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Chapter Eighteen

Holly

Iwas overcome with strength as I stood my ground in front of Reid, and his blue eyes watched me with an intensity I felt all the way to my toes.

I’ve never felt this way before, this empowered in front of a man.

How can I hate him and want him all in the same breath?

He acts like he’s the one in control, but in reality, he just handed me the power.

I’m not even sure he realizes he’s doing it, but I see it in his eyes, I feel it in the forceful way he holds me. His force is laced with protection, it’s controlled – his actions calculated and precise.

I know the difference, and that feeling alone is enough to allow me to trust him.

So, when he tells me that he’s going to fuck me, well, I don’t back away. I don’t ask for forevers and promises. This is my chance. My one chance to wear that damn pair of one-off Louboutin’s, even if I can’t keep them forever. Who am I to pass up a chance like that? So, instead of backing down, I step the fuck up and take control of the power he’s given me.

His words break the silence of our stare. “Tell me what you want – princess. I want to hear you say it.”

Princess, he’s testing me. It’s ok, he doesn’t think I will speak. Maybe he thinks I’ll be submissive. Yeah, I might submit, later…after I have a little fun. Because right now, I’m still a little pissed. He walked out of that elevator and didn’t look back, and that was days ago. He left me to wonder, and I didn’t like the way that made me feel. Not one single bit.

I arched my back against the wall to give myself some leverage, pressing my engorged breasts forward against Reid’s chest, hoping he could feel the stiff peaks of my nipples through the thin tank top that I’m wearing. “Reid, I want you to fuck me. I want you to take everything I have to give you and then, when you think I’ve had enough, I want you to take some more. I want you to make it hurt, and then I want you to make it feel so good that I scream your name until we summon every damn spirit in this place. I want to wake the dead.”

I watched a vein in Reid’s neck begin to throb, his nostrils flared as his breathing intensified, and I felt his cock pulse through his jeans against the fabric of my underwear. Underwear that was already soaked with my need for this man.

“Last question.” His words were raspy and laced with a tight-leashed desire.

I tilted my chin up, just slightly, my silent plea for him to continue.

He leaned in closer, so close that his nose touched the very tip of mine, and his lips barely hovered over my own. If I leaned in just a centimeter, they would be on mine again. I’m desperate for this man’s touch.

“Are you scared?” He whispered, and I felt the ripple of goosebumps as they skated down my spine.

“Never.” One word. With that one word I threw kerosene on the kindling and finished lighting the fuse.

My feet were swept off the floor from beneath me as Reid carried me back to the main living room and laid me out on the white cushions of the wicker sofa.

I sat up, aligning my spine with the tall back of the couch, and let my golden hair hit my shoulders in waves. Reid towered over me as he stood with the toes of his combat boots touching the front of the couch, and I moved my legs to encase him, spreading them open for him to see what he was doing to me, placing one leg on either side of his.

A slow, seductive smile spread over my lips as I confidently spoke the words I knew he was waiting for. “Take what you want, Reid.”

That was all it took, he dropped to his knees in front of me, his eyes wild with hunger as he ran the rough palms of his large hands up my bare thighs until he reached the hem of my ocean blue boy shorts, almost an exact color match to Reid’s eyes.

“Dammit, Holly. These shorts are my kryptonite. You’re soaked.” He used the placement of his hands to spread my thighs even further as he bent his long frame until his nose ran over the damp fabric that separated my skin from his. God, did I want to feel him. I want to feel all of him.

“I’m breaking all the rules, but I can’t focus. I can’t think straight, and when I lose my focus people die. I refuse to let that happen. So instead, I’m taking a risk, and allowing us to give in to whatever this is between us, and I’m hoping that we all come out on the other side alive.” He spoke out loud like his words were more for himself than for me.

I tried to comprehend his words, tried to make sense of what he was saying, but all was lost when his teeth bit down over the fabric of my wet shorts and he pulled the fabric into his mouth. His fingers dug harder into my skin, and I welcomed the pain, anything to distract my mind from the pulse of my heartbeat that was thrumming low in my belly.

A low animalistic rumble came from deep within his chest as he pulled my shorts down my thighs with his teeth alone. Lifting my legs, I placed them over Reid’s shoulders as he pulled my underwear the remainder of the way off and slid them into the pocket of his jeans.

I shivered as the cold air hit my moist, bare skin. A cold sweat broke out across my chest and stomach in anticipation of what was to come.

Reid looked up into my eyes once more, a sly smile crinkling the corners of his eyes. I watched as he leaned forward and involuntarily licked his lips, the action causing my hips to jerk forward, but he continued to hold me in place, his hands back on my thighs.

I was starting to think I might come from this torture alone, because that’s what he’s doing, he’s torturing me by prolonging what we both know I want, what I need.

Finally, after what seemed like a lifetime, he lifted my hips and ran his warm tongue over the line of my ass all the way to the top of my clit, and my eyes rolled back into my head with -instant satisfaction.

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