Fall for You

by Behon, Susan

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  Reed hadn't taken a bite yet. He was too engrossed in watching Sophie eat. She'd looked happy when she ate the hamburgers last time. This time she looked downright orgasmic. He never thought he would be so jealous of a slice of pizza. Sophie opened her eyes and his thoughts must have shown in his expression because she blushed and started chewing more slowly.

  “Sorry, this is so good and I can't remember the last time I had it.”

  He smiled at her wickedly and said, “I can't remember the last time I had it either.”

  “You mean the pizza?”

  “Sure, that too.” He took a bite of his slice and tried not to shove the rest of it into his face. What the hell did they put in this? Reed tried to eat slowly but this was some amazingly good pizza.

  “I don't remember the Pizza Palace making anything this good. When did this happen and why have I been living without it?”

  Sophie smiled through one more bite, then finished before saying, “It's the new owner. I swear she puts something addictive in the sauce. I absolutely love it.”

  Reed agreed. “Consider me a fan. If I didn't already have my eye on a hot little cookie baker, I'd be on her doorstep.”

  Two slices in and she was finished.

  “I can't eat any more or I won't have room for dessert. If you thought that pizza was good, you've got to try the ice cream.”

  Picking up the plates to take into the kitchen, Reed told her, “Stay put. I'll get it for you.” While he threw the plates in the trash and put the pizza in the refrigerator, he snuck some leftover crust to Max. “I know this is a bribe, but whatever happens tonight, be cool and look the other way. There's more where this came from.”

  Max sat at his feet waiting for the more he was promised.

  “I didn't mean now.”

  He got up with a wag of his tail and left the kitchen.

  When Reed brought a bowl of ice cream to Sophie, he saw her stretch her neck from side to side as if to relieve an ache there. He could fix that. Reed handed her the ice cream and sat on the couch behind her.

  Sophie turned and looked at him. “What are you doing?” He put his hands on her shoulders. “Eat your ice cream. I'm going to make you feel better.” Reed pushed his thumbs into the tight knots in her shoulders and moved them in slow circles to relax the muscles. Almost immediately, she moaned out, “Oh, my God!” Sophie slapped a hand over her mouth, looking embarrassed by her outburst. “I'm sorry!”

  Reed leaned down and whispered in her ear. “Moan all you want. It's sexy as hell and I'm not going to stop until you are completely relaxed.”

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  Sophie didn't know how relaxed she was going to get, but the feel of Reed's hands kneading away the ache in her shoulders made her forget about ice cream entirely. After one bite, she placed the bowl on the table and let herself enjoy his ministrations. The candlelight lent to the soothing atmosphere. Her head was bent down and her arms hung loose in her lap. She felt the twinge in her shoulders ease as he ran his thumbs and fingertips over every knot of tension.

  As he soothed one ache, a different kind started to swell. His strong hands felt so good against her skin. The rhythmic movement of his thumbs pressing into her shoulders made her want to feel his hands on other parts of her body. At that thought, she felt the soft brush of his lips against the nape of her neck. It was barely there, a whisper of feeling, there and gone. As he continued to massage one shoulder, Reed placed another kiss against her neck. He pulled her shirt aside to move his lips lower to her opposite shoulder. Sophie could feel the goose bumps rise on her arms from the pleasure of the dual sensations.

  Sophie needed more. Reed's legs were on opposite sides of her body. She turned within their cradle and rose to her knees. His eyes glittered in the candlelight. Reed's jaw was tense and his breaths were measured. She could see the wanting there. He was trying to restrain himself, but Sophie was done with restraint. She had wanted him for too long to let one more minute pass them by.

  “Thank you for the massage. It worked wonders.” Sophie ran her hands up the top of his thighs and squeezed the taut muscles there. They felt as hard as granite through the soft material of his jeans. “You seem a little tense, Reed. I think you need to relax too.” Sophie got closer to his lap and saw just how tense he was. She slid her hand along the length of him and his eyes closed and his head fell back. Then she did it again. He groaned, “Oh my…” Whatever he was going to say, he didn't finish. He stood up and took her with him. Reed blew out the candles, scooped her up in his arms, and asked, “Where's your bedroom?” She pointed down the hallway and he carried her there with Max following behind them.

