Stryker

by Lexi Buchanan

  “How touching,” Patrick sneered. “My fiancée.”

  I felt fear the night he’d attacked me, but nothing like what I felt now when I knew he could cause harm to Stryker and Carter.

  “Why?” I asked, my voice letting me down with how weak I sounded.

  “Why what?” His eyes narrowed.

  He knew what I asked and had decided to be a bigger prick than he already was.

  “Why are you marrying me when there isn’t any love between us?”

  If I hadn’t been watching him closely, I’d have probably missed the flick of something in his eyes. He wasn’t as immune as he wanted me to think.

  “What I want doesn’t come in to it.” He clenched his fists, and looked away before he narrowed his eyes on me. “We are getting married on the weekend regardless of what your parents think. Your mother has been instructed to continue to get everything ready.” He looked at Stryker. “And you, are going to get to fight on the evening of my wedding. Lethal Black will be there, and so will you.”

  Stryker tensed seconds before he passed me to Carter, who put me behind him. “I’m with you, but there’s no way to get Evie out of here if we fight,” he hissed.

  I wished Carter hadn’t been so logical because his words brought Stryker’s eyes to mine before he seemed to have a private conversation with Carter.

  “We need to talk Patrick, but I want Evie and Carter to leave.”

  “What? No way. I’m staying with you,” I begged.

  Stryker grabbed my chin and brought my face so close to his. “I can’t do what I have to do while I’m worrying about you. I need you safe.” He kissed my cheek and whispered, “I love you, Evangeline. My Evie.”

  I started to cry at hearing his whispered confession, and didn’t put up any kind of fight when Carter led me out of the locker rooms to the front of the gym.

  The cold air hit me as soon as we exited. I turned to Carter. He silenced me with just one look.

  “I need you to go to the café close to Millie’s apartment. It’s her favorite.”

  I nodded.

  “Wait there for me. I’m going to try and bring Stryker there as well, but that might be more difficult.”

  “Where are you going now?”

  “To help my friend...”

  He gave me a shove in the right direction. I stumbled a couple of times so I stopped and fished out a Kleenex from my purse to mop my face up with.

  I hated Patrick and his family for what they’d done to Stryker, and I hated that I was his weakness. But, as I ran along the sidewalk to Rose’s Café, I thought about involving my father regardless of what Stryker wanted. I needed Stryker to be free to choose the life that he lived. I wanted him to have the life that was taken away from him. And most of all, I wanted him to have all of that with me.

  Chapter 17 ~ Stryker

  RUNNING TOWARD ROSE’S CAFÉ with Carter, I hoped that my head would clear. But so far it hadn’t. For the first time in years, I had someone on my side who didn’t want anything from me in return. I had no clue how to deal with it either, other than to go with the flow. Those words my father used to say when I’d moan about school or some other crap that was going on in my teenage life. Not that I’d had much of one.

  My father was someone I had tried not to think about because the pain of his betrayal hurt more than anything. Since spotting him, I couldn’t stop thinking about him. A physical ache that had simmered for years, just like the promise to get even with those slimy bastards who’d kept me close.

  “Look out.” Carter pulled me back before I slammed into a group of girls that I hadn’t seen.

  “Sorry,” I mumbled as I ran around them and then stopped.

  The most beautiful girl stood waiting for me outside the café. My feet carried me closer until she was in my arms, her head on my chest and her arms wrapped around my waist. She held me so tightly that her arms quivered and my body trembled with need.

  I rested my chin on the top of her head and met Carter’s gaze. “We need to head inside.” I looked around. “They let me leave but that doesn’t mean someone isn’t watching.”

  Evie lifted her head, cupped my jaw and reaching up kissed me. It started out as an innocent peck, her lips to mine, but the minute she was close, my hands tangled in her hair. I nibbled on her lips until she opened for me and then I couldn’t stop and devoured her mouth. The small moan she gave, I felt right in my balls and when she moved up against me, I dropped my hands to her bottom and pressed. My cock throbbed, and the urge to thrust was strong.

