Sorry for the long wait. One word: Work. I know that you guys are clamoring for updates on my other stories, but I promise I'm doing the best I can. I did, however, want to finish this and get it out of the way so it would stop haunting me. I also wanted to do this pair justice with a remarkable and tasteful love scene that is both sensual and full of desire, but sexual and just hot enough without being tasteless smut. I just can't write this pair being anything less.

This chapter is dedicated to all my readers. Thank you so much for your patience. I hope this makes up for the wait.

Use Me

Joss couldn't remember if she was breathing when her lips touched Reese's. She had imagined what his lips might feel against hers, but the reality was enough to knock her out. Slowly taking her time, she tasted him.

"Nice," Reese complimented as he pulled back. His hungry gaze let her know that he wanted and desired her.

"Very nice," Joss agreed. Electricity from their touch was causing her skin to tingle. Taking in a shaky breath, she concentrated on the gold necklace around Reese's neck.

"So…?" he prompted and cocked an eyebrow.

"So…what?"

"Is that all?"

Joss nodded with a shrug. "Maybe."

Reese propped himself up on his elbows. "Don't tell me that your moral compass won't allow you to take advantage of a naked man who is practically throwing himself at you."

Joss stepped back. "It might. Then again, it might be telling me to arrest you."

Reese's eyes darkened with desire as his lips curved in a Cheshire cat grin. "Again, Detective, the threat of handcuffs." He thrust both of his wrists toward her. "I say that it's time to put up or shut up."

Joss tossed her head back. "Are you threatening a police officer?"

Reese gave her a come-hither look. "I'm right here. Cuff me. Read me my rights." He smiled widely. "I'll even let you search for contraband."

"Is that what you call it?"

"I call it delaying the inevitable. What's wrong, Joss? What are you afraid of?"

"I'm not afraid," she denied hotly.

"Then touch me. Kiss me." He leaned back against the pillow. "Make love to me," he invited. It was taking everything he had not to grab her and pull him toward him, but he couldn't scare her off. Besides, she was armed. He could be patient.

"I won't touch you intimately, unless you want me to," he offered. "Do you trust me?"

Joss hesitated. Her eyes scanned Reese's body starting at his gorgeous feet, up his incredibly long and muscular legs, over his well sculpted chest, to his face. Her mouth went dry. And she felt her resolve slowly dissolve.

"My blouse stays on."

Reese nodded. "Okay."

Reaching out, Joss touched Reese's cheek, her palm cupped his face. He sighed and closed his eyes. She leaned over and kissed his forehead, then his eyes. She let her finger run over the bridge of his nose to his lips. Not too full, not too thin, just perfect for kissing. So she did.

Slow and gentle, she let her lips move over his, her tongue darting out to trace their shape. And she wanted more of him. Leaving his lips, she trailed a path of kisses along his jaw line, down his neck, and breathed in the delicious scent of the spice cologne he used. She felt her body tingle.

Across his collarbone, she kissed the pulse point at the base of Reese's throat, then moved down his chest. Her tongue flicked out to trace a circle around his nipple and heard him moan low. Emboldened, she suckled the pert nipple, her finger tip teased the other. Reese's hand stroked her back slowly and she arched against his hand.

Moving her head down, she kissed every inch of his chest, down past his navel - where she dipped her tongue and heard his sharp intake of breath - to the mushroom tip of his manhood. Pressing a gentle kiss to it, she breathed in his musk and felt her body grow hot from need. He was so beautiful she wanted to weep.

Licking her lips in anticipation, her tongue darted out to catch the drop of his essence - Delicious! - down his length and she took wicked pleasure as his hips arched as though he were begging her for more. Smiling to herself, she took him fully into the deep recesses of her mouth and made love to him.

Reese's eyes rolled upward as Joss loved him, and he swore that he had died and gone to heaven. No, he corrected, heaven could never match what she was doing to him. His hand gently fisted in her hair and held on for dear life as she drove him slowly to the point of insanity. With her hands and mouth, she pushed him to the edge only to pull back at the last minute. And Reese loved every minute of it.

Standing up, Joss tried to keep her knees from knocking as she unfastened the button on her slacks and let them fall to pool at her feet. Her body screamed for release. Kicking off her shoes, she stepped out of her slacks and panties. Closing her eyes, she took a deep breath to steady her nerves before straddling the naked man on her bed.

Determined to drive him crazy, she rubbed herself seductively over his hardened length. Reese jerked sharply from the contact and had to remind himself of his promise as Joss' wet core teased him with promises he waited with bated breath for her to fulfill. And right before he thought he would die from anticipation, Joss guided him to where she needed him the most. Excruciatingly slow, Joss sheathed him inside the velvet walls of her body and held him tight. And for a moment, the world stopped. But only for a moment.

Taking charge, Joss rotated her hips slowly as though she was testing the limits of how far she could push Reese's invitation. Getting no resistance, she rotated again. This time he moaned her name. That was all she needed. Settling on him, Joss took him deep before releasing him. She watched as his fingers curled into the comforter, so she repeated the move. Only faster this time. Throwing back her head, she rode him hard and fast until both their bodies were covered with sweat and Reese was begging for release. But she wasn't finished. Not yet.

Bracing her hands against Reese's chest, Joss rubbed herself intimately against his pelvic bone until she found her rhythm. Focused on her own pleasure, she let her orgasm slowly build. Her breath came in pants, her body flushed hot as her desire for release coiled tighter and tighter until it sprung free to hurl her into a vortex. Jerking spasmodically, Joss felt her orgasm take hold until it left her limp and sated, panting against Reese's chest.

