The Girl Who Cried Wolf (2 page)

Kat lifted her head from his chest to look up at him. With his dark hair, chiseled jaw and soulful brown eyes he looked more like he should be modeling for
GQ
than taking down bad guys. God, she’d missed him.

“Thank you for coming to check on me,” she said softly.

Reese said nothing, but she could tell from the way he was looking at her that he’d missed her just as much. Going up on tiptoe, she gently pressed her mouth to his. He didn’t exactly kiss her back, but he didn’t push her away, either. She parted her lips and pressed herself against him, hoping he’d take the all-access pass she was giving him, but he swore under his breath and jerked away.

“Kat, we can’t,” he said, his voice hoarse.

“Why not?” she demanded. “You want me as much as I want you. I know you do.”

She knew it because she’d felt his erection pulsing against her. But she wouldn’t use that against him. Yet.

So to prove her point another way, she kissed him again, and this time when he would have pulled away, she took hold of his hand and guided it to her breast. He stiffened, and for one panicked moment, Kat thought he was going to pull away again. But then he cupped her breast with a soft groan. She could feel the warmth of his skin through the silky material of her bra, and as his thumb made little circles on her nipple, she melted in his arms.

Reese devoured her mouth like a starving man, his tongue taking possession of hers with an urgency that made her dizzy. She slid her hand down between their bodies to rub his hard cock through his jeans. Reese tensed, and she cursed herself for moving too fast, but he only swung her up in his arms.

Kat’s pulse raced as Reese’s long strides took them to the bedroom. He gently set her down on the bed, then stood gazing down at her for a long moment, his dark, smoldering eyes caressing every inch of her scantily clad body before he swooped down to cover her mouth with his in a scorching kiss.

She arched against him as he traced a path along the curve of her jaw and down her neck to press his lips to her cleavage. As he kissed the tops of her breasts, his hands roamed over her body, gliding over her midriff to her waist, then over the curve of her hips and down her bare legs.

It felt like forever since she and Reese had made love. She’d almost forgotten how magical his touch could be.

She closed her eyes and let her head fall back on the pillows. He yanked at the belt on her robe, desperately pushing it open. Next, he unclasped her bra so he could cup her breasts. His mouth followed his hands to the tips of her breasts and he urgently suckled on one hardening nipple, then the other. He went back and for the between them like a man on a mission. A mission to drive her crazy.

Kat was on the verge of thinking she might actually go insane from the sweet torture when Reese released the nipple he was suckling and slowly kissed his way down her stomach. She slid her hand in his hair, guiding him exactly where she wanted him.

He hooked his fingers in her tiny bikini panties, tugging them down her legs and sending them flying across the room. His face was between her legs before they even hit the floor.

Kat gasped at the feel of his mouth on her. She expected him to tease her first, but he immediately targeted her clit, flicking it rapidly with his tongue. That by itself would have been enough to drive her wild, but then he slid his finger in her pussy and fucked her with it. The move completely pushed her over the edge and she screamed. She pulled his hair so hard it was a wonder he didn’t howl in pain, but that was one of the things she loved about him. When he was focused on pleasuring her, nothing distracted him.

She lay there afterward, barely aware of where she was much less what Reese was up to. It didn’t take her long to figure it out when he settled between her legs a moment later, his condom-covered cock at the opening of her pussy. She thought he’d slide right in, but instead he braced himself on his strong arms and slowly rubbed the head of his penis up and down her slit. Damn, that felt delicious. But it was also frustrating at the same time.

She ran his hands up his muscular chest to grip his broad shoulders. “I need you inside me. Now.”

Reese stopped mid-rub, sliding into her wetness in one smooth motion that made Kat cry out. She brought her legs up, wrapping them around him and pulling him inside her even deeper.

He sucked in a breath. “God, Kat. You’re so tight.”

Kat could only moan.

Reese stayed buried deep inside her like that for so long she wondered if he was ever going to move. Then, at the same time that he bent to capture her lips in a soul searing kiss, he began to thrust.

She gasped against his mouth, her pussy spasming around him it made it almost impossible for him to move. Somehow, he managed, sliding all the way in, then back out with a slowness that was almost agonizing.

“Fuck me harder,” she demanded.

He did, picking up the pace one thrust at a time until he was pumping into her so fast and hard the headboard banged against the wall.

“Yes!” she cried breathlessly. “Don’t stop!”

Kat didn’t know how it was possible for anything to feel so incredible. The tremors started deep inside her and spread throughout her body like wildfire, engulfing her in so much pleasure it brought tears to her eyes.

As if he couldn’t hold back any longer, Reese buried his face in her long hair and surged into her one final time. His hoarse groans mixed with her screams as he came with her. Knowing she was giving him as much pleasure as he gave her only made their joining that much more special.

Kat kept her legs wrapped around him long after her orgasm had subsided. She loved the feel of him inside of her and didn’t want to let him go just yet. But they couldn’t stay locked like that all night or they’d both be stiff come morning. So, when Reese kissed her and rolled over onto his back, she willingly curled up in his arms.

“Mmm. Maybe I should call and tell you someone followed me home more often.”

Beside her, Reese stiffened, the hand he’d been rubbing up and down her arm going still. “Wait a minute. What?”

Uh-oh. “N-nothing. I just meant that I knew you’d come if you thought I needed you.”

She cringed inwardly.
Crap
. That hadn’t come out any better.

Reese swore under his breath. “I can’t believe I fell for this.”

Kat pushed herself up on her elbow, which was a mistake. All it did was give Reese room to kick free of the blanket and get to his feet.

“Fell for what?” she asked.

“You know damn well what.” He glared at her as he pulled on his jeans, then reached for his shirt. “No one followed you home. You made that whole thing up.”

