Flash Point (6 page)

“You can still change your mind,” he offered.

“No. I really can’t, Todd.” Her voice wobbled, sounding a lot less Marilyn and whole lot more Kate.

He sat there for a moment longer and then made a small groan. A moment later he started the truck and put it in drive.

Kate gasped, fumbling for her seatbelt as he pulled away from the curb and sped down the street at breakneck speeds.

Where were they going? He never slowed down, just drove them straight back toward Wyattsville. Though she was beginning to get an idea of his intentions.

Her suspicion of their final destination was confirmed when Todd pulled up in front of his house fifteen minutes later. He climbed out of the truck and had her door open before she could think to move.

Instead of grabbing her hand to help her down, he slid an arm around her waist and pulled her from the seat. Her body slid, all delicious friction, against his before her heeled feet hit the paved driveway.

She teetered to catch her balance, but his arm still held her, kept her from falling. And then his mouth crashed down on hers and her balance went wonky for other reasons.

Kate clutched his shoulders and moaned, parting her lips to his fierce kiss. The smell of his familiar, spicy cologne filled her senses. His tongue explored every inch of her mouth, his hands roving over her body. It was deliberate. A man staking his claim. Every female instinct inside of her could sense it.

Heat and sensation sizzled through her as the ache between her legs grew more intense. Her head spun and she could barely think. She needed so much more. More than hands touching her through clothes. She wanted all of him. Touching her, sucking on her, inside of her…
Oh dear god
.

She jerked her mouth from his with a gasp. “
Please
, Todd.”

He gave a low growl and hurried them inside the house. He pushed the door closed and turned to face her, the expression on his face almost predatory.

Kate caught her breath as he plucked the red bow tied around her neck that held her cape on. The red fabric slid free a moment later and pooled onto the floor.

“Red,” he said thickly. “You have been a naughty girl tonight, haven’t you?”

It didn’t really bother her that he kept up the fantasy she’d created. Maybe he needed it to not be reminded of the fact of the huge step they were taking and how it hopefully wouldn’t screw up their friendship.
It was just one night
, she reminded herself.

But staying in character put her a little more at ease too, made her almost convince herself that she was experienced at this sex thing.

She smiled, her dimples popping out, as she fingered the neckline of her blouse. “I guess I have. And what are you going to do about it?”

The smile that she loved slid over Todd’s face. Sexy. Suggestive. All kinds of wicked.

“I’m going to make you come until you can’t tell from up and down.”

“Funny,” she whispered. “But I think I’m already getting there.”

His smile remained, even as the glint in his gaze brightened with desire. Slowly, he reached out and unlaced the white string of the black corset that wrapped around her waist. Once it was undone, he put it aside, and then methodically stripped her out of the rest of her costume.

Soon she stood in front of him in nothing but white lace panties and red stilettos. Her nipples tightened in the chilly air and she tried desperately not to feel so exposed. So vulnerable. No man had seen her like this. Ever.

Her heart thumped so hard in her chest, she thought Todd might even be able to hear it.

“Look at you,” he muttered, his expression a combination of amazement and lust. “Jesus, how come it took me so long to see just what a little sex pot you are, doll?”

Kate swallowed hard, his words sending a thrill through her. She closed the distance between them and wrapped her arms around his neck, then pressed her mouth against his. Just as she had that night at the bar. Only this time he didn’t shove her away. His arms slid around her waist, jerking her flush against him while his tongue swept deep into her mouth.

Her head spun and she was vaguely aware of him walking her backward. And then the cool wall of the door hit her back. Todd’s hands were everywhere on her. Cupping her breasts and teasing her nipples.

He tore his mouth from hers and groaned, staring down at her.

“You’ve got the most amazing breasts,” he muttered, lifting one his palm. It didn’t quite fit, spilled over his hands, but he didn’t seem to mind.

Her cheeks flushed with awareness and her lips parted in a soft gasp as his head dipped. Then his mouth closed around one aching nipple and she whimpered.

She delved her fingers into his hair, clutching the soft strands and arching into his mouth. Oh God. Pleasure rocketed through her as he suckled her with varying levels of intensity. Soft, then hard.

