“It’s just a release,” she sniffed and wiped her eyes. “I’m good. I’m really good.”
I sighed heavily, pulling her head back to my shoulder.
“That was pretty intense,” I agreed.
“I needed it after today.”
I frowned against her hair.
“Tell me.”
She was quiet, and I held her tighter.
“Tell. Me.”
“I ran into Wes.”
“Fuck. What did he do?”
I listened as she told me what had occurred. I was furious at his words, then felt my lips quirk when she described taking him down with a knee in the groin. She was small, and he wouldn’t expect that, even after what happened in the bar. I got mad again when she mentioned the way he had kicked at her.
I sat straight. “Which arm?”
“I’m fine. I’m not even sure he meant to. I think he was just kicking in reaction to the pain in his nuts.”
I noticed she was pulling down the sleeve on her right arm to keep it in place. I grasped her wrist carefully and tugged up the sleeve, cursing at the bruise forming, turning the milky skin a mottled mass of blacks and blues.
“Bastard,” I hissed. “I’m going to kill him.”
“No, you’re not. You’re going to stay away from him.”
I shook my head. “This wasn’t words or taunting, Red. This was him touching you. Way different.”
“As I said, I don’t think he meant to. I kneed him pretty hard. He was in a lot of pain. I’m certain he was just moving too much. I got too close trying to get the envelope.”
“You should have left it.”
“I doubt that. It was five hundred bucks, Maxx.”
She had a point. “He needs to be taken to task for what he said.”
She studied me, a small grin playing on her lips. “Is he wrong, though, Maxx?”
“What?” I demanded.
She ran her lips up my neck. “I bet you’d love it if I called you Mr. Reynolds while I was on my knees in front of you, wouldn’t you? Taking your cock in my mouth—”
I cut her off with my lips, a new, frantic hunger taking hold. I stood, taking her with me, my cock already growing, wanting back inside her.
I headed for the stairs, all rational thought gone. She was going to call my name, all right. Mine, God’s, and I didn’t care if there was a mister in front of it or not.
As long as it was her voice saying it.
I’d save rearranging Wes’s face for another time.
Right now, I had other needs.
Hard, pressing needs only Red could soothe.
And soothe, she did.
Brilliantly.Chapter 19MAXXI woke in the morning with Red beside me—or I should say, all over me. Her head was buried in my neck, her breathing small puffs of air on my skin. She was half on top of me, her leg thrown over my hips, snuggled tight to my body.
In return, my cock was hard and snuggled tight into her. All it would take was a shift of my body and a subtle movement of my hips, and I’d be inside her. I could feel her heat surrounding me.
Her mouth pursed and moved, ghosting my skin with kisses as she slumbered. Her fingers moved on my skin restlessly, and she whimpered low in her throat. I listened carefully, grinning at the words she whispered.
Maxx.
Please.
Want.
Please.
I couldn’t refuse. I was done denying both of us. I turned and gripped her hip, groaning as I sank into her. I tipped up her head, kissing her soft skin.
“Red, baby, open your eyes.”
She blinked as I moved, slowly easing in and out of her, her body moving with mine without any thought. Her breath caught in her throat as she woke fully.
“Holy moly, what are you…” She trailed off with a groan. “Maxx.”
“You asked me,” I growled. “You begged. I’m giving you exactly what you wanted.”
“Yes,” she whimpered. “Give it to me.” She hitched her leg higher. “All of it.”
With a snarl, I rolled over her, bracing on my elbows. I sank deeper as she wrapped her legs around me, and I moved faster. Powerful thrusts of my hips as I took her. Claimed her.
She was beautiful under me in the early light of dawn. Her red hair was wild and spread out over the pillows like a river of molten fire. Her sleepy eyes were half closed, her lips parted as she moaned and sighed my name. She gripped my shoulders, ran her hands over my chest, pulled me in deeper as she arched her back and tightened her legs.
I kissed and lapped at her skin. Her full, sexy breasts. I sucked at her nipples until they were red and wet from my mouth. I did the same to her lips.
Then, with a long roar, I came. I sat up, pulling her hips with me, driving into her as my orgasm raged through me. Pleasure spiraled down to the point our bodies connected, sending out long spasms of ecstasy so great, I was certain I would explode from the sensations. Red keened my name, gripping the sheets and twisting them in her fists as she climaxed, milking my cock, her muscles holding me within her in the most intimate of embraces.