Unexpected Surrender

by J. M. Walker

  “Not tonight.” Luther went back to the chair behind his desk.

  “Then I’m going to go by myself.” I opened the door when a heavy hand slammed it closed.

  “No, you aren’t.”

  “What am I supposed to do while you’re working, Luther?” I spun on him. “I need to go to the deli. I need to go to my apartment. I need to do something because clearly you don’t want me.”

  He raised a dark eyebrow. “I don’t want you?” He grabbed my hand, placing it on the crotch of his pants. “Does this mean that I don’t want you? My cock is motherfucking hard for you. Always so damn hard.”

  My eyes widened, my hand closing around him.

  “Fuck.” He shivered.

  “You didn’t want me a moment ago when I was naked and sitting on your lap,” I said, brushing my thumb over the tip of his cock and kissing his jaw. “Do you want me now?”

  “Shit, Lexi,” he growled, slapping his hands against the door on either side of my head.

  “Why are you fighting this? You’ve never fought this before.” I cupped his nape, trailing kisses along his jaw. “Tell me.”

  “I’m losing control here.” He leaned his forehead against mine. “I’ve never lost control before and I don’t know how I feel about it.”

  “Well let me help you.” Before he could say anything more, I covered his mouth with mine. “Please,” I said when he hesitated. “We can work later. Right now, I need you and I know you need me just the same.”

  “I always need you,” he murmured.

  “Then use me, Luther.” I gave his lip a gentle bite.

  He growled, pushing me back against the door and deepening the kiss. His hands roamed down the sides of my body before cupping my ass. He lifted me, wrapping my legs around his waist. “I need inside you.”

  My stomach tumbled, a flush of heat washing over me at the desperation in his voice. “More. Tell me more.”

  “Fuck, Lexi.” Luther released my mouth, trailing kisses and tiny bites down the length of my jaw. “I need to feel your hot pussy squeezing me. I need to feel you trembling as I fuck you as rough as I want.”

  “Hmm…” I gripped him hard. “You say the sweetest things.”

  Luther leaned back, cupping my jaw and sliding his finger between my lips. “You’re so fucking incredible.”

  My mouth closed around his finger. Licking over the tip, I released it with a pop. “Fuck me, Sir.”

  ***

  (Luther)

  Lexi was utterly breathtaking. I dropped her on her feet and spun her around. In a rough move, I had her pants below her ass and my hands all over her lower body. She moaned, panted, and begged for more. My palm connected with the cheeks of her ass. My fingers slid inside her, getting her hot, ready, and wet.

  “Please, Luther,” she pleaded, pushing back into my hand.

  Cupping the back of her neck, I held her head against the door. Releasing her lower body, I undid the zipper of my pants and pulled out my straining cock. Beating the heavy flesh against the seat of her ass, I ran the tip of my cock over her drenched center.

  She moaned.

  I repeated the movements, teasing us both.

  “Please, Luther,” she whined, pushing back into me. She was greedy, her pussy hungry for my cock to fill it.

  I leaned back, keeping my hand against her nape and sliding into her but not enough to fill her.

  “More,” she whimpered. “Please more.”

  I pulled out, not giving her what she wanted.

  Lexi cried out in frustration. “Luther.”

  Pumping my cock between her legs, the tip hit her swollen clit.

  “Oh God.” She shook. “More.”

  “Are you hungry for me, Lexi?” I asked, my voice low and guttural. “You want my fat dick inside you?”

  “Yes,” she moaned.

  Thrusting between her thighs, I watched the flush in her cheeks become more pronounced. Her eyes fluttered closed. Her breathing came out in short bursts of air. Her fingers dug into the door and her lower body met me thrust for every teasing thrust.

  “I’m going to come,” she whispered.

  I picked up speed, helping her ride out that orgasm she craved. “Come on my cock, Lexi.”

  “Please fuck me,” she whined.

  “Nah, pet. I want you to come all over me. I want your thighs coated in your cream. I want you so fucking messy, all you can smell is what I do to you.”

  “Yes, please.” She threw her head back, leaning it against my shoulder.