He slid a large, calloused hand down her hip and maneuvered it beneath her panties. When his fingers grazed her cleft, her knees threatened to give out.

“Easy, Kate,” he murmured against her breast, while sinking a finger inside her. “Just enjoy and let me take care of you.”

Her body clenched around him and she drew in a sharp breath, holding it. Unable to breathe at the exquisiteness of what he was doing. So intense and lots of pressure.

Todd gently bit her nipple and pushed his finger deeper. “Fuck, you are so tight here. You’re going to feel real nice around my cock, doll.”

The image his words created had a soft moan spilling from her lips.

“But before I fuck you, I want to make sure you’re nice and ready.” Todd tugged on her nipple with his teeth, before releasing her.

He fell to his knees and she blinked in dismay, her cheeks going red with what he was about to do. Even still, when he tugged her panties over her hips her face burned with awareness and anticipation.

“Spread your legs,” he ordered softly, pushing her ankles apart.

She obeyed, then felt the air caress her exposed folds. Or maybe that was due to him parting her with his fingers. She glanced down at him just as his head lowered and the first wet lick of his tongue slid into her.

Her hips jerked and she cried out, reaching down, almost to push him away. But he had none of it, holding her still as he laughed softly and licked her again, murmuring soft, sexy words.

Oh god, it was almost too much. She couldn’t handle it. She’d be a sobbing mess in minutes.

But Todd didn’t give her any room to protest. He moved his thumb up inside her, found her clit a moment later and begun to rub slowly.

The room around her seemed to spin as pleasure built inside her. It was so foreign, so exquisite to be reaching a peak by a man’s touch and not her own hand.

“Todd,” she whispered, digging her nails into his shoulders. Holding him now instead of trying to push him away. “Oh please.”

He replaced his thumb with his tongue, and flicked against her sensitive bud of flesh.

Kate’s breasts rose and fell with each ragged breath she drew in. With her eyes closed she could only focus on his mouth on her, the wickedly wonderful things his tongue was doing between her legs, and the steady intensity of pleasure that continued to climb.

Her nipples tightened and she could feel the slick juices of her arousal sliding down her thighs.

Todd lifted his mouth from her long enough to croon, “Just let yourself go, Kate. I want you to come in my mouth. I want to taste you.”

His words combined with the way he immediately started to suck her clit, pushed her up and over that peak. Kate couldn’t stop the scream that ripped from her throat as her body quaked through the orgasm.

Tears burned the back of her eyes and the intensity of the moment took away any ability to speak. When she finally lifted her lids and glanced down, Todd was still nuzzling her pussy, licking her thighs.

He glanced up and the heat in his eyes sent a tremble rocking through her again.

“I knew you’d taste this good,” he muttered thickly and came to his feet. His lips crashed down on hers, teeth and lips bumping, before his tongue slid against hers and she tasted herself in the fierce kiss.

When he lifted his head a minute later, she was wet again, her body aching for more. For him. All of him.

“You’re amazing.” He kissed her brow. “Go meet me in my room. Lie down on the bed and I’ll join you in a moment.”

Kate nodded, her head bouncing around almost bobblehead-like. She must look like an idiot, but it wasn’t enough to take her out of her passion—out of this moment.

She stepped away from the doorway and made her way to his room. She’d been to his place often enough to know where it was, but never had she ever deluded herself into thinking she’d end up in Todd’s bed.

When she entered the room, she stared at the large bed covered in a black comforter. The whole room was so potently male. She ran a hand through her tussled hair, before taking the final few steps to the mattress.

She lay down, closed her eyes and waited, knowing everything was going to change.

Chapter Eight

When the hell had he ever wanted a woman so badly? Todd gripped the foil packet in his hand and entered his bedroom.

His gaze immediately sought out Kate, lying supine on his bed. Her lush curves were pale against the black comforter. Large breasts, crowned by the palest pink nipples, fell slightly to her sides. Her stomach wasn’t flat, but instead gently rounded like the rest of her. With her knees bent into the air and her red heels digging into the mattress, she looked like sin come to life.

