Bitter

I turn around and give him an apologetic smile. “Can I have a minute?”

He groans and kisses up my neck. “Can I say no?”

I bite my lip to hide my smile. “It won’t be long. I promise.”

He sighs. “What’s another minute?” His tone isn’t very convincing, but I head up to the bathroom anyway.

I took care of almost everything when I showered before dinner, but I just want to freshen up a little before. I brush out my now dry hair and touch up my makeup. I quickly put on some lotion and then slip into the black pantie set I brought with matching sheer cover up.

I take one last look at myself before I turn to open the door. I pause with my hand on the doorknob. I’m suddenly super nervous. Should I be doing this?

As if Reed could sense my hesitation, he calls out from the other side of the door. “Everything okay in there?”

“Yeah!” I call out but still don’t open the door. He turns on some music when I don’t come out, and I take a deep breath. Why can’t I open this door?

I’m scared. This is real. What if everything blows up? What if Reed is just a rebound? What if he doesn’t feel the same way about me that I feel about him? Why would this work out when nothing else has? Why would he care about me?

“Wren…” His voice is laced with concern right on the other side of the door.

That one word is all it takes to make me open the door. I don’t care about anything that has happened before or what will happen after. I know in this moment with everything that I am that this is what I should be doing.

I pull the door open slowly, and I give Reed a small smile. “Hi.” I glance nervously down to the floor.

Reed sucks in a breath. “Fuck,” he exhales harshly.

He lifts my chin, but he’s not looking back at me. No. He wanted me to watch him as he scans my body from head to toe. When his eyes finally reach mine again, he looks like he’s starving for me.

He yanks my body up to his as he lowers his mouth to mine. He doesn’t hold back as his fingers dig into my skin and he walks backward toward the bed. His tongue slips into my mouth, and his hands roam my body until his legs hit the bed.

I push him back until he falls back onto his elbows. He smirks at me, and I smile back. I take a step back so he can get a full view. I pull the tie on the sheer coverup and let it fall to the ground. “Take off your clothes.” I nod at him.

He breathes out a laugh. “I thought that’s what you were doing.”

I lower my eyebrows and lean my head to the side in question. He laughs again. “Okay. Okay. Got it.” He grabs his t-shirt and rips it over his head, and then he unbuckles his jeans and pulls them off. Then he nods at me. “It seems you’re wearing more clothes than me again.”

I giggle. “Oh? How am I ever going to correct that?”

I reach behind my back to unlatch my bra, but Reed stops me. “Wait!” he yells.

He sits forward on the bed and reaches for my hand and pulls me closer. “If I’m going to do this, I’m going to fucking do it.”

He takes a deep breath before reaching behind me and unhooking my bra. I let it fall down my arms until it drops to the floor. He immediately reaches for my panties and pulls them down my legs, and I step out of them.

He leans back slightly to look at me fully. “God, you’re beautiful,” he exhales.

I think I stopped breathing. His mouth twitches into a smile, and then he stands and grabs me and throws me back down onto the bed. I squeal and laugh as he climbs on top of me. He brushes the hair out of my face and smiles at me before he leans down and kisses my mouth, and then he explores my body like he’s been waiting his whole life to do so.

Each and every time his lips move to a new area, he lingers like he is trying to imprint each moment to his memory. The attention is making my body buzz. Nobody has ever paid me this much attention before.

Fuck. The way his lips lightly suck my nipples followed by his teeth biting them harder, only to be soothed by the circling of his tongue. I ache to be touched down between my legs, and so I lift my hips against him.

He seems to get the idea as his mouth travels down my stomach. He groans when he reaches my hip. “I’ve fucking wanted this for so long.”

I try not to read into what he’s saying, but my heart rate speeds up nonetheless. “Reed. Please…” I trail off when his lips connect with my thighs.

His tongue glides up until his mouth is in between my legs. He lightly sucks and nibbles around me until I can’t take anymore. I whimper until he finally gives me what I want. His tongue parts me until it flicks my clit at the end.

My eyes roll back in my head, and I moan. “Ohh...fuck…”

He groans like he got more pleasure from it than me, and if that doesn’t fucking turn me on even more. His tongue continues to work me painfully slow. “Reed…” I pant, trying to edge him on.

He growls in the back of his throat as he sucks my clit in between his lips. “Say my name again,” he begs.

“Ugh... Reed…” I exhale.