I stood there, stunned. Wife?
I giggled and made my way back out to my husband. The thought of being married to Reed did weird things to my body, and I had to put my hand on my stomach to calm my nerves. The moment I saw him, he smiled, and the song “Cyclone” by Baby Bash began playing.
“Time to show you exactly how I feel about you, Reed Moore.”
I walked up and immediately began dancing against him. He grabbed on to my hips and started moving right along with me. Then, he let out a moan, and I couldn’t help myself. I smiled as I turned my back to him and moved closer. I could feel how much he wanted me, and it was driving me insane. I leaned against him as he moved his hands up and down my body. He pressed his lips against my neck, kissing me, until he moved to bite on my earlobe.
“Oh God, Reed,” I said.
“Courtney, you drive me crazy.” He turned me around and pulled me closer to him.
We continued to dance like we couldn’t get close enough to each other. The song stopped, and another song began. We both just stood there until I finally smiled.
“Do you know what I want to do next?” I asked.
He laughed. “Probably not what I want to do next.”
I swallowed. I wanted to tell him I did want to do what he wanted to do, more than anything, but instead, I grinned and shook my head. “I want to drive down a country road with all the windows down while I sing along to a country song, just feeling free!”
He nodded, and the next thing I knew, we were back in his truck. The windows were down, and my favorite Keith Urban song, “We Were Us,” was blasting over the speakers.
I yelled at Reed, “How did you know I love this song?”
He winked and said, “I make it my business to know what you love, Courtney.”
Shit. There went that feeling in my stomach again. It wasn’t butterflies. It was ten times more powerful than that.
Reed drove around, and I swore he played every one of my favorite songs.
By the time we got back to the ranch, it was well past one in the morning. Instead of parking at the house, he kept driving down the road, and then he parked in a pasture that had cows everywhere.
“Wow, you really take your cow-sitting job seriously,” I said.
He started laughing and turned to look at me. “You ready, sweetheart?”
My heart was pounding. “Are we going to make out?”
He smiled and let out a small laugh. “Oh no, baby. We’re going to do something much more fun. We’re going cow-tipping.” He jumped out of his truck and ran around to my door.
“Wait! What? I’m not tipping over a cow. Are you insane?” I said as he grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the truck.
He started laughing. “Baby, you can’t really tip them over. Besides, cows don’t sleep standing up.”
I stopped walking and let go of his hand. “Then, what are we doing in a field with cows in the middle of the night?”
“We’re going to play tag,” he said with such a serious look on his face.
“Huh?” I said with a chuckle.
“Tag. You said one of your favorite things to do is play tag in a field of cows. So, we’re playing tag”—he looked around and pointed to the cows—“in a field of cows.”
I busted out laughing. “Oh my God, Reed. I was kidding with y’all when I said that.”
He smirked and hit me on the shoulder. “Tag! You’re it!” he yelled before he took off running.
“Reed! It’s dark, and I can barely see!” I shouted.
“That makes it all the more fun. The moon is out. I can see perfectly.”
I put my hands on my hips and said, “First off, you’re a cowboy, so you should be able to see.” I tilted my head and rolled my eyes. That even sounded stupid to me. “And second, I’m in my good pair of boots and jeans.”
He stepped out from behind a cow. “Are you afraid you can’t catch me?”
Oh no, he didn’t. “Pesh, I can catch you. I happen to be very skilled in playing tag.”
He slowly walked up to me, bent down, and kissed me. “I think we could have fun with the many different ways we could play tag together.”
I sucked in a breath of air. I had never been romanced like this, and what he was doing to me was both thrilling and annoying.
He hit me on the shoulder again. “You’re still it!”
He went to turn and run away, but he slipped in something. I couldn’t help but start laughing as it looked like he was slipping on ice. The next thing I knew, he was down on the ground, yelling out every curse word known to man. I put my hands over my mouth to try to hold in my laughter.