  The throat being cleared reminded me of where we were so I softened the kiss and pulled slightly away, no matter how much my body screamed at me to continue—to not let go of her.

  “I messaged Millie while you two were getting it on,” Carter grinned, “and she’s going to meet us at the back entrance to the apartment building. She’ll use her keycard to get us in.”

  I frowned. “I don’t like the idea of her being on their radar.”

  Carter shook his head. “She’s already on it because of her association with Evie, but her apartment isn’t listed under Millie Green. They also won’t be looking for you under their nose so hopefully this will work.”

  The thought of why she hadn’t registered the apartment under her name would have to wait as Carter started to move toward the apartment building. Evie slipped her hand into mine, intertwined our fingers, and walked beside me.

  Her smile lit up her face and when she kissed my knuckles, I wanted to tackle her down to the ground and take her. My body was tense with arousal, and need thrummed through my blood. Her eyes darkened with answering need.

  I wanted to have my cock inside her, and remembering what it felt like to feel the warmth, the wetness, the heat of her surrounding me in the locker room had me rock hard and tingling with precum. All it would take would be one touch from her on my shaft and I’d come. That was how close she had me while I tried to walk with her to the apartment.

  When we finally arrived, my hood pulled low over my head and face, I wrapped my arms around her stomach and pulled her against me. While Carter talked to Millie as she opened the door, I quickly shoved the band of my sweats over the head of my dick so that I wouldn’t be sticking out for all to see.

  Evie knew though as there was no way she wouldn’t after I’d poked her in the ass when I’d wrapped my arms around her.

  Millie took one look at us and a frown crossed her face. She raised a brow at Evie and tried to smile but it was clear she was worried. Carter wrapped an arm around her neck and tugged her close, placing a kiss to the side of her head. He whispered something. Millie nodded and then started to lead the way upstairs.

  I kept Evie close and hissed when she deliberately pressed against my erection. Her smirk told me that she knew exactly what she was doing. “I want you,” she whispered. “On a bed.”

  I hissed between my teeth and tried to loosen the grip that I had on her hand, but nothing worked to clear the lust from my brain. Certainly not with the teasing woman beside me.

  Finally, on Millie’s floor, we walked along the hallway and into her apartment without any hiding from the cameras. Why? I know my brain was lost on memories of Evie naked, but we should have been careful. Now they’ll know where we were.

  “Relax, Stryker.” Millie grinned, wrapping herself up in Carter’s embrace. “I called in a favor and got the cameras in the building to play on a loop so if anyone is watching they won’t have seen us.”

  “I dread to think about what favor,” Evie drawled.

  “We’re going to my room for a bit.” Evie gave me a tug, and I had no objection in following her anywhere.

  “Wait up. We need to talk and come up with a plan on what we’re going to do,” Carter said.

  “We’ll talk later,” Millie said, pulling Carter into the kitchen as I let Evie lead me to her room.

  “We do need to talk, Evie.” My eyes met hers and, seconds later, she’d toed off her sandals, kicked her panties
across the room, and sent her dress and bra following.

  “We will. Right now I want you inside me.” She lay back on the bed, opened her legs, and held her arms out to me.

  “Fuck.” My T-shirt went sailing through the air as I pounced on her.

  My hands went to her breasts and the swollen hard nubs while my mouth claimed hers. She scratched along my back, arched, rubbed, and moaned. “Now.” Her hands started to shove my sweats down so I helped and the minute my dick was free, I entered her in one long thrust.

  Evie arched beneath me, her pussy clamped around my length in one tight spasm, and then she convulsed. Her long shuddering groan of release was my undoing. I pulled out and thrust back inside her quivering sex and spilled. My release was just as powerful as hers and it took everything out of me.

  Light flutters of sensation inside Evie surrounded my dick and caused small jerks of more release to spill from my sensitive organ until I collapsed on top of her. I tried to roll to my side so that I didn’t squash her, but Evie wouldn’t have it.

