21
Jake
When my alarm went off, I rushed to silence it but was too tired to get up right away. I tried to move, but Reyes’s strong body was pressed up against my back in a firm hold, one leg shoved between mine. My stomach plummeted at the same time my heart kicked up a few notches.
I felt a lingering panic building in my chest, that had little to do with Rey’s hold. Something else had me on edge. Rey’s warm breath against my neck felt strangely soothing, calming me, though I still couldn’t rememberwhyI needed to be calmed.
Why the hell was my brain so foggy, and how the fuck did I end up here? We hadn’t been drinking, that much I knew. I remembered coming back to Rey’s room after dinner and being fucked into the mattress, but how had I ended upinRey’s arms? I didn’t do that. I didn’tspoon. Not even with Rey. Sure, I’d slept over several times now, but we didn’t cuddle, each of us comfortable on our own sides of the bed. So how did I end up tangled in his hold?
“Shhh, Jake, you’re okay.”
A memory of his calm voice speaking in my ear in the dead of night was all it took for the pieces to click. I’d had another nightmare. Not as bad as the first but still just as real. Even thinking about it now made me cold, and forced my eyes shut, trying not to see the panic in the woman’s beautiful brown eyes.
Rey’s impossibly warm cocoon felt like the safest place I could be right then, and I didn’t want to leave. Maybe I’d cancel my run with Beckett and just stay here. I knew Beck would never let me hear the end of it if I did though.
I carefully stretched my legs, not wanting to wake Reyes, but he stirred behind me anyway. I glanced over my shoulder when I heard him mumble something, ready to apologize, but his handsome face was still lax in sleep. His lips were moving slowly, as I’d seen him do many times before, but now they were forming soft almost imperceptible words. I grinned. How a sexy-as-fuck soccer player could look so adorable, I wasn’t sure, but he was.
“He’s not as hot as you, babe,” Rey murmured. The arm he had around my waist tightened as he kissed my shoulder.
Shit.Was Rey dreaming of me?
Rey’s hand began to drift south. I knew he was still asleep, but I didn’t fucking care either. Desire shot through me like lightning as he inched closer to my cock, and I silently prayed for him to touch me. When he finally did, I closed my eyes and became lost to it. His touch was becoming so damn familiar that I knew he’d twist his wrist after a few more strokes and sighed in relief when he did. His hardening cock jabbed my ass and I couldn’t resist moving back into it, wanting more.
“I can never get enough of you,” Reyes said, still in that sleepy voice.
My heart stirred. “Same to you, babe,” I said very softly.
Rey froze and started to pull his hand away as if he’d just come out of sleep and realized what was happening, but I thrust up into his grip.
“Jake?” he whispered.
“Mmm, morning,” I said, groggily. “Please don’t stop.”
His lips came down on my neck, and I welcomed them, turning my head to grant him more access. Rey shifted, moving impossibly closer, and his touch became damn near torturous as he stroked me. Alternating between fast and hard pumps, to slow and sensual, he was driving me insane. He shifted his leg between mine, occasionally rubbing against my balls, nearly overwhelming me with sensation.
When his mouth found mine, I opened for him eagerly, wishing like hell he was inside me. I wanted Reyes. All of him. Right now. With nothing at all between us. Even just the thought of riding him bare had me spreading my legs wide with need.
Reyes broke the kiss only long enough to whisper, “Come for me, Jake. Just let yourself go. Let it all go.”
Something in his words didn’t make sense. A hidden meaning or plea to trust him that I hadn’t heard before. Why would Rey encourage such a thing? Unless…
And all at once, the rest of the night came back. After Rey had woken me up from the nightmare, I hadn’t been able to stop thinking about the woman. Rey had tried distracting me by giving me head and had managed to get me hard, but I couldn’t relax enough to come. I had still been seeing her in the back of my mind, and nothing Rey had tried could push that image away. Eventually, and without me having to ask, Rey had simply crawled in behind me and told me stories of his life in Mexico, until I’d finally come back to him. His touches had been gentle, alternating between caressing my stomach or massaging my cock, anything to make me feel good. But it’d been his deep voice and firm hold that had grounded me. When I’d finally relaxed, neither of us had been tired anymore, so we’d just continued to talk and tell bad jokes until we ended up laughing ourselves breathless. By the time I’d fallen asleep again, we were tangled up in each other’s arms.
I rolled to my back and held his gaze. “I’m okay, babe. No more dreams.”
His eyes were dark with lust, but I also saw relief. I pulled Rey down to me, kissing him in a way I’d never kissed anyone before. Remembering how well he’d not only taken care of me but how he’dknownwhat I needed, had completely splayed my heart open for him. I was lost to this man. Rey was the only one who made me feel safe and cared for, and… whole. No one had ever made me feel this complete before, and all I wanted to do was make him feel the same way.
I care for you too, Rey.
Fuck, if he only knew how much I’d meant that. Admitting it had scared the hell out of me. I wanted more with him. I just wasn’t sure I could trust myself not to break his heart in the end. There was too much at risk with my job, too much uncertainty, and he didn’t deserve that kind of burden. No one did.
But I could give him this moment.
I yanked him on top of me, settling him between my legs. Clamping my hands on his bare ass, I pressed him as close as could as he could possibly be, closing my eyes as Rey began moving his hips to give me the delicious friction I craved. He bent to zero in on that spot he knew I loved, increasing his rhythm, and driving me higher and higher. The stress of the night before was long forgotten, chased away by the sweet relief this man offered.
“More?” he asked breathlessly.
“No, don’t stop. Oh, fuck, baby, don’t stop,” I said. “I’m so close.”
