The Hunt for Summer (NSC Industries) (20 page)

The defence had
thrown that story to the wolves, but it makes you wonder what lengths a man
will go to, to protect the woman he loves…

Tricity Mavers
reporting from Sheffield crown court.

    Holy fucking hell!

Shit!

My mind was having
an overload and I couldn’t compartmentalize the thoughts. Everything seemed to
fly through my brain at once and I swallowed back the bile when the notion of
what Red had gone through came to the forefront.

I jumped in my seat
when a knock came on my front door and I rubbed my hands over my weary face
before I opened the door.

My heart stuttered
as a red eyed Red stood before me, her face pale and the pain she felt was
openly displayed all over her.

“I’m sorry” she
whispered and I swallowed heavily before I took her hand and pulled her into
me, needing to inhale her scent.

“You should have
just told me, Red. I want to be there for you, I wanna help you, protect you
and just fucking love you.”

She stared up at me
with those gorgeous large eyes of hers and I took her instantly under my mouth,
kissing the damn life out of her like I wanted to absorb every inch of her.

She moaned and took
my bottom lip between her lips “Make love to me, Lucas. I need to feel you
inside me. I don’t fucking care if it hurts, I just need you to take me.”

I swallowed deeply
and closed my eyes as she took my hand and led me to the bedroom.

We stood a foot
apart as we drown in each other, told each other how we felt without words as
Red grabbed the hem of her jumper and pulled it over her head. She was braless
and the sight of her incredible tits had my dick already geared up and ready to
go.

Then went the jeans
and knickers and she stood before me completely naked.

She took a step into
me and gripped my t-shirt before she pulled it off me; her hands palmed my
chest as the shirt dropped to the floor. “You are so fucking hot… just… fuck,
you make me want it hard Lucas, intense and wild.”

I groaned loudly at
her words and the way her soft lips were brushing every inch of my body as her
fingers unbuckled my belt and undid my jeans before she slid them off me.

She took a step back
and let her eyes roam my body, her eyes dark and heavy as she nibbled on that
plump bottom lip and her gaze came to rest on my rigid dick as it stood to her
attention. I twitched it at her, in a wave, and she giggled deliciously.

I walked her
backwards towards the bed and she fell onto it, her amazing tits bouncing as
she landed and I climbed on top of her, trapping her underneath me before she
changed her mind and ran.

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.