A gasp pushes through his lips and his hips buck as he fills my throat with warmth, his orgasm shuddering through him. His breaths huff out and his chest heaves as he releases me, flopping back against the sofa.
Finally feeling like I cleared the last of the issues between us, I feel settled. This place feels like home, and I daydream about waiting for my cowboy on the porch at the end of the daybefore sending my bartender out into the evening to serve the locals their beers.
Chapter 42
Forever and Ever, Amen
Duke
It’s been a month since the accident, and things are starting to fall into a rhythm around the ranch. Cash, while still on crutches, is at least making his way on his own up and down the stairs and seems to be in good spirits. It broke my heart to see the hollowness in his eyes when he realized his rodeo career was over.
It’s not an easy thing to watch your life’s work go down in a single eight-second span. Once he put in the paperwork for his official retirement from the rodeo circuit though, it was a turning point for him. He’s focused on rehab and building the ranch into something bigger and better, though I don’t for one second think he’s done completely. I suspect in the coming years, he will be in the arena coaching some up-and-coming rodeo cowboy, like Sleepy did for him all those years ago.
We’re all healing and figuring this out together but there’s never a day that passes I don’t feel more resolute in the knowledgethat this, Caroline, and me, and Cash, are it for me. And I love her more every day.
“Hey, Sunshine.” I lean down and press a kiss to her sleepy mouth as I sneak into her room when I get home from the bar.
“Hey, Grumpy,” she replies, her voice heavy with sleep as a small smile tips up her lips. “Lay with me?”
Unbuckling my belt, I push my jeans down my thighs and leave them in a pile next to the bed before pulling my t-shirt over my head. Squeezing in beside her, I give her a gentle nudge to push her over, which she reluctantly does.
“You gotta give me a little space, sweetheart.” I laugh to her.
“You could just lay on me,” she replies, her voice mischievous.
Raising an eyebrow that I know she can’t see in the dark, I reply, “Oh, really?”
Instead of replying, she wraps her warm body around mine and plants a few wet kisses against my chest, before moving her mouth up to my throat and sucking the skin between her teeth. My cock, which was already interested in these developments, fills with all the blood in my body, pressing against my boxers. Rolling to my side, I maneuver us until we are facing each other, her soft pajama top pressing to my chest and the ridge of my cock nestled at the junction of her thighs.
“Feeling a little needy tonight, Sunshine?”
Rubbing her body against the length of mine, she replies, “Yes, Duke. Please, it’s been long enough. I need you.” That sentence falling from her lips is the sexiest thing I have ever heard in my life, I think.
Grabbing the hem of her shirt, I tug it over her head, revealing her gorgeous skin in the moonlight shining in through her window. Lowering my mouth to a peaked nipple, I pull it into my mouth, clamping my teeth gently around it, drawing a gasp from her. Caroline writhes against me as my cock strainsagainst my boxers, begging to be a part of the action. Running my hand down the soft skin of her back, I cup her round ass, discovering to my delight that she’s bottomless. Slipping my hand under the curve of her cheek, I run a fingertip across her slick opening, slipping it just inside of her.
Lifting myself, I turn her so she’s under me, her knees bracketing my hips. Pushing my pelvis into her, I rub my cock against her.
“Please, Duke. Please,” she whimpers desperately from beneath me, pulling me against her.
“Please what, sweetheart? Tell me what you want.”
“I need you inside me, Duke.”
Whatever blood was left to feed my brain flows into my cock, and I’m unable to form a coherent thought. The last time I had her, it was frantic and desperate, on a table, while I held my hand over her mouth. This time, I will give her the devotion she deserves. Bringing my mouth to hers, I plunge my tongue inside, resting my body against her. She is eager and pushes her pelvis up to me, but I put the weight of my hips on her to keep her in place.
“Baby, we’ve got all night, and last time I was inside you, it was rushed. This time, I intend to take my time. Settle down.”
Her breath whooshes out of her in a gasp. “Okay. I just want you so badly. I need you inside me.”
“You may actually be the death of me,” I reply.
Her giggle causes our bodies to rub together, and my skin is on fire with need.
“Stay put,” I tell her, leaning back on my haunches as I take in her glowing skin in the moonlight. “Fuck, you’re so goddamned gorgeous, I can’t think around you.”
Placing my palm open against her heaving chest, I run my hand down her body, across her stomach, and grab her hips,just feeling her soft skin in my hands. Lifting a leg, I bring it to my mouth and kiss the top of her foot, before peppering kisses up her shin and nibbling on the inside of her knee. Putting her leg down, I repeat the motion on the other side. She vibrates with need below me, her breathing labored. Leaning forward, I lay a wet kiss to the scar on her ribs that matches one Cash now wears. Lifting my hips, I push my boxers down my legs and taking my cock in my hand, I give it a few strokes to try and relieve some of the pressure.
Running the head of it through the wet flesh between her thighs, we both hiss at the contact. “Fuck. I’ve missed this so much. I can’t wait to be inside you,” I whisper into the darkness.
