Crazy on You

by Crystal B. Bright

  Hyde sobered to the moment and pulled back from her. Tassia’s lips looked seductive in a now swollen and pink state.

  “It’s been a long day.” Hyde stood, which forced Tassia to remove her hand from his leg. “Maybe we should call it a night.”

  “Really? You don’t want to—”

  “There’s something I need to do.”

  “I’m sure there is.” She stood and stretched her arms over her head. “I really, really liked the kiss. Didn’t you?”

  Hyde didn’t want to answer that question, but after getting her there under false pretenses, he wouldn’t be holding back from her anymore. “Yes.”

  “Don’t you think we should—”

  “I don’t want to blur the lines.” He didn’t. He had to think about this logically even though his body begged for him to take her there on the studio floor. He briefly glanced at the couch in the room and had to turn away. From the way she smiled at him, he knew he had been busted.

  “Blurry lines might make for really good music.” When she must have noticed Hyde’s unwillingness to budge, she shrugged. “For as long as I live, I will never understand men.” She shook her head. “I’m going to go back to my room to write.” Tassia headed to the door.

  “Great idea. I’ll do the same, and we can start all over again in the morning.” Not that Hyde wanted this night to end.

  Hyde wanted to kick himself in the head for cutting off what could have been a wonderful night with her. He had enjoyed being creative with Tassia. He also started to respect her songwriting skills. He had something he needed to do and he didn’t need Tassia to see it.

  “Thanks for writing the song and for recording it.” Before she left, she sauntered to him. Instead of kissing him again, she hugged him. In his ear she whispered, “And thanks for the kiss.”

  Holding her firm body flooded his brain with more salacious thoughts. He had to cool himself off, and he had the perfect way to do it.

  Tassia released him and went upstairs. Hyde secured the studio before he went upstairs, but he didn’t continue up to his bedroom on the next level. He went out the back door and down to the dock. He glanced behind him to make sure Tassia wouldn’t be able to see him. With the slope of the land and him being so far out on the dock, he knew she wouldn’t be able to spot what he had planned.

  Hyde glanced at his watch again. He only had a minute. In the blink of an eye, he stripped out of his clothes until he had nothing on, and then without thinking about it, he jumped into the lake.

  The cool water did a lot to lower his libido. He dipped down under the water and swam out as far as he could before he remained floating in the middle of the lake.

  He hated himself for acting like a goofy, lovestruck teenager around Tassia. Working since before puberty restricted his dating life. He had missed out on prom and other school dances while he worked on albums and tours and had tutors on the road.

  He started to swim back to the dock and had to stop when he noticed he now had an audience. Tassia sat on the edge with her feet in the water.

  Oh, shit.

  Chapter 13

  Tassia couldn’t settle herself after such an incredible recording session and that kiss. Those kisses. The first one showed her appreciation in a sexy way, but that second one had her floored.

  She wanted to keep working, but after seeing him damn near run away from her after rocking her soul and after he peered at his watch for the fifth time in a span of ten minutes, she figured he wanted to do something else.

  Maybe he did want to keep their relationship professional. Or maybe she really couldn’t keep a man’s interest. Then why did he kiss her? He initiated it this time. She didn’t mind. She liked touching his muscular thigh while he caressed her face. Hyde could be tender, which made her wonder what he would be like as a lover.

  “Stop, Tassia. The man is trying to be professional.” She shook her head as she let her feet dangle in the refreshing water.

  Tassia knew she needed to cool herself down somehow after that duet and kiss. A shower wouldn’t have helped her. When she tried writing, Hyde filled her thoughts. She wished she had saved that picture of his naked behind on her phone. Without cell service, she couldn’t call it up so that she could at least stare at it.

  She heard a slight splashing in the water and assumed that the fish Hyde had paid to be in the pond decided to jump out and do a little moonlight dance. Or maybe frogs inhabited the water. From all the croaking and crickets chirping, it wouldn’t have surprised her. Then she saw something larger than a normal pond fish and way bigger than a frog.

