CHAPTER FOURTEEN

REAGAN

Right before I left Oakland for good, some kid stabbed me in the ribs. 

He mistook me for someone else and thought I owed him money or something. I remembered feeling cold all over as someone rushed me to the emergency clinic.

Diving into that icy lake felt exactly like getting stabbed. 

The icy water shocked my system. I could only imagine what it felt like for Pepper. 

I opened my eyes as I forced my shocked body to swim but it was nearly impossible to see. Only murky shapes floated across my vision and it was eerily quiet underwater. 

Fucking hell Pepper, where are you? I thought desperately. 

This was the worst possible situation to panic. An accelerated heartbeat used more oxygen and would keep me from holding my breath for longer. Every precious second taken to go back to the surface for air and not looking for Pepper was a second wasted.

Something pale and shimmery caught my eye as my lungs started to burn and I swam toward it desperately.

If I believed in mermaids, I would have died happy right then. 

Pepper waved at me, still smiling underwater, and did a perfect back flip before swimming effortlessly away with strong kicks of her shapely legs. 

Relief swept over me like a drug high. She got me, again. 

The water made the sunlight dance on her skin as she swam circles around me like a playful dolphin. My lungs ached and my vision began spotting. I kicked back up to the surface with the little strength I had. 

I gasped for that sweet, beautiful air the moment my head broke the surface. Unlike me, Pepper surfaced slowly, revealing just her naughty, mischievous eyes at first like a crocodile. 

“You scared the shit out of me!” I cried, aiming a splash right at her. 

She came back with spitting a stream of water at my face.

"Blech!" 

I wiped the nasty lake water out of my eyes and lunged for her again. 

"Come here, you sneaky little..." 

This time, I caught her. 

She giggled and squirmed as I pulled her tight against my body. Her soft skin was covered in a layer of goose flesh and I felt her shivering when she stopped splashing around. 

"Come on, I got more towels in the truck," I said softly, rubbing my arms across her back to warm her up. 

"I'm disappointed. I thought you'd freak out a lot more," she said, smiling wickedly despite her shivering. 

"I'll get you back," I said in a low, threatening voice. "When you least expect it." 

My hand wound through her hair floating on the surface like drifting foam and found itself caressing the back of her neck. 

"You really did have me worried there," I admitted.

"I'm touched," she replied, her tone still playful. 

I felt something warm and soft slide across both sides of my ribs and realized they were her thighs. 

Her long legs wrapped securely around my middle to straddle me, and despite the freezing cold water, my dick responded with growing approval.

As we treaded water together toward the beach, her arms floated up slowly to wrap around my shoulders. Her skin felt delightfully warm and alive against mine in the cold, murky water that surrounded us.

"You stopped shivering," I noted as I traced my thumb across her lower lip, which no longer trembled but was flushed and plump, just begging to be kissed. 

"Somehow I'm not cold anymore," she answered. 

My mouth fell to hers with nothing holding me back. My kiss was hard, bruising, and needing. I wanted her more than anything and I never took what I wanted gently. 

She gasped so sweetly against my tongue as I kissed away the coldness of the lake. Her thighs clenched harder around my waist and her nipples, hard as diamonds, pressed into my chest. 

My hands slid across her curves to cup that beautiful round ass that I had been dreaming about for weeks. 

"Oh god," I groaned into her mouth. 

Her pussy felt like molten lava against my concrete stiffness, practically burning against the icy water. Both of our bodies were so hot as we devoured each other. The unyielding cold made everything more sensitive. My skin erupted in gooseflesh too as she pressed her sweet, hot pussy against me, the thin fabric of our underwear barely acting as a barrier at all. 

Fuck, I couldn't get enough of this woman. She'd been the only thing on my mind for weeks and I finally had her. Legs wrapped around me, putty in my hands, and making the sweetest little sighs and moans as I explored her with my mouth and hands. And she felt and tasted better than I ever could have imagined. 

I gripped her hair in my fist at the base of her skull and dragged my lips to her earlobe and down the side of her beautiful neck. 

"Aaaah." 

Her moan was like music to my ears and she gripped a handful of my hair with a firmness that matched my own. 

Just then, my foot touched the sandy bottom of the lake. We were close enough to the beach to walk out. 

I gently untangled Pepper's legs from around my waist and, still gripping her hair, swiftly dunked her head underwater. 

I let her go and made a beeline for our towel, still resting on the dry, sandy shore.