Kat’s stomach tightened into a knot as he snatched his gun holster from the floor and shrugged into it. Everything had been so perfect. Why did she have to open her big mouth and screw it up?

“I didn’t make up anything,” she insisted. “Someone was outside the door.”

That part was true, at least. But Reese wasn’t buying it. He picked up his jacket and stormed out of the bedroom.

Double crap.

Somehow Kat scrambled out of bed without getting tangled up in the blanket and falling on her face. She threw on her robe, trying the belt as she hurried after him.

“Reese, wait! I didn’t make anything up. Why would I do something like that?”

He spun around to face her, his dark eyes glinting. “Oh, I don’t know. Maybe to trick me into coming over here so you could get me into bed.”

Kat felt her face turn red. “Do you even know how stupid that sounds?”

“Actually, it sounds pretty damn clever to me. But then you always did know how to get me to do whatever you wanted.”

She almost laughed. If that were true, she wouldn’t have to resort to this kind of underhanded crap to get him to see reason. “Now, you’re just being a jerk, and I’m not going to stand here and defend myself to you. Next time some strange guy follows me home, I’ll go ahead and invite him in.”

“Don’t be stupid.”

She folded her arms. “First I’m clever, and now I’m stupid. Which is it, Reese? Because if I really had the ability to make you do whatever I wanted, I’d make you see you’re the one who’s being stupid. Regardless of what you say, you want me just as much as I want you—the bed-shaking sex we had in there proves that—and if calling you every time I think someone follows me home is what it’s going to take to get you to admit it, that’s what I’ll do.”

The muscle in his jaw flexed. “No, you won’t, because I’m going to make damn sure you don’t.”

Before Kat could even ask what he meant, Reese grabbed her arm and marched her over to the couch. But instead of plunking her down on one of the cushions and lecturing her like she thought he would, he sat down and gave her arm a tug that sent her tumbling over his knee. She immediately tried to push herself up, but a firm hand shoved her back down.

“Reese, what…”

The rest of what she’d been going to say ended in a gasp as his hand come down hard on her upturned ass. Her eyes went wide. What the hell? Was he actually
spanking
her? He smacked her again, harder this time. He
was
spanking her!

“
Owwww!
She struggled to push herself upright again. It was useless. “Reese, stop that and let me up right now.”

But Reese only held her down more firmly. “Not until you’ve learned your lesson.” He gave her derriere another slap. “I won’t be manipulated like this again, Kat. Do you hear me?”

As if to emphasize his point, he delivered a flurry of smacks to one cheek, then the other.

Kat squirmed as heat spread over her ass. “
Owwww!
Dammit, Reese, that hurts!”

“Good.” He followed that set of spanks up with another series. “Maybe you’ll remember that the next time you think about pulling a stunt like the one you did tonight. What if some guy had been outside when I got here? I probably would have arrested him. If I didn’t beat the shit out of him first for so much as looking at you.”

As ridiculous as it seemed considering she was over his knee and he was smacking her ass at the moment, his words gave her a surge of hope. Not the part about arresting the guy for following her home—the part about beating the crap out of any guy who looked at her. Not that she wanted him to beat up anyone, of course. But if he was jealous as he sounded, then maybe he was closer to admitting he wanted to get back together with her than she’d thought.

She opened her mouth to point that out to him, but talking while Reese was bringing his hand down over and over on her poor, defenseless bottom was impossible. She hadn’t known a spanking could hurt so much, but her ass stung like crazy. It didn’t help that her robe rode up higher and higher the more she squirmed. If he didn’t stop soon, Reese would be spanking her on the bare. Just the thought of that made her face flame red. He’d seen her naked plenty of times, but never in such an embarrassing position.

“Reese…” She bit her lip to stifle a squeal. “Pleeeease!”

She didn’t know if her words would have any effect on him, especially since he seemed determined to teach her a lesson, but to her relief, Reese only gave her another couple of hard smacks to each cheek before he let her up.

Kat reached back with both hands to cup her throbbing ass, gasping at how hot her cheeks felt. She could only imagine how red they must be. “I can’t believe you spanked me. What the hell?”

Reese scowled. “I had to do something to get through to you, didn’t I?” He sighed. “Kat, don’t make this any harder than it already is. Please. You know we can’t keep seeing each other, and you know why.”

She rubbed her sore bottom. “Why, Reese? Tell me again, because I still don’t understand.”

Reese didn’t answer right away, and she could almost hear him counting to ten. “Your brother is my best friend, Kat.”

“Which should make things easier, not harder. He already likes you, so you don’t have to worry about getting along with him.”

“He doesn’t want you going out with a cop.”

God, she was so sick of hearing that. “You’re not just any cop, Reese. You’re his partner.”

“Which is exactly why I won’t do this to him.”

Tears stung her eyes. Dammit. “But you’ll do this to us? Throw away what we have because it might piss off my brother? I love you, Reese.”

Reese regarded her with a sadness she’d never seen before in his dark eyes. “Do you think I don’t wish things could be different? Staying away from you is killing me. But that’s the way it has to be.”

She didn’t say anything. She couldn’t.

He reached out to gently wipe away the tear sliding down her cheek. “I have to go. I’m sorry I spanked you.”

Kat watched him go through the tears blurring her vision. She brushed them away angrily. She was so frustrated she wanted to scream. She’d been so close to getting him back tonight. If she hadn’t slipped up like that, she and Reese would be in bed right now.

She wasn’t giving up on him no matter what he said. What they had was too special to throw away. She reached back to rub her tender ass cheeks. And if Reese thought a little spanking was going to stop her from getting what she wanted, he was wrong.