The Price of Mason (Forbidden Men 10)

Eva nodded, her face paling, and her biting sarcasm vanished. “Me too. Give me your number; whoever finds her first lets the other one know.”

“Okay. Good idea.” The bizarreness of cooperating with Eva so cordially didn’t even faze me as I took her phone when she handed it over so I could call myself. Once numbers were exchanged, we nodded to each other silently and headed our separate ways.

Twenty minutes later, it was nearly ten thirty at night, and there was no sign of Reese anywhere. I returned to her apartment, my stomach cramping with fear. Hoping she’d come home while I was gone, I knocked on her door again, but no one answered.

Sitting on the top step, I gripped my hands together and forced myself not to panic. But where the hell could she be? And why had she turned her phone off?

I’d just pulled my phone from my pocket and was beginning to text Eva to see if she’d had any luck when a car on the street slowed and pulled into the drive, parking in front of the garage doors.

Realizing it was Reese’s car, I switched my message to say:

Mason: All’s good. She’s home.

Then I pocketed the phone and took a deep breath, forcing myself to remain calm and stay sitting there instead of jumping up and racing to her like I wanted to. If I overreacted, she’d sense how panicked and scared I’d been, and I didn’t want to alarm her.

“Mason!” Popping from her car, she waved big before flying up the stairs toward me. “What’re you doing here? Oh my God. You have no idea how happy I am to see you.”

Not as happy as I was to see her, I bet.

As soon as she plopped herself onto my lap, we came together, kissing greedily as if it had been years instead of hours since we’d last been together. I clutched her face in my hands and licked into her mouth, then stood up, carrying her with me.

“I couldn’t stay away,” I said, against her mouth as I turned us toward the door where she rushed to unlock it while I continued to hold her. “I couldn’t leave things like they were. Jesus, where the hell have you been?”

“I’ll explain later,” she said tossing down her keys and purse to wrap her arms fully around my neck. Then she kissed me some more.

After kicking the door shut, I leaned her against it and pinned her up off her feet with my hips as I ground against her core and ripped her shirt over her head. She wrapped her legs around my waist while I stripped away her bra.

“Oh, wow, you’re really good at this,” she panted, helping me with my shirt next.

“I need inside you. Now,” I growled, not really wanting to stop pressing my dick up against her through our jeans, yet knowing it was the only logical next step if I wanted to actually get inside her.

We both released a moan of complaint when I set her feet down and stepped back. Then we each rushed, Reese shedding her jeans completely and me only shoving mine down until my cock sprang free, which I promptly covered with a handy condom from the box that was still sitting nearby on the key table.

A second later, I picked her back up and pressed her spine to the door. Then I pushed my hips forward just as I let her slide down enough to impale herself.

“Oh, God,” she groaned, tossing her head back and panting as I worked steadily in and out of her, giving her no time to adjust to the change, just mercilessly fucking her full force straight out of the gate.

She came all over my cock in record time, crying out from the force of her orgasm and biting my shoulder to abate the intensity. The pressure of her sweet inner muscles squeezing around me made me clench my teeth and fight my own climax, because I wasn’t ready yet. I wanted this to last.

“What have you done to me?” I asked, staring dazedly into her eyes as I kept thrusting, unable to stop. “Why can’t I never get enough of you? Why do I always want more?”

Cradling my face in her hands, Reese smiled softly. “Because we’re soulmates, baby. Half of you is inside me, and you’re always going to want to be close to me so you can reunite with the other half of yourself and feel whole again. It’s the same way with me. I can’t get enough of you, either.”

My body tensed and strained, fighting off the orgasm that was on the brink of coming. Cradling her face the same way she was mine, I gasped, “God, I love you,” just before clashing our mouths together and coming so hard I saw stars.

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bsp; We held each other a good five minutes into the aftermath, clinging together with an earth-shattering awareness that this thing between us went way beyond anything either of us had ever experienced before.

“Wow,” Reese rasped as soon as I pulled free of her. She slid down to sit on the welcome mat, her back still flush against the door. “I had no idea breaking the law could make a girl so crazy horny.”

I collapsed next to her, running my hands through my damp, sweaty hair and trying to make sense of her words. “Do I even want to know what you mean by that?”

Grinning at me, she announced, “I totally lied to you this morning.”

Blinking once, then twice, I cocked my head to the side. “Say what?”

“I mean…” Flushing, she laughed at herself. “Not an out-and-out lie, but a lie of omission to lead you astray. But not like, a terrible, earth-shattering—”