“Motherfucking son of a bitch! Fucking cows and your damn shit!” Reed yelled out as he tried to stand up, but he slipped again.
“Jesus, are you slipping in cow shit?” I was laughing my ass off.
He looked at me, and I froze.
“Oh no! No, Reed…you wouldn’t. Reed…” I started backing up as Reed stood. “Reed…if you touch me with cow shit anywhere on your clothes, I swear, any chance of having sex with me is out the door.”
The next thing I knew, he began taking off his clothes. I kept walking backward until I bumped into a cow. The damn thing didn’t even move. Reed walked up and put his hands on the cow, placing them on either side of me. I glanced down at his naked body as I licked my lips, and I swore I could feel my panties getting wetter by the second. I swallowed hard and looked up into his eyes.
“I, um…I’m seriously thinking I could make love to your stinky ass and not even care,” I whispered.
Moving in, he was about to kiss me, but then he said, “Don’t touch me anywhere, angel.”
He kissed me, and as our tongues began exploring each other, I let out a long, soft moan. The idea of not being able to touch him was turning me on even more.
“Reed…” I whispered against his lips as he slowly pulled away.
He smiled and said, “I’m going to jump into the back of my truck. Will you drive us up to the house?”
“Okay.” My chest was heaving up and down as I tried desperately to catch my breath.
He pushed off the cow and started walking to his truck.
“What about your clothes?” I asked.
Motherfucker. He had the nicest ass I’d ever seen.
“Stop staring at my ass.”
I scrunched up my nose and tried to hide my giggle. “But it’s such a cute ass!” I said as I began skipping over to the truck. I was totally on cloud nine.
I watched as Reed carefully picked up his clothes and threw them in the bed of his truck.
I couldn’t wait to tell Whitley that I’d seen Reed naked—with cow shit on him!
I pulled up and parked Reed’s truck. I sat and watched as Reed strutted his naked ass over to the water hose before he rinsed off.
“God, please don’t let this night end…or be a dream,” I whispered.
I bit down on my bottom lip as I let myself daydream about what he would feel like inside me. I squeezed my legs together to stop the throbbing I’d been feeling all night.
I jumped out of his truck and yelled, “Do you want me to get a towel?”
I couldn’t see his expression, but I was pretty sure he was smiling. I turned and started to make my way to the house. I screamed when I felt Reed picking me up. He began running with me, and the moment I saw him heading toward the pool, I knew what he was going to do.
“No! My boots!” I screamed.
He threw me into the pool and then jumped in. When I came up to the surface, I was cussing like a sailor.
“Reed…Reed…oh shit! What in the hell is your middle name? Why don’t I know your middle name? Damn it!”
He moved over to me, laughing. When he got closer, he pulled me to him. “Nickolas.”
Oh, son of a bitch…I love that name. “Reed Nickolas Moore…” I couldn’t even be mad anymore. All I wanted to do was wrap my legs around him and kiss him.
“Yes, Courtney Marie
Will?”
I let out a gasp. “How do you know my middle name?” I asked.
He put his hand on the side of my face and whispered, “I told you, I make it my business to know everything about you, to know everything you love, and to try to make you feel safe and happy.”
I looked down at his mouth. “You didn’t tell me all of that.”
“I didn’t?” he whispered.
I shook my head and smiled at him as I looked into his beautiful eyes. I couldn’t tell what color they were in the dark. Sometimes, they were green, and sometimes, they were blue.
“Reed…I…I…” I barely got out any words as my voice cracked.
“Talk to me, Courtney.”
I closed my eyes as I took a deep breath in and slowly let it out. I opened my eyes and wrapped my legs around him. “I love you, Reed. I’ve loved you for so long, and I’m tired of being afraid of that love.”
He closed his eyes and put his forehead against mine. “You totally just made me the happiest man on earth.” He pulled away, opened his eyes, and smiled. “Courtney, I’ve loved you since the first moment I saw you. I’ll love you for the rest of my life.”
