Page 14 of Road Trip With the Ghost Hunter (Love Along Route 14 #10)

Lucas

The room was pretty great and not what I expected from a Western hotel called Rustic Love. Dark wood beams lined the ceiling. A stone arch framed the large bed with an ornate wooden headboard. The tones were very neutral, warm, and cozy.

Li sat on the edge of the bed, facing me in the corner chair I dragged over so we were face to face.

I hated seeing her red-rimmed eyes. Right now, she couldn’t seem to meet my eyes.

Li focused on her hands as she picked at the skin on her left thumb.

I wanted to reach over and hold that hand, calm her anxiety, but I felt I owed her an apology first. I had to earn her.

“You were right,” I started, which got her attention.

“We shouldn’t have gone there.” I didn’t need to clarify where I meant.

She knew. “After his fall, the guilt that I wasn’t there was this parasite that just grew.

Here,” I gripped my chest. “He was never coherent in the hospital. He was in that coma, and I begged him to come back.” My throat closed up.

Clearing it, I continued. “My co-worker went off one night, we were all having a beer about these famous ghost hunting routes.” Scoffing, I shook my head.

“I’ve never been one to care or believe much in the supernatural.

I can’t explain it. It was this sudden need that came over me. ”

When I looked up, Li watched me intently, her breathing was steady and calm. I watched her chest rise and fall like a meditative ballad, giving me strength. The sun streaked in through the window behind me, branding her porcelain skin. I wanted to rest my open palm on it.

“Being there that night, it didn’t feel right, but I ignored it. I wanted so desperately to talk to him, apologies for not being there,” I hiccupped.

Li moved instantly. She came over and sat on my lap, taking my face in her hands and running her fingers softly up and down my bearded cheek.

“It wasn’t your fault,” she whispered.

“It felt like my fault,” I whispered back.

She kissed my forehead before facing me and continuing to soothe me with her gentle touches.

“I fell in love with you too,” I confessed, still nervous even though I heard her confess at the saloon the same thing when I stood behind her.

Her breath hitched, and she remained still.

“I know,” I continued. “It seems wild and unrealistic, but you know what?” She watched me, holding her breath.

“Unless you’ve fallen, you could never get it.

Before you, I would have argued it wasn’t real.

I would have laughed it off as fiction. But until it happens to you, someone wouldn’t get it.

Does it make any sense? No. That doesn’t make it any less real. ”

Those warm eyes that hid nothing were filled with tears. She still wasn’t breathing. I brought my face close to hers until our noses touched and whispered, “Breathe, love.”

She inhaled deeply and sharply as those welled-up tears drew a river down her soft cheeks.

Pulling my face in with her hands, she kissed me.

Fuck, I almost forgot how soft and full her lips were.

Wrapping my arms around her, I pulled her closer, licking the seam of her lips.

Li opened for me, letting me taste her. Both of us groaned at first touch.

My body lit with currents firing up my spine.

I rested my hand at the back of her neck, tangling my fingers into her soft strands.

Pulling away, we panted, breathing the other in. I searched her eyes.

“Do you regret it?” I asked.

“What?” she breathed.

“Falling?”

Her eyes bounced back and forth, trying to read mine. I got it. The fear. Not just admitting the fall but officially taking the step off the cliff into the crashing waves below.

“No,” she whispered.

“Good,” I whispered back, relief coating my veins. “Me neither.”

The smallest smile tipped her lips before she looked over at the bed, then back at me. Suddenly, those soulful eyes, afraid to be brave a second ago, turned hooded with the same need I felt tightening my body.

“You sure?” I asked.

“Yes,” she whispered back, tightening her grip on my hair, her body arching into mine.

Need took over. I tucked my arm under her knees and lifted her.

Li squealed a laugh, and holy hell, I’d never felt such joy, it almost hurt.

Smiling, I lay her on the bed and followed, covering her petite body with my own.

We took. She kissed me, and I kissed her.

It was deep, it was passionate, and I wanted this to last for-fucking-ever.