  Something large headed toward the dock. Maybe a turtle swam in the water. Tassia wouldn’t give the creature a chance to make a feast of her toes. She pulled them out of the water and remained in a crouching position until she recognized the water monster.

  “Hyde?” Tassia kept her feet out of water until the hump she saw got by the dock.

  Hyde lifted his head above the water. “What are you doing out here?”

  “I was just about to ask you the same thing.” She resumed her original position with her feet back in the water. “I thought you said you had something to do.”

  “I did.”

  In the darkness, Tassia found it hard to see his full expression. He hung his head down a beat before he peered up at her.

  “Do you remember when Pepper started to ask me about something I was going to do while I was here?”

  Tassia kind of remembered that conversation but had dismissed it as more ribbing from Hyde’s cousin. “Yeah. Why?”

  “Every year, I take a dip in the water on this day.”

  “Why? What’s special about this day?”

  Hyde hugged his body against the wooden steps that went down in the water from the dock. “Ever since I was a kid, I have jumped in some body of water on my, um, birthday.”

  Tassia blinked. “Today is your birthday?”

  He nodded. “Technically now it is.”

  “No wonder you were looking at your watch. Why didn’t you tell me?” She kicked her foot up to splash his face.

  “I was going to tell you in the morning. It’s another reason I wanted to come out here. I wanted something for me. Sounds selfish, especially since I involved you.”

  “It is. But I can kind of get it.” Tassia waved her legs back and forth in the water. “So why swimming on your birthday?”

  Hyde shrugged. “I don’t know. My grandmother started it. She doesn’t live too far from here. She would take me to a lake by her house on my birthday and let me swim with my friends. When I started recording, I had to make time to do the same thing, hence the picture of my naked behind.”

  Tassia started to laugh but stopped and looked behind herself. She had seen the strewn clothing over the dock. It hit her that Hyde had to be in his manmade pond in the nude.

  She stood. Tassia should have been nice and piled Hyde’s clothes closer to the stairs and given him his privacy. Instead she decided to give herself a present. She would see if he truly wanted her.

  Tassia removed her dress. She gazed down at Hyde to see if he would object or ask what she had planned on doing. As fast as she could, she put her hands behind her back to undo her bra. In a swift motion, she curved her shoulders forward and let her bra straps slip down her arms, then she removed her panties.

  Before anything could be said or before she could run away, Tassia jumped into the cool water with Hyde. She broke through the surface and found herself a few feet from him. In the moonlight and the couple of dock lights, he looked more sexy than sinister.

  Like he didn’t want her to make the next move, he swam toward her in a time that would probably have rivaled Michael Phelps’. As soon as he got in front of her, he wrapped his arm around her waist and stared at her.

  “Beautiful.” He crushed his lips against hers again with so much
passion and intent it took her breath away.

  To keep herself steady, Tassia wrapped her arms around his broad shoulders. He slid his hands down her back. In her mind, Tassia wanted him to grip her ass, show her that he wanted her.

  Like he had read her thoughts, Hyde eased his hands down to her backside and palmed it in his large hands. Tassia wrapped her legs around his waist while he kept his legs moving to keep them afloat.

  Hyde broke from the kiss, but this time he used one arm to swim them back to the steps at the dock. He didn’t let her go while he got them to safety. He positioned her so that she rested against the steps. He gripped a step behind her head and continued kissing her, taking over her mouth and senses.

  Why the hell had Shelby Lynne let this man go? Hyde curled Tassia’s toes just from a kiss.

  He coasted his hand down her body to her breast. When he cupped it, she had to break from the kiss long enough to lean her head back and savor the moment. With her head back, Hyde took the time to lick up her neck to her chin before he sucked the sensitive flesh near her collarbone.

  “Oh, yes. Don’t stop.” Tassia gripped his shoulders.

