“Reed,” I moaned into his mouth. “I want you so badly.”
“I got you, baby. I have everything you need.”
“Please. I want you inside me.”
“You want me to come inside you or on your tits?” he asked, shedding his sweatpants and briefs, letting his hard, thick length bob out in front of him. My hips twitched, needing him to be inside me.
“I want us to come together. I want you inside me as we both lose control. I want to feel you leaking out of me.” The words tumbled out, sounding needy and desperate. And maybe I was. I wanted so badly for him to fill me. To never lose this connection. My heart was beating out of my chest. I felt like I was burning with desire for this man.
“God, sweetheart.” His hands brushed the hair out of my face, his thumbs swiping my flushed cheeks, while his eyes studied me, looking for answers we were probably both hiding.
Because maybe the truth was I never truly hated him. Maybe the truth was I’d been in love with him this whole time, and I just needed him to show me he was the man I remembered and thought him to be.
“Make love to me.”Shit!That was an inside thought. There was no stopping the word vomit now, it would seem. I bit my lip in my attempt to clamp it down.
But it didn’t seem to shock him or make him withdraw, unlike any of the boys I dated who blanched at the moment I conveyed any sort of feeling. No. Reed grinned the biggest fucking grin I’d ever seen on his grumpy ass, and it onlymade my heart rate accelerate. Because the man was drop-dead gorgeous with all of his rough edges and big dick energy. I wanted him inside me, and I wanted himnow.
“Lina––” he started to say, but I cut him off.
“Don’t make this a big deal. Please.”Coward!I scolded myself.
He nodded as if he could read me and knew exactly what I was feeling and what I needed. He leaned down, resting his forehead against mine. I closed my eyes, focusing on the weight of him, my breath slowing, but my heart didn’t seem to settle.Fucking Reedhad my heart, whether I liked it or not.
Then he started pressing tender kisses along my jaw and throat, whispering in my ear the words I had stopped him from saying earlier. “There is nothing in this world I want more than to make love to you.”
I was still so tight from my orgasm that I wasn’t sure I was ready for him, but he was patient. Rubbing his tip through my slit while his lips brushed the curve of my neck, making me melt beneath him. I followed his lead, letting my hips slowly rock with the movement, reveling in his kisses, his teeth nipping at the sensitive spot beneath my ear before he soothed it with his tongue. My center pulsed as he notched himself at my entrance.
“Breathe, sweetheart. I got you.” He said it over and over again while I slowly opened for him.
I didn’t know if my heart could take this glowing, bursting feeling. He buried himself deep, his lips never leaving my skin, as if I were a treasure he wanted to keep.
“Reed,” I moaned, adjusting to him.
“You got this, baby. You’re doing so good.”
I felt like I may combust. “Move,” I whined, my hips rocking.
He pulled back slightly to look me in the eyes. I felt captured by that dark gaze, completely mesmerized, as though he were seeing my very soul, and he was loving it better than I ever did.
“Your heart is beating out of your chest,” he said.
It was then that I felt his, too, our bodies pressed together. “I feel yours, too.”
“Is this too much?” he asked, his brow furrowing.
I shook my head. “No, I think our hearts are finally in sync.”
His face nearly crumpled in pain. “God, Lina, I feel as though I’ve waited my whole life for you.”
I knew what he meant … like our souls were made for each other. “I’m so glad I found you, even if it meant getting through the asshole phase first.”
He huffed a laugh, a smile tipping his lips. “I knew I’d wear you down eventually.”
I mirrored his grin. “I’m glad I didn’t succeed in running you off the ranch after all.”
“Yeah? You actually thought you’d ever be able to do that? As soon as I saw you yelling out your truck window when you pulled up, I knew I wasn’t going anywhere.”
“Thank God you’re a stubborn ass.” I pressed a kiss to his jaw.