  Reed looked down at Max. “Remember what I said.” Her dog dropped down next to the door and rested his head on his paws, going no further into the room.

  “What did you say to him?”

  Reed closed the door with his foot and said, “I'll tell you later.”

  He set her on her feet then quickly pushed her body against the door with his own. His lips came down on hers and his tongue delved inside to stroke along the inside of her mouth. She met his invasion with the frantic slide of her own tongue. Sophie gripped his shoulders and held on as he lifted her until her feet left the ground. She immediately wrapped her legs around his waist so she could feel the hard length of his erection press against her sex. One strong hand gripped her thigh while the other slammed against the door in an effort to keep them upright.

  “Jesus, Sophie. I have to be inside you.” Reed pushed his body even tighter against hers and rubbed along her core. They both moaned at the pleasure of it.

  They had to get naked now. Sophie wanted to touch more of him. She had to feel all of him. She managed to get out, “Bed!”

  The room was dim except for the glow of moonlight that fell across her bed. Sophie could feel the sultry, summer air coming in through the open window. Reed gently dropped her against the pillows, then stood to reach down and pull off his T-shirt.

  Sophie was rendered speechless. The muscles in Reed's chest were beautifully sculpted with a fine sprinkling of dark hair that stretched across his pecs. His abs were a definite six-pack. The sinewy ridges above his hips arrowed down to a vee above his low-slung jeans. It was such a visual feast; she didn't know which part to kiss first.

  Want. That.

  He unzipped his jeans and let them drop to the floor. Sophie was in awe. Reed stood before her in a black pair of boxer briefs that encased his very large and quite noticeable erection. Good God, I hope he fits.

  Reed dipped one knee onto the mattress and crawled predatorily forward until he was hovering over her. “Trust me, I'll fit.” He must have seen the mild panic on her face because he continued to reassure her. His voice was a deep, sexy rasp. “You're small, but I'll make sure you're ready. I'll make you so soft and wet that you'll be able to take all of me. You want that don't you, Sophie?”

  Sophie could only nod. Reed leaned down and kissed her, bracing his weight on his hands. He moved away slightly to look down at her clothes. “These have to come off. Now.”

  They both went to unbutton her shorts at the same time. She got there first and then unzipped. Sophie lifted her hips so Reed could slide them off her. He tossed the shorts over his shoulder and gazed down at her panties. He stopped and grinned. “Thursday, huh?”

  Thinking he might as well see it all at once, Sophie sat up and took her top off too. The grin faded. Reed gazed at her from her banana-adorned bra down to the cartoon monkey resting over her mound. He breathed, “Good God almighty. That has to be the sexiest thing I've ever seen.”

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  Reed wanted to taste her everywhere. He moved closer until his bare stomach brushed against hers. He heard her swift intake of breath at the sensual contact. Sophie was so warm and soft. She was also about to become all his. Her small hands gripped his biceps when he nuzzled along her neck.

  He kissed and licked until he came to the tops of her small firm breasts.
A deep exhalation shivered out of her when Reed reached the front clasp on her bra. With a quick twist of his fingers, the cups of her bra parted. He didn't stop to admire the rosy hue of her nipples or the perfect shape of her gorgeous breasts.

  Without preamble, Reed sucked her nipple into his mouth. He plumped the other breast with his hand and swiped his tongue against that one, just enough to get it wet. She cried out a plea for more. He'd give her more. Reed tugged gently on it, letting it glide and roll between his fingertips as he set a steady rhythm of sucking on one breast while playing his fingertips over the other. Sophie's hips rose and ground against his cock with his every lick, suck, and wet roll of her nipples.

  Reed switched sides and started all over again. The rosy buds hardened even more when he lightly blew on them. His Sophie keened out a small whimper when he sucked her nipple back into his mouth and drew strongly on her. She was heaven on his tongue and he couldn't get enough of her. The sweet taste of her skin and the feel of her body drawing taut against his was something out of his most erotic fantasies.

