Page 84 of Lulu

“Aaagghhh!” Brody groaned, his big body quaking with his own violent release.

The next thing I knew, he was flooding my insides with warm cum. “Yeeess!” I hissed, clenching tightly around his swollen shaft. I could feel his balls slap against the back of my thighs.

For a heart-stopping moment, we became one.

Minutes later, Brody kissed the side of my neck and stepped back. I turned around to see him tucking his spent cock back into his sweats, a smug grin on his handsome face. I went to reach for my underpants and shorts, but he beat me to it. He yanked them up my legs and proceeded to do them up.

“That was the perfect end to a shitty week,” he said, not elaborating, and I knew better than to ask.

“I’m glad I could be helpful.”

He laughed. “Baby, you keep me sane.” His hands brushed back my hair behind my ears. “Need to talk to you about something during dinner.”

“Funny. I was about to say the same thing.”

“Really? Then I guess we’d better sit down and get started. Yeah?”

I nodded in agreement. If we hadn’t just had sex I would have been worried about “the talk” we were about to have. “Get yourself a beer, and I’ll dish us up some food.” By the time I filled two plates and turned toward the table there were two beers there, one for me and one for him. I didn’t say anything as I set our plates down.

“Looks good, babe.”

“Thanks.” I speared a shrimp and brought it up to my mouth. “So, what do you want to talk about?”

“You don’t want to go first?”

I watched his mouth close over his fork, imagining that same mouth closing over my nipples. God, I had it so bad for him. “Not really.” I knew I should just rip the Band-Aid off and tell him, but I was curious about what he had on his mind.

He swallowed a drink of beer. “I’m going to sell my house.” I hadn’t expected that. “I did a lot of thinking while I was in New Mexico. What do you think about us moving in together?”

Oh, my! I was all for it. He was at my house more than his, so it made sense that he’d sell his place. I was afraid to get too excited about it, though, at least until I knew what his reaction was going to be about the baby. “I think I like that idea,” I finally said cautiously. I took a bite of rice.

He nodded and chugged down more beer. He had no idea of the turmoil that was churning in my belly.

“Also going to join up with the Desert Rebels.”

He waited, as if he were expecting me to argue with him about that. The truth was, I would have much rather him become a member of the club than to go nomad, which is basically what he’d been doing before.

“Okay.”

A snort escaped him. “I thought I was going to have to convince you about that one,” he joked.

“It’s your life,” I countered. He and I both knew he wasn’t the kind of man to ask permission for anything. He was too alpha for that.

He paused from chewing, his expression turning serious. “I want it to beourlife.”

My heart melted a little because we were so close to where I wanted to be in our relationship. I wanted to ask him what else he’d decided, but I was speechless.

“What, nothing to say to that, Hellcat?”

I swallowed what I’d been chewing for the last two minutes. “I’m digesting,” I responded with sass, trying to calm my inner nervousness. I took the bull by the horns. “You’re selling your house and moving in with me, and you’re joining the Desert Rebels. So we’re really in this for the long haul?”

He sat back in his chair a little angrily. “Jesus, babe, what the fuck do you think we’ve been working on the last few months? Hell,yearsactually. I didn’t think I needed to spell it out for you. I fucking love you, woman. I don’t just want to fuck you day and night, I want you all the fucking time. You are mine, Lulu. No more random hookups when I’m on the road, no more Lana’s. You’re the only woman I want, baby. I want to spend the rest of my life with you.”

Well, it couldn’t get any plainer than that. Inside I was overwhelmed with delight over Brody’s impassioned words. I’d never thought that I was a woman who needed to hear those words, but hearing them took away all the doubts I’d had. I wanted the exact same things with this man. Forever. I felt the burning sting in my eyes that warned me tears were close to the surface, but before I let them fall, I had to find out the answer to a very important question.

“What about children?” It felt as if I’d just dropped a bomb on us. I held my breath and watched him closely, so fucking scared inside that this would be the one thing that would destroy us.

I couldn’t read anything in Brody’s closed-off expression. I wanted to squirm beneath his unbreakable stare. He was thinking hard about how to answer me, I could tell. Maybe he was weighing the outcome of words he wouldn’t be able to take back once they were said. I tried for nonchalance and gave a weak little smile of false bravado.