Chasing Forever (The Forever Series #1)(38)

Lucas dropped his hands and shook his head in disbelief. “I thought we were past this. What do you want?”

“I don’t want people to know about us…yet,” she continued.

“Agreed.” He pulled her onto his lap.

“And,” she said, smiling faintly. He groaned. “You have to promise to be honest with me. No secrets. No games. No lies. I don’t want to be blindsided—”

He covered her mouth with his hand to stop her from saying more. “You don’t have to say it. I won’t hurt you again. I promise.”

He released her mouth, and she grinned. “Okay, then we have a deal.”

Threading his hands through her hair, his mouth came down possessively on hers. Her lips parted obediently because she couldn’t resist him any longer. They had unfinished business, and they both knew it. He pushed her jacket off before his lean, muscular body pressed against hers, slowly moving her backward until she felt the mattress against her back.

He brushed her hair away from her face, revealing her neck. When his lips moved to her neck, then to her ear, her breathing became shallow and irregular. Mindless, she arched into him wanting to feel every inch of his body next to hers.

“I could hardly listen to what Jack was saying today at the mine. All I could think about was getting you back here,” he said, his warm minty breath teasing her ear and causing shivers to race down her spine.

“Me too,” she said, wrapping her hands around his neck and kissing him beneath his ear.

“Good. Then, we’re on a level playing field.” While holding her gaze, he started unbuttoning her shirt. Then, ever so patiently, he pushed the sides of her shirt open. Lucas’s eyes burned into her, taking in her pale pink lace bra. “Do know how f*cking beautiful you are?”

Regan shook her head, mesmerized by his words, his attention and the hooded look in his eyes.

His fingertips softly grazed the skin on the top of her breasts, but his eyes never left hers. “May I continue?”

“You may.” Smiling coyly, she sat up, slipped one arm out of her shirt then the other.

His eyes zeroed in on her bra, and she felt her nipples harden from the attention. Feeling bold, she reached behind her back and unclasped her bra. Slowly, she slid one strap down and then the other, inch-by-inch, loving the way he watched her.

Lucas didn’t say a word while he studied her. Then he wrapped his arms around her waist. “Come closer,” he said, his voice gravelly.

Shaking her head, she toyed with the bottom of his shirt. “Your turn,” she said.

“Be my guest,” he responded. He leaned back, resting one hand behind him as the other stroked her side and the bottoms of her breast, teasing her and making it nearly impossible to unbutton his shirt. When she reached the final button, her hands were shaking as she pushed the shirt off his shoulders.

In the last six years, she had occasionally thought about the way Lucas looked in college with his body finely honed from a combination of baseball and running. Now as her eyes took in every detail from his perfectly shaped abs, his narrow hips to his firm chest, she was convinced that either her memory didn’t do him justice or that the last six years had been really kind to him.

“Kiss me,” he whispered.

She crawled over to his lap, pushed her skirt up and straddled him, feeling his hard erection pressing into her. She arched into him, her body instinctively remembering what it felt like to be with him and craving him with an intensity that surprised her.

Lucas’s hands tangled in her hair and then one slipped around the back of her neck, pulling her toward him until their lips met. She closed her eyes concentrating on every sensation and shiver flying through her body as he kissed her with such focus and devotion, almost like he needed her in that instant as much as he needed his next breath.

“So beautiful,” he murmured against her lips. His hands slid over her breasts, his thumbs teasing her nipples in hypnotic circles and she arched into him again needing more of…something. And then she felt his mouth replace his hands, sucking gently as a moan escaped her throat.

“Lucas…I need,” she mumbled incoherently as she rocked slowly on his lap. Unable to stop herself, she wrapped her hands around his head, pulling him closer.

“I’ve got you,” he whispered as he bit, nibbled, licked, and sucked with infinite skill until she was desperate for more.

Lucas’s hand slid between them and she lifted her hips to grant him access. Pushing her panties to the side, his hand circled her moist heat in a steady rhythm until he found a particularly sensitive spot and she cried out. He really did remember everything about her. She should stop him or be self-conscious about what was happening between them, but right then she only wanted more of him. She’d missed him so much and not until this moment had she allowed herself to acknowledge that fact. If this didn’t work between them again, she would be devastated, but she couldn’t worry about that right now.

Within minutes, she threw back her head allowing the bliss she’d been deprived of for so long explode.

He wrapped his hands around her, pulling her close. “God, I missed you,” he said as he nuzzled into her neck.

Lucas’s breath was thick and labored, just like hers, and she couldn’t help smiling. She affected him as much as he affected her. “Mmm…” She traced the contours of his back with her fingertips.