“Not too many. After branding or a cattle drive, I give the guys two days off. They won’t be back until Monday. My ranch will be deserted until then.”
“Oh,” she said, handing him a beer.
Their hands touched, and he felt a zing of chemistry. The sudden heat that flashed in her eyes told him she felt it too. “I want you,” he growled, putting the beer can aside and reaching out for her.
“I want you, too,” she replied, coming to him willingly. He captured her mouth, then swept her into his arms.
As he moved toward the stairs, she was already undoing the buttons on his shirt. It felt good to know this crazy need between them was shared. When he reached the landing, he glanced down at her and asked, “Which room is yours?”
“The one at the end of the hall on your right.”
He nodded. Like his place, Rich’s home had wings. He knew the master bedroom was in a wing by itself, and the five guest rooms were on another. He had spent many nights here as a kid, and it sounded like her bedroom was the same one he’d long ago claimed as his.
Opening the bedroom door, the first thing he noticed was how different the room looked. Libby had obviously had some say in decorating. His gaze traveled over the flower-printed bedspread and frilly curtains. He much preferred the prior ones, with the Marvel theme.
The moment he placed Dani in the middle of the bed, she whipped the caftan over her head and tossed it aside. As he’d guessed, she wasn’t wearing a bra or panties. He couldn’t help but stand there inawe, staring at her naked beauty. Every single inch of her was perfect.
“Hurry and take your clothes off, Wade.”
Her words had him tugging off his belt and removing his shirt. He pulled a condom packet from his wallet and tossed it on the nightstand before sliding his jeans and briefs down his legs. He then stood before her naked.
“Wow,” she said, looking at the area below his waist and then back at him. “Libby was right.”
He lifted a brow. “About what?”
“She said everything is bigger in Texas.”
He grinned.
“And you know what, Wade?”
“What, Dani?”
“I’m going to pretend I’m a cowgirl, and wrangle with it.”
He couldn’t wait.
Dani’s mind was made up about what she wanted to do now, and more than anything, she wanted to do the naked man standing by the bed. The sexual hunger in his gaze made her heart stop and her breath catch. As soon as she opened the door to him, she knew there was no way she could ignore the carnal attraction blazing between them. It was already out of control.
Every part of her was aware of him - every pore, every cell. Even the air he breathed seemed to surround her, and her desire for him left her lightheaded. She recalled advising her mother, after she’d met Jeremiah, to take things slow and not to rush. But here Dani was,after knowing Wade for less than a week, ready to jump on him. She wanted and needed him now.
Easing up on the bed, she offered him her hand and he took it, then leaned down and kissed her in a way that was even more intoxicating than the one they had shared last night.
He released her mouth and took a step away from the bed. “I need to grab a condom.”
The texture of his voice, deep and throaty, felt like an intimate caress on her skin. “Don’t worry. I’m not going anywhere.”
He smiled and snagged their protection off the nightstand. Then, while she watched, he sheathed himself. Since she had been taking birth-control injections for years, it had been a long time since she had seen a man do this. Even during those early days, when she and Steve had first begun dating, he had preferred to put it on without an audience. But watching Wade protect her seemed to heighten the level of intimacy between them. He aroused her as no other man ever had.
“I’m dying to taste you, baby,” he said, standing there looking totally awesome with masculine thighs, a broad chest, powerful-looking shoulders, and the most gorgeous pair of bowlegs a man could possess. She could imagine him mounting and riding a horse. Even better, she could imagine him mounting and riding her.
She knew exactly what his words meant, and the thought of him making love to her that way had her heart racing. “Just as long as you know that when it’s my turn to taste you, for every lick you give me, I intend to give you two.”
She saw the immediate flare of heat in his eyes, and from the way his shaft reacted, it seemed to appreciate her words.Easing onto the bed, he slid an arm around her waist and pulled her to him, easily lifting her legs over his shoulders. Then he leaned in and began kissing the folds between her thighs.
He raised his head and whispered, “You’re so hot there, baby.”
And then he eased back and sank his mouth into her. Dani’s hips nearly shot off the bed at the first feel of his tongue inside of her. Then he began licking her in earnest. She moaned and thrashed, and the more she did, the more vigorous his tongue became. Within minutes, she screamed his name as an orgasm washed over her and all through her.
