Quarterback Sneak (Red Zone Rivals #3)(48)

Slowly, he dipped under the water. I wasn’t sure what for until he emerged and pressed my thong into my hands under the surface.

Wordlessly, I slipped them back on, all while Holden watched our new visitor. My pulse rang in my ears.

When the man stepped onto the first stair leading into the water, he finally looked up, and he seemed surprised to find us there. He lifted a hand in a friendly greeting, smiling like he was proud of us for being in the 5 AM club, and Holden nodded back.

We waited until he dove in and began to swim, and then Holden hoisted me up before lifting himself. He grabbed my hand, tugging me to my feet.

And then we were running as we tried not to laugh.

I scooped my towel and oversized t-shirt off one chair as he grabbed his shirt and towel off another, and then with our wet feet padding along the tile, we ran toward the hallway that led to the hotel lobby.

But Holden slid to a stop at the sight of a couple of his teammates talking to the person at the front desk.

“Why the hell are so many people awake?” I hissed on a laugh.

Holden cursed, but he seemed to love the sight of me smiling, because he leaned toward me like he wanted to kiss me so bad he couldn’t resist. Somehow, he did, tugging me the opposite way before his teammates saw us. He ran straight for the door that led outside, the first bit of dawn turning the sky a dark purple as we slung out into the cold.

“Holy shit, it’s freezing!” I gasped, but I laughed even as the icy ground bit into my bare feet. Holden still held onto my hand as he looked around frantically, and then he scooped me into his arms.

My laughter was incontrollable now as he juggled me and all our belongings in his arms, running around the back side of the hotel as quietly as he could.

“Would you be quiet,” he warned, straining his own laughter.

I tried and failed as he used his key to open the back door near the elevators, and then he scanned left, right, before shoving through a door marked staff only.

It was dark inside, and he dropped me to my feet before flicking on a light.

Housekeeping supply.

Both of us were breathing hard, and Holden watched me for one second before we burst into another fit of laughter.

The next second, he had me pinned against the door.

He kissed me, silencing my laugh and instantly lighting that flickering flame inside me. My orgasm that had been so close to catching fired up at the touch, so ready to combust I thought it might happen from the kiss alone.

“We should stop,” I breathed against his mouth.

“We should,” he breathed back, but he was already sliding my thong down my thighs, hands reaching for my sports bra next. He peeled it off me, the wet fabric landing on the ground with a thwack.

“Someone could walk in.”

“Any second,” he agreed, but he shoved his own briefs down, then, and I gaped at his hard length that sprang forward.

God, he had a beautiful cock.

It angled up toward his abs, and he was so well equipped that the tip of him touched his belly button. I licked my lips, reaching out.

We both moaned when I wrapped my hands around him, my eyes fluttering shut with him throbbing in my palms.

I didn’t want to play anymore.

I turned, arching my ass and fitting him to my entrance. I slipped his crown into my wetness, biting my lip and feeling high at the thought of him filling me.

But it was like that was finally the zing of warning that brought Holden back to reality.

He stopped me, cursing and flipping me around to face him again as he tried to steady his breathing. His hands found my face, sliding up until they tangled in my hair. He pulled out my hair tie, rubbing my scalp with his fingertip as I sighed at the sensation.

“We can’t…” He croaked, pressing his forehead to mine as his hands framed my head against the door. He muffled a curse. “I don’t… I don’t have a condom.”

Why did hearing him say the word condom make every nerve ending in my body tingle?

I resisted the urge to pout. “You don’t?”

He chuckled a bit. “Well, I wasn’t exactly expecting this.”

I bit my lip, trying to think, trying to find any way to not lose this fire that had been aching to burn for so long.

“I’m clean,” I told him, still stroking him slowly with my hands. “And on birth control.”

He shook his head, jaw tight with restraint.

“Don’t stop now,” I begged him, and I bit his chin before kissing him hard. “You know you want me, Holden. You want me so bad you can’t fucking sleep.”

I squeezed the tip of him, hiking my thigh up and tilting my pelvis forward to meet him with my own need.

“So, take me,” I dared. “Take me like this is the only time you ever could.”

I was answered with a growl of surrender, one I felt vibrating through me as I was lifted off the ground. There was no time for worship, no time for Holden to palm my breasts or cover my nipples with his warm, wet tongue. No time for me to take him into my mouth and savor the taste of him.

No time for anything but the primal need we both felt flowing through our veins.

Holden pinned me hard against the door, like we would be the lock that kept anyone from interrupting. One hand wrapped around my lower back as the other slipped between us, and he pressed his crown to my entrance before his hands found my hips again.