Maybe This Time(58)
“It’s perfectly understandable, babe, I shouldn’t have done that to you. I don’t want you to feel as though you aren’t important to me, because you are. I fucking love you, baby, there's nothing more important to me. Things will change, they will get better for us.”
“How do you know?”
“When you love someone as much as I love you, trust me, beauty, it’s gonna work out,” he says, a faint smile on his lips.
I smile back at him. “I love you too, Reid.”
He’s instantly on top of me, his weight pushing me into the mattress. “Say it again.”
“I love you.”
“Fuck,” he says, resting his forehead against mine. “I don’t want Mia. I haven’t even looked at her that way, I guess I'm stuck with her cos of River. I do want to be friends with her, cos that’s what’s best for him. But it’s you I love, you I think about all day long, you I want in my bed every night,” he says, pushing his hips against mine.
I reach up and tangle my hands in his hair, pulling his lips down to mine. I fuse them together, needing to taste him. God, I’ve missed his touch so much. My lips part for him the second his tongue begs for entrance and he kisses me deeply, showing me with his lips just how much he has missed me. After he’s had his fill of my mouth, he moves to my jaw line, and then down my neck, trailing wet kisses. I squirm, feeling a tug in my lower belly with each kiss, loving each sensation. He pulls me up into a sitting position, where he removes my top and my pink bra. He lies me back down flat on my back, where he continues teasing and torturing my neck and collar bone. A rough thumb swipes over my nipple, making my back arch off the bed.
What this man does to me.
His mouth trails lower, until he reaches my breast. One hand plays with one of my nipples, while he sucks the other into his hot mouth.
“Reid,” I pant, when he nibbles softly. I can feel him smile against my breast. When his mouth heads further south, I’m trembling in anticipation.
“Go faster, Reid,” I hiss, as he takes his time licking down my hip. He ignores me, and continues to worship my body everywhere but the place I need him the most. I’m about to lose it when he finally reaches my centre.
One minute later I’m screaming his name.
An hour later, I’m screaming it again.
**
“Reid, I love you but if you try and make love to me again I won’t be able to walk,” I grumble as a large rough hand sensually touches my breast. My comment follows a masculine chuckle, and I can tell he's pleased. Caveman.
“Come on, I’ll run you a bath,” he says, standing up. I admire his taut behind as he walks out of the room. We had sex four times last night, each time more amazing than the last. Smiling widely, I reach out for my phone to check the time. Ten am. I don’t have any classes today, but I work at the bar at three. Plenty of time. I relax into the bed, stretching my arms above my head. I pull she sheet up to my chin when I see Ryan storm in, smiling. He's bare chested, and wearing nothing but a pair of ‘Family Guy’ boxer shorts.
“Morning, babe.”
“Seriously, Ry, boundaries,” I say dryly. I glance down my body to make sure nothing can be seen.
He continues like I never spoke. “I had to sleep with my iPod on last night.”
I blush profusely when I get what he means. “I’d say I’m sorry but that would be a lie.”
Ryan laughs and walks to Reid’s cupboard, pulling out a shirt. Huh, apparently it’s not only women who do that.
“You stealing Reid’s clothes?” I ask, brows rising.
“No. I’m stealing back my shirt,” he says as he walks out. A beat later I hear, “Whoa, Reid, put some fucking clothes on, bro,” and I can’t contain my laughter.
“Bath’s ready, baby,” Reid says, standing at the door.
“Put some clothes on, poor Ryan.”
“He sees the same thing in front of the mirror every day,” Reid points out, and I laugh some more. He holds out a towel for me, and I stand butt naked and wrap it around myself. I squeal when he lifts me in the air, and carries me to the bathroom, putting me on my feet and pulling the towel away. My heart warms when I see a bubble bath all ready and waiting for me.
“Thanks, babe,” I say, pulling him in for a quick kiss.
“I’ll go make some breakfast, you enjoy your bath,” he says, winking before he exits the bathroom. Smiling, I step into the bath tub, and sink down slowly. The water is just the right temperature, Reid knows I like the water really hot. I let myself soak until my fingers start to wrinkle and then quickly wash my body. I hop out and take my toothbrush, brush my teeth and brush my hair. Walking back into Reid’s room, I pull out a T-shirt of his and put it on. It comes up to my mid-thigh, so I throw on a pair of boxers, too. Way too big, but will have to do.