Page 19 of Rival Hearts

She couldn’t deny the attraction that she felt toward the other woman, and how badly she wanted to feel their lips pressed together. Jett took another step toward Riley, and Riley couldn’t help herself. She took a step toward Jett and within an instant, the two were kissing passionately.

Riley pushed herself forward and put her hands on Jett’s waist, forcing Jett backwards until Jett hit the wall of the on-call room and gasped.

Riley took this opportunity to bite Jett’s lip and reach her hands toward Jett’s waistband. She was going to be the one getting a taste of Jett tonight.

She unceremoniously pushed Jett’s pants and underwear to the ground and felt Jett’s hands reach under her shirt and toward her bra, reaching for the clasp.

Riley bit Jett’s lip harder, and yanked her hands off of her. This time it was going to be Jett who would be naked. Riley wanted to see her, to feel her, to hear her.

“What was that about, sweetheart?” Jett asked, pulling away from the kiss for just a second before she put her lips back on Riley’s.

“I want your shirt off,” Riley said, doing the same thing, except instead of putting her mouth back on Jett’s, she put her mouth on Jett’s collarbone, leaving gentle kisses. She wanted to leave hickeys, but she would have to wait until Jett’s top was off. She didn’t want to leave proof of what they were doing where other people could see and question it.

Jett hummed and then laughed. “If you want my shirt off, then I want you to beg, sweetheart.” Jett’s brown eyes offered a challenge.

Absolutely not,Riley thought, and she pushed Jett against the wall as hard as she could, using her torso to pin her to the wall as her hands reached for the buttons of Jett’s shirt. However, before she could even undo the first button, Jett reached toward Riley’s hands and held them in her own.

Riley struggled to get out of Jett’s grip, but she was too strong, and Riley was not weak. She couldn’t help herself from thinking about how hot this was, distracting herself from her mission of undressing Jett.

“What did I say?” Jett asked. “You want my shirt off, you’re going to have to beg.”

Riley couldn’t believe that she was even considering it. She never begged, but she couldn’t deny how hot this entire situation was, and she felt the heat from their interactions through her entire body.

Riley opened her mouth and watched as Jett smirked at her, but before Riley could even say anything, her pager went off.

For fuck’s sake! Of all the times to ruin a quiet day in the ER.

Both of them knew exactly what Riley’s pager meant for their on call room time.

Jett let go of Riley’s hands and went for her pants and underwear. And even though Riley couldn’t help but spare a glance at Jett’s long legs as she reclothed herself, she did almost instantly look for her pager.

“Shit,” Riley said. Apparently calling dibs didn’t mean much. Dr. Everett ended up needing Riley’s help with her patient. “I’ve got to go.”

“Yeah,” Jett said with a nod, “but I’ll see you sometime later, right?”

Riley blanked, remembering the promise to herself that what happened on the roof was just a one-off thing, and how she almost just broke that promise. She didn’t even answer Jett. She just walked out of the on-call room and went to the trauma bay.

6

JETT

Jett was left in the on-call room, breathless, before she decided to leave and go back to the fire station. There wasn’t a reason for her to stay at the hospital anymore, not with Riley gone.

After Jett’s shift, while she was taking a long shower in her house, she couldn’t help but think about Riley and what the other woman was making her feel. Jett was always in control, but it was clear to her that Riley was used to having the control in her relations with women.

Jett didn’t know how to feel about that. She didn’t know if she was ready to give up any control to Riley, or how she felt about the other woman taking it, like she had seemed so adamant on doing, even though she hadn’t succeeded. Jett smiled to herself. There was something beautiful about bringing a powerful woman to her knees, making her beg and lose the control she was used to having.

But the kind of control that Jett would have to give up if she was to continue this thing with Riley was more than just sex. It was emotional, and that was something that Jett was unfamiliar with. Sure, Jett had had a few relationships, her longest lasting four years until the two broke up two years ago, but she always struggled with emotional vulnerability.

Her ex, Sky, had wanted more than Jett was wanting to give. She wanted Jett to be more open with her emotions, something that she always struggled to communicate. In fact, it seemed like all of Jett’s relationships ended the same way, with issues caused by her inability to communicate her emotions. She knew she was guarded and that it led to issues, but she wasn’t really sure what to do about it.

She wanted a proper, long relationship, maybe with marriage, like her aunt and cousin, but she didn’t know how to actually make that work.

Jett thought back to Riley and her lovely muscled tattooed body and sharp green eyes and couldn’t deny the attraction that she felt toward her, but she thought that it might be for the best if the two left one another alone. However, at the same time, Jett couldn’t imagine doing that. She felt so much toward Riley that she felt out of control of herself.

While in the shower, Jett decided that the next time she saw Riley, she would talk to her, to figure out what was going on between the two of them. That was probably the best. Jett hated being uncertain and not knowing what was going on, and her situation with Riley definitely left her feeling uncertain.

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