Li wrapped her legs around me, then rolled me over onto my back. I looked up into her face, surprised, which brought a cheeky smile to her face. Grabbing the hem of my shirt, she pulled it up and off me.

“Wow,” she breathed, running her hands over my chest and torso. “I had a very close-up encounter with this, but from this view? Wow.”

I wanted the same experience. I took her shirt and pulled it off, then fell back on the bed.

She had on a lacy bralette thing that didn’t cover anything.

At all. Her perky, light brown nipples called for my tongue.

I ran my hand up her bare, smooth back and brought her chest closer until I could close my mouth around one lace-covered nipple.

Li gasped then moaned, undulating her lower half over my rapidly hardening dick. Li’s nails run up my side. Shivers caused shockwaves that had my balls pulling tight. I flicked the tip of my tongue on her hardened peak, then switched to give the other one the same pleasure.

Impatient with need, Li sat up and pulled off the bra thing, flinging it somewhere behind her, then bent over, letting me have full access to her skin.

I took one breast entirely in my mouth and sucked.

Crying out, Li ground harder against me.

I was so damn hard now. I could feel the tip weep. I wanted to taste her all over.

I flipped her over and ran my teeth and tongue along her neck.

Arching into me, she wrapped her legs tightly and rubbed herself against me, which drove me wild.

Groaning, I reached down and unbuttoned her shorts, then lowered the zipper.

I worked my mouth down her body, stopping again to take the other breast into my mouth.

“Lucas,” she whimpered.

“What do you want, beautiful?”

Gasping, she held my hair and pulled. “I want your mouth.”

“You have it,” I growled. I couldn’t help the sounds coming out of me. “Where do you want it?”

Moaning, she fed me her breast. “Everywhere,” she exhaled.

“Be specific, love.” I started traveling down her stomach while hooking my hands into her shorts and underwear, pulling them down.

“Yes,” she panted. “There.”

“Where?” I demanded.

“My clit. I want your mouth there.”

Didn’t have to tell me twice. Pulling down her shorts, I tossed them aside, scooting further down and took her thighs in my hands, pulling her closer to my face.

Heaven. Her aroused scent sent a message straight to my cock which jerked in my pants.

Groaning, I ran my nose up her inner thigh, breathing in deeply.

“Lucas.” Li wiggled her body closer, wanting my mouth on her.

Looking into her eyes, I asked, “You my girl?”

Her chest stuttered as she stared. “I wanna be yours,” she whispered.

I shook my head. “Are you my girl?” I asked, firmly so she didn’t doubt for a second what I wanted.

“I’m yours,” she said. I didn’t know how badly I needed to hear that, and she saw it all over my face. Confidence bled into her features. “Are you mine?”

“I’ve been yours since you grabbed those abomination candies at the gas station in Tennessee.”

Li laughed wholeheartedly, flinging her head back. Smiling, I dipped my head and ran my tongue up her center. Sharply inhaling, Li grabbed my hair again, pulling me closer to her core. Licking up into her folds I found her clit. I pulled it into my mouth and sucked.

Li’s body shot off the bed. Flicking my tongue against it in my mouth, I barred my arm against her pelvis, keeping her in place. She wasn’t just moaning anymore and I fucking loved it. Let the whole Rustic Junction hear her screaming my name.

While driving her wild with my tongue, I found her wet opening and slowly pushed my middle finger deep inside her. Her warm walls sucked me in and held tight. I wanted my cock in there so bad. I pushed my hips into the bed for some relief.

Groaning like a beast, I ran the flat of my tongue from her entrance all the way up, back at her swollen nub. I added a second finger and curled them in until I found the varied texture I knew would set her off.

“Lucas,” she screamed, fighting my hold on her body as it jerked and tightened with her release.

She tried pushing me off with her hand, but I stayed with her until the last tremors traveled down her body.

That’s it. I needed to be inside her. Now.

Standing, I ripped my pants open and I almost came right there when she opened her legs wider as an invitation, stretching her arms over her head, arching her tits up.

I took my pants and briefs off in one shot.

I almost jumped on her before having some brain cells left and grabbing the condom from my wallet.

Her eyes traveled down my body and landed on my dick appreciatively.

