Page 57 of Love on the Ice

As much as I want to pounce on her, I don’t, at least not yet. Instead, I lean forward and touch my mouth to hers, but I don’t deepen the kiss.

“I meant it when I said that you were mine. My girl. My woman. Mine. There’s nobody else, and I don’t think there ever could be. I’ve fallen for you, baby.”

“Reid,” she exhales again.

The sound goes directly to my dick. Gripping her neck, I roll her onto her back so that I’m on top of her. Almost as if her body just knows what mine needs, her legs spread and make room for my hips. I wish we were naked. I would slide inside of her right this instant.

Instead of doing that, my tongue slides inside her sweet mouth, and I taste her wholly. She moans, a sound that I happily swallow. Nibbling on her bottom lip, I break the kiss and slowly move down the column of her throat.

“I’ve fallen for you, too,” she whispers. “I’m scared.”

“Yeah,” I grunt against her throat. “I know you are, Lore. But I got you, baby. I got all of you.”

Her entire body trembles from my words. Sitting up on my knees, I wrap my fingers around her ankles, bringing her legs together in front of me. My eyes don’t leave hers. I can taste her still on my lips, and I want so much more of her. I want all of her. And I plan on taking and keeping her for the rest of my life.

Nothing has ever felt this big before, aside from hockey. I don’t even know if I could compare them. Lorelai and hockey are not mutually exclusive, but I also wonder if I could even play without her now. In this short time, she’s become part of me.

I reach for the waist of her shorts and tug them down her hips, gripping her underwear and pulling them off her legs with the shorts, then tossing them to the side of the bed. At the same time, I pull my own underwear down and get rid of them as quickly as possible.

“I don’t have a condom,” she whispers, her face beet red. It’s adorable.

Sinking my teeth into my bottom lip, I weigh this moment. It’s a big one. The biggest I’ve experienced aside from the contract with the Fury. My stomach flips and fills with butterflies. I would be fine not to do anything more than eat her pussy. But if this is going to go further, we need to have this discussion.

“I’m clean. Get tested for the team regularly, and I’ve never been bare with anyone before. If you’re on birth control, we could not use anything. If you’re not comfortable, I’m good with just making you come and that being that.”

I can smell her from here, and I’m dying to be inside of her, but I’m not going to make her feel uncomfortable. I keep my gaze focused on hers, not looking away from her eyes. I need to know if her words are the truth or if she’s just saying what she thinks I want to hear.

“I’m on birth control,” she whispers. “I’ve never… either.”

“I don’t want to pressure you,” I say.

She smiles and slides her hand up my forearm. Then she wraps her fingers around my bicep, which is as far as her hand will travel with me on my knees.

“You’re not,” she says.

I keep my eyes on hers, searching her gaze, and only when I feel like I can read her do I shift myself down so I’m between her legs and hovering above her again. My palms are next to her head, my gaze never breaking hers.

“Reid,” she breathes.

Lowering my face, I touch my mouth to hers. “I love you, Lorelai. When I heard what that asshole did to you, a million thoughts ran through my mind, but all I could think about was you being alone. I couldn’t protect you. I couldn’t protect the woman I love.”

I slam my mouth down against hers, not letting her respond as I slowly slide into her wet heat. She moans against my lips.

My heart slams against my chest.

My body breaks out in a shiver of desire as I fully seat myself inside of her wet heat. If I thought that she felt amazing with a condom on, this doesn’t even compare. She doesn’t compare. Because I’ve finally told her how I feel.

I hope she feels the same way, and if she doesn’t, I’ll just have to show her every day what she means to me until she falls as much in love with me as I am with her.

Chapter

Twenty-Four

LORELAI

Closing my eyes, I let out a whimper as he fills me completely. Not because it hurts but because it feels that good. I couldn’t have ever imagined what it would feel like with him inside of me this way, but the connection is almost otherworldly.

Instantly, there is an intimacy that connects us. When I open my eyes, he lifts his mouth from mine and looks directly into me. He’s not just looking into my eyes. He’s connecting to my soul. He’s said the word love, but there is more to that. I can feel it right now.