Chapter Eleven
Riley held her hand all the way back to her apartment. After parking he turned to her. Unless he’d read her very wrong, tonight was the night. “Are you sure about this?”
“Yes. Are you?”
He laughed. “I’ve been ready since the first time I kissed you.”
They managed to get inside her apartment before they started ripping off each other’s clothes.
He cupped her face in his hands and kissed her.
Her lips were cold, but so soft, so giving.
Her taste was as sweet as hot honey but it hit him as strongly as a shot of whiskey.
She flung her arms around his neck and poured herself into the kiss.
Their mouths still fused together, they started stripping.
She knocked his cowboy hat off his head.
He yanked off her cap and flung it away.
He unzipped her coat and pushed it down her arms. She let it drop, then attacked his coat buttons.
When she finished, he shrugged out of his coat.
She kissed him again, and he boosted her up so that she could wrap her legs around his waist. He began walking to her bedroom as she ripped her sweater off over her head.
He looked down at lush breasts spilling out of her lacy white bra.
One hand under her butt holding her to him, he used his other to unhook her bra and throw it away.
“You’re very handy, aren’t you?” Her voice was husky and shot straight to his cock, which had been hard almost from the moment she kissed him.
“I’m a man of many talents.”
“Show me.”
He grinned. “Happy to.” He set her on the bed and knelt in front of her to unlace her snow boots and tug them off before pulling off her socks.
He sat beside her and yanked off his own boots and socks.
But they still wore way too many clothes.
Letty stood, unbuttoned and unzipped her jeans and shimmied out of them.
Leaving her wearing a pair of tiny, lacy white panties.
A thong, he realized when she crawled onto the middle of the bed and sat up waiting for him.
He was dumbstruck for a moment. His mind filled with her perfect breasts and ass.
“Riley? Is something wrong?”
“Wrong? Hell, no. You’re perfect.”
She laughed. “Hardly.”
“Oh, baby, you have no idea.” He’d always thought she was pretty. Recently he’d realized she had curves that wouldn’t quit. But damn, seeing her like this, nearly naked, had blown his mind.
“Take off your jeans.”
Laughing at her demand, he reached in his pocket and pulled out a couple of condoms, tossing them on the bedside table before he finished stripping.
Taking her hand, he pulled her to the edge of the bed.
On her knees, she plastered herself up against him and kissed him, a searing kiss.
He wanted to take his time but he wasn’t sure he could.
It had been a long time since he’d been with anyone, and he’d never been with Letty.
He slipped his hands down, caressing her ass, marveling at how soft her skin was.
Bringing up his other hand, he massaged her breast and rolled her nipple.
She groaned and spread her hands over his chest.
“You have such lovely muscles.” She bent her head and kissed his chest, then licked his nipple, sending a shiver of awareness through him.
He pushed her to her back, landing beside her. Kissed her again as he slid his hand down to her tiny panties. Dipping his hand beneath the scrap of lace, he ran his fingers over her slick heat before plunging a finger inside.
“Oh, God.” Letty rolled her hips and groaned. “So good.”
Slowly, he pushed his finger in and out, caressing her clit with each movement. She gasped and tightened around his finger. He added another and she felt even tighter. But she was slick and ready. To hell with taking it slow. Next time, he’d be more thorough, tasting every bit of her.
He rolled aside and grabbed a condom, making quick work of opening the packet and rolling it down over his aching cock. Letty pushed him onto his back. “My turn.” She crawled on top of him and slid her slickness up and down as he grew impossibly harder.
“Damn, Letty. I’m going to blow like a teenager if you keep that up.”
Her smile was wicked and sexy. “Can’t have that.
” Sliding her opening over him, she grasped his cock and lined it up before sinking down, taking him all the way inside her.
His hands on her hips, he pulled her up and slammed her back down.
She looked like a wanton goddess, riding him into oblivion.
She tightened around him as he thrust into her, once, twice before he came, blasting inside her as she stilled and said his name on a gasp before collapsing onto his chest.