I slammed my lips to his and kissed him. It felt like we couldn’t get close enough to each other as the kiss grew more passionate. I wanted to crawl inside his body and just stay there.
“Courtney, I want to show you what real love feels like. I want to take you completely. I don’t want to just make you mine. I want to know you inside and out, baby. I want to make love to you like it’s your first time.”
I began crying. “It will be my first time, Reed. I want to forget about ever being with anyone else because…because I’ve never felt like this before, and my first time was…”
I started crying harder, and he held on to me tighter. I wanted to tell him the truth, but I didn’t want to ruin this moment. As we stood there in the pool and held on to each other, I remembered his ass was completely naked.
“I know what I want to do next,” I said with a smile as I looked into his eyes.
He pushed my hair away and smiled so sweetly at me. “Anything…you name it, Court.”
“Please make love to me, Reed. Please…just love me.”
I watched as his eyes filled with tears, and he smiled.
“Court…” he whispered as he began walking us out of the pool. “I have to take a shower first though.”
He scrunched up his nose in the cutest damn way, and the butterflies went nuts in my stomach.
Oh God…I’ve totally given Reed Nickolas Moore my heart and soul.
I let out a giggle. “Yes, please take a shower first.”
He gave me his beautiful crooked smile and said, “Oh no, baby, not just me. You’re taking one with me.”
My heart dropped, and I couldn’t help but smile. I’d never done anything like that before. Mitch was the only guy I’d ever had a somewhat normal relationship with, and he had been a wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am kind of lover. He’d never done anything other than typical lovemaking, and even that had sucked. He certainly hadn’t been my Prince Charming in the lovemaking area.
Reed set me down, ran over and grabbed a towel that had been left on a table since the other day when we had been sitting out by the pool. He wrapped it around his waist and turned to look at me.
I looked his body up and down as he stood there in the moonlight, looking all hot and shit. His body was amazing. He would go running every morning, and I swore, he’d work out every day in some way or another.
He had a tattoo on his back of a Texas longhorn with the colors of the Texas flag, and on the side of the bull’s face, next to his eye, was an outline of the Texas star. On his chest, he had another tattoo of a Latin phrase. Ever since I’d first seen it, I’d wanted so badly to ask him why he had cor meum, which meant my heart, tattooed on his chest, but I had been scared to death that it was for someone else, so I’d decided that I would rather not know. I knew it was his most recent tattoo. I remembered a few months back when Layton had asked Reed how he liked his new Latin tattoo. He also had a small tribal tattoo on the other side of his chest. It was a circular pattern, and the shading on it was amazing. I had stared at it the other day, wanting nothing more than to run my tongue all along the design. I hardly ever saw the few tattoos he had because he always kept them covered up with a T-shirt. I knew he couldn’t have any showing because of his job.
“You ready, Court?” he asked, snapping me out of my thoughts.
I glanced up and nodded my head as I pulled off my boots. I didn’t want to walk through the house while I was soaking wet. I knew Layton would kick my ass if I got his wood floors wet, and plus, my clothes felt like they weighed a ton. I reached down, lifted my shirt up, and pulled it over my head. Afterward, I never took my eyes off of Reed’s face. I wanted to watch him as I slowly slipped out of my wet clothes. I tossed my shirt onto a chair, and I decided to leave my bra on. I was silently thanking God that I had put on my light pink lace push-up bra with matching panties. The panties were my favorite lace-trim cheeky panties, and they always made me feel so sexy.
I unbuttoned my jeans and began to push them down. All thoughts of being sexy went right out the door when the bitches got stuck right below my ass, and I started hopping up and down, trying to get them off.
“Motherfucker! Really?” I yelled as I tried to pull the jeans off. I felt myself losing my balance, and I closed my eyes, preparing to go back into the pool.
I felt a jolt of electricity run through my body as Reed grabbed a hold of me to keep me from falling in.
