.

“Oh god” she breathed as her teeth sank into bottom lip.

“Okay, baby?” I asked and she nodded and gripped my arse, pulling me further into her depths until I was so far inside her I could feel her pulse in my dick.

“Christ, Red. You feel fucking amazing.”

Her beautiful face tightened as she lifted her hips and clenched her internal muscles around me and the act of it made me fight against the ejaculation already threatening its demand for release.

Not yet Lucas. Make her feel you. Make her fucking delirious first.

She opened her eyes and stared straight into mine, searching for my soul and I let her see it, let her have it, it was hers, all of it.

I slid into her so slowly she gasped and when I pulled out just as slowly, her bottom lip trembled as a huff of air left her mouth.

“When it’s just you and me, like this, my cock buried so deep inside you, then I feel fucking invincible . . . and you feel bloody fantastic” I told her as I drove back in more powerfully.

“Lucas . . .” she whimpered as I let loose on her. She seemed to be coping with the pain so I slid my hands under her arse and lifted her slightly then began to pound into her so fucking ferociously I even impressed myself when within two thrust she was tightening around me and blasting to pieces with her powerful orgasm.

I grit my teeth against the electricity that shot through every nerve in my body as I erupted just as vehemently as she did.

“Fuck . . . Christ . . . Jesus, Lay” I spluttered as my whole body jerked in pleasure and the exquisite pain only Red delivered.

She pulled my head onto her shoulder and planted a tender kiss on the top of my head. I sighed in pleasure at the intimacy of it as we submerged into each other.

“I’ll always love Ry, but not in the way you think, Lucas” she stated out of the blue and I tried to pull back to look at her but she placed her hand behind my head and held me to her.

She sighed deeply and I closed my eyes when her fingers drifted softly up and down my back, my dick still immersed in her warmth.

“We met at school, fell in love instantly, got married at 16 and by the time we were 17 Ry was fucking everything with a skirt and I met Tony so we separated.”

I remained where she wanted me, silently urging her on as I took hold of her hand and brought it to my mouth, giving her a small kiss in encouragement.

“When I met Tony, he was funny, kind and gentle until he started going to these weird sex clubs and he took an interest in D/s relationships. It didn’t take him long to figure out that’s where he wanted our relationship to go and at first, I’ll admit, I enjoyed it. The control and choices that were taken out of my hands was . . . euphoric. To just take and not have to decipher everything, to not have to think about how to pleasure and please someone, knowing that they would tell you exactly what they wanted was . . . liberating and soon, I was totally in the dominating relationship with him.”

I slipped out of her now and drew her trembling little body into me, holding her tight as she divulged her secrets and truths and opened up to me.

“Then he got violent and then utterly, horrifically violent. Really gross nasty stuff and I tried to leave him but . . . Ry and I were still good friends at this time and he was aware what was happening. He turned up one day when I was covered in bruises and bleeding as Tony had finished with me. Ry went mad, shouting and screaming at Tony over the state of me . . .”

She pulled out from under me and stood, approaching the window on shaky legs as she deliberated how much to tell me. She wasn’t aware I had figured it out but I let her tell me her own way and remained silent.

She flicked her thumb furiously on her finger and my heart wept at her anguish but I ordered myself to keep calm and let her slowly release it.

She kept her back to me as she carried on and I knew her eyes were closed as she relived that day, probably for the millionth time in her head.

“Ry hit Tony but . . . Tony was a strong man, huge, muscles that could squash a fucking sumo and he rounded on Ry and just started beating the shit out of him.” She gulped.
heavily and gripped the window frame when her legs wobbled and I slowly approached her and scooped her up and brought her back to bed before she collapsed.

“I tried to pull Tony off but he was so powerful, I couldn’t move him and I knew he was gonna kill Ry so I . . . I . . .”

Her hands gripped her hair tightly in her pain and I placed my finger over her lips as a single tear rolled down her cheek. “Ssshhh, I hear you, you don’t have to speak, I hear you.”

Her eyes widened at me as she pleaded for understanding and I nodded at her “I know. I knew before you told me.”

She looked away, shame and guilt consuming her but I gripped her chin and turned her back to face me, “You’re hurting yourself baby, nobody but yourself with this guilt you carry around. You need to let it go. What Ryan did for you, is what any man would do, and Hell, I bet even you wanted to do it to protect him.”

She nodded her acknowledgement and then a thought occurred to me. “Is that why you chose Diablo, cos’ you think you need to be punished?”

She bit into her lip and closed her eyes against my accuracy and I groaned loudly. “It doesn’t work like that, Red. Life doesn’t dish out what we deserve, we take what we think we deserve. In your case, pain, but that’s about to fucking change. You hear me, Red? I’m gonna give you what you deserve and it definitely isn’t fucking pain.”

She swallowed slowly as she regarded my words and I stroked my finger across her delicate cheek. “You deserve to be loved, purely, wholly and fucking immeasurably and I’m gonna make sure you take every bit of it I give you.”

I leaned in and ordered the kiss from her; gave her my all and took what she gave me. I tasted her tears as I showed her how much love I was going to give her, bared my soul to her as she absorbed it and I took her own as she echoed everything back at me.

“I love you Lucas, but you need to see what I am before you fall, cos’ I promise my life will drag you deep and hurt you. It’ll consume your very spirit cos’ that’s what I am . . . a death sentence.”

I narrowed my eyes on her and shook my head. “You’re like this fire inside me, Red. Hot, intense and so fucking formidable that I burn for you with every breath I take. But I don’t care, I’ll watch myself reduced to ashes before I let you go . . . so tough, really. You don’t get a choice to push me away cos’ I’ll keep on coming right back at ya’ and I’ll hold on tight until the next time you decide to push me away, and then I’ll hang on all over again.”

