by Leah Brooke
Her bottom clenched, the awareness there feeling almost as if he touched her.
Phoenix groaned, rolling her to her side and settling in behind her. “I’m sure. We just need to go slow. We’ve got as long as it takes.”
Sarah gasped at the slide of his finger through her slit, the friction against her throbbing clit nearly sending her over. “Oh!”
Slipping his finger inside her pussy, Phoenix groaned. “You’re wet for me. Say my name.”
Clenching on his finger, Sarah ran her hands over his chest, pressing her fingertips into the hard muscle she found there. “Phoenix.”
It felt so good to be with him this way. So sexual, but with a closeness that hadn’t been there before.
The intimacy seemed to grow with every kiss. Every caress. Every moan.
His lips brushed hers. “Again.”
“Phoenix!” The finger inside her slid free, brushing over her clit. “Please.”
Fisting a hand in her hair, he looked down her body and smiled. “Wearing just your boots, you’re quite a sight.” Circling her, he caught her shoulder when she would have turned. “No, Sarah. You stay right where you are. Things are about to get a little naughty.”
Closing her eyes, she struggled to remain still as he circled her, her muscles trembling under his trailing fingertips. “I can’t believe I’m doing this.”
“Believe it.” His voice came from directly in front of her, his body brushing her nipples as he leaned close and touched his lips to hers. “Say my name again.”
Realizing that he wanted to make sure she wasn’t pretending that he was Hawke or Blade, she smiled and opened her eyes. “Phoenix. I know who I’m with.”
His eyes narrowed, but in the faint light she couldn’t see them well enough to even guess at his thoughts. “Don’t forget.”
She sucked in a breath when he began to circle her again, crying out when he reached out to tap her nipple. “How could I forget?”
Trembling, she sucked in breath after breath, her entire body quivering with awareness under the slide of Phoenix’s lips and fingertips.
Phoenix wrapped an arm around her from behind, his warm shoulder and chest forcing her to bend while he closed his teeth on the side of her neck. “I’m so hard I ache. I want you so damned much.” He worked his finger slowly toward her puckered opening, his intent obvious. “You liked when I touched your tight little bottom before. You let me make you feel good. Will you trust me enough to do it again?”
Her bottom hole tingled, need brushing her fears away.
Pressing his finger against her bottom hole, he scraped his teeth over her neck and shoulder, his voice deeper and more gravelly than before. “I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the way you responded. Spread your legs a little more. Yes. Good girl. Now a little more. That’s it.”
Shaking even harder, she clung to his forearm for support, shaken by how good it felt to have him touch her there. “Phoenix. Oh, God.” Bent in front of him with her thighs spread wide, she braced her hands against the smooth rock, alarmed by the heightened awareness in her puckered opening.
Phoenix withdrew his finger with a groan. “Be still, honey. I’m going to grease you up real good. Let’s see if we can wake that bottom up like we did before.”
Remembering the hunger—the yearning to have his finger deeper—Sarah moaned, her bottom and pussy clenching in anticipation.
Chuckling softly, Phoenix ran his finger, slick with salve, over her puckered opening. “Yes, you remember, don’t you?” He pressed against her sensitive opening, and despite her instinctive effort to close against him, the salve and being spread wide allowed him to slide his finger into her with ease.
Feeling as wild and untamed as the land around her, she threw her head back and let out a cry of pleasure—a cry that seemed to echo off the rock walls. “Phoenix! Oh, God. It’s deep. Oh, God. Please. It feels so strange.”
His lips moved over her neck, back, and shoulders, the heat from them warming her all the way through. His words, gruff and filled with sexual tension, made her even hotter. “You are so damned beautiful. So exciting. My wife. I want to explore every damned inch of you. God, you’re so soft. So responsive. Just feeling the way your ass is clenching on my finger is driving me crazy. I want to feel it on my cock.”
Massaging her breast, he kept moving his finger in slow circles inside her bottom, creating a sharp hunger that had her spreading her thighs wider and lifting to her toes for more. “Phoenix!”
Groaning, he slid his hand to her waist again, nuzzling her neck in the way she’d learned she liked. “That’s it. Say my name. I want to make sure you know who’s touching you.”
“Oh, Phoenix. How could I not know? It feels so different when you touch me.”
His lovemaking had a different feel to it than Hawke’s, his touch a different rhythm than Blade’s.
Phoenix scraped his teeth over her neck, and with a harsh groan, squeezed her nipple lightly between his thumb and forefinger. “Different how?”
Ribbons of pleasure raced through her, her bottom clenching when he slid his finger free. “I don’t know. Just different.”
“Hmm. We’ll have to talk about that. Right now, though, we have more important things to take care of. I’m going to put more salve in you, and I’m going to use two fingers this time. I’ll go real slow, but I’ve got to stretch you a little to get your ass ready for my cock.”
Her bottom clenched, the need to be filled strange and exciting.
“Down on your knees, honey.” Supporting her weight, he eased her to her knees. “That’s it. Keep your knees on the clothes and blankets so you don’t hurt them.” He scraped his teeth over her neck, sending another wave of longing through her. “You’re so soft and tiny. I need to be careful with you.”
Fisting her hands on either side of her head, she braced herself, her toes curling when he pressed a hand