Seeds of Desire (11 page)

He grinned sheepishly. “I do. I’ve been carrying a box of
them around since we started these little trips, just in case my fantasies came
true and I got you into bed one of these times. Let me up and I’ll get one.”

“One?” she repeated, choosing for the moment to ignore his
statement that he’d wanted this to happen since they’d begun traveling
together. All their other journeys had been day trips, anyway. Nothing would
have happened during those.

Unless he’d thought about finding a secluded spot to stop
during one of the drives and taking her in the back of the company car. The
thought brought heat to her face and her cunt.

“How many do you have?” she asked, trying to cover how
flustered she’d become.

His face turned a cute shade of red. “Two in my wallet, and
the rest of the twelve-pack in my suitcase. Minus the one we used last night.”

She gave him a stern look. “A dozen condoms. You must have
really been expecting something.”

“Not necessarily expecting. Hoping, though.”

She moved off him. “So get one of them, and we’ll see if
you’ll end up needing the rest.”

“I like the way you think,” he said, grinning.

He left the bed and fished his wallet out of his pants
pocket. He opened it and took out a condom, which he tossed onto the bed.

Stretching out on his back again, he asked hoarsely, “Would
you do the honors?”

Cassidy picked up the foil packet and studied it dubiously.
“Um, I’ve never in my life put one of these on a guy.” Something else her
previous partners hadn’t been patient enough for.

He rolled his eyes and took the packet from her. “Oh, fine,
I’ll do it this time,” he grumbled with a wink. “I have to tell you, though,
nothing turns me on more than having a sexy woman unroll a condom onto my dick
so I can fuck her brains out.”

“And how many sexy women have done that for you?” she asked,
only half joking.

He shook his head vehemently. “Uh-uh. Not a chance. I’m not
going there.” He opened the packet and put the condom on. “Okay, babe, I’m
ready for you. Ride me.”

“I thought you wanted to be on top this time.” She smiled.
“Giving up control again?”

“Having a hot woman sitting on my cock is way better than
being in control.” He reached for her hand. “And if you’re on top, I can touch
you anywhere I like.”

That idea pleased her. She straddled him and grasped his
cock, holding it upright. Smiling into his eyes, she lowered herself onto him,
stretching to accept his thick, hard shaft.

She stayed still for a moment, savoring the sensation of her
cunt being filled.
Amazing.
That morning, she would never have dreamed
she would end the day in bed with Jared, naked with his cock inside her again.
That morning, she’d still been determined that she would never touch him again.
That she didn’t like him a bit. Amazing how things could change in just one
day. Now here she was, with him in her bed this time. Riding him. Totally in
control of their fucking. She could take him as hard or slowly as she wanted.

From the lustful gleam in his eyes, he wouldn’t care. His
gaze danced over her skin, as tangible as fingers, but he made no move to touch
her. Beneath her, he lay with his hands to his sides as though waiting for her
to begin.

A contraction rippled through her, a precursor to the climax
she hoped lay ahead.

Jared gasped. “Fuck, you’re tight!”

She clenched herself around him again and laughed in delight
at his gritted teeth. His cock twitched inside her, warning her that she might
be making him just a bit too happy. If she wasn’t careful, she’d get him off
before she had her chance. She’d never come from intercourse alone, but there
were certainly ways around that. Ways she would be happy to fill Jared in on if
he didn’t figure them out for himself.

“How fast do you want it?” she murmured.
Might as well
let him have some say here. After all, I’m on his cock.

“You set the pace.” Jared grasped her hips firmly. “Go as
hard as you like. I’ll hold you on, don’t worry. Don’t want you falling off me
and hurting your head again.”

She stuck out her tongue, then turned her attention to the
task at hand. Experimentally, she moved on him, first up and down, then from
side to side to take him deeper into her slick cunt. Heat consumed her,
prickling on her skin like tiny flames, and she shouted her elation wordlessly.

Moaning, Jared caressed her ass. His face suffused with
pleasure and he looked up at her with gleaming eyes. She smiled down at him and
tightened her muscles around his cock.

“Ah, fuck, yeah!” he cried.

Good, I’m doing something right.
She raised and
lowered herself faster, and he raised his hips to meet her. With each movement,
she built her pace. He matched her thrust for thrust, until the bed banged
against the wall. Still it wasn’t enough for her and she found a rhythm of
squeezing his dick within her each time she came down on him. Convulsively, he
clutched her ass and pounded harder into her.

Her cunt gripped him as tightly as his hands on her. Her
body shuddered and she ached for release. Her orgasm remained distant this
time. No surprise. Intercourse didn’t usually do it for her, despite her
thunderous climax the night before.

Jared’s finger did. Still holding her hip with one hand, he
slipped the other between them and rubbed her clit rapidly in time to their
fucking, and ecstasy rushed through her. Cries and moans escaped her, and she
didn’t try to quiet herself. If the motel walls were thin enough for other
guests to hear her, so be it. They could be jealous.

Her body was on fire. Her thoughts shut off and nothing
existed except the pleasure Jared brought her. She closed her eyes to heighten
the physical sensations of his cock filling her cunt, of his hands on her bare
skin. Suddenly something inside her gave way, and she came, shouting
wordlessly. Her walls contracted on his cock and her hips bucked. She shuddered
and quickly propped her hands against the mattress to keep from collapsing onto
him, though her arms were so limp they barely held her weight. She cried out
again as another spasm shook her.

