by Mandy Baxter
That’s not to say he didn’t want Reily’s admiration as well. The compliment further heated his blood to the point that Travis wasn’t sure how much longer he could wait to have her. Travis was nothing if not disciplined, however. He needed to be inside of her like he needed his next breath, but not before he followed through on the promises he’d made. Not until he tasted her.
He settled between her legs. Reily’s lids became hooded over her sapphire eyes and her mouth parted with a sigh. He ran his palms up the length of her inner thighs and she shivered. Their gazes remained locked as he gauged her reaction to his touch. It gave him a rush unlike anything he’d ever felt. When his fingertips met the juncture of her thighs, Travis brought his thumbs up to brush the outer edges of her pussy. Reily sucked in a sharp breath.
God, those sounds. A moan, the hitch of her breath, was enough to get him off.
Travis gripped Reily’s hips and angled her up to meet his mouth. She slung one leg over the back of the couch and let out a quiet whimper when his mouth met her wet heat. From the first pass of his tongue, Travis was lost. Reily’s thighs trembled on either side of his head, her fingers threaded through his hair before she took its length in her fists. He circled her clit with his tongue before sucking and her panting breaths transformed into desperate cries. Her legs went wide when he took the delicate skin of her labia between his teeth, nibbling before he sucked her deeply. And when she began to tremble and her body grew taut, Travis slowed his pace and started over again with tentative passes of his tongue as he licked her from her tight opening up to the bundle of nerves at the apex of her sex.
Reily squirmed in his grip as one leg hooked around his shoulder. She pulled him closer as though to increase the pressure of his mouth, but Travis didn’t want her to go over the edge quite yet. This wasn’t some press conference or appointment with a stylist. Travis was in charge right now and nothing was going to keep him from eating her pussy until he’d had his fill.
Travis devoured her. His own desire built with every pass of his tongue. Every scrape of his teeth, every deep, hungry suck. The taste of her only sent him further into that mindless state of want that he loved so much. It wouldn’t be long before they were both too far gone to stop. Too far gone to make rational decisions.
They’d be drunk on each other. High on sex. Addicted to the scents, sights, sensations.
Fuck yeah.
“Travis.” His name slipped from between her lips and ended on a moan. “Oh my God.” He ran the flat of his tongue over her clit. Her thighs clenched as a spasm rippled over her body. “Stop. You have to stop or I’ll come.”
Stop? No way in hell. The thought of her coming with his mouth on her drove him mad. He wanted to taste her pleasure, feel the press of her thighs against his cheeks. He wanted her hands in his hair, pulling at the strands as she broke into a million pieces. And he wanted to hear his name shouted in that sweet, seductive tone and know that he’d made her feel better than any other man ever did or ever would.
Travis wanted ownership over this moment. Over Reily’s pleasure. He wanted it to be a moment she’d never forget.
* * *
Reily didn’t know how much more she could take. Travis kept her on the edge, refusing to allow her release. She’d never felt anything so powerful, so visceral. Nothing mattered in this moment but her and him and the sensations that coursed through her body. He teased her, pushed her past the boundaries of what she thought she could feel. The wicked things he did with his mouth far surpassed anything she’d ever experienced. He lapped at her as though he couldn’t get enough. As though her pleasure was the only thing he cared about. It was a heady thing. Powerful. And even though she’d told him to stop, warned him that she was close to the edge, she only wanted more.
Travis increased the pressure of his tongue on her clit. Reily cried out, more in relief than anything. The slow, methodical passes sent waves of sensation over her thighs and up her torso before settling as a tingle in her breasts and nipples. Her pants transformed to gasps as she came up to almost a sitting position. Travis moaned against her pussy and the sound vibrated through her. She gripped the strands of his hair in her fists—thank God they hadn’t cut it—and she held him against her as her body coiled tight.
“Please…”
Reily had no idea what she was begging for. All she knew was that if she didn’t get what she needed, she was going to go out of her mind. Travis centered his focus on her clit, his tongue swirling in tight circles over the sensitive nerves and in an instant, Reily’s plea was answered.