Twitching, it wept for her while precome ran down my shaft, coating my balls that felt ready to explode.

I was so sensitive that rolling the condom on required me to tighten my abs and breathe through it.

I crawled over her body. Li’s legs landed high up my body, pulling me in.

Her hands explored everywhere they could reach.

Kissing her felt like a missing piece I didn’t know was missing, falling into place every time.

Tasting her deeply, I lined up my cock with her core and nudged the tip in. Fuck. Warm. Tight. Wet.

“Don’t hold back,” she whispered against my lips. “Give me all of you.”

“You have all of me,” I told her.

“Prove it,” she challenged. I knew she was giving me shit. Even now.

Grinning back, I slid in and thank fuck she was wet because I didn’t stop until my balls rested against her skin. Sucking in air, her head arched back into the pillow. I groaned into her neck.

“Fuck, you feel good,” I moaned.

“Oh, my god. You’re so,” her breath hitched. “You’re everywhere.”

I widened my legs, digging my knees into the mattress. I hooked her leg under my arm, pulling it higher and sinking deeper. “Oh, god,” she cried. “Yes, Lucas.”

I pulled out slowly, feeling every ripple of her inner walls gripping my hardened cock and just before my tip slipped out, I snapped my hips deep.

A sharp cry came from Li, but her hands and legs squeezed me tighter. “More,” she moaned. “So much more.”

“Anything you want. It’s yours,” I growled into her mouth as her tongue licked my lower lip.

We were undone. Soon, our hips became unhinged as Li cried for more, harder, deeper.

I took hold of the back of her neck and used it as leverage to pull her down into each thrust. Her hips raised to meet mine, and the sound of skin meeting skin echoed in the room as the sun was setting.

Neither of us gave a shit about the noise we were making.

Li’s hand ran down my body and met my ass.

She gripped it and pulled me deeper inside her.

“Come,” I growled into her mouth. The hand I had at her neck found her clit between the heat of our bodies and my thumb played until everything around and in her tightened so hard, I thought my dick would snap off.

Her body bowed, and the cry she released felt like freedom.

I pushed through the squeeze and tunneled my cock into heaven, crying out as my hips pistoned, ready to detonate.

I gripped her neck with my teeth and yelled as my balls pulled tight, my spine, shocked with electricity, and the first wave of come shot from my cock.

“Fuck!”

We held the other so tightly. Once I knew she had hers, I wrapped my other arm around her and pulled her body into me, just trying to get deeper and release. Releasing every pain, every loss, every desire. Letting it all go while gaining everything in return.

Panting, I rolled us to our sides while still keeping us fused together as one. She refused to let go, and I felt the same. Her hand grazed up and down my back, causing my hips to jerk from aftershocks. Damn. I couldn’t wait to take her bare one day. I wanted to feel it all.

Kissing where I marked her neck, I brushed my lips up behind her ear. Her core squeezed, wanting more. I didn’t see us leaving this bed for the rest of the day.

Finally, able to breathe and think, I pulled back and saw her eyes bright and happy.

“Hey,” I said quietly.

She giggled, then shook her head. “Hi,” she smiled. “Wow.”

“Fuck yeah. Wow.” I agreed. Never had sex ever felt like that. Ever.

“That was…”

“Same,” I said.

“Yeah?” Her eyes were suddenly vulnerable.

I leaned forward and kissed her lips. A gentle assurance and promise. “ That was like

nothing I’d ever experienced before.”

“Good,” she said, her confidence back.

Laughing, I rolled her on her back. She squealed again when I peppered kisses all over her neck and chest, pulling myself up to get rid of the condom. Kissing her belly button, I said, “Be right back.”

Washing my hands, I walked back into the room to find Li hugging the pillow, much like the first night at Heartstone, we slept in the same bed. I ached for her then. And now, she was mine. And I didn’t think she truly understood how she had all of me in return.

If she wanted to stay here in Rustic Junction, we’d find a way. We’d make it work. I knew I had a good woman in my hands. And I believe Uncle Filip led me to her. I wasn’t letting her go.