Maeve gave an enthusiastic yes while Wes dipped his chin.
“Wow, your friends are so nice,” I heard a woman say. I looked over to see a blonde woman hanging on Seb’s arm.
“Yeah, they’re alright,” he said, adding a wink for me. I wanted to shake my head, but that was just Seb. There was no chance he was going home solo after a night at the bar. It didn’t surprise me that he had managed to find a lady friend to spend his evening with.
Scarlett followed a step behind me on the way out, her hand still clasped in mine. I never wanted to let it go. The door closed behind us, and I pulled her aside.
“I would offer to take you home, Letty, but I can’t get behind the wheel with what I’ve had to drink tonight.”
“I don’t want to go home, Luke,” she said, her head shaking slowly. “Not my home, anyway.”
Fuck. She had no idea how glad I was to hear that, but I was going to show her.
I pushed her up against the building and ravaged her. My tongue slipped into her mouth on a gasp. We explored each other’s mouths as my hands traced the sides of her body. God, I could get lost in the sensation that was Scarlett Hart.
And that was exactly what I planned to do.
21
Scarlett
Luke walked me back to his place. I hadn’t really spent much time at Luke’s house when he shared it with Juliet, and even less time in Wyatt’s house.
He unlocked the door and opened it, gesturing for me to enter first.
The living room was small and opened to the kitchen behind it. A short hallway had two doors on the right and one on the left. There were no dishes in the sink, no mess in the living room. Everything had a spot and was properly put away.
Luke’s hand trailed around my waist from behind me. He leaned in, talking quietly in my ear. “We can take this as slow as you want, Letty. I don’t want you to think that just because you’re here, something needs to happen. I’m just glad you feel this thing between us too.”
I tilted my head to the side to open my neck to him. As soon as his lips made contact, a moan slipped past my lips. My body was tingling like a live wire had been placed against my skin. Luke pulled me closer to his body, tightening hishold on me.
“Luke, I need you to kiss me again,” I told him. My breath was coming hot and fast.
He wasted exactly zero time before he gripped my chin in his strong hand and tilted my head back to capture my lips, holding me in place against his solid chest. His hand that was on my waist traveled down my belly and cupped me through my jeans.
No one had ever made me feel so turned on. His tongue mingling with mine was so much better than I’d ever imagined. My ass pushed back against his groin, and I could feel that he was just as turned on as me. I pushed against him again and was rewarded with a pained groan.
This didn’t feel real. I couldn’t believe I was making out with Luke Wilder. After all the years I had spent pining for him, we were actually here. I needed my hands on his body. I needed to touch his skin.
I swiveled around in his hold so that I was facing him. “Can I touch you?”
“You can do anything you want to me, Letty. I’m fucking powerless right now.”
I tugged at his shirt, pulling it up. He helped me take it off him, dropping it to the floor by our feet. I placed my hands on his bare chest, my gaze fixed on the skin-to-skin contact before I lifted my eyes to his. The most beautiful olive-green color met my gaze with so much depth and emotion. His hands fell to my hips, and although his thumb was caressing my skin, he didn’t move to undress me.
“Are we really doing this?” I asked. It felt too much like a dream. Like I was going to wake up and find myself in my bed, alone.
The pulse point at the base of his throat beat rapidly. He touched my face so tenderly my breath caught in my lungs. Then he scooped behind my thighs, lifting me in the air. I wrapped my legs around his waist and held on. Luke walked me down the short hallway and into the bedroom. Every step he took ground my core against the hardness in his pants. I kissed him fiercely as I clung to him as tightly as I could, only breaking contact when he set my feet back on the floor.
“I want you, Scarlett. I want you so fucking much. But if things are moving too fast, you have to tell me to slow down.”
“Luke, I’m going to be honest with you because I think it’s important…”
“You can tell me anything.”
“I’ve wanted you since the very first day I met you, and no matter how much I told myself that it was wrong and inappropriate to want a married man, I could never get you out of my head. You were the person I judged every other man against. And none of them stacked up. Not even close.”
Luke’s eyes darkened. “Fuck, Letty. Have you been fantasizing about me for four years?”