  Cupping her jaw, I kissed her temple. “Come.”

  She cried out. “Luther.”

  I took that as my chance and thrust inside her.

  Her cries of pleasure turned into screams. “Harder.”

  My thrusts picked up, slamming in and out of her. Reaching around her, my palm connected with her clit.

  She gasped, her eyes shooting open.

  I repeated the movement, my hand slapping against the swollen little button.

  “Holy shit.” She shook against me, her body heating at the pain and pleasure I was feeding it. “Again.”

  “You’re a dirty little thing, aren’t you?” I slapped her pussy, pushing my dick as deep into her as it could go.

  “Yes,” she screamed. “Fuck, Luther. Sir. Master.”

  I chuckled, connecting with her pussy again.

  Slap. Slap. Slap.

  “More,” she cried out.

  Slap. Slap. Slap.

  My name left her lips on the loudest scream I had ever heard from her. I pulled out of her, slapped her clit again, and felt her release spraying over my dick. Thrusting back inside her, I prolonged her orgasm until she begged for me to stop. And only then did I fuck her harder and faster.

  Lexi

  AFTER OUR MOMENT IN Luther’s office, he decided not to work and brought me to my apartment instead. I made a quick appearance at the deli, telling everyone who was working that Charlie had passed and that I was moving.

  “You want to rent your place to me?” Britney asked, her eyes shining.

  I patted her hand. “I do. But I just need a couple of days to move stuff out of it. I’ll leave the furniture of course but any personal items, I’ll bring with me.”

  She nodded. “Of course.” And much to my surprise, she gave me a hug. “Thank you. I really appreciate this.”

  “You’re very welcome.” I hugged her back. I said my goodbyes and met Luther out in the hall leading to my apartment.

  “You good?” he asked, throwing his arm around my shoulders.

  “I am but I really don’t want to look through Charlie’s stuff even though I know that we could find answers.” I sighed. “I just want this done and over with.”

  “I know, Lexi.” Luther kissed my cheek. “I’ll help you. I just have to make a phone call first.”

  I caught his gaze. “Georgio?”

  His jaw clenched. “As much as I don’t want to talk to that fucker, I need to know what’s going on.”

  “You forgave me. Why can’t you forgive him?”

  He opened his mouth to answer but scowled instead. “Let’s go and get this done and over with.”

  I saluted him. “Yes, Sir.”

  “Careful.” He swatted my ass. “I don’t like being mocked, pet.”

  “Yeah, yeah.” I blew him a kiss and headed to Charlie’s bedroom. Opening the door, I let out a slow breath. Nothing was different from when he was last in it. Although, I had been looking through everything not too long ago, it still looked like Charlie had slept in it the night before. “Oh, Charlie.” I wished things could have been different. I loved him. I did. But he loved power more than me.

  “Lexi?”

  I jumped as Luther came up behind me. “That was a quick call.”

  “It’s been half an hour.” He kissed the top of my head. “You good?”

  “Not really.” I didn’t even realize that much time had passed already. I pushed away from the door and forced myself to enter t
he room. Charlie’s room had been smaller than mine. He didn’t have a lot of personal items I realized. A bed. A dresser. A nightstand with a lamp on top of it. A few movie and music posters. A floor to ceiling bookshelf and a safe. I sat on the floor in front of it.

  “Do you know the code?” Luther asked, sitting on the edge of the bed behind me.

  “I do. Charlie never gave it to me but it wasn’t hard to crack either. It’s like he wanted me to have access to it without me even knowing.” It was our mother’s birthday, Charlie’s age, and my birth month. Any expert would be able to figure it out. “When you and Georgio found me in here, that’s what I was looking through. But I wasn’t able to find anything.” I rubbed the back of my neck. “He had so many secrets.”

  “Georgio and my sister are coming over.”

  My head whipped around. “Really? Is it safe for them to be in the same room?”

  Luther shrugged. “I don’t give a fuck. You need answers. That’s all I care about.”

  “What about you?”

  “I don’t care about me, Lexi.” Luther moved to the floor behind me. He sat close, the heat from his body giving me the courage I needed to look through Charlie’s things.

