Page 130 of One Nightstand With My Ex's Uncle

LUCAS’ POV.

I stared at her. A beautiful creature, radiating with brilliance under the moonlight. She was the most beautiful thing ever.

Her large dark eyes filled up with tears over and over again, and they fell quickly down her fair cheeks.

She hadn’t changed out of her wedding dress, and her makeup and veil were still on her. Just the mere sight of her, and immeasurable joy filled my heart, but that joy shared that space with pain that also couldn’t be measured.

It seemed deep down, I had actually wanted to see her before leaving, but the rational part of me knew that seeing her would make it hard to leave.

And when she expressed her feelings, telling me she also loved me, with such desperation, and fearlessness, I couldn’t help the heat wave that rose within me. It felt like my heart was rising. A mix of joy and sorrow I had never experienced clouded me.

Was I really leaving her behind? When I’d already confirmed that she felt the same? That she wasn’t just comfortable or friendly with me, but actually loved me? When I knew she wasn’t happy?

Her chest heaved heavily, and she closed her eyes crying, but I didn’t know what to do. I could only watch her.

“Why aren’t you coming to me? Why won’t you tell me you love me too?

Don’t you feel the same? I’m saying this here because I’ve thought about it a lot.

I’ve received a lot of notes, but not one has made my heart beat as much as this one.

” She said, holding out a squeezed note.

“You know what it says? It says ‘Lucas is leaving.’ Just those three words have made my heart beat so painfully that I fear it’s going to stop.

Those words have made me feel like I’m holding on to my life which has become the thin end of a rope.

I’m saying I love you, Lucas. I love you.

Can you not leave? Can you not come to me?

” She asked, helplessly, and I also realized I couldn’t help myself.

There was no other choice.

I threw aside my luggage, and went to her quickly, with such an urgency like my life depended on it.

Never had my feelings felt so uncontrollable. There was just something about the way she called on me that was irresistible.

Like I was hers, and hers alone. I wrapped her in a tight hug, and she held me tighter like even though I tried to escape, she wouldn’t let me go, and would keep on holding me till the end of time.

“Don’t… don’t leave.” She shuddered, and I looked at her. Her beautiful eyes were glittering with tears, and I had never felt greater sorrow just from looking into a person’s eyes.

Without knowing what I was doing, or whatever repercussions there would be, I bent and kissed her.

She didn’t hesitate, and kissed me in return, still holding me tight. We kissed deeply and ferociously like there were people chasing us, out to kill us, and make us miserable.

It was a flame of passion, burning us both. I had waited so long just to feel those lips on mine again. It seemed like every cell in me was awakened, and I wished to be drunk.

Just like the night we had first met, I wished one or better still, both of us weren’t sane.

We weren’t supposed to go farther than that, but I couldn’t tear myself from her, not with my body tingling with insane electricity that if allowed, would power the whole compound.

We moved behind the flowers, and bushes to a more closed space that had an abundance of the moonlight we had enjoyed earlier.

She was the first to make a bolder move, and I followed. She worked on my buttons, but eventually tore them apart in her haste, and I understood that the longing had not been solely on my part. For a long time, she had also wanted it.

Breaking the kiss, and resuming it, we fought to get our troublesome clothes off. I almost ripped her dress off in the process. It was just too big, too spacious, too complicated.

But she had undone it herself, pulling her body out of it expertly.

Then we had fallen among the scented flowers, finally free of all clothes, and worries.

Finally having ourselves, all to ourselves.

~

In the middle of the night, I watched the moonlight illuminate the features of her face. Propped up on one elbow, I watched her, smiling at all the things that happened in the past two hours.

Starting from the time she had expressed her feelings to us making love for the second time. It all made me smile. Making love had never been more beautiful. It had been just as special as the first night.

Her skin had been soft underneath the caress of my fingers, and so had her lips been under the caress of my lips.

That night was a night of no cares, but we had at least cared to put on our clothes. No one came by the backgate, and it had been locked for years. Only Mira came by to water her flowers herself.

When it came to her flowers, she was extra protective. Too bad, we had crushed some of her lovely flowers in a wave of passion.

I had suggested going to my room, but Emily didn’t want it. She wanted to take away all her worries for that night. We didn’t know where we were going after that, but we just wanted to stay in the moment.

I touched her soft eyelashes, and even softer cheeks, and the softest lips I’d ever touched.

I lay gently by her side, and watched her quietly till sleep took me, and when I awoke, she was the one who had been watching me. She had placed my head on her lap.

