Part 22 (2/2)
The thought was so far beyond depressing, she refused to allow it in when she was otherwise overjoyed. ”I get it. I really do. But I don't want to talk about it, especially not today.”
Smiling, he brought her hand to his lips for a tender kiss to her palm. ”Fair enough.”
”Will you think about the remote possibility of having kids?”
”I'll think about it, but no promises.”
She flashed him a saucy grin. ”Might be too late for thinking anyway,” she reminded him.
”Might be.” He turned on his side and put his arm around her. ”Come here. You're too far away over there, and I thought we were going to celebrate.”
”We are,” she said with a sigh of utter contentment. ”We're going to celebrate every day we get as the blessing it is, and we're not going to spend one second worrying about the future. That'll take care of itself.”
”If you say so, darlin'.”
”I do. I say so. Now, about that celebration...”
His face lifted into a s.e.xy smile that made her melt. All he'd ever had to do was look at her just like that, and she was his. Now she got to have forever with him. How lucky was she?
Determined to show him how lucky she felt, she pushed him onto his back and bent over him, kissing his chest and focusing on his nipples, which made him gasp and made her smile. Filled with her own power, she worked her way down, kissing, licking, nibbling.
”Christ, Kate,” he said between gritted teeth.
”What's wrong?”
”Don't act all innocent, like you don't know what you're doing to me.”
”What am I doing to you?” she asked, letting her hair tickle his straining erection.
”You know exactly what you're doing.” He sounded positively tortured, which she loved.
”I'll stop if you don't like it.”
He fisted her hair, keeping her right where she was, hovering over him.
”Is this what you want?” She dabbed at the head of his p.e.n.i.s with delicate strokes of her tongue.
”Yeah.”
”How about this?” She dragged her tongue over the length of him.
”That's good, too.”
”What about this?” Moving lower, she cupped his b.a.l.l.s and took him fully into her mouth.
His hips surged off the bed, and his fists tightened in her hair, almost to the point of pain, but Kate didn't care. She remembered the first time she'd done this to him, how he'd told her what he liked and showed her what to do. She'd been unable to bring herself to do it for anyone else. This, like so many other things, belonged to him and him alone.
”Kate...stop. Stop.”
Surprised by his harsh tone, she looked up at him. ”Did I do it wrong?”
”G.o.d, no. You did it just right. Come here.”
She crawled into his outstretched arms. ”What's wrong?”
”Absolutely nothing.” He ma.s.saged her neck and shoulders, which felt heavenly. His erection surged against her belly, demanding she take notice. ”I need to get a condom.”
Kate moved off him so he could get up.
When he returned from the bathroom, her mouth went dry as she took a good long look at him in all his aroused glory. ”See something you like, darlin'?” he asked, amused.
”I've never seen anything I like better.”
”While I find that hard to believe, I'm very, very grateful.”
”Can I go back to where I was?” she asked. ”On top?”
”You can go anywhere you want.”
He stretched out on his back, and Kate straddled him, leaning over to kiss him as he cupped her b.r.e.a.s.t.s and teased her nipples with his fingers. ”Lift up a little,” he said, sounding tense and strained, which made her realize how hard he was fighting to hold on to his control.
Pleased by his reaction to her, Kate did as he asked. When she felt the nudge of his erection between her legs she eased herself down on him, letting her head fall back in surrender as she took him in.
”Yes,” he whispered. ”That's so good.”
”So good. Better than anything.” With him growing inside her, Kate was filled with an overwhelming sense of contentment and antic.i.p.ation of all they had to look forward to.
Reid sat up and arranged her legs so they were wrapped around him. His chest hair rubbed against her nipples, making them tingle and tighten. Their eyes met and held. In a moment of perfect harmony, he tipped his head and held her gaze as he kissed her gently, reverently.
Kate's heart beat so hard and so fast it made her lightheaded, or maybe he made her lightheaded. It was him. Definitely him.
His hands slid slowly down her back to grip her b.u.t.tocks as he compelled her to move. And then one of his hands was between her legs, coaxing her. When his lips closed around her nipple, the o.r.g.a.s.m crashed over her, stealing what was left of her sanity. She gasped when he dug his fingers into her bottom as he surged into her and came with a cry.
He hugged her tightly afterward.
”How did I live without you-without that-for so long?” he asked.
”I don't know how I did it either.”
”I should've come after you.”
”I never should've left.”
”We won't make those mistakes again.”
”No, we won't.” Kate closed her eyes and drifted in a sea of serenity. The future stretched out before them, bright with promise. ”Will you take me home, Reid?”
”What about your pilot?”