  I opened the safe. There wasn’t anything out of the ordinary inside it. Nothing that I wasn’t expecting anyway. Money. A couple different passports for other countries. Jewelry. “I feel like maybe he watched too many movies with all this stuff.”

  “I wonder if this is to hide the fact that there’s something else in here.”

  “What?” I frowned. “There’s nothing in here.” I pulled out large manila envelopes and handed a couple to Luther.

  He took them from me and began looking through each envelope. “Uh…Lexi?

  “Mmmhmm.” I pulled out pictures. They were black and white and of people I had never seen before.

  “Lexi.”

  I turned at the abrupt demand.

  Luther was holding up a black and white picture of…us.

  “I don’t understand.” I took the image from him. “Why would my brother have a picture of us? Or of these people?” I looked back down at the pile in my lap.

  “I’m not sure, Lexi, but I will find out. Something tells me that he wasn’t just taking pictures because he enjoyed it.”

  “Why would he have these?” I demanded, shoving the photo back into Luther’s hands.

  “I don’t know, pet, but something is fucked up.”

  I scoffed. “You think?’

  “Careful.” He leaned forward and cupped my cheek, lowering his mouth my ear. “I know you want answers, but your sass will not help. It’ll only make me throw you back in my cage.”

  “I just want answers.” I shivered.

  Luther leaned back, cupping my face. “I’ll get you your answers, Lexi. No matter the cost.”

  “I don’t like how that sounds.” I grabbed onto his dress shirt, pulled him closer, and crushed my mouth to his. “You will not put yourself on the line for me.”

  “Lexi.” His brows narrowed.

  “No.” I shot to my feet, storming out of Charlie’s room.

  “Lexi, don’t walk away from me.”

  I spun around as Luther crashed into me. “I can’t lose you. I only just found you.”

  “You won’t lose me, baby.” Luther wrapped his arms around me, holding me tightly and lifting me off my feet.

  Wrapping my legs around him, I held on like he was my lifeline. Like he was everything I needed to survive. Which he was. I didn’t have my brother anymore. I had no family. No one. I had no one. The revelation slammed into me. I struggled out of Luther’s hold and began pacing. “I have no one. Charlie is dead. My brother, my only family, is dead and gone.”

  “You have me,” Luther said gently.

  I stopped pacing. “What are you telling me?”

  “I love you, Lexi. I’ve never used those words before. Not to my parents. Not to my sister. No one. Not until you came along and slid into my heart like a damn drug.” He closed the distance between us and cupped the back of my neck.

  I sighed, stepping into his embrace. “I can feel you all through me. You’re in my veins.” I tilted my head, looking up at him. “You’ve given me everything I never knew I needed.”

  He placed a hard peck on my mouth.

  The sound of the door opening followed by muffled voices, ruined our little moment.

  “Until later, pet.” Luther kissed the side of my neck and gave my ass a light swat. “I’ll make you feel better.”

  My body heated at the promise.

  “Why does this fucker have to be here?” Vanessa demanded, charging into the room with Georgio hot on her heels.

  “To keep you on your pretty little toes, of course.” Georgio smirked, his gaze landing on Vanessa’s ass.

  She let out a frustrated cry and came toward me. “I’ve missed you.” She pulled me in for a hug. “Is my brother treating you well?”

  “Yes,” I answered. “But you saw me earlier today.”

  “Doesn’t matter. I still missed you.” She held me at arm’s length, her brows narrowing in the center. She gave herself a shake and released me. “Brother.”

  Luther gave her a quick hug before stepping in front of both of us. “Before we begin, I need to know I can trust you.” He rose a hand when Georgio went to speak. “I don’t want to hear about how sorry you are for betraying me. I don’t give a shit about that. Not anymore. Right now, we are here to find answers for Lexi. That’s it.” He headed down the hall. “Follow me,” he called out.

  Georgio looked between us, let out a grumbled curse, and followed Luther.

  “You sure you’re good?” Vanessa grabbed my hand.

  “Yeah. You?”

  She shrugged. “No matter what happens or what we find out, I cared for your brother. A lot.”