“You jerk!” she shrieked, surfacing mere seconds after I dunked her and chasing after me up to the beach.

“Told you I’d get you back!” I yelled.

I reached the towel and dropped down on it heavily, watching the jaw-dropping sexy sight of Pepper emerging from the water and coming straight toward me. 

Her soaked bra and panties left absolutely nothing to the imagination. 

The fabric pieces clung to her mouthwatering curves, all but completely transparent. Her round, luscious tits took on a gravity-defying perkiness from the cold. I could see the folds and outline of that sinfully hot pussy that pressed against my cock, that I was dying to taste and sink into like there was no tomorrow. 

"I guess we're even now," she said in mock defeat as she approached the towel, her eyes taking in my full erection now that my eyes feasted on her full, soaking wet and stunning form. 

"No," I said, my voice dark with lust. 

I was done playing around. 

I grabbed her hand and yanked her down on the towel next to me. She barely had time to gasp as my tongue invaded her mouth with another hard, possessive kiss. 

My hands took firm hold of her waist and pushed her down flat on her back. Her response was immediate and so fucking hot, I could barely breathe. 

Without a moment of hesitation, her inner thighs glued to my hips, opening herself up to me and pressing her hot vulva against my shaft. She was soaking wet and not from the lake. 

"We're not fucking even," I growled as I sucked the tender flesh just underneath her earlobe, making her mewl and writhe and press even harder against me.

I yanked her bra straps off her shoulders, peeling away the soaked bra like it was a second skin. Her nipples, stiff and tense little peaks, were the color of milk chocolate and looked just as delicious. 

She moaned so hotly as I kneaded her tits, rolling my thumbs over her nipples and shrieked when I sucked those little mounds into my mouth. 

I fucking loved how expressive she was. I fucked too many women who acted like dead fish in bed and nothing was better than one who genuinely enjoyed herself. 

I swirled my tongue around those sweet nipples, warming up her cold skin before moving on to taste more of her. 

"We're not even until I've made you come at least a hundred times," I whispered as my mouth traveled against the landscape of her flesh. "Until your whole body craves-- no, needs-- only me."

"Reagan." The way she moaned my name was like an orgasm for my brain. I couldn't even handle how hot she sounded. 

Her fingers raked over my shoulders and back, sending sweet tingles of pleasure down my spine as I kissed the undersides of her breasts, her ribs, and her bellybutton. 

She was so close already. I could feel it in how she quivered beneath me. She wasn’t freezing anymore but the play of hot and cold sensations definitely heightened her sensitivity. 

I kissed along her waist, taking my time to truly taste her as I dipped my hand between her legs. 

“Ohhh!” she cried out with a wild thrash as I applied gentle pressure to her most sensitive intimate area. 

Her pussy practically burned against my palm as I cupped between her legs. I watched her face with fascination as I experimented with movement. Up and down. Small circles. Every bit of it drove her wild and she bucked her hips against my hand like a wild mare. 

“I’m so close,” she whimpered. “I want you so bad.” 

My fingers pressed against that hard nub, not letting her escape and buck away as she shuddered under the intense sensations coursing throughout her beautiful body. 

“Come for me, Pepper,” I whispered in a low growl. “Let me see you let go.”

Through slitted eyes, she watched me as she squirmed from the friction and the pleasure. She wanted to burst open with pleasure, I could see it. But she was still nervous. 

Maybe it was insecurity about how she looked, maybe it had to do with the fact that we still barely knew each other and basically lived in different worlds. 

But I didn’t care about any of that. Laid out on that sandy beach, droplets of lake water still beading on her gorgeous, sun-kissed skin, she was an absolute goddess and my only purpose in that moment was to please her.

“You’re so fucking beautiful, I can’t stand it,” I rasped. “I’ve wanted you since you first pointed your gun at me.”

“Liar,” she breathed barely above a whisper but a lazy smile crept across her lips all the same. 

“Never,” I growled and brought my mouth crashing down on hers to prove my point. “Fuck your land. Giving you this pleasure is all I ever really wanted.”

Her moans were infectious and went straight to my cock. I wanted so badly to be inside her but not yet.

She breathed in ragged desperate moans and her thighs clamped shut, trapping my hand at the center of her pleasure. I kept rubbing and pressing against her hot slit with a steady rhythm, watching her body lose control as she climbed higher and higher. 

“Oh god, Reagan,” she gasped. “I’m gonna…”

And then she shattered in my arms, breaking open with the height of human pleasure shining out.