Fall for Me (Cowboys of Crested Butte 1)

His mouth was hard on hers again, picking her back up, putting his hands on the back of her thighs, helping her circle his waist again. “Shh, no talking, remember?”

With a quick snap of his hips, he was inside her. “Hold on to me,” he demanded. Liv wrapped her arms around his neck. He thrust hard again and again, holding her firmly against him with both hands. He started humming, the deep vibration of his voice spread through her and she trembled.

“Fall with me, Liv. Let yourself go.” Liv gasped at his words and cried out.

As soon as her head stopped spinning she opened her eyes, and he was gone. The bed shifted as he lay back down beside her.

“Wow.”

“Liv, can I ask you something?”

She rolled to her stomach. “I thought we agreed, no more talking.”

“This is different. I don’t want anything to come between us. I don’t want to use a condom when we’re together.”

Liv hesitated. “I’m not on birth control, Ben.”

He put his arm across her back and kissed her shoulder. “Do you want to be?”

“By the time I do…”

“Finish the sentence, Liv.”

“We might not…you know.”

“What? Be together?”

Liv nodded.

Ben rolled to his back and looked up at the ceiling, taking a deep breath, gathering his thoughts before he spoke. “Have I given you the impression I wasn’t in this all the way?”

“No, I guess not.”

“Then why are you so hell bent on ending this thing between us?”

Liv had to answer him. He would keep at her until she did. “I’m very independent, Ben.”

He pulled her until she was stretched out on top of him, her head resting on his chest. “I’m not letting go of this, Liv. I haven’t felt this way for a very long time. I’m not sure I’ve ever felt this way. I want to be with you every chance I get. Can you please accept that and quit fighting me on it?”

“I can try.”

“That’s all I can ask, but, Liv?”

“Yeah?”

“I want you to try a whole heck of a lot harder, okay? I want you to let go, let yourself fall for me.”

“I’ll try,” she said again.

“Repeat after me, ‘Ben, I will let myself fall for you’.”

Silence. “Come on, Liv, do it. Repeat after me.”

“Ben, I will let myself fall for you.”

“There, that wasn’t so hard. Now keep repeating it in that beautiful head of yours.”

“I’ll try, Ben. I promise I will.”