  “I know.” I headed to Charlie’s bedroom, pulling Vanessa along with me. “I don’t know what’s going on with you, but you will tell us. Won’t you?”

  “Yeah, I will.”

  I stopped just outside Charlie’s room. “If you tell me first, I can keep Luther calm. What are you hiding?”

  Vanessa searched my face. “I’m pregnant.”

  Lexi

  “IF YOU COULD HAVE kids, would you?” I asked, kicking my foot back and forth.

  Charlie puffed on his cigarette. “I guess.” He exhaled, the sweet scent of his smoke wafting around us. “I don’t know. I don’t really have the means to take care of a kid though.”

  “Neither do I but if it happened, I would be ecstatic.”

  My brother chuckled. “You need a man for that, Lexi.”

  “I know that, asshole,” I threw back at him. “I’m just saying, if it did happen…I don’t know. I guess I always pictured myself having a husband, two point five children, a dog, and all that wonderful stuff.” I rolled over onto my stomach, pulling a magazine off his nightstand.

  Charlie lifted his one knee to his chest, leaning back against the headboard.

  “Shit like that doesn’t happen to people like us, Lexi.”

  “Why do you always have to ruin my dreams?” I threw the magazine at him. “I’m going to meet a guy one day. We’re going to fall in love and he’s going to give me everything I deserve and take me out of this hell.”

  Charlie snorted. “Right.”

  “You’re…you…what?” I stammered. I couldn’t help it. Charlie wasn’t sure if he ever wanted kids.

  “I’m pregnant.” Vanessa lifted her sweater, revealing a tiny bump.

  “Oh…” I cupped her stomach. “Is it…”

  She swallowed nosily. “It’s Charlie’s.”

  My eyes burned. “I’m going to be an aunt.”

  She laughed lightly. “Yeah, you are, pet.”

  “But I don’t understand.” I pulled away from her. “Luther found pictures of him and I. I thought you had a bigger secret than that. I thought…I don’t know what I thought but it definitely wasn’t that.”

&n
bsp; “I know,” Vanessa said.

  “What’s going on?” Georgio asked, coming out into the hall and glancing between us both.

  “Nothing.” I pushed past him, finding Luther sitting on the edge of Charlie’s bed. I looked back at Vanessa.

  “Luther.” She came toward us, ignoring Georgio’s hard stare. “There’s something I need to tell you.”

  “Do you know anything about this?” Luther asked, ignoring her and lifting the image of him and I.

  “Yeah…” Her cheeks reddened. “About that.” She blew out a slow breath. “Charlie was paranoid and desperate. He was trying to get enough money to…”

  “To take care of you,” I said.

  “Yes, and you. I know he did some shady shit. I know you’ve had a hard time trusting him after you sold yourself to my brother.” She sat down beside me and cupped my hands. “But I also know that he loved you. He loved you so much. This is all confusing. I get that. But…” She glanced back at Georgio. “Maybe he can explain.”

  “What do you mean?” Georgio frowned. “I know shit all. I have no idea why the fuck I’m even here.”

  “Tell them about the plans you made.” Vanessa stood. “How you were going to set Luther up. Make it look like he was stealing money from all of these big players he worked with. Or how about all the—”

  “Shut the fuck up,” Georgio snapped. “None of that shit is true.” His gaze flicked to Luther’s. “It’s not. I promise it’s not.”

  “Then why would she say it?” Luther rose from the bed. “Explain yourself to me. Were you trying to sabotage me? Did you recruit Lexi, hoping she would seduce me? Or did you plant it in Charlie’s head that he needed all of this power? Power that got him fucking killed. By you.”

  Vanessa gasped. “You…you what?”

  “Vee.” Georgio stepped toward her. “Listen, I’m—”

  “No!” She screamed, diving for him but Luther caught her around the middle. “You killed him. How could you? He didn’t deserve this.” Sobs wracked through her.

  I pulled her from Luther, hugging her to me. My eyes welled, my throat burning past the hard lump lodged in it.

  “You have one second to explain what the fuck is going on,” Luther growled, shoving Georgio up against the wall.