She gave a little soft gasp before she took my mouth again, her passion and emotions spilling into me as she held me tight to her.

“I’ll always be your prey, Hunter and I’ll let you capture me time and time again” she whispered over me before she showed me how much she loved me all over again, and fuck me, did she show me!

Chapter 23

Layla

LUCAS GRINNED AT me as he reached across and plucked another garlic infused prawn from my plate and I scowled deeply at him and yielded my fork. “One more and this fork will be buried so far in your dick; you’ll resemble a watering can when you piss!”

He laughed loudly and smirked at me but as he was about to reply his phone rang.

“Yeah?” he barked into it.

I watched his face darken and his eyes narrow. “Fuck!” he spat out and threw his napkin on the table, “Gimme half an hour.”

He turned to the waiter with a deep scowl, “Make sure Miss Summers gets home” to which the waiter nodded and disappeared with Lucas’s credit card.

“I have some business to deal with, Red. Finish your meal before you leave and make sure the maître d’ calls you a cab, and go straight home.”

I stared wide eyed at his abruptness “Is everything okay, Lucas?”

He seemed to be in a world of his own but he bent and kissed my cheek before he left and I sat, silent and alone, still trying to comprehend Lucas’s behaviour.

The waiter returned Lucas’s card and I asked him to call me a taxi but I wasn’t in the mood for home, so I made my way to the Black Panther to catch up with the girls and I was soon perched on a stool at the bar surrounded by Owen, Puss, Misty and Angel, and a pint of bitter.

“You totally missed the entertainment last night, Willow. The God turned up with a woman already on his arm. You should have seen Elisa’s face . . . huge LOL moment” Puss divulged excitedly.

I shook my head and laughed, “Did you find out who she was?”

All three girls shook their heads dismally and I smirked and winked. “I’ll find out” I promised them as I reached into my bag for my phone as it rang constantly.

“Hey” I said to Sara as I answered.

“Where the fuck are you?” she demanded.

I frowned at her tone. “What’s wrong?”

She huffed and I was sure I heard a growl “Hunter practically swallowed me whole when he found out you weren’t here. He’s on the fucking warpath, Lay and if I were you I’d get your arse home . . . fast.”

“What the hell? I’m at the club having a drink, love. He left me in the middle of our meal, so if he has a problem, he can come to me to deal with it.”

How fucking dare he blast off at Sara just because I hadn’t gone straight home. I was safe, and in the company of my friends.

“Oh Shit!” Puss cursed, her eyes wide as she spotted something behind me and I frowned and turned to see what she was looking at.

A smouldering Lucas was stood staring at me, his fists clenched beside him as steam practically seeped from him.

“He’s found me, Sara. See you later” I whispered as my breath was currently being imprisoned in my lungs at the sight of the dark simmering Sex God glowering at me.

I pulled myself together and smiled at him, “Hi, drink?”

His solid thighs carried his long firm legs to me in three wide strides until he was positioned directly in front of me, “I thought I told you to go straight home.”

I shrugged and ignored the heat he was emitting and smiled sweetly, “Just fancied a drink.”

A low growl rumbled his chest and his eyes darkened even more. “With a fucking lunatic after you?” he snarled and I gulped at his fury.

“Well, I’m quite safe here. It’s Sunday night, only members allowed” I informed him sternly.

He nodded slowly and pursed his lips then leant into my ear “Andrew was a member.”

I frowned at him and shrugged as I tried to interpret his words “Yes, and . . .”

Lucas lifted his lips in a cruel smirk and my breath stuttered at his vehemence. “And now Andrew no longer resides on earth because he was involved with Diablo. You understand me now, Red?”

“W . . . wh . . . what??” I shook my head in confusion as his declaration filtered through my brain.

“I am so close to bending you over my knee, right here, right now and spanking the fucking life out of you. Now get up and come with me.”

I looked into his eyes and found he wasn’t joking, I could see the vision of me bent over his knee in his irises and I gulped and nodded as I stood on shaky legs.

He took my hand firmly and I said goodbye to my wide-eyed friends as Lucas practically pulled me across the floor and into his car.

The ride back to his place was fun . . . extremely. My quiet, furious, scorching man never spoke a word, just ploughed through the gears of his Porsche and nibbled irately on his bottom lip.

He screeched into the underground garage and rounded the car before he opened my door with force, grabbed my hand and pulled me into the elevator as he stabbed a PIN code into the security panel viciously.

The heat in the lift was intense as he continued to bake beside me and I stood ramrod still, my hands clasped together in front of me as my eyes swirled the elevator car, desperately looking for something to focus on.

“Out” he barked as the doors opened on his floor and I stepped out as he passed me and slid his key card through the machine and slammed open the double doors.

“In” he now snapped and I fought the giggle. He sounded like he was doing the hokey-cokey and my eyes watered as I frantically tried to stop the laughter that was bubbling up my throat.

Shit Lay, control it!

I remained in the hallway as he entered the living area and poured a shot of whisky, downing it in one before he turned and glared at me.

“Come here.”

I swallowed heavily and slowly walked towards him. He watched me with narrow eyes and each step I took closer to him brought his blazing carnal appetite nearer and I was drowning in arousal at the tension from his intense hunger.

I came to a halt before him and his penetrating eyes skimmed over me as he tipped his head, “Strip.”

I immediately followed command and removed each piece of clothing slowly, his eyes never left mine as I exposed myself to him and before long I was completely naked afore him.

He was quiet for a long while as if deliberating with himself that he wanted to do this but eventually he growled out, “Vertical Spank.”