I sat up abruptly, and reacted late to the blinding brightness, and she laughed.

“Am I shining so bright you have to close your eyes? Or you can’t believe what happened?” She asked, with a bright smile, and that was all it took to turn my chest into a land of honey.

How could a smile be so sweet? How could I be so intoxicated with a person? I sat next to her, and she looked at me.

We stared at each other for a while, then burst into laughter.

“Why are you staring?” She asked, blushing pink.

“Why are you also staring?” I returned, teasing her.

“I don’t know. It feels so thrilling, exciting, and… instead of the fear I thought I would feel, I feel so happy. Like no one can do anything to dim my light.” She said, and I smiled.

“Me too.”

“I was thinking, Maybe my life wouldn’t be so bad afterall. You’re going nowhere, Lucas. This time I’m not begging. Sadie and I are now hand in hand, and I’m going to blackmail you for seducing a bride on her wedding day.” She said, and I burst into laughter.

“What did you just say?” I asked. Sadie had really made an impression on Emily. They were becoming more alike day by day.

“You heard me right. If you try to leave, I’ll tell the whole world everything that happened. Step by step.” She replied, and I smiled, feeling so happy.

“Step by step? You mean from the kiss, to the clothes…?”

“Yes.” She replied, and we both laughed, when she turned pink.

“It’s weird. I feel so happy. Like… I don’t know…” I said, feeling like my heart had grown wings.

“It’s a ticklish feeling that keeps making you want to giggle.” She supplied.

“Exactly. Gosh. This is new.”

“Yeah. I never thought I’d be a rebel. Imagine me in my wedding dress finding my way to another man.” She said, looking at her gown.

“Another man? I’m just another man?” I asked.

“The man my heart dragged me to. The man who messes with the screws in my head. The man who loves me enough to a abandon the beauty of Europe.” She said, and I laughed.

“You’re more beautiful than Europe. Of course, it’s natural to stay. Your eyes alone made me stay. Just seeing them makes me so happy.”

“I don’t regret last night, Lucas.”

“Nor do I.”

“You’re staying, right?” She asked.

“I’m bound. I don’t want the world knowing my secret—the secret you hold.”

“Lucas. I’m…I’m not stopping here. I want this to go on. Let John think whatever he wants. We only need to know that we’re the true lovers here. I belong only to you, and you to me. Let’s have the relationship we wish for.” She said, and I nodded.

“I’m highly interested in that. Let John think what he wants.” I said, and she broke into a smile. “But what got into you? Why did you sign such with him? Didn’t you know what it was?” I asked, and she sighed.

“You know I forgave him. It turns out forgiving and trusting should be set aside as two different things. Sadie actually told me not to go. She told me she had a bad feeling, but I ignored it and went. He lied that his friends wanted to meet me, and that it would be nice if we hung out together.” She began, and I already knew where it was leading to.

“That damned idiot.”

“He drugged me.” She said, and anger flared in my chest. How could he go that far? He didn’t even consider making her drunk, he drugged her!

“What? Did you tell my family?” I asked, even though I knew their reactions couldn’t be more or less surprised.

“I did, but they didn’t hear me out. Lady Mira asked how I could have let myself be drugged.

The drug… that horrible thing made my body feel like lead.

It took a lot to raise an arm, so I couldn’t even think of stopping him.

I was left with no choice, but to let him have what he wanted.

” I could feel the pain in her voice. Being helpless in the face of danger was something no one wanted.

“Then why didn’t you tell me? You looked so happy at Tray’s party.”

“I didn’t remember. He said it would take a while for my memories to return when I slept. Immediately I set my eyes on John, it all came flooding back to me.”

“Damn him.” I spat, wishing she had told me sooner. I was definitely going to give that jerk what he deserved.

“I was so angry I whacked him twice across the face.”

“He deserved more.” I said, feeling like finding the jerk, and punching him to a pulp.

“That was why I couldn’t explain to you.

Because I was so mad, and I had barely convinced myself doing something reckless wasn’t the solution.

If I explained it all to you, then I was likely to do something reckless to John because it was so unfair.

” She explained, and I burned to find John, but she laid a gentle hand on mine.

“It’s fine. It’s all fine now. I have you by my side.” She said, with a sweet smile, only for the smile to drop instantly.

“Lucas!” She shouted, without warning.

“What, what, what?” I asked, alarmed, looking around.

“John and I are bound by the Alpha Marriage.”