Travis’s fingers bit into her hips as she came. He kept her grounded with his possessive hold, anchored to reality as her world broke apart. Waves of sensation stole over her that didn’t simply ripple, they crashed over her, washed through her. Reily felt totally disconnected from her own body, as if she was nothing more than a soul floating in a vast universe.
Travis brought her down from the high of her orgasm slowly with gentle passes of his tongue. He kissed the inside of her thigh, downward until he reached her knee. From there he kissed his way back up until his mouth met the top of Reily’s thigh.
“You’re beautiful when you come,” he murmured against her skin.
The pleasant rush that Reily felt from his words had no equal. “You didn’t see me,” she said playfully as she combed her fingers through his hair. “If I’m not mistaken, you were a little preoccupied.”
“I saw the way your thighs shook,” Travis assured her. He kissed his way up her torso, over one breast and then the other. “I heard you scream. I tasted it.” He brought his gaze to meet hers and the heat he threw off made Reily sweat. “I felt it.”
Another pleasant zing shot through her center. “You felt it?”
His lips hitched in a half grin. “Pulsing against my mouth.”
Reily thought she might come again just from his words. Travis was so brazen. So unafraid to say exactly what was on his mind. She admired that about him. It was one of his traits that she found most attractive. And somewhat problematic, considering she’d been hired to teach him to quell that impulse.
“I need to be inside of you.” The words were a low rumble in his chest. A sensual growl that Reily felt on every inch of her skin.
His fingertips bit pleasantly, possessively into the tops of her thighs and she let out a low moan. “I want you, Travis. I need it, too.”
Reily looked away as she made her admission. She didn’t want him to see in her expression that this was more than some impetuous fling to her. Her infatuation had grown over the course of only a week. That knowledge was ammunition for a guy like Travis who was used to playing the field. Reily couldn’t afford to be any more vulnerable than she already felt.
Travis’s gaze swallowed her whole. So much intensity. So much heat. Sweat beaded on Reily’s skin and she let out a shuddering breath. Travis reached for his slacks and pulled out his wallet. He grabbed a condom from inside and discarded the wallet on the floor. Reily’s stomach clenched as he stalked toward her and her gaze dipped to his erection jutting proudly from between his thighs. She’d never seen a more magnificent man in her entire life.
He sat down on the cushion and wrapped his arm around Reily’s waist, dragging her from the armrest back to his lap where they’d begun. “I want you so fucking bad, Reily.” He reached up and pulled the hair tie from her ponytail to let her hair fall down around her shoulders. Pleasant chills rained down on her as he combed his fingers through her hair. “I haven’t been able to think of anything but fucking you.”
She rose up on her knees and kissed him. Travis’s grip tightened on her hair as his mouth slanted furiously over hers in a crushing response that left her breathless and tingling from head to toe. When he pulled away, they were both out of breath, their chests heaving. Travis tore into the packet and rolled the condom onto his erection in a fluid movement. Reily watched, rapt, at the erotic sight. She wanted to touch him. Explore every inch of his body. Take him into her
mouth and pleasure him the way he had her. Urgency put Reily’s wants on the back burner, though. She needed him inside of her as badly as he wanted it. Already she thought she might die from want of him.
Travis wrapped his large hands around her waist and guided her over him. Reily cupped the back of his neck, interlacing her fingers. Their eyes met and held as she lowered herself onto him. A shock of heat met her opening and she sucked in a sharp breath. Travis’s body went rigid beneath her and his jaw squared. Tension vibrated through him as though the effort to hold himself still was too much. Reily eased herself further down. She was so wet, so insanely ready for him that he slid home with ease, stretching and filling her to the point that she couldn’t contain the moan of relief she felt. Travis let out a groan that echoed everything Reily felt. This moment had no equal. The rightness of it shook her to her core.
