Before I can reply, he drives into me again. I press my feet to his ass and I’m panting through the flutters taking over my lower belly. “I don’twantto let you go,” I say as he pulls out again.
His next thrust steals my breath. “But you will.”
I cup his face and stroke my thumbs along his cheekbones. “I’ll come back to you,” I promise.
Reid’s pace becomes more insistent. “Maybe,” he says, his brow creasing. “But if you can’t, Quinn, I’ll come and get you.” He thrusts harder. “Wherever you are. Whatever happens. I’ll come for you.”
My heart swells as I absorb every emotion that passes between us. Desire. Despair. Fear. Pleasure. Lust. And something deeper that I don’t want to name. Those feelings coil like a snake inside me, writhing and twisting.
“Reid,” I gasp as the pressure demands release. My hands remain clasped to his face. We don’t break our gaze. “Fuck me hard. Fuck me as hard as you can.”
He hooks his hands around my shoulders to keep me in place as he slams into me. “Take every inch of me,” he grunts. “Take it all, Quinn. It’s yours.”
Sparks ignite at my core. Heat rises and I’m lifted with it. Up and up and up I go. “Oh god. I’m going to–” I’m teetering on the edge of a precipice.
Reid fucks me at a piston pace. “I’ve got you,” he says. “Wherever you’re going, baby. Take me with you. Now.”
Now. It’s all about this moment. This sweet moment. It’s all about us and what we could be.Reid Griffin completes me. This man I want to hate. This man of my dreams who’s arrived in the middle of a nightmare.
“Reid!” I scream as my body erupts.
The euphoria is all-consuming, like nothing I’ve ever experienced before, and as I shatter around his cock, stars explode in front of my eyes. Reid’s movements become a blur. His mouth falls open on a grunt and with a final thrust, he holds himself tight against me. His cock pulses and he empties into me.
His mouth crushes mine, and our kisses are messy because we’re smiling as we continue to ride the waves. We grind and thrust against, and with each other as we savor the ebbing tide of pleasure.
I keep my legs locked around Reid’s, refusing to let him withdraw as he settles his head against my sweat-damp and heaving chest.
“Can we stay like this for a while?” I ask. I’m not worried about being disturbed. Jason only comes into the house during the day looking for food. He won’t come upstairs to get showered and changed until around five, four at the earliest, and it’s not yet two.
“We can stay like this forever,” Reid says as his hand covers one of my breasts. His thumb brushes my nipple. “Your heart is beating through your chest.” He adjusts his hips, rubbing against my needy clit. “It’s not slowing down at all.”
“I wonder why,” I answer as he grinds against me.
His movements become more purposeful, and when he pulls out just an inch, he’s hard. “Again?”
“We do have two boxes of condoms to get through.”
“Reid, you’re going to ruin me.”
“It’s only fair,” he says with a grunt as he flips onto his back, taking me with him so I’m straddling him. “You ruined me first.”
Chapter 13
Reid
It’s after midnight and I’m sautéing pancetta and onions as a base for our pasta sauce. The penne is simmering in salted water so I need to work fast, but it’s not easy when Quinn is pressing against my back, her arms wrapped around me as her hands explore my bare chest. She’s making it hard to concentrate. She’s making everything goddamn hard.
I like how relaxed she is with me. It’s as if I’ve fucked that attitude right out of her, if only for a few hours, but I’ll take whatever meagre crumbs she throws at me. The house is still, and Quinn doesn’t seem worried about Jason coming out of his room and catching us. Neither am I.
I’d love the unsuspecting gardener to show his face. It would make my argument for Quinn to leave with me so much easier. I wish I’d been able to persuade her to come back to the cabin, or better still, Chicago. I can’t bear the thought of leaving, which is why I’m still here and my brothers are having a hissy fit.
Jake updated Ash on my unscheduled detour immediately, and messages have been flying ever since,mostly in one direction because I’ve been too busy to respond. I didn’t intend to stay this long, but Quinn has been seeing to all my needs.
She’d left me in her bedroom only long enough to go downstairs and make excuses to Jason. She told him she had a migraine, and not to expect to see her for the rest of the day. When she’d returned, we’d feasted on Pringles and each other, then we’d fucked in the shower.
Once night had fallen, I thought we’d have some peace from my brothers. They know Quinn can’t sneak me out past the guards this late without raising suspicion, and I’m happy to be trapped. Unfortunately, my family doesn’t share that view.
I’m tipping a can of chopped tomatoes into the pan when my cell phone vibrates in my pocket with an incoming call.