  Hyde pressed his body closer to hers, putting his chest against hers. Tassia could die at this moment and would have been so happy.

  As she settled into this incredible moment, a feeling broke her from getting too comfortable. Tassia shrieked and peered down in the water as though she could see anything.

  “What’s wrong?” Hyde’s deep voice sounded even deeper as he held her.

  “Something’s in the water with us. I felt it.” She wiped her face. Why the hell had she jumped in this pond? She hadn’t done something like this since before she realized brain-eating amoebas existed in them. “Something big swam between us.”

  Hyde smiled before he chuckled. “You mean this?” He moved his body closer to hers.

  Tassia identified the elephant in the pond with them. “Let’s go to my room.” She turned and started to head up the steps.

  “I thought we were doing really good out here.”

  Tassia stood on the dock and gathered her clothes. “We were, but I want more, and I have condoms in my room, unless you have some out here or in your pocket.” She nodded back to his discarded clothes.

  Hyde took a couple of steps up but didn’t appear over it yet. “I like a woman who’s prepared.” He winked. “All right, Girl Scout. Start the shower.”

  Tassia didn’t need any other prompting than that. She ran toward the house, only looking back once to see if Hyde followed her just as quickly. She spotted him under a light gathering his clothes and trotting behind her, but still managing to look like he carried some swag. How the hell could this man do that completely naked?

  She stepped through the back door and nearly slipped on the floor as she rushed to the bedroom. She didn’t need to fall and break something before finally getting this man into bed, or even the shower.

  When she reached the room, she threw her clothes in a corner, then dove into her still-packed suitcase to find the condoms India had packed when Tassia’s plan had been to go to Fiji for a vacation. By the time Hyde stood in the doorway staring at her, she located the string of packaged prophylactics in gold packaging.

  In an exaggerated manner, Tassia pulled out the string and held it in front of her body before tossing them on the bed. Hyde, still holding a pile of clothes in front of his body, finally dropped them at the doorway.

  Tassia couldn’t help but lower her gaze to check out his goods. No wonder she thought something had slithered between their bodies. Hyde’s dick sat up nice and tall and thick. Yes, this man definitely wanted her and showed it in the right way.

  As he approached her, she backed into the bathroom. She had been given a task to start the shower. She needed to do that.

  Tassia turned on the light and then turned to the large shower stall to start the water. It surprised her when the lights in the room dimmed down to a seductive level. She turned to see Hyde making an adjustment next to the light switch. She had no idea that the lights in the room had that capability.

  When she stepped into the stall, he followed her. It didn’t take him long to reconnect his hands to her waist and pull her forward so that his long, strong member separated their bodies. Even after swimming in the pond for a short while and before bathing, Hyde smelled so good. He emitted a woodsy aroma that reminded her of everything good and decent. She hoped he wouldn’t be decent with her, not right now.

  Tassia wanted to see if this so-called goody two-shoes had a naughty side. He had the right equipment to be a bad boy.

  It didn’t take long for Hyde to recapture her mouth in a kiss. Tassia placed one hand on his shoulder and let her other hand rest on the back of his neck. At the peak of the summer heat, she understood Hyde’s need to keep his hair short. She almost wished he had some hair to be able to pull on it.

  Warm water rained down over them from the large, circular showerhead. Tassia opened her eyes and pulled back from Hyde when she suddenly smelled her familiar wildflower body wash. She didn’t even realize that Hyde had taken his hands off her body to get the bottle she had left on a shelf behind her.

  He poured the purple liquid in the palm of his hand before he lathered it over her body, down her arms, over her breasts, down her belly, and on her legs. Hyde lowered himself down to his knees in front of her. He peered up and connected his stare to hers as slipped his fingers in between her thighs and rubbed her clitoris.

  “Oh, God.” Tassia gripped his tanned shoulders while spreading her legs apart as much as she could.