  “Stay like this.”

  I really didn’t have the strength to move anywhere.

  While I caught my breath, the feel of her breasts against my chest caused my body to stir with arousal. I had a feeling that now that I’d sampled what sex was like with a partner, no, with Evie, that I wouldn’t be able to get enough. In fact, the thought of doing that with anyone else made me want to puke.

  Raising my head, I held Evie’s gaze and gently sealed my lips over hers. It was a kiss telling her how much she meant to me without words, and I hoped she realized that.

  I pulled away and, after a moment of surprise at her tears, kissed each one away. “You’re so beautiful,” I whispered, kissing down her chin, her neck, along her collarbone to her gorgeous voluptuous breasts.

  The weight of them in my hands fit perfectly, and when I lapped at a nipple with my tongue, I felt her response against my dick, which was still inside her, and had already hardened with want.

  After switching to her other breast, I buried my face between them. “I love these.” I pinched each nipple. “They’re perfect.”

  “Mmm.” She arched up, her arms going over her head and the tightening of her pussy around me had my eyes rolling back.

  She moaned.

  “Straddle my stomach.”

  “What?”

  She offered a shy smile, shoved a pillow beneath her head and repeated, “Straddle my stomach.”

  My breathing heavy, I had an idea as to what she wanted, but I was reluctant to pull out of her.

  “Please, Stryker. I want to do something to you that I’ve only ever read about. Please.”

  Slowly withdrawing, I removed my sweat pants from around my thighs and straddled her. My hands shook and my legs quivered with the excitement that raced through me at the sight of my cock, cushioned between her magnificent breasts.

  Evie smiled, and, taking hold of my dick, tugged me closer to her waiting mouth. I already leaked with precum and had to grind my teeth together when I watched her tongue sneak out and lick me clean. It was only seconds before I was covered again, my excitement beyond anything.

  She pressed my dick between her great breasts and used one hand to show me what she wanted. I had to close my eyes and clench my jaw together so that I wouldn’t come, but I would soon as my release was already gathered in my balls.

  The tip of my cock was sucked into her mouth while I slowly started to fuck her breasts. I couldn’t catch my breath as my body became overwhelmed with sensation, but as I watched her take my cock between her lips, it became too much and I started to spill into her mouth. Seconds later, I pulled out and held myself to each of her breasts in turn. I coated her with my release, and when I was left spent, I rubbed my fingers through it.

  “I’ve marked you,” I said feeling so damn happy. “You’re mine now. Mine to take. Mine to protect, and mine to fucking love.”

  “Yes.” She cried, wrapping her arms around my neck, tugging me down to her waiting mouth.

  I settled between her legs and felt her wetness against my cock.

  Evie

  THE MINUTE OUR LIPS sealed together, I came, convulsing against the length of his cock that had settled between my legs.

  Stryker buried his face into my neck and panted, grinding against my pussy, which kept me high. I didn’t want to come back down but when I did he was smiling above me, as he caught me against him.

  “I’m so fucking exhausted I’m not sure I could move if my life depended on it,” he growled.

  Rolling to his side, he took me with him and kept me wrapped up tightly in his arms. It was almost as though he was afraid to let me go.

  I hated knowing that we couldn’t stay in this bed and that we had to go and talk with Carter and Millie. If something could be worked out, then it was worth it.

  “We need to go out there,” Stryker mumbled.

  “I know. I’m too tired to shower, but we need to talk.”

  He groaned. “No way. We get in a shower then we won’t be getting out for a while. You, naked and slippery in my arms… Mmm.” He nuzzled along my neck, his hand clutching my bottom, pulling me closer. “Fuck.” He pulled away and flopped to his back.

  I couldn’t help but smirk at the sight of his large cock. He was hard and proud, sticking straight up in the air.

  All it would take was for me to straddle him to take a ride. My thighs clenched at the thought as tingles of arousal raced through me, and then I thought, what the hell.