“Only you could make all of that look sexy as hell, Courtney,” he said in a low voice.
Wait, what? He thought that was sexy? Oh hell, he’s going to be easy to please!
“Sit down on the chair, baby,” Reed said.
He knelt in front of me and began working my jeans off. He finally got the soaking wet jeans off my legs and stood up. He reached down for my hand and gently pulled me up. His eyes moved up and down my body, like he was trying to memorize every inch of me. I’d never been so turned-on in my life.
“You’re so beautiful, Courtney. You take my breath away. You’re so damn beautiful,” he whispered.
Oh God. I wanted him to touch me so badly that it hurt. I’d loved him and wanted him for so long. I was afraid if I moved, I would wake up from a dream. I stood there, not really sure what to say or do.
He placed his hands on my face and gently began kissing me. When he pulled away, he took my bottom lip and sucked on it, and I let out a soft moan.
“Reed…” I whispered against his lips.
He reached down and picked me up, and then he started walking toward the house. He was just about to open the back door when he practically walked us into it. The door was locked. He stood there for a few seconds, just staring at the door.
“Um…your truck keys are still in your truck. I left them in there,” I said, thinking he needed them to unlock the door.
He looked at me and started laughing. “I don’t have Layton’s key on my key ring. I had it on another set of keys…that I left in the house. I was so excited about tonight that I left them sitting on the kitchen island.”
I smiled and shook my head. “I have a set in my purse that’s still in your truck.”
He slowly began putting me down, and then he quickly kissed me on the lips. “Don’t move!” he said before running over to his truck.
The only thing I could think was, How is the gravel driveway not hurting his bare feet?
By the time he ran his way back with nothing but a towel wrapped around him while cursing for forgetting the keys, I was so turned-on that I could hardly stand it. I wanted to reach my hand in my panties and ease the throbbing.
He ran up, unlocked the door, reached in to turn off the alarm, and then flipped on the kitchen lights. Following him inside, I held my breath and waited for the dogs to come running. I thought Reed was doing the same thing because we both just stood there, listen
ing. Once we heard Lulu barking from her kennel, we looked at each other and smiled.
“Thank God,” we both said and laughed.
“I’ll go let the dogs out. You go upstairs and start the shower in my bathroom,” Reed said.
I nodded my head, and I was about to head off to go upstairs when he grabbed my hand and pulled me to him. He looked into my eyes, and then his eyes drifted down to my lips. I purposely licked them, and he let out a moan.
“Jesus,” he whispered.
He glanced down to my chest that was now heaving up and down from the excitement of the way he was looking at me. He took his finger and ran it along the edge of my bra. My whole body shuddered under his touch.
“Are you cold?” he asked me in a whispered voice.
I slowly shook my head. “No,” I whispered back.
His eyes snapped up and met mine. I wanted him to know that it was his touch causing my body to react this way. He gently moved his finger down to my stomach. I’d never in my life felt the way I was feeling right at this moment. I needed him to touch me before I combusted right then and there.
“Reed…” I said as I placed my hands on his chest.
He barely slid his finger along the edge of my panties, and I let out a moan that I’d tried so desperately to hold in. The next thing I knew, he was down on his knees, slipping my panties off. My breathing was getting faster and faster as I willed him to kiss me down there. When he kissed my belly button, I threw my hands into his hair and dropped my head back.
I’ve dreamed of this moment for so long.
“I have, too, Courtney,” Reed said.
I snapped my head down and looked at him. “What?”
He looked up and smiled at me. “I’ve dreamed of this moment for so long, too.”
Holy shit! I hadn’t realized that I’d said that out loud.
He lifted up my leg and put it over his shoulder as I reached back and held on to the kitchen island.
Yes! Oh God, yes!
When I felt his hot breath on me, I wanted to yell out, but I bit down on my lower lip. Then, his tongue swiped across my clit, and my whole body jerked.