  Reed almost moaned when he pulled away and gazed down at her Sophie looked like a wet dream come true. Her lips were parted and kiss-swollen and those big green eyes were luminous with arousal. She had her legs wrapped around him until her feet met and crossed at the small of his back. She held on tightly, pulling him against her with surprising strength. He wasn't going anywhere. Reed flexed his hips against her. “Feel what you do to me, my Sophie. Feel how hard and hot you make me.”

  She loosened her legs and let them fall open in a welcoming cradle. He braced himself on his hands as her palms moved from his biceps, up to his shoulders, then down over his pecs. Her fingers ran through his chest hair until they headed south to dance over his abs and down to his waist. The moment Sophie reached under his waistband and wrapped that hot little hand around the length of him, he fought like hell not to go off like a rocket. The feel of her gripping his naked skin was almost his undoing.

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  Sophie couldn't believe Reed was finally in her bed, mostly naked, and looking down at her with the most intensely seductive expression she'd ever seen. Her nipples were hard and sensitive to the warm night air. She almost came when his gorgeous mouth took her breast. He sucked in such a deep, strong rhythm that she felt it in her womb.

  Reed wanted her to feel him and she was all for it. His chest hair was light and crisp when she slid her hands over it. Touching his rigid abs was a joy in and of itself. She wanted to lick over every ridge and valley of those muscles.

  Her hands didn't stop their perusal. Oh no. If he wanted her to touch him, she was all in. He let out an impassioned groan when she reached inside his boxer briefs and wrapped her fingers around his erection. Lord have mercy. Reed's skin was so hot and hard that she could practically feel his pulse. She ran her fist up and down in a slow cadence, up, down, up, squeeze.

  Reed moaned and stopped her with his hand on her wrist. His voice was hoarse and he spoke through gritted teeth. “I love the feel of your hand fisting my cock, Sophie. It's goddamn glorious. But you have to stop now or this will be over way too soon for both of us.”

  He lifted her hand away gently and got off the bed to push the last scrap of clothing down his body and to the floor. She rested back on her elbows and enjoyed the view. God, she'd never wanted anything the way she ached for Reed.

  When he straightened, Sophie got her first glimpse of a completely naked Reed Sutton. His abs contracted when he saw her sweep a longing gaze from his face down to the evidence of his desire. Reed was thick and mouthwateringly erect. She was breathless at the sheer beauty of him.

  The show was over quickly because he was back on the bed with her in a heartbeat. Reed moved between her legs and studied her panties again. “I feel like I'm unwrapping a present.” Sophie smiled and leaned back on her pillow, watching him. He dipped his fingers into the waistband of her panties and pulled until Sophie had to raise her hips once again so he could remove them. Reed dropped them on the floor with everything else.

  “Oh, Sophie. Look how beautiful you are.”

  She started to pull her legs up in modesty, but he held on to the tops of her thighs. “No.” The deep, rasped out word held her still.

  “I can see how wet you are for me.” He ran a fingertip down the center of her core, barely enough to separate the seam of her body. “Jesus, Sophie. You are so fucking wet, you glisten in the moonlight. I have to feel more of you.”

  He added more pressure and opened her so he could glide up and down her center. Reed grazed her clitoris and rubbed in slow circles with the slick moisture from her body.

  Sophie was clenching her hands in the sheets and moving her hips up, needing to be filled. Toying with her, he moved until his body rested alongside hers. Reed languidly kissed her with a deep swipe of his tongue while she opened to him and undulated her lower body in anticipation.

  His mouth traveled down to the spot where her neck met her shoulder. He put a hot, open-mouthed kiss there and then gently bit down. Reed applied just enough pressure against the tendon to make goose bumps shiver up the entire length of her body. He let go and whispered in her ear. “What do you want, Sophie?” Reed swept his fingers in a slow, teasing path between her spread thighs. “You want my fingers to fill you here, where you're so wet and swollen? Do you want me to fuck you with them until I make you come hard against my hand?”

  She nodded and gasped out, “Please!”

  Reed leaned further over her body and greedily sucked on her sensitive nipple. At the first hard pull of his mouth, two fingers entered her.

