Page 24 of Backroom Boy
I shook my head so hard I got dizzy. “You know that’s not true. What they think about you and me changes nothing. We are a team, Lukas. We have a plan and we’re going to follow through with it no matter what. And then, maybe, they’ll understand. You’re it for me.”
He didn’t waste a second claiming my lips and making me forget all about my father’s judgements. Lukas made my heart melt and my body go up in flames. He challenged my brain and stimulated my creativity. How could something so right be wrong?
“Stay with me,” he whispered against my lips.
I nodded, lost in the daze of his kiss, and he smiled. His fingers wrapped around mine and he tugged me back to the pool house. The sound of the night around us was comforting in its quietness. I didn’t need fancy surroundings or the cushion of money to pave my way through life. All I really needed was Lukas.
When he shut the door behind us, I took the gold band off my middle finger. The ring I’d had since I turned sixteen. The ring that had been passed down from my great-grandfather’s day, the one that had been in the family as a representation of how far we’d come. When my great-grandfather got married, all they could afford was a simple gold band. The winery had grown into a multimillion-dollar enterprise since then, but our roots came from a single grapevine.
“I want you to wear my ring.” I held it out to Lukas, who looked down at it curiously. “My great-grandfather started this whole winery with nothing. And right now, you and I are at that nothing stage. We’ll make it too, Lukas. You may be my daddy’s backroom boy, but you’re my everything. Never forget that.”
His eyes went molten and I shivered. Lukas reached up and unclasped the gold chain around his neck and took the ring from me, stringing it onto the chain and putting it back around his neck.
“I’ll wear it proudly. I’ll work my ass off for us, Delta. You’ll see.”
His hands cupped my face. His jaw clenched with determination and I knew one day we’d talk about this night. The night we vowed things far more serious than wedding vows. This was a vow to never let the other person down and I meant it with every cell in my body. Lukas was everything good in my life.
I dropped to my knees and pulled him out of his sweatpants before he could protest. I licked the tip of his cock, watching as he hardened before my eyes. Lukas growled at me, his eyes watching me hungrily. I put the full length of him in my mouth, pulling back slowly as he grew, my tongue flicking the tip. His taste flooded my mouth and I had to clench my thighs together to hold back my moan.
Lukas gathered my hair to the back of my head and pulled me back so that just the very end of his cock lay between my lips. Then he thrust into my mouth and he went all the way to the back of my throat. Tears gathered in my eyes, and I’d never been more turned on than in that moment, on my knees, choking on Lukas’s cock. He kept thrusting, his control over me complete with the stranglehold he had on my hair. Spit dribbled down my chin while I tried to breathe through my nose. I was sure I looked a mess, but Lukas only seemed more turned on as he gazed down at me through slitted eyes.
He made a noise in his throat and pulled out of my mouth. I gasped in a lungful of air. Strong arms pulled me up and I wrapped my legs around his waist. Lukas carried me into the bedroom, dropping me onto the bed and stripping me of my shorts. He didn’t waste any time, just plunged right into me with his pants around his ankles. He grunted and I moaned at the feel of him inside of me.
“Yes, yes, yes,” I whispered, adjusting to the size of him.
He pumped once, then twice, before standing back up, his cock still in me. He looked crazed with want, his eyes half closed and his mouth slightly open. He reached between us and thrummed his thumb across my clit. I bucked at the strong zing of desire that rushed through my body, and he slid further in. He pulled back out and strummed again. It felt so good, but I really needed his cock filling me.
“Lukas, please,” I begged.
The side of his mouth tilted up in a smile, a look I lodged in my brain so I’d always remember. He was half the sweet boy I knew and half a dirty man who knew how much he ruled my body.
His cock plunged all the way back in and my eyes rolled back in my head. Then he was out again, his thumb working me over. I writhed on the bed, my legs trying to pull him closer. I needed that cock more than I needed to breathe and Lukas was being a damn tease.
He used his free hand to pin my leg to the bed while he worked my clit. My breath started coming in short gasps and I knew I was about to come. He must have known too, because he notched his cock at my entrance and stroked back in. The second he filled me all the way, I came, my walls squeezing him tight. It felt so good it hurt, the waves of pleasure coming and coming, no end in sight.
Sometime later I heard him grunt and pull out. With my eyes squeezed shut, I whined, wishing he still filled me. Warmth hit my stomach and I fluttered my eyes open to see long, creamy ropes coating my stomach and breasts. Lukas shuddered above me, his strong arm bracketing my body. He reached down and dragged a finger across my breasts, making me quiver yet again. With heat still in his eyes, he put his finger to my lips. I opened and sucked his finger clean, tasting the tang of him and wishing I could taste him every single day for the rest of my life.
My ring, hanging from his chain, hung suspended between us. I knew, and I knew that he knew.
This was it.
Lukas and Delta.
Forever.
11
Lukas
I put my cell phone back in my pocket and turned toward the pool house. Delta would be home any minute now after going shopping for last-minute things she needed for the sorority house. We’d started a countdown that night her father found out about us. Summer had seemed long and endless when I’d first moved to Merlot for the job at Black Bishop Wineries, but now it had passed in the blink of an eye. Tomorrow, Delta left to go back to school and my job at Black Bishop ended.
Like Delta kept reminding me, this ending was really just a beginning for me and her.
And the phone call I’d just finished confirmed things were unfolding right on schedule.
“Hey, babe!” Delta came bounding down the path to the pool house, multiple shopping bags in hand.
Everything in me relaxed at the sight of her dimples and broad smile. It was like my personality had been born grumpy, but she made the sun come out just by being around. I’d miss her when she left. And that ache would make me work that much harder to bring our dream to fruition, just so she’d come back to me with that grin and twinkle in her eyes. What had started out as a dream to make something of myself, now had become a joint dream, one where if we weren’t together, the rest didn’t matter. I wanted it all now: the winery, the success, and most of all, Delta.