For a moment, the world went still. The only sounds in her quiet living room were that of their mingled breaths. Travis’s bright hazel eyes searched hers as he twined his fingers further into her hair. A moment passed. And another.
Reily’s heart beat a wild rhythm in her chest. Emotion rose in a tide that crashed over her. The intimacy of the moment: their bodies joined, gazes locked, their mouths almost touching, it was unlike anything she’d ever experienced. Travis trembled beneath her and she knew he felt it too. It excited her. Frightened her. Filled her with a sense of euphoric power. It was too much and not enough at the same time and Reily knew that after tonight, she’d never be the same.
Travis’s hips thrust upward at the moment he seized her mouth in another ravenous kiss. Sensations mingled, the thrust of his tongue coupled with each drive of his hips, the way he filled her completely as she fucked him. His possessive grip on her hair and the friction of her nipples as they brushed against the expanse of his muscled chest. His thighs, like stone beneath her and the heat of his skin that permeated hers.
She gave herself fully to him. Any inhibitions she might have had melted in the heat of his passion. Travis fucked her with abandon, kissed her as though he’d never have the opportunity again. A dark hole opened up in her chest and Reily pushed the sensation away. She refused to think about what would happen after tonight. Living in the moment was what mattered.
With a gasp, Reily broke their kiss. Travis’s hips continued to pump upward and she met him with a downward plunge of her own. She threw her head back as her body began to coil once again, the pressure building to the point that she feared she might combust before she found the release she needed.
“Look at me, Reily.” She was helpless to resist the command and brought her head up to meet his gaze. “I want to see you when you come.”
Thoughts raced through Reily’s mind but she couldn’t push them past her lips. She wanted him harder, faster, deeper. She wanted his mouth on hers. He released his grip on her hips and cupped her breasts, rolling her taut nipples. Her pussy clenched as the orgasm burst on her and Reily cried out as she took him as deeply as she could.
“Travis! Oh my God, Travis!”
The second orgasm was more intense than the first, rolling through her in massive waves that she felt from the top of her head to the tips of her toes. A wide, seductive smile curved Travis’s lips. “That’s right, honey. Ride it out.”
Her lips parted in surprise as another wave crashed over her and she cried out. Travis’s gaze darkened. His body went rigid and his breath became ragged. His hips bucked wildly into hers as he increased his pace and his shout of pleasure echoed in the quiet room as he followed her over the edge.
Travis wrapped his arms tightly around her and buried his face in the crook of her neck. Reily combed her fingers through his hair as she let the sound of their racing breaths lull her. They sat still for what felt like forever, holding each other. Kissing. Caressing. They’d barely just finished but already, Reily wanted him again.
“Do we have anything on the schedule for tomorrow?” Travis asked against her throat.
“No,” Reily said with a quiet laugh.
“Good,” he replied before kissing a path down her throat. Another electric jolt shot through Reily’s bloodstream. “Because it’s going to be a late night.”
And Reily planned to make every single minute count.
Nine
Travis had had his fair share of all-nighters, but tonight took the cake. His mind was clear, his body exhausted in the best possible way. He’d never enjoyed any woman as fully as he had Reily. Most of his encounters were a wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am sort of thing. In and out. Done. But Reily was different. They’d spent hours pleasuring each other. Learning one another’s bodies. They’d fucked in her living room, on the dining room table, her bed, and the shower. He’d laid her out on the carpet and buried his face between her thighs again. And she’d returned the favor. The memory of her mouth on his cock sent a wave of heat down his spine. She’d been better than good. The best he’d ever had. And that knowledge scared the everloving shit out of him.
“I’ve never seen such a clean house,” Travis remarked. He lay propped up on the pillow with Reily lounging across his chest. It was the most natural feeling in the world, lying here like this with her. He could stay this way for days. “You take Type-A to a whole new level, you know that?”
Reily’s answering laughter vibrated against his chest. “I can’t help that I’m a control freak. But you know, your place looked pretty tidy, too.”
“You only saw the outside,” Travis remarked. “The girls have the inside looking like a hurricane hit it.”
