Chapter 28
Reese
“I t feels really weird getting naked with a man when my parents are in the same house,” I said with a giggle as I stripped off my bathing suit.
My parents had taken a swim with us and soaked in Devon’s large-enough-to-have-a-party hot tub.
My mom and dad had gone off to their own suite of rooms Devon had put them in, and we’d headed to bed.
We always showered after being in the pool or hot tub to wash off the chlorine.
He sent me a shit-eating grin as he stripped off his swim trunks. “Why do you think I put them on the other side of the house? It’s a big house with plenty of walls between us.”
“It’s a ridiculously large house,” I said in a mock exasperated tone. “I’m not saying they can hear us, it just feels…weird. It’s never happened before.”
All in all, today had been one of the best days of my life.
My parents were here.
Devon was here.
And I was finally able to be Reese Monroe again.
My parents seemed to like Devon a lot, and vice versa.
But being with him like this with my family made the indecisiveness of our future even more difficult to bear.
What was I going to do if he decided he didn’t want a future together?
Stop, Reese! None of that needs to be decided right now!
Except…it was getting hard to convince myself of that anymore.
I was cherishing every moment we had, but I couldn’t help thinking about the fact that if he didn’t want us forever, it was going to crush my soul.
I wrapped my arms around his neck when we were both naked and he turned on the shower. “Have I thanked you for everything you’re doing for me and my parents?”
“Yes,” he growled. “And if you thank me one more time for something that I want to do, I’m going to smack that beautiful ass of yours.”
My brows rose and I shot him a sultry smile. “I think I might like that. So, thank you again.”
He opened the door to the enormous shower. “Get in,” he demanded.
I stepped into the elaborate shower.
The stall had multiple shower heads, bench seats, and enough room to fit an entire sports team.
It was obvious that Devon was in his bossy mood, and molten heat flooded between my thighs as he stepped into the shower.
There was an intense look in his dark eyes that was hard for me to read right now.
He wrapped his arms around my body and pulled our bodies as tightly together as they could get before he kissed me.
The embrace was rough, possessive, passionate, and demanding.
And my body responded with the same emotions.
It felt like Devon was trying to claim my mouth as well as the rest of my body.
It was a kiss like no other I’d ever shared with him before, but it felt almost…desperate, and his desperation called to my own.
Steam rose all around us, and I could almost imagine that it was the two of us that had created our environment, even though I knew it was coming from the moisture and heat of the water.
We weren’t in one of the direct streams of water, but our bodies were slick with moisture as his hands roamed everywhere.
Again, I felt like he was trying to claim me, memorize every curve of my body, and I moaned against his mouth as I ran my hands over his slick skin in the same way.
I slid my hand down to grip his cock, but he grabbed my wrist and jerked our lips apart. “Don’t,” he insisted.
Our eyes met as he stroked his palm down my belly and did exactly what he didn’t allow me to do.
The moment his fingers found and stroked my pussy; my legs almost gave way.
Devon knew how to pleasure a woman all too well, and he wasn’t playing around today.
He stroked my clit until my body was ready to implode, but he suddenly stopped, turned my body around, and placed my hands on one of the bench seats.
He leaned over me until his mouth was near my earlobe.
He nipped it and then said in a wicked voice. “Tell me you want my cock, Reese. Tell me exactly what you need.”
I was so aroused, and I wanted him so much that I blurted out, “I want your cock inside me so badly, Devon. Fuck me.”
“I think I promised you this,” he said hoarsely as he smacked my ass.
I was so startled that my body jerked.
He hadn’t hurt me.
In fact, that brief sting made my core clench hard with need.
“Are you going to tell me you’re sorry again?”
“I’m sorry,” I said immediately.
He put his hand between my thighs and stroked my clit like a man on a mission.
It was like he wanted to make sure that I still…needed him.
That I still wanted him.
God, he should know the answers to those questions by now, but there was definitely an intensity to Devon that I’d never experienced before.
Because I didn’t know what our future was going to be together, things between the two of us felt just as intense for me.
I threw my head back and moaned his name.
He slapped my ass again, and the pleasure was so extreme that I nearly lost my mind.
An instant later, he buried himself to his balls inside me, and I let out a choked sob of relief.
I needed this.
I needed him.
I needed the satisfying pleasure of our bodies fused together this way.
He grasped my hips and started to fuck me hard, and I pushed my hips back meeting every stroke.
He fucked me like a man who had completely lost control, and I savored every commanding thrust.
“Oh, God! Devon!” I cried out, my body craving release, yet wanting to stretch the pleasure out for a little longer.
Suddenly, he pulled me up, turned me around, and grabbed my ass to lift me up.
I wrapped my legs around him automatically.
“Not like that. Not this time,” he said huskily as he pushed my back against the wall.
I wrapped my arms around his neck, sighing at the feel of our naked bodies sliding together.
He was inside me in an instant, and his lips claimed mine.
My legs tightened around his waist, wanting to get as close as possible to this man that I loved so damn fiercely.
He pummeled into me as he gripped my ass tightly, holding me in place.
I panted as he released my lips.
“You’re mine, Reese. Fucking say it before I lose my mind,” he said gruffly beside my ear.
“I’ll always be yours, Devon,” I said mindlessly.
“Fuck knows I’m already yours,” he said, his chest heaving.
He reached his hand between our bodies and expertly stimulated my clit.
That sent me over the edge almost immediately.
“Yes, yes, yes,” I chanted as my climax tore through my body with so much power that it was almost terrifying.
My core spasmed violently while Devon kept fucking me like a madman.
He let out a tormented groan as he came deep inside me.
“I love you,” I whimpered before I could stop the words from leaving my lips. “I love you so much that it hurts.”
Already spent, Devon’s body suddenly froze.
He gripped me tighter, but he didn’t move for a moment.
Tear sprang to my eyes because he hadn’t said it back to me.
Dammit! I shouldn’t have let those words leave my mouth, but it was something I just couldn’t hold back anymore.
I did love him and not telling him how I felt had been pure agony for me.
Obviously, he hadn’t been ready to go there.
I couldn’t regret blurting out how I felt, but the pain in my chest because he obviously couldn’t say those words to me was excruciating.
Once I’d caught my breath, he slowly lowered my feet to the ground, grabbed the body wash and quickly washed our bodies and rinsed us off before he turned off the shower.
Embarrassed, I jumped out of the shower before he did and grabbed a towel.
He took the towel from me and thoroughly dried me off before he swiped the same towel over his body.
I ran a brush through my hair as he was drying himself.
“Did you mean that?” he asked hesitantly. “Or was that just a heat of the moment thing?”
I could easily tell him that the words had slipped during an orgasmic moment, but I wasn’t about to lie to him now.
“I’ve been wanting to tell you that for a long time,” I confessed.
He wrapped his arms around my nude body. “Tell me again now that I’m over the shock and I know that you mean it.”
Okay, so maybe his sudden freeze hadn’t been exactly as I’d interpreted it.
“I love you,” I said simply. “I have for a long time, but it just seemed too soon to say those words, and I wasn’t in a position to have anything more until my situation was resolved. Maybe I was also a little afraid that you really didn’t want to hear those words.”
He picked me up, carried me to the bed, and sat me down on the sheets gently.
“You’re definitely stuck with me now,” he said as he got into bed and pulled me close to him.
“Why?” I asked, confused.
“Because I love you, too, Reese Monroe, and now that I know that you love me, I’m never planning on ever letting you go.”