Chapter 15
Stewart
“Rita.” I pounded on her door. My chest ready to crack open. She had to be alright. She had to be.
“Baby, open the door.” I didn’t stop. What if our fight was the last time I got to talk to her? What if I lost her? What if she’d needed me and I wasn’t there all because of some stupid pride?
“Rita, please, baby.” I shouted. She had to be okay. “I swear I’m going to kick this fucking thing in if you don’t open the damn door.” My hand was starting to hurt, but I didn’t care. Not when she could be lying there dying and I needed to get to her.
I backed up, ready to follow through on my threat, when the door opened and she was there.
“Thank god.” I had her in my arms in record speed. “What happened? Are you alright?” I ran my hands up and down her back. I wanted to check her out for injuries, but I couldn’t let her go.
“I’m fine.”
“We’ll see.” I forced myself to pull away. “Come on.” I reached for her hand.
“What are you doing?” She stayed put.
“I’m taking you back to the clinic to make sure you’re alright.” I wasn’t taking any chances.
“Stewart.” She still wasn’t moving.
“Rita, I’m serious.” I warned her. “I will pick you up and carry you if I have to, but you’re going to get checked out.”
She bit the side of her lip. “I think I might have made a mistake.”
“What? What are you talking about?”
“I didn’t think this through.” She turned and walked back inside her apartment.
“Didn’t think what through?” I came up behind her.
“I wanted to get you back here, and you said you’d be here if I needed you, so I called Nate and had him tell you I needed you.” She pulled at her whole bottom lip with her teeth.
“I don’t understand.”
“I didn’t get hurt.” She explained. “I just…well…I knew you were mad, and I didn’t think you’d come if I simply called and said I wanted to see you.”
My eyes kept blinking as I tried to work out what she was saying.
“Let me see if I got this straight.” I had to have missed something. “You had the guy from the clinic tell me you were hurt in order to get me over here instead of just calling?”
“Yes.” She looked nervous.
I wasn’t sure whether to scream or laugh. I took a deep breath trying to get my heart rate to calm down. I ran my hand over my face and back through my hair.
“You realize I broke about seven traffic laws trying to get to you in time.” I told her. “I think I might have caused an accident, and I wasn’t kidding about kicking in your door. I thought you were really hurt.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Why did you think I wouldn’t come if you called?” I went over and closed her front door.
“Because I know I messed up. I should have never let you leave. Not without telling you I feel the same way.” Her words stopped my heart.
“Feel the same way about what?” I needed her to say it.
She took a long breath, and her eyes locked with mine. “I love you.”
I stared at her, waiting. Hoping that this was real. When she didn’t move or take it back, I let myself believe.
“Do you mean it?”
She walked toward me, not stopping until we were chest to chest. Her arms went around my waist, and her lips brushed the underside of my chin.
“I mean it.” She kissed the side of my neck. “I love you, and I’m sorry. You’re not a patient to me. You’ve never really been a patient to me. You’ve always been Stewart. Just Stewart.”
I wrapped her in my arms. “Really?”
“Really.” She rose up enough that we were almost eye level. “And I’d love to go home with you to meet your family.”
It was almost too much. I was glad I could use the door to keep us standing.
“You want to come home with me?”
“Yes.” Her smile was radiant. “I really do.”
“What about everything else?” I asked. “What about the rules?”
“Like you said. There’s no power play. We’re just two people in love and wildly attracted to each other.” She paused. “At least I think we are?”
“Yeah, we are.” I pulled her in for the biggest hug ever. It wasn’t enough.
I picked her up and spun her around in the air. That still wasn’t enough. Setting her down, I brushed her hair over her shoulders so I could cup her face and bring her closer.
“I love you.” My heart filled with so much emotion and joy I wasn’t sure I could keep it in my chest.
“I love you.”
Our lips crashed together. I twisted us so that she was the one pressed against the door.
I lifted one of her legs so it was wrapped around my waist. I couldn’t get enough of kissing her.
The feel of her tongue tangled with mine, the feel of her fingers pulling on the back of my hair, and her body tight in my arms. I was already hard as fuck, but when she moaned that damn near brought me to my knees.
“Baby.” My breath caught in my chest. I’d only taken my mouth away from hers for a second, and she went right for my neck. Her lips pressed over and over until she reached my Adam’s apple and sucked lightly. “Fuck, Rita.” God, I was going to come right here.
She raised up so that her lips were right beside my ear. “That sounds perfect.” Her tongue ran over the shell, and I was gone.
“Bedroom.” I lifted her into my arms. “Now.”
“Over there.” She pointed to the left, and I took off. I didn’t stop until I had her spread out under me, my mouth back on hers.
Rita tunneled her hands under my shirt and started lifting. I hated breaking away from her, but I sat back so she could get rid of the damn thing. I pulled her into a sitting position so I could take hers off at the same time. I groaned when I realized she wasn’t wearing anything underneath.
“Do we always go bra-less?” I cupped each mound and ran my thumb over the nipple, enjoying how fast they hardened.
“Only when someone special is coming.” She bit the side of her lip.
“Keep that up and I’ll be coming faster than either of us planned.” I leaned forward and kissed her.
“Not without me, I hope.”