And fucking Kate tonight would be worth purgatory. He climbed onto the bed and stroked a possessive hand down her body, loving the way her thick lashes fluttered down over her heated gaze. The way she drew her bottom lip between her teeth and nibbled.

“You have got to be the sexiest woman I’ve ever seen,” he murmured, surprised at his own words. Even more so that he meant them.

He knew it probably sounded like a line, especially when her lips curled up almost with derisiveness. She didn’t believe him. Well, he’d just have to show her.

Drawing in a slow breath, he tugged off his costume and then the briefs underneath. Her eyes opened again and she took him in, lingering on his cock. For a moment, he thought he saw a flicker of fear in her gaze, but then it was gone and the heat returned. It wasn’t an altogether strange reaction, since he fell on the larger, thicker side in the package department.

Todd smiled slightly and drew his hand down her body, from neck to feet, teasing and kneading the curves and hollows in between. By the time he ripped open the foil packet and put on the condom, she was trembling and her pussy shimmered slick with her arousal.

Just looking at her made him remember how she’d tasted. The soft, sensual sounds she’d made when he’d been licking her clit.

He moved over her, covering Kate’s body with his own and settled between her splayed thighs. Lowering his mouth to hers, he initiated a slow, deep kiss, while using one hand to guide his cock to her entrance.

She was slick and soaked, and he slid easily past her folds and just inside her channel. But then, damn, was she tight. He reached up to rub her clit to help her relax, to take him.

He caught her low moan with his mouth, as she rotated against his hand and arching off the bed. The tension in her muscles eased, allowing him to slide slowly into her. He groaned as her hot pussy gripped him, seemed to suck him deeper.

And yet, she was so damn tight. Almost too tight. The thought flickered through his head but was gone a moment later as she undulated beneath him, rubbing her tongue against his.

He needed to be buried in her now.
Now
. Todd gripped her hips and with a low groan, thrust deep.

Kate gasped sharply and he lifted his mouth from hers with surprise, staring down at her. Jesus, had he hurt her?

He stilled, hating himself for going too fast. What if she hadn’t done this in awhile? With the size he was, he should’ve slowed the hell down.

She stared up at him, some of the passion gone from her face and a hint of discomfort glinted in her eyes.

“Kate?” he prodded, her name almost a rasp on his lips.

“I’m fine,” she whispered, stroking her hands over his shoulders and kissing his neck. “Please, don’t stop, Todd.”

He hesitated, knowing he should try and help her adjust, maybe stop completely, but the feel of her slick flesh gripping him nearly robbed him of all ability to think.

“Please.” She lifted her hips, forcing him deeper and drawing in a shuddering breath, even as pleasure flickered on her face now. “I want you, Todd.
Please
.”

“Jesus, Kate,” he whispered, not even trying to call her Red anymore. This was Kate beneath him, and at this moment it seemed nothing
but
right that she was in his bed. “You feel amazing, but I don’t want to hurt you.”

“You won’t,” she promised and gave him a slow smile, the sultriness returning.

Need rushed through him, making his blood pound with the need to claim her completely. He rubbed her clit again, slowly and deliberately, until the walls of her pussy softened and accommodated him.

He waited until her lashes fluttered shut and she moaned. Waited for the telltale sign of her creaming around his dick again. With her channel slicker now, he started to move in a slow rhythm in and out of her.

Fuck, she felt so damn good.

And then instinct took over as her hot, tight sheath gripped him like a fist. He moved faster inside her and she struggled to keep up with his pace, making soft moans of pleasure as her nails dug crescents into his back.

He stared down at her, watched her bite her lip and the ecstasy on her face. Watched the way her breasts bounced with each thrust into her.

The way she moved and the wondrous expression on her face had a certain innocence that made the hairs on the back of his neck lift. A moment’s unease hit him, but then was gone when she grabbed the back of his head and jerked his mouth down to hers again.

Their lips brushed together, parted, and hot breaths mingled. She tasted of passion and sex, her tongue curling around his and sucking fervently as her hips moved against him.