Page 55 of Strike Fast

He pushed her backward, turning them so he could pin her beneath him on the mattress, starving for the feel and taste of her, the chance at oblivion she offered.

Wedging his hips between her thighs, he settled the ridge of his erect cock against her center and gripped the bottom of her shirt to peel it over her head. She raised her arms to help him, undid her bra as he tossed the shirt aside, revealing the plump mounds of her breasts, her nipples erect.

Pushing them together with his hands, he dove down to capture one straining center in his mouth. Tess moaned and arched her back, her fingers clenching in his hair for a moment before running down his back to pull his shirt up.

Reid released her captive nipple only long enough to shrug out of his shirt, then went back to sucking and nipping at her tender flesh, his hands going straight for the fly of his jeans. Tess wrapped her arms around his shoulders, one hand holding his head to her breasts while he shucked his jeans and underwear and kicked them off.

She made a hungry, approving sound and reached for his hips, her fingers like fire against his skin, stroking over his ass, the backs of his thighs, tracing the line of his hipbones until finally, finally, she gripped his heavy, swollen cock.

Reid froze for a second and shuddered at the feel of her gripping him, a guttural growl tearing from his throat. Her lips were hot against his chest, kissing, sucking, a lash on his already frayed control.

Breathing hard, he fumbled with the fastening of her jeans. Her fist stroking his raging hot flesh, making him shudder, she raised her hips so he could drag the denim down her smooth legs, leaving her in just a scrap of black lace.

She slid her fist up the length of his cock, making a swirling motion around the swollen head. Pleasure punched through him, a greedy, voracious need he was frantic to satisfy.

Hooking his hands in the waistband of her panties, he yanked sharply, ripping the fabric apart. Tess gasped at the barely leashed violence of it, but sat up to grab the back of his head with her free hand and fuse their mouths together once more.

Reid groaned into her mouth and shoved her flat beneath him, overwhelming her with his strength and size. There was no finesse, no seduction in his touch, his kisses, only raging hunger. The ache in his cock was almost unbearable, the need to plunge into her slick, soft heat making him shake.

He nipped at her chin, scraped his teeth along the side of her neck as she flung her head back, offering her breasts to him. He cupped them in unsteady hands, pausing only a moment to suck at each distended nipple before moving lower, fixated on the tender flesh between her splayed thighs.

Reid grabbed her wrist and pried her hand free of his cock as he shifted lower, pressing his teeth into her belly while he gripped her upper thighs and pushed them wider apart. The sight of her shadowed folds opening up to him, the scent of her arousal hit him like a sledgehammer to the chest.

With a low growl, he clamped his fingers around her thighs to hold her still and buried his mouth against her core. Tess cried out and tensed at the contact, but Reid held her fast as he tasted her, swirling his tongue around the hard bud of her clit, sucking it before plunging his tongue inside her.

Her fingers grabbed at his hair, her hips rising to press into his face. “God, Reid…”

He couldn’t think. He was all instinct, driven by the need to take, claim, ease the ache between his legs even if it couldn’t ease the ache in his heart. Driving his tongue into her core one last time, he reveled in her helpless cry as he rose to his knees and leaned across her to grab a condom from his nightstand drawer.

She reached for his cock but he pushed her hands away and rolled the condom on, his fingers shaking, his breath rattling in his lungs, heart pounding out of control. As soon as he had it on, he grabbed Tess’s long legs and set them over his shoulders. Her hands flew to his chest as he lined the head of his cock up against her entrance, the position making her completely vulnerable to him.

The single part of his brain that was still functioning warned him that he was being too rough, going too fast, but he couldn’t slow down. The best he could do was stare down into her eyes, let her see his need, the raging hunger inside him as he clamped a hand around her hip and pushed the head of his cock into her.

Slick heat enveloped him, sending fire racing up from the base of his spine. Tess’s fingers curled around the tops of his shoulders, her eyes clinging to his as he stayed like that for a heartbeat, two.

Then she lifted a hand and traced her fingertips down the side of his face in a gesture so tender it broke him. He flexed his hips, sinking into her as deep as he could go in one inexorable thrust.

Tess grabbed hold of his nape, her eyes squeezing shut as a choked cry came from her throat. Reid stilled, every muscle in his body trembling at the feel of her clenching around him. “Tess,” he rasped out, his heart about to burst. He didn’t want to hurt her.

Her eyes fluttered open and met his, and the fingers dug into his nape relaxed slightly. She shifted a little, the small motion sending agonizing pleasure blazing through him.

The selfish part of him wanted to pull back and then thrust, fuck her as deep and hard as he could until the orgasm buzzing at the base of his spine exploded. With the last of his restraint he slid his thumb into his mouth and reached down between their bodies to settle it over the swollen bud of her clit.

A soft, startled moan spilled from her lips and her eyes closed, a look of raw pleasure transforming her features. And he couldn’t stay still a moment longer.

Adding pressure with his thumb, he rode her, slowly at first, then faster as she moaned and twisted in his hold, her thighs trembling on his shoulders. She was slick, hot perfection, her body gripping him like a fist as he drove in and out of her.

His vision hazed over as the pleasure magnified, looming like a huge wave at the edge of his consciousness. “Aw, Tess,” he grated out, unable to stop now, every slide into her body better than the last. Gritting his teeth to hold his release back, he slid his thumb over her clit and angled his hips to hit her sweet spot with his cock on every sliding stroke.

Her fingers dug into his skin, every breathless moan and cry pushing him higher. Just when he couldn’t hold back a second more her core clenched around him, rhythmic squeezes as her sounds of pleasure turned into a wild sob and she arched, coming.

Reid leaned forward to bury his face in her hair and pumped faster, faster, letting the hunger rule him. Ecstasy spiraled up, up, his cock swelling even more until he drove forward one last time and held there, locked as deep inside her as he could get. The orgasm slammed into him like a blast wave, so intense it wrenched a guttural shout from him as he threw his head back and came.

Gasping, his skin slick and muscles trembling, he sagged into her embrace. Tess stiffened a little and he dimly realized he essentially had her folded in half with her legs still over his shoulders.

Grasping one ankle at a time, he gently eased her legs off him, groaning in relief and contentment when she pulled him tighter to her and wound her legs around his thighs, holding him close. She smoothed one hand up and down his damp spine and stroked his hair with the other while their thundering heartbeats slowed.

He allowed her to cradle his full weight, sinking deeper into the solace she offered as the wall of exhaustion finally slammed into him. Sleep enveloped him in a warm, weightless cocoon that sucked him straight into the oblivion he’d so desperately craved.

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