  Oh, God! Sophie might have screamed then. She wasn't completely coherent. His fingers slid into her until she felt stretched full. He pumped them in and out, in and out, while his thumb circled round and round in faster, tighter circles. The hot, liquid suction of his mouth was divine. “Sophie, you are so hot and tight. I want to feel you come with the sound of my name on your lips. You are a fucking goddess.”

  The pace increased and she could feel herself getting wetter. More! Oh, please, yes! More! Her head arched back and her hips came up in a frenzied dance against his fingers. He switched to her other breast and when she felt the wet heat of his mouth draw her in again, pulses began in the soles of her feet and shot straight to her core.

  Sophie knew she screamed this time.

  Reed kissed along her hairline and smoothed the damp strands of hair off her forehead. “You're beautiful when you come. So beautiful that I need to see it again.”

  He moved until his lower body rested fully in the cradle of her hips. Sophie was still riding the mini aftershocks after her orgasm. She felt the wide head of his cock begin to slide home. Reed stopped and rested his forehead on hers. “Son of a bitch. All that shopping and I forgot condoms.”

  Sophie rested her hand on his shoulder and nodded to the side of the bed. “I have some in my top drawer.”

  A great breath whooshed from him. “Oh, thank God. You were about to see a grown man cry.”

  With a minimum of fumbling, they managed to take care of the condom. Reed reseated himself against her hips and smiled so sexily she couldn't look away.

  “I want you so damn much, Sophie. Not just for tonight either. Let me have you.”

  Sophie gazed into his eyes and saw the truth there. After a deep kiss, she whispered in his ear. “Yes.”

  Reed didn't need to be told twice. He positioned himself at her entrance and nudged an inch inside of her. She lifted her knees and did her best to relax around him. He pushed in a little more.

  “Take me, Sophie. Take all of me.” At those words, he drove all the way inside. They both froze at the perfect sensation of their connection. Reed flexed his hips and pulled her leg up around him to get a better angle. He was so hard and deep inside her that she was in ecstasy.

  She arched up to meet his thrusts. Nothing ever felt like this. Nothing ever felt this right. Sophie couldn't get close enough. She couldn't move fast enough. Hi
s abs rubbed her stomach with every push of his hips. Sophie felt sensitized to every point where their bodies met. She felt him everywhere.

  The pleasure was all-consuming.

  Sophie shifted until her other knee was raised and her foot rested flat against the mattress. That was the angle that sent Reed even deeper and took her over the edge.

  Her body seized in such a powerful orgasm that her toes curled and her scream was frozen in her throat.

  Reed felt the spasms of her climax and pistoned against her harder and faster. His voice was hoarse when he said, “So good. Never this good. Good God, Sophie.”

  Her fingers were in his hair as he rested his face in the crook of her neck. She continued to pulse around him as he thrust once, twice, and ground into her as he came.

  Sophie was so sated she couldn't muster the energy to move.

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  Their bodies finally stilled and he reluctantly slipped out of her.

  Reed kissed Sophie on the shoulder and went to the bathroom on shaky legs to get rid of the condom. He also had to let Max in.

  When he got back in bed, Reed slid in next to Sophie, put his arm around her waist, and spooned her into his body. She snuggled up against him with a contented sigh. Her dog, seeing that his place on the bed had been usurped, turned three times on the carpet and with a grumble, flopped down to sleep.

  Reed rose up to talk to Sophie, but she was already asleep…with a smile on her face. She looked absolutely ethereal. He rested his head back on the pillow, pulled her in tighter, and fell into a deep, happy, exhausted slumber.

  Chapter 12

  The next morning, Reed woke up to a completely different bed partner. This one was cute but furry and four-legged. Max was gazing down at him from Sophie's side of the bed. He panted happily in Reed's face. That's when he smelled the peanut butter laced dog breath. Looking closer, he saw smears of melted peanut butter passion on Max's muzzle.

  “You sly dog! You ate Sophie's ice cream!” Reed remembered that she'd discarded the bowl when he started massaging her shoulders. “Just so you know, that counts as part of the bribe.”