“Never.” I lowered her back onto the mattress. “I plan to make sure we come together.”
“Good.”
I took my time kissing from her mouth to her cheek, her earlobe, down her neck, and finally sucking one of her breasts deep. I let my tongue lap at her nipple. I wanted them as hard as my cock.
“Stu.” Rita bucked into me. Her legs wide and her core perfectly in line for me.
“I want to taste you, but fuck, I don’t think I’ll last.” My fingers were already unfastening her pants.
“Later.” She brought her hand to the front of my pants to open them. “I need you inside me.”
I wiggled my hand down her pants and into her panties.
“Are you ready for me?” I swiped my finger through her folds.
“Damn, baby. You’re fucking drenched.” I pulled my hand away and licked her liquid heat from my fingers.
My eyes closed as her flavor filled my senses.
“No.” I shook my head. “I need more of a taste.”
I jumped off the bed and kicked the rest of my clothes off. I pulled at her pants until we were both stark naked. Rita’s eyes darkened as she stared at my dick standing proud and waiting for her.
“Do I get a taste too?” She licked her lips like a kitten, and I couldn’t help stroking myself.
“You can have whatever you want.” And I didn’t just mean in the bedroom. I had a feeling she could ask me for the moon with that look on her face, and I’d find a way to make sure she got it.
I crawled back onto the bed and lifted her legs so they were on my shoulders.
I used my fingers to spread her folds and dropped my head right into her core.
My tongue licked a cry from her lips, and I smiled.
I’d had enough dreams of what she might sound like in bed.
My imagination hadn’t done the moment justice. The real thing was so much better.
“That’s it.” I dipped my tongue into her entrance. “Let me hear you. I want to make you scream for me.” I was determined not to stop until she came so hard everyone in the building heard her shouting my name.
I worked every inch of her, paying special attention to her clit. I pushed one finger in and then another, curling them, searching for the spot I knew would push her into an orgasm.
“Fuck,” Rita yelled when I found it. I continued brushing my tongue over her clit. I bit down lightly, and she yelled out again. This time louder. I pushed my fingers harder against her good spot and nibbled at her clit until she screamed out my name and came so hard both of us shook.
I sat back. Her essence dripping on my chin. “So fucking good.” I reached down for my pants and pulled out a condom. I didn’t normally carry them with me, but ever since our night in Colorado Springs I’d been keeping one just in case. I didn’t want to get to this point and have to stop.
I finished rolling it on just as Rita opened her eyes and looked into mine.
She moved onto my lap and straddled my cock.
Her hand grabbed hold of the base and held me still as she lowered herself inch by glorious inch.
I leaned back on my hands and let her take the lead.
Whatever she wanted from me, she could have.
Her hand held onto my shoulders as she lifted up and slammed herself back down. Both of us let out sounds of pleasure. Her eyes never left mine, making the move that much more intense.
She rode my cock hard and fast. Both of us kept our eyes locked on the other. I sat up to pull her chest to mine, and my hand ran over the scars from her accident. Without taking my eyes away, I moved us so she was lying back and I could kiss as much of her side as possible.
“Beautiful.” I moved my mouth to another one.
“They aren’t.” Her eyes looked glossy.
“They are the reason you are still here.” I told her. “That makes each one the most beautiful thing in the world.” I kissed her side again. “Everything about you is beautiful.”
A lone tear fell from her eye, and I quickly moved to kiss it away. My body continued moving inside hers.
“Come for me again.” I kissed her once more. “Come with me.” Rita nodded, and we moved in a rhythm that felt completely our own.
“Stu.” She ran her fingers through my hair and held on. I could feel her inner walls tightening around me, and I sped up. My body took hers relentlessly until once again she screamed out in pleasure. This time my shout of ecstasy joined hers.
I fell to the side with her still in my arms. My chest rising and falling in rapid succession. I could barely catch my breath.
“That was…” I wasn’t sure there was a word for it. Amazing didn’t seem good enough.
“Oh, yeah.” Rita’s head rested on my chest.
We laid there tangled together. My hand ran up and down her arm.
A huge smile on my face. She loved me, and she was coming home with me.
I couldn’t wait to show her around. Not just back home, but here too.
I wanted the whole unit to meet her. I already knew she and Kai’s wife were going to get along. They’d probably be besties in no time.
“What are you thinking about?” Her light voice pulled me back.
“Us.” I tightened my hold. “I love you.”
“I love you.” She wiggled her way out of my arms. I slid out of her, which I didn’t like, but got over when she straddled me again. “When you said I could have whatever I wanted, did you mean it?”
I raised my eyebrow when her hand circled my cock. “Yeah?” Surely she didn’t think I could go again. My heart had just gotten back to normal.
“So I get to have a taste of my own?”
I smiled. “Whatever you want, baby, but I’m gonna need a minute.”
“That’s fine.” She climbed off me and the bed. “I need a shower anyway.” She didn’t bother putting anything on. I watched her ass as she walked out of the bedroom and to the bathroom.
A few seconds after the water turned on, her head popped back in. “Are you coming?” Her eyebrows wiggled.
“You bet I am.” I hopped off the bed and rushed toward her, surprisingly ready for whatever it was she wanted.