  Hyde continued staring at her while he pleasured her, caressing her hardened nub enough that her legs buckled. Her knees weakened the more he rubbed her. When he leaned forward and kissed the section of her body below her belly button, she cried out.

  “Yes!” Tassia put her hand on top of his head when she felt her hips gyrating back and forth in concert with his hand motions.

  “You smell so good.” Hyde kissed down lower, nearly getting his lips right on her slit.

  If he touched her with his tongue, she would be a puddle and going right down the drain with the rest of the shower water. She wouldn’t let that happen just yet, not until she got to touch him a lot more.

  Hyde stood but continued his manipulations. When Tassia could keep her eyes open, she noticed that he made it a point to stare in her eyes. She tried hard to reciprocate. To keep herself grounded, she poured some of her body wash in her hand and wrapped her fingers around his shaft.

  Hyde sucked air between his teeth and groaned. He nodded his head as soon as she moved her hand up and down, particularly when she pulsated her fist at his large mushroom tip.

  He kept his hand moving back and forth between her legs, but then had to rest his free hand against the shower stall wall behind her head.

  Just as she had done, his hips gyrated back and forth. She felt him throbbing in her hand, which turned her on tremendously. Who would have thought this country singer would have found her attractive? What was she thinking? Who would have thought that she would have found him attractive, the man who had sung and danced with her on a kids’ show and at one time rejected her professionally? Now he wanted her. Boy, did she want him, too.

  Tassia used her free hand to lather soap suds over his perfect, naked body, over his shoulders and down his chest to his rippled abdomen. He continued rubbing her clit while her body shook.

  She kept a tight hold of his erect penis when her stomach tightened. Tassia chewed on her lower lip in hopes that she wouldn’t cry out just yet. She couldn’t hold back the orgasm threatening to hit her. To still his hand, she brought her legs together.

  “Yes. Yes. Yes.” She nodded but kept her eyes closed. “Hy. Hy.” She reared up on her tiptoes before releasing the loudest scream she had ever emitted with any man or even through the worst pain she had ever felt
.

  Hyde hadn’t even entered her and he had given her the best climax she had ever had. In return, she would do the same for him. She pumped her hand faster and faster.

  “Need to stop.” He squeezed his eyes closed but continued holding her pussy. To illustrate his request, he held her wrist to still her. “Need you.” He pulled her under the shower head to rinse them both off before he turned off the water.

  When Tassia reached for a towel to dry herself, Hyde held her hand, rubbed his feet over the plush white rug by the shower stall, and pulled her into the bedroom.

  “We’re both soaking wet.” Tassia meant that in other ways considering Hyde had given her an incredible end to her day.

  Hyde grabbed the string of condoms and ripped one off from the end. “You say that like it’s a bad thing.” He smiled before opening the package with his teeth and struggling to roll the filmy protection over himself.

  Tassia made a mental note in her head. Hyde needed the condoms for the larger-sized men. Have mercy.

  She backed toward the bed when he surprised her and captured her hand to pull her close to him. Hyde positioned her back against the wall and helped her raise her legs so that she had them around his firm ass. While he held her up with one hand cupped under her cheek, he used the other to guide himself inside her eager core.

  “Shit.” She pressed her head back against the wall and tried controlling her breathing, but couldn’t. The deeper he plunged, the more connected she felt to him.

  When Hyde got himself down to the hilt, even he cursed. “Tight. Wet. Perfect.” He made slow thrusts at first. He controlled this moment, and Tassia loved it.

  “Yes.” She held onto his shoulders and planted kisses over his face while he grounded himself. “So good. Hitting it. Hard.” She nodded. “So close.”

  She couldn’t believe she could come again so soon. Hyde felt incredible. She tightened her legs around his body and wished in her head that this moment wouldn’t end, that beyond this night, this trip, this album, there could be more between them. Could he get beyond his image to imagine her in his world? Then again, could she do the same for him?