A moment later, so did he. A long, low groan escaped him as
he tensed and quaked beneath her. He grabbed her hips so tightly she gasped.
Not that she cared.

Gasping for breath, she watched him shudder through his
climax until an aftershock hit her and she closed her eyes and gritted her
teeth to keep from crying out again.

Jared pulled her down against him and held her tightly. “I’m
sorry it didn’t last longer,” he murmured between heavy breaths.

“It’s all right.” She kissed his cheek, then lay her head on
his chest. “I think we’ll have other times. You can make those last.”

“With such a beautiful woman on my cock, I just couldn’t
control myself,” he said quietly.

“It’s been a long time since a man got me off that hard,”
she admitted.

“Glad to be of help.” She heard the smugness in his tone. He
tapped her hip. “Let me up, please.”

She rolled off him, too lethargic from her climax to want to
stand or even sit. He went into the bathroom. After a moment and a flush, he
returned without the condom. “Sorry,” he muttered. “Didn’t want to leave that
on.”

She giggled. “That’s understandable.”

He lay down again and tugged her hand until she rolled back
against him, her head on his chest and one arm draped over him. He wrapped his
arms around her and held her tenderly. Now that she could think again, her
thoughts ran amok. How the hell had this happened? From bickering to fucking in
one day. It didn’t seem possible. It sure wasn’t logical.

She wanted it to happen again.

“What are you thinking?” he asked.

“How strange this is.” She traced his arm with a fingertip.
“I thought you couldn’t stand me, you thought I hated you, and now we’re naked
together.”

“Yeah.” He chuckled. “Funny how that worked out. Do you
remember what I said earlier?”

“You said a lot,” she pointed out. “Depends on how much
earlier you’re talking about.”

He stroked her hair, carefully avoiding her bandage. “A
little while before we got naked. I said I came on these trips because I
thought you’d be best for me. I also said I knew you were the woman I wanted
the moment I saw you. Remember?”

“I remember,” she whispered.

“I didn’t mean just wanted in bed, though that’s definitely
a benefit.” He took a ragged breath. “I fell in love with you the first time I
saw you, Cassidy.”

His confession stunned her and her first instinct was to try
to deflect it. “There’s no such thing as love at first sight,” she said. She
didn’t know whether she believed in love at any sight. Definitely not first.

“Sure there is.” He spoke quietly but firmly. “You might
have to be a romantic sap to believe in it. I’m pretty good at being one of th
ose, so I believe. You walked in that day in your skirt and
blouse, hair down, just shy enough to show you weren’t sure you’d get the job,
and still confident enough to show you thought you deserved it. I’d never seen
anyone pull that off before, and it got to me.” He thumped his chest. “Hit me
right here. I knew you belonged in my life.”

She rolled away from him onto her stomach and propped
herself on her elbows so she could look him in the eye. “You couldn’t possibly
have known that,” she said.

“I did,” he insisted, “and the time I’ve spent with you
since has just proven it to me. Even when you acted like you despised me, I
knew I loved you. I know I acted like an ass. I didn’t know how else to be
around you. It was the only way to keep myself from blurting out how I felt and
embarrassing the hell out of myself.”

She glared at him. “I would rather have had you do that than
act the way you did.”

“Yeah, well, live and learn.” He gave her a tender smile.
“So what do you say?”

“About what?” Her head spun. Either he’d asked her something
and she’d missed it, or he wanted a response to his statements. She had no clue
what to say. He’d fallen in love with her at first sight, and she still hadn’t
managed to wrap her mind around the idea that she didn’t hate him.

That she loved him, and wanted him in her bed and her life.
She couldn’t say it. Not yet.

“About us.” He smoothed her hair away from her face. “About
becoming my partner in something that has nothing at all to do with JaBro.
About giving me a chance to show you I’m not such a bad guy and that I can
actually learn to rinse soap out of hair.”

She laughed. “We work together,” she pointed out. “Isn’t
there some rule against coworkers dating each other?”

“In some cases, yeah. Since I have an in with the company
owner, I think I can persuade him to overlook that.” He grinned. “Besides, you
aren’t an employee, you’re a consultant, remember?”

“True.”

“So?” He looked at her expectantly.

She wondered if she could manage to have a relationship with
this man. If she’d be able to let things happen between them, overlook the way
they’d started out and just focus on the present and future.

She wondered if just once in her life she could shut up her
brain and make a decision that had nothing at all to do with logic. Her heart
whispered that she should give loving Jared a shot. Her cunt concurred. If she
said no to him, she might lose out on something wonderful. She wouldn’t take
that chance.

“Okay,” she said quietly after a moment. “We can try.”

“I hoped you’d say that.” Relief filled his eyes and he
rolled to her and pressed his lips against hers. “I love you, Cassidy Shelton.”

“I…” Her eyes welled up and she sniffled, wishing she had
the words he wanted to hear. Maybe she could admit it to herself, but she
wasn’t ready to say it to him.

“It’s okay,” he said gently. “I know you can’t answer that
yet. You don’t know if you love me.” He winked. “Don’t worry. You’ll learn.”

“Arrogant,” she teased.

“Nope, I just plan on giving you every reason in the world
to love me,” he replied confidently. “Starting now and going until we’re sick
of each other or dead. Now get some sleep. Tomorrow we have to meet with Daddy
and give him the good news.”

She raised an eyebrow. “You’re going to tell him about us?”

“Nope. Those trees.” He kissed her again and pulled her into
his arms. With gentle fingertips, he closed her eyelids. “Sleep. I’ll be right
here. Now and always.”