Page 48 of Deadly Aloha
Lu turned back towards me. Her eyes kept shifting, like she was searching mine for something. “Okay… I’m a bit confused,” she hedged.
I squatted, lowering her shorts to the floor. She placed her hands on my shoulders to balance as she stepped out of them. “What about?”
“You’re… Well, you’re not freaking out.”
I stood. “Should I be?”
Her eyebrows scrunched, confused. “I mean, not specifically. But I expected you to be. You don’t want kids.”
I nodded. “Very true.” I lifted her up against my chest, but didn’t enter her yet. Instead I walked us to our bed where I sat down and then fell onto my back. With her laying over me, I scooted myself into the center of the bed before shifting the pillows beneath my head how I wanted them.
Lu’s face fell. “So youdon’twant this baby?”
I paused. “Not want this baby?” Now it was my turn to be confused. “What the fuck would make you think that?”
Lu sat up on my abdomen and slapped her hands down on my chest. “God-fucking-damn-it, Aloiki! For once in your fucking life, just say what you’re thinking here! Because nowIam the one freaking out and I have no idea what the hell you want from me!”
“What Iwantfrom you?” I followed her upright, making her slide down onto my lap. My erection was pushed down by her ass between my legs. “I want what I have always wanted. You, Lu. Just you. And if you think I don’t want this baby then you’re sorely mistaken, because I do.”
She swallowed hard, but her confusion didn’t lessen at my words. “Why?” she demanded. “You’ve made it very clear you don’t want kids.”
“I don’t,” I repeated, entirely honest. “But a kid with you? Fuck, Lu, I hadn’t even known I wanted that until ten minutes ago. Your baby?Ourbaby? I want it more than I ever thought possible.”
Lu’s shoulders sagged and I saw the relief clear as day on her face. “Thank you. I mean, thank you for not fighting me on this.”
Why would I fight her? My eyes narrowed slightly. “You always said you didn’t want a baby either. Doyouwant this?”
She nodded definitively. “I think I’m like you. I didn’t know I wanted it until I saw that pregnancy test. Like it woke something dormant inside of me and now…” She smiled widely, a look of excitement on her face. “I want this, Aloiki. I want our baby.”
I matched her joy. My chest hadn’t felt this light in a long time. “You do realize you have no choice now?”
Confusion flitted across her features again. “About what?”
I kissed her, long and hard. “Now youhaveto marry me.”
Lu laughed, relieved. “I was already going to do that.”
“Yeah, but now you have a deadline.” I looked down at her flat belly between us. “No more delaying, Lu.”
Sadness crept into her eyes. “Not until we know about Nishi. Even if it means our baby is born before we get married, Aloiki. I just… I need to know.”
I knew she wasn’t saying this as an incentive for me to find her best friend faster, even though essentially that’s what it was. Her hesitation was because she wanted Nishi at her wedding. They’d already vowed to be each other’s Maid of Honor, and Lu felt like she was betraying Nishi for wanting to get married without her.
I got it. If it was Tangaloa missing, it would be awkward not to have him there to witness our union, but it also wouldn’t stop me from making Lu mine as soon as possible. It pissed me off even more that I was unable to provide Lu with an answer.
I pushed her thick hair back, away from her face. “I need to marry you, Lu. Even if it’s just so it’s legal and then we have a celebration later. It’s killing me that you’re not mine in every way possible yet.”
She bit the inside of her lip. “I’ll think about it,” she finally agreed.
“Well, you can think while I fuck you.” I gripped her shoulders. “And so there’s never a doubt as to who is inside you, trying his damnedest to put another baby in you, you get to watch.” I flipped her around on me so her back was to my chest. I nipped her ear. “Iwillmarry you, Lu. It’s not up for debate.”
On her knees over my legs, she nodded. “I know.”
“Good.” I reached my hand over her hip to feel her. She was wet, though I preferred her wetter. The change of mood must be affecting her more than she was letting on. I applied pressure to her clit, rubbing it while laying a trail of kisses up and down her spine. “You know, it’s probably a good thing that you didn’t tell me outside.”
Her hips started to roll at my touch. She moaned in question to my statement.
I nodded, licking from the middle of her back up to her shoulder blade. “I’d have bent you over the closest item and fucked you right there in front of everyone. The club, the construction crew… And absolutely no work would have gotten done. Because everyone would have stopped and stared, Lu. Their eyes would have been transfixed on you, all of them growing hard at the sight of your naked body and wishing for nothing more in that moment than to take my place.” I nipped at her lower shoulder. “But they never will. Because you’re mine.” She was getting wetter at my words, her hips moving in a more defined motion. “Always and forevermine. And now you’re carrying my baby.”