“You’re really sweet with them.” A sweet sigh escaped her lips and the sound caused Travis’s cock to stir. He’d taken her over and again and still he wanted more. His dick seemed to be insatiable when it came to Reily. “They’re cute.”
“They are cute,” he agreed. “And little monsters, too. Carter says they act more like me than they do him.”
“I love the way you are with your family,” she said almost too low to hear. “It’s a side of you that no one knows about and I’m glad I was lucky enough to see it.”
“Only the people I want get to see it,” he said. “Everyone else can fuck off.”
“I wish everyone could see it, Travis,” Reily said. Her fingers traced an idle pattern on his chest and he suppressed a pleasant shudder. “Why hide it?”
“Who I am in public and on the ice isn’t who I am with the people I care about. I want that part of my life to belong to me and me alone. No one should get ownership of that privacy. I like to have fun. I’ve made some bad calls and gotten wild when I probably shouldn’t have. But that’s something everyone does in their lives. Aren’t you supposed to be finding yourself in your twenties? The only difference between me and some other guy is that the media somehow decided that my life was more interesting than anyone else’s. They can see all of my mistakes if they want. The people who matter get to see the real me.”
He’d shown that secret side of himself to Reily because he wanted her to know that there was more to him than the rumors and sensationalism. She mattered. More than he wanted to admit. And her opinion of him mattered.
“I’m sorry for what I said last night.” Reily’s fingertips glided over his left pec. “About you kissing me for attention. It was an awful thing to imply.”
“I did do it for attention.” Her fingers paused on his skin and she stiffened. “Yours.”
Travis felt her smile against his skin. Emotion rose in his chest and he took a deep breath as though to make room for it all.
“Well, for what it’s worth,” Reily said, “It worked.”
“Good.” Travis didn’t like to feel vulnerable and admitting to Reily that he’d wanted her to want him left him shaken. “Because I want you to know that you’re different, Reily. You’re special.”
Her brow puckered. “Somehow, I’m not sure if that’s a compliment or not. No one likes different.”
The women Travis tended to date always turned out to be carbon copies of each o
ther. He’d never been interested in scratching the surface of their personalities. Reily was the first woman he’d ever truly wanted to get to know. “It’s absolutely a compliment.” Travis placed a light kiss to her temple. “I like different.”
“I’m not the popular girl,” Reily murmured. “I’m not interesting or sexy or rich or famous. I like order and control. I like neat and tidy. What could you possibly like about any of that?”
How could she think so little of herself? Where was that confidence that drove him crazy with want? The Reily Travis admired was a tough cookie who didn’t take crap off of anyone. She bossed smart-assed guys like him around. She didn’t break rules, she made them. “You don’t give yourself enough credit.”
She gave him a wan smile. “Maybe you’re giving me too much.”
His gaze delved into hers and Travis pulled her tight against him. Emotion swelled in his chest until it was tough to take a deep breath. His lips met hers once and again before he pulled away. “Not a chance.”
“What is this, Travis?” The sadness in her tone cut through him. “I’m still trying to wrap my mind around how we got here.”
Travis grinned. “Well, when a boy likes a girl—”
“I’m serious.” Reily cut him off. “I think we both know I’m not your typical hookup.”
Exactly. Travis had already told her but for some reason, it wouldn’t sink in. Reily was special. He had no idea how to get that to sink in to that stubborn brain of hers.
“Hockey is what I do.” He wanted her to understand that what the public saw was such a superficial representation of himself. “It’s my job. It’s not who I am. I don’t care about money, fame, any of that shit. I don’t care about Dallas society or the billions of dollars that my dad thought was worth more than his own family. There’s a hell of a lot more to me than what you see on the surface, Reily. You just have to take the time to see past the bullshit. I know you’re worried about Bob and what he’ll say about last night, but I need you to know that I don’t care. This isn’t only about sex for me. Even if Bob decides to bench me, it’ll be worth it. I want you. And I’d do it all again if I had the chance.”