Me: Is it all one-sided with you?
Reed: Sex?
Me: Yes.
Reed: Princess, I have my hand on my dick and pre-cum is dripping from it like a faucet. This is not one sided.
Oh my God. I was in bed reading. I pushed myself up and leaned against the headboard and stared at the texts. Reed may have gotten me off in his lap, and I knew he was into me, but he’d never actually said anything so… sexual to me before. I was imagining Reed sitting in his recliner with his hands down his workout shorts. I imagined him big, thick. Perfect.
Reed: Princess? Did I scare you away?
I blinked then panicked that he worried I was freaking out.
Me: No. I was… thinking about what you said.
Reed: Me rubbing one out while thinking of you?
Me: Yes.
Reed: I want you to come with me. Over your panties like before if you want.
I wanted. God, did I want. I was five thousand miles away from Reed. He couldn’t see me. He couldn’t hear me. He wouldn’t judge. I didn’t think, just dropped the cell on the bed and tugged off my T-shirt, then pushed my undies down my legs and tossed them onto the floor. I settled back into the bed, parted my legs.
Me: OK
Reed: Sorry, I dropped the phone. Fuck, ok.
I smiled and felt… silly. Light. As if I were sharing something secret. This was one of the most intimate things I’d ever done with someone, and yet he wasn’t even here. I began to touch myself in the way I knew would get me off. I didn’t play, just put my three fingers together and rubbed in circles just the right way. My feet slid up, and my knees spread. I cried out into the empty hotel room as I came, harder than I could ever remember. I was sweaty and breathing hard and… happy. I slapped my hand down on the bed searching for the cell, grabbed it up.
Me: Ok
Reed: You came?
Me: Yes
Reed: Shit… kde*d. S ksdfs we2
I stared and tried to figure out what he was saying.
Reed: Fuck, sorry. Can’t type one handed and can’t type shit when I’m coming all over my hand.
Me: Oh
I flushed thinking about him. He’d come because of me. Thinking of me. I’d made him that way. It was powerful. Exhilarating.
Reed:
Go to sleep, princess. You need me, I’m here.
REED
“They’re back.” Gray stood before the wall of windows that overlooked the parking lot. His arms were crossed, his gaze serious. He was always serious. The only person I knew who could make him smile was Emory.
I moved to stand beside him, my jump rope hanging from my fingers.
“Shit.”
The sky was leaden, the air almost foggy, which meant it was cold as shit out. Flurries were starting to fall. By morning, there would be a few inches of it on the ground. The gym was warm, and I was sweating from my workout. “I think it’s time to go say hi.”