Hesitantly, Reese's fingers touched Joss' hair. That had been unexpected and different, but he would be the first to say that he definitely liked the unexpected and different. But not as much as he loved the woman lying on his chest.

With him still inside of her, Joss dropped a kiss on her lover's chest, then pushed herself up to look at him. "I've never done that before," she confessed shyly.

"What? Getting your freak on like a wild woman?" Reese remarked. His fingers hovered over the buttons on Joss' blouse. He wanted so badly to undo them and feast his eyes upon her beauty. He wanted to touch her breasts and taste her as she cried his name.

"Not in recent memory."

"You like it?"

Joss considered her answer before replying, "Yeah, I do. Did you?"

"Very much. Do you know what else I would like?"

"What is that?"

"Take off your blouse."

Dread replaced the ecstasy that had left her body humming and lighter than air. "John…"

"Please, Joss."

Joss considered running and hiding, but they had come too far already and shared too much for her to back out now. "Okay." Eyes closed, her fingers fumbled as she unbuttoned her blouse and let the material fall to the floor with a whisper.

The silence in the room was nearly deafening as she waited for Reese to say something…anything. God help her, but she should have said no. No, she argued, I should have thrown him out the moment I found him laying on the bed. But she didn't dare open her eyes. She didn't want to see the look of disgust in his eyes. Everything had been so perfect…

Something light as feather darted over her skin. Opening one eye, she looked down to see Reese gently touch her scar. In his eyes was compassion and admiration.

"Fallujah," she supplied.

"That's where you got your Purple Heart." The pieces finally fell into place for him. Her reluctance to date. Her reluctance to undress in front of him. It all made sense. And he fell even more in love with her.

"You're not…disgusted?" Joss's heart beat frantically as she waited for his response.

Reese shook his head. His eyes locked with hers. "It's part of you, Joss." He laid his hand protectively over the scar. "It made you who you are." His other hand touched the front clasp of her bra. "May I?"

"Yes."

With the flick of his wrist, he released the clasp and freed her breasts to fall into his waiting hands. "Beautiful," he murmured as he kneaded her soft but firm mounds. He licked his lips as a hunger he never experienced filled him.

Sitting up, he took a dusky nipple in his mouth and suckled greedily. She tasted better than he could have imagined, and he felt himself harden as she moaned his name on the breath she sucked in. That only pushed him to bring her to fulfillment. She had had her way with him, now he was going to show her what real lovemaking was about. Wrapping her legs around his waist, he thrust deep inside of her.

As his lips and tongue teased and tormented her, his hand snaked down between them to touch the small, pink nub of her desire. Electricity shot thru Joss when Reese flicked his finger over her. Arching against him, she rotated her hips.

Reese pulled her face to his and took her lips for an open-mouth kiss. His tongue searched the deep recesses of her mouth and teased until her tongue mated with his. Arms wrapped around one another, their bodies matched in a perfect rhythm of give and take, Reese pushed her to the same edge she had teased him with.

Thrusting deep, he felt himself being held then released by her velvet fist. That only drove him harder to help her find completion. His fingers flicked faster and he heard her breath catch and come out on a sob. She was so tight and hot and he was going to explode. But he wanted her to go with him over the precipice. He wanted to hear her scream his name as he watched the earth-shattering orgasm he was creating, decimate her.

Between Reese's body and finger, Joss was losing her mind. She wanted him to stop. She didn't want him to stop. He was killing her, but she had never felt so alive. And then the world as she knew it shattered. Bright colours bursts happened behind her eyes as she cried out: "JOHN!"

She was killing him, Reese thought to himself as the beautiful woman he loved more than life gave into the orgasm and held him tight before jerking against him to bury her face in his shoulder. Two more thrusts before he buried himself deep and filled her with his life.
******

Slowly the world stopped spinning long enough for the lovers to catch their breath. Reese wasn't sure, but he knew he had touched the face of heaven. Even if it was only for a moment, he had Joss to thank. He started to speak, but stopped when he felt something warm and wet on his shoulder.

"Joss?" he whispered, afraid to break the moment. "Sweetheart, are you alright?" His hands stroked her back tenderly.

"Y-y-yeah," she spoke against his skin. "I never felt that before."

"Never?" Reese pulled back to look at her. He crooked a finger under her chin to raise her eyes to meet his. "Never?" he repeated.

"Never," she confirmed.

"Aren't you glad you gave in to my request and released the wild woman lurking below the surface?" he asked saucily.

"I'm still tempted to arrest you."

"Well, Detective, you already did the frisking, and got the body search out of the way. All that is left are the handcuffs. Did you find anything incriminating to use against me?" His eyes danced with humour.

"I found a lot of things that I am going to hold against you," she returned. Her eyes darkened with renewed desire.

"Oh?" Reese raised his eyebrow. "Really?"

Joss tilted her head wantonly. "Lots of things." She pushed him back against the mattress. "First thing, first. Did you mean it when you said I could use you?"

"Yes."

"Anytime?" she wondered. Her lips curved in a enigmatic smile.

"Anytime," he confirmed.

"Anywhere?" She leaned over and kissed his face, his eyes…that sweet spot near his earlobe.

"As long as phones are off," he cautioned. "But anywhere your heart desires," he invited.

"I can use you?" She looked deep into his eyes and felt her heart teeter.

Reese held Joss's face in his hands. "Joss, you can use me again and again….and then some more," he affirmed then he kissed her soundly.

And Joss's heart fell.

Forever.

The End.