“I think you killed me,” he said when he could speak.
“Ditto,” she murmured, still lying bonelessly on top of him.
*
“I should probably go home,” Riley said, much later.
“No you shouldn’t. There’s a blizzard and it’s late.”
“It’s only snowing, not a blizzard. I can’t leave my dad to take care of the horses and cattle by himself.”
“You have help, don’t you? Call them in the morning and tell them you’ll be late.”
“It’s tempting.” Especially with Letty curled up against him, warm and naked.
Letty raised her head and looked at him with a sultry smile. “I bet I can convince you to stay.”
“I bet you can too. Easily.” He kissed her, meaning to make it a light peck on the lips.
That’s not what happened. Their lips clung together, his tongue delved into her mouth.
She answered with her tongue and the next thing he knew, she was on top of him and his hands were on her breasts.
He groaned. “Maybe I could stay a little longer.”
“Sounds like a plan.” She reached over and opened her bedside table drawer, coming up with condoms. “I bought these a couple of days ago. Just in case.” She opened one and rolled it down over his aching shaft.
Then she climbed on top of him and rode him until they both exploded, one after the other.
Letty lay on top of him, limp and, he hoped, satisfied. “It’s really too bad I can’t stay with you at the ranch.”
“Not unless you want Jasper to have an absolute shit fit.”
She laughed and propped her head up on her arm. “He really would. I can just imagine the look he’d give me when he saw me again. But doesn’t it bother him when you don’t come home and he knows you’re with a woman?”
“We avoid the subject. And I make sure someone is around to help him in the morning. Which I didn’t do this time since I didn’t know this was going to happen.” He thought about it and added, “I haven’t been with anyone in months, so it hasn’t come up recently.”
“Why?”
“Why haven’t I been with anyone in a long time?” She nodded. “I was waiting for you.”
The look of alarm that washed over her face wasn’t encouraging. Too soon, damn it.
She rolled off of him and sat up, dragging the sheet over herself. “Riley, you know we decided we were just having fun. Don’t make this into something it’s not.”
He didn’t answer but got out of bed and went to the bathroom to clean up. Afterward, he leaned against the sink and looked at himself in the mirror. “Idiot. You knew better but you couldn’t keep your damn mouth shut.”
“Riley? Are you talking to me? Because if you are I didn’t understand it.”
Fortunately. “No, I was muttering to myself.”
He left the bathroom and began putting on his clothes. Letty, still in bed but with the covers pulled up said, “Are you mad?”
In the midst of buttoning and zipping his jeans, he looked at her. “No. Why would you think that?”
“Because you got up without saying a word and stomped out of the room.”
He grabbed his T-shirt and pulled it over his head, then picked up his flannel shirt and shrugged it on. “Okay, I might have been a little annoyed. We need to get something straight.”
“Like what?”
“You can’t flip out whenever I say something you think means more than it does.”
“Like when you said you were waiting for me.”
“Exactly. It didn’t mean anything. And if you’re going to overreact to everything I say or do we won’t have much fun.”
“So, you didn’t mean that the way it sounded?”
He sighed. “I said it because I didn’t want to go into great detail about why I hadn’t been with anyone in a while. You’re going to have to cut me some slack if you want this to work. I’m not going to weigh every word I say so I don’t freak you out.”
“I’m sorry. I overreacted.”
“Ya think?”
Naturally, that pissed her off. “Like you’ve never overreacted? How about the time you dragged me out of Grey’s after you ran off the man I was with?”
“Totally different situation.” He walked into the main room and picked up his coat. Letty came in a few minutes later wearing a fuzzy pink robe.
“Will I see you tomorrow?”
“Do you want to?” he asked.
“Yes.”
“I’ll try. I may not be able to get away. I’ll call you and let you know what’s going on.”
“Okay. Drive safe.”
He took a few steps, put his arms around her and yanked her to him. Then he kissed her, making sure he revved her up and left her wanting. Problem was, it did the same thing to him.