  Before he had any idea of what I planned, I was on my knees above him, sliding down his hard shaft. He gasped and grabbed my hips, but instead of pushing me away he tugged me down as his hips arched up. The sensation of being completely filled by him was an aphrodisiac all on its own.

  “I’ll shower later, so we have time for this.” I slowly rocked on him, biting my lip when I felt the first flutters of climax rushing through me.

  Stryker felt my reaction because he shot to a sitting position, rearranged my legs and sealed our lips together. His hands pressed me down on his cock, and as he ground into me, he caught my scream of release in his mouth as I caught his.

  He pulsed when spilling his seed, which prolonged the electrical pulses that ran through my sex.

  “I feel well and truly loved…and wet,” I wiggled on him and laughed when his eyes rolled. “We really do need to get dressed now.”

  “If you say so.”

  He lay back on the bed so I teased him by lifting my arms and piling my hair on the top of my head. My entire torso was on display, especially my large breasts that I knew he loved.

  He closed his eyes, breathing deeply. “Evie,” he groaned, arching up.

  My eyes widened at how hard he was, again. I raised a brow and he laughed when he opened his eyes. “I’m always ready for you. I also have a lot of years to catch up on.”

  I laughed. “Not in one day you don’t.”

  Resting my hands on his delicious chest, I rose up and caught my breath at the sensation of him leaving my body. Goose bumps coated my skin, puckering my nipples, which Stryker’s gaze landed on, and stayed.

  “Oh no.” I moved out of his reach and ran to the bathroom.

  I quickly wiped myself down and wet another washcloth for Stryker. Back in the bedroom, he looked to be asleep and although I wanted him to rest, I knew that we had things to discuss, so I tossed the wet cloth onto his stomach.

  He sucked in a breath and jerked up.

  “I’d wipe your cock for you, but then we’d be in here even longer.”

  “Mmm.”

  I watched him wipe his cock and balls while he watched me dress, except the more his eyes followed my movements the harder, and longer he became until he tossed the cloth back to the bathroom and wrapped his hand around his shaft.

  I stumbled, unable to take my eyes from him, but he stood, releasing himself and stretched. He had an amazing body, but seeing him naked with arousal running through him made me want to throw
caution away and take.

  He caught my gaze. “More of that later.” He smirked.

  Grinning, I quickly pulled the rest of my clothes on and waited for Stryker to get his T-shirt on.

  My hand was wrapped with his as we left the room Millie had given me.

  Stryker would have to go back to his apartment for now until a way out had been decided, which I hated. I wanted him to stay with me. I wanted to know what it would be like to sleep all night wrapped up in his strong arms. I wanted to know how it felt to be woken in the dark with his body already inside mine, making sweet love. I wanted everything with this man.

  “Evie,” he whispered, a hand lifted and cupped the side of my face. His forehead rested against mine. “Are you all right?”

  I met his searching gaze, smiled, and reached up to kiss his lips. “I’m okay as long as I’m with you.” I smiled and let him see everything I was feeling. It was written so clearly on my face.

  Stryker didn’t look all that reassured, and I knew why. He’d have to leave me soon. He dropped into a chair opposite Millie and Carter, and pulled me down onto his lap, his arms like bands of steel around my waist.

  It only took me a minute to get comfortable and when I was, Stryker sighed into my neck, his face buried. I wanted to stay like we were, and pretend that we were alone in the room. When I caught the smirk on my best friends face, I couldn’t help the grin that split my face and then I laughed.

  Carter rolled his eyes, muttering, and to my surprise Millie cupped his jaw and slapped a kiss to his lips. That certainly shut his muttering up.

  My surprise must have shown because Millie grinned and shrugged. “He’s a fast worker.”

  Carter raised a brow. “Fast, babe? I thought I’d be an old man before you agreed to go out with me.”

  Ignoring Carter, Millie turned to us, a frown clear across her brow. “What are we going to do? We have to make sure Stryker can walk free…and I’m thinking that maybe my father could help.”