“I don’t need protecting.”
“I know. I learnt that the hard way, remind me never to piss you off again. You hurt me more than Dylan did.” Now I felt really bad that I kicked him in the nuts and punched him in the face. I sighed. I made us a drink and we sat at the kitchen table. Dylan walked into the kitchen. He stood there looking at me.
“What do you want Dylan?”
“I’m sorry Jazz.” I walked over and gave him a cuddle.
“That’s all right, come and sit down with us, I will make you a drink.”
“Has Rachel been around?”
“Yes, but then she had an appointment. She is picking me up in about an hour.”
Luke and Dylan were sat at the table, exchanging testosterone fuelled looks, I turned around and finished the drinks. I put them down on the table. Come on Jazz, think of a way to sort this out.
“You two have got one chance to make up with each other. If you haven’t achieved this by the time I get back from the bathroom, you will both be in for it, from me.” I walked off to the bathroom, I just hoped that they made up while I was gone, I didn’t want to fall out with either one of them, I loved them both.
As I was coming down the stairs, I could hear them both laughing in the kitchen. Well at least they made up. Thank goodness.
“Nice to see you both took me seriously.” They both looked at each other. They laughed and winced at the same time.
“What?”
“You didn’t exactly leave us much choice did you?” Luke said.
“No. I suppose I didn’t.”
“I have first-hand knowledge of the effects of messing with you. I didn’t want to go back down that route my sexy angel.” Sexy angel! I like that.
“And sis for my part, I have seen you when you are pissed, I wasn’t going there either.”
“Well I don’t know what went on when I was upstairs, all I am happy about is that you are both talking.”
“Jazz can I have a quiet word please.”
“Yeah sure.” I frowned at him as I got up.
“I won’t be a minute Luke.” I followed Dylan into the front room.
“What about your nightmares, does he know?” I shook my head from side to side, indicating no. Shit I had forgotten all about them. I will have to warn him.
“Thanks for reminding me.” With that there was a knock on the door.
“Rachel.” She came over and gave me a cuddle, she looked into the kitchen and saw Luke. She winked and smiled at me.
“Are you ready Dylan? You have got a lot of work to do tonight.” She grabbed his hand.
“Goodnight Jazz.”
“Night guys, have fun.” I walked back into the kitchen and sat down.
“Is everything all right?”
“Yeah, are you staying over with me tonight?”
“If that’s all right.”
“Yes I want you too, but I need to tell you something first. Let’s go into the front room, its comfier.” We grabbed our drinks and went into the front room.
“You are worrying me angel.” We got ourselves comfy on the settee, I turned around and crossed my legs to look at him.
“I have to tell you something, but I don’t know how to say it, this is really difficult for me to say.” I reached over for my coffee and took a drink.
“Are you sure you need to tell me?” He took my hand and gave it a squeeze.
“No, not really but in my heart I know I have to, I don’t want you freaking out on me.” I took another sip of my coffee.
“Take your time sexy.”
“I am maybe the wrong girl to share a bed with for the first time.”
“What do you mean?” I sucked in a full lung full of air.
“I have really bad nightmares. I wake up sweating and screaming, I have no control over them. I don’t want you to panic or get scared and then run away from me. I find the images that horrific, I run away to the shower and try and wash them down the drain.”
“Jasmine you don’t need to say anymore, I promise I won’t freak out on you.”
“You can’t promise that until you have experienced it first hand, you will witness it if you stay with me tonight.” He took my coffee cup out of my hand and placed it on the table. He wrapped me up in his arms.
“If you can go through it, then so can I, I love you too much to run away from you again. No matter what happens I will still be here.”
“I will understand if you do runaway.”
“I won’t run angel.” We lay on the sofa cuddling. I just lay on him breathing in the sweet scent of Luke. He felt so strong and comforting, for some reason I felt secure with this man.
“I just want to get a quick shower, come on up and I will show you were everything is.” We walked upstairs together and headed straight for the bedroom.
“The bathroom is across the hall, if you look in the cupboard you will find clean towels, help yourself. I won’t be a minute.” I walked across and slung my clothes on the bathroom floor, I walked into the stream of hot water, I leaned my head back to wet my hair. Luke walked in and joined me. He reached for the shampoo and proceeded to do my hair for me. His hands carefully massaging my scalp, it felt very erotic, I rinsed it off and turned around to face him, his eyes were burning with desire. I glanced down, it looked as though he had enjoyed that about as much as me. I started kissing his chest, I winced for him when I saw the bruises on his body. I started kissing every single bruise that I could find. It brought a tear to my eye, he reached for my hand and brought it to his mouth.
“Jasmine, they don’t hurt.”
“I don’t believe you.” He looked me in the eyes.
“Really they don’t.” I noticed his face was going red from where I had punched him earlier. I started kissing it better. Then I remembered about kneeing him in the balls, I got down on my knees and tenderly kissed and massaged them, he was already aroused at this point, I caressed his ever growing erection. I tantalized and teased him with my tongue. As I moved my head into the right position I took his full length, I heard him suck in a lung full of air. His hands hit the shower wall behind me
“Hell Jasmine.” Was the only words to come out of his mouth. I moved my hands around to his butt and pulled him in even further. Working hard, biting and sucking, I let my tongue flick over him. I pushed it up to the roof of my mouth so he could feel all the ridges. I moved my one hand down and got hold of his scrotum, I carefully manoeuvred his balls into the palm of my hand where they would be safe, then I gave a very gentle tug upwards. “Oh fuck, sweet Jesus, Jasmine, what the hell.” I did it again, he was losing control. I felt him swelling in my mouth, then I tasted his pre come juice at the back of my throat. I dug my nails into his bum and at the same time I pulled on his scrotum, he unravelled into my mouth. I swallowed ever last bit. He took my hand and lifted me up. “I don’t know what you were doing down there, but I have to say I really liked it.” So no one has ever taken control of Luke before, very interesting.
I got out of the shower and dried myself off, we walked back into the bedroom and I shut the door, I grabbed my pyjamas and then I had a look through my draws trying to find some spare clothes for Luke.
“I haven’t got anything that will fit you.”
“Don’t worry, I am fine.”
“Oh yes you are.” He was standing in nothing else but a towel, “yum, yum.”
“God you are so sexy.” I smiled at him.
“So what side of the bed do you sleep on?”
“I don’t know, I have a bed to myself normally, I have never shared a bed before.”
“Oh yeah, sorry.”
“Don’t be sorry, I am enjoying this vanilla caper.” He had a very wicked gleam in his blue eyes, I smiled again, I felt on top of the world.
“Well, when I wake on a morning I’m normally at the right hand side of the bed so I suppose the right side is mine.”
“That’s cool.”
“Luke?”
“Yes.”
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“I am sorry for kicking you in the nuts and punching you in the face.”
“Come here, you really are a very remarkable young lady.” We both jumped into bed, he rolled over and put his arm around my waist. “I love you Jasmine, don’t ever change.” I must have had the biggest smile on my face to go to sleep with. It had been a very long day so I went straight off to sleep, cuddling onto Luke’s arm.
I woke up panting and sweating, I glanced over at Luke, he was sat up, but he looked scared to death, his eyes were wide open, he looked rigid and his back was almost pinned to the headboard. I leapt out of bed with tears rolling down my face. I jumped into the shower with my p-jays still on, I had no way of dealing with this every single night, and now I had probably scared Luke off. I dropped to the floor. I was looking at my bloody hands. I cried and screamed out hysterically.
“No stop! Stop! I can’t take anymore, please stop showing me this horror show.” I covered my eyes with my hands. I then heard Luke open the bathroom door I looked up as he opened the shower screen, he then fell to the floor with me.
“Hush angel, you are safe, shh, I have got you.” He rocked me back and forth when I was securely wrapped up in his arms, he kissed my head as I was sobbing, I couldn’t stop shaking.
“Make it go away, I don’t want this horror show every single night, make it stop.” I said through my sobbing tears.
“I wish I could, but I have got you.” He held onto me even tighter. “Shh.”
Once I had calmed down, Luke got me out of the shower, I slung my wet p-jays in the bath, he wrapped me in a dry towel and carried me back to bed. Carefully he dried me off. He got himself dried and we climbed back into bed without saying a word. I put my head on his chest and listened to his calming rhythmic heart beating in my ear. I drifted back off to sleep, wrapped up safe, and secure in Luke’s arms.
I woke up in the morning to an empty bed, panic set in. I knew the bad dreams were a lot for someone to take on, I should never have let him stay with me. As I sat up I found a note on the spare pillow, I took in a deep breath and gulped before I read the Dear John letter.
Chapter 21
I headed to the kitchen with my Dear John letter in my hand. I sat at the kitchen table twiddling it around in my fingers. It took me another two refills of coffee before I had the courage to open it up.
“Morning sexy, sorry I had an early morning meeting to attend, I will see you at lunch. You know what I want to eat, Luke xxx.”
I danced around the kitchen clutching the note in my hand, now I had a big beaming smile on my face. I had woke up early, so I wondered what time Luke had got up and left. Now I felt like I was on cloud nine. I got my running gear on, grabbed my MP3 player, now what sort of music did I fancy running to today? Decisions, decisions. I was only going to have a slow jog, so maybe some Gary Moore would suit my jogging style. I started off with Over the Hills and Far Away, it had a great beat to exercise to. Now I was ready, I headed off for a nice early morning jaunt. It felt exhilarating, the fresh breeze hitting my face. As I approached a wooded area my MP3 player stopped working, I took my headphones out and put them in my pocket. Now I could hear the birds singing in the rustling trees, I had a stream to my right, the noise of the flowing water was soothing, I noticed the spring bulbs peeking up from the forest floor. I was unstoppable. Eight miles later, I felt strong and refreshed. I got back in and hit the shower, this was just what I needed. I got changed and set off for work.
Rachel was outside waiting for me as usual, she was grinning like mad at me as I pulled up. Well I think her and Dylan was getting on swimmingly, I was really happy for them, I hoped Rachel would be the one that tamed my wayward brother. I locked my bike up and walked over to her.
“Morning Jazz.”
“Good morning Rachel, are you all right?”
“I am great Dylan is amazing, are we still on for Lunch?”
“Yeah, I wasn’t sure if you were going to be busy with Dylan.”
“Nope, not today, he said he had something’s to sort out.”
“Cool, see you at 12:30 then.”
I walked around to the back and got changed. Now it was time to get on with my day. When I got into the parcel depot, Zale was singing away, it seemed like everyone was having a wonderful day.
“Morning Zale.”
“Morning Jazz.”
“You sound on top of the world.”
“I am, this is the happiest I have been in many years.” He walked up to me and gave me a hug.
“I am happy to hear it.”
“You are also looking very pleased with yourself.”
“I am.”
“Well I had better get my van loaded up for the morning, catch up with you later.”
“Catch you later,” I said.
I got my job sheets and started filling up the van, it looked like it was going to be a hectic morning, so I headed out. I was still on cloud nine as I was making my deliveries. I was really looking forward to my lunch with Rachel, and then I had my lunch with Luke to look forward to. Life didn’t get any better than this. Even when I reach the terrible security procedures at The Heart Tower, I still managed to keep a smile on my face. It was my last delivery of the day, now I just had to get back, fill in my work sheets and then lunch with Rachel.
Rachel was eagerly waiting to go for lunch upon my return, she must have loads to tell me, or she was just keen to learn what happened between Luke and me. We found a seat in a quiet restaurant so we could have a good talk.
“So come on spit it out Rachel.”
“What happened with Luke then?” I knew she was dying to know.
“We made up. It was just a big misunderstanding that’s all.”
“Is that all you are going to give me?”
“Yep, because that’s all there is to tell.”
“I know there must be more to it than that, come on girl, I need to know.” Now what am I meant to say?
“So how about you and Dylan then?”
“You can’t get out of it that easy.”
“Fine, we made up in the best way possible. I realised how quickly I had fallen for him. He is just perfection. He makes my heart skip a beat, when we are together. I can feel electricity charging through my entire body, but saying all that I still feel slightly guilty because of Greg.” I looked down and stared at the table, I still felt so confused inside.
“Jasmine, Greg wouldn’t have wanted you to be on your own, he loved you.”
“I know, but I have picked up a bit too quickly really, he isn’t even cold in the coffin yet.”
“There are no set rules for how long. Some people can go a life time and never meet there soul mate. You have been really lucky, don’t feel guilty over this, life is far too short as you already know.” She gave my hand a squeeze, I knew she was right but I was still having a hard time reconciling my feelings. I was torn in two. The new love verses my newly departed old love. I had to get off this subject. My heart couldn’t take it.
“So, how is it going between you and Dylan then?” I said again trying to change the subject.
“It is going great. I have never met anyone like him before.”
“Yes he is certainly unique.”
“I have something to tell you but I feel guilty about it.”
“Go on, just tell me.”
“You know we were meant to be sharing a room on holiday.”
“Yes.”
“Dylan and I were talking, and we would like to share a room together if that is all right.”
“Hell yeah, it’s all right, I am really happy for you both.”
“Thanks Jazz you are amazing.”
“I know.” we both smiled.
Time had ticked by so quickly I had to race to my next job, but I’d get to see Luke, that was a major bonus.
“Afternoon Lana. Have you heard anything from Yukari yet?”
“No nothing, it is so unlike her.”
“That’s odd.”
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��Have a good afternoon.” She almost ran out of the door. Right then let me get changed. I walked out back and got ready, as I walked out front, I had a quick tidy up but unfortunately Lana had done almost everything. The coffee shop was so quiet, so I worked on the rest of my holiday list. I got my pen and paper out of my bag and started making notes. When my big order came in I put my list to one side, I was glad I had some custom, this was worse than sitting at home with nothing to do. I was now very confident about getting it all right, it felt like I had been doing it for years. When they left, I went back to my list. My mind had gone blank, I couldn’t remember what else I needed, I read my list a million times, but I had nothing more to add. That was disappointing. Then in walked Luke, I was going to have a bit of fun with him.
“Good afternoon, what can I get you today?”
“I asked you to have a BLT sandwich waiting for me today.” Cool he was playing along with me.
“Oh yeah so you did, I forgot, it must have just slipped my mind for some reason, I will bring it over when it is ready.” He took a seat I could feel his eyes following me around. I went to the kitchen to make his sandwich. I took it out to him when it was ready.
“There you go. You didn’t tell me what you wanted to drink?”
“You.”
“No, off the menu.”
“Orange juice please.” I walked off to get him his orange juice. I took it over to him.
“There you go, enjoy you lunch.”
“Don’t forget that is twelve I owe you now.”
“Twelve what?” There was that feeling again, I was getting wet.
“Twelve smacks.”
“I think you are all talk.”
“What makes you say that?” His right eyebrow raised at me.
“I have this awkward customer that seems to be stalking me, he flirts a little, makes me wet for him, then he threatens to smack my ass, but as yet I haven’t seen any evidence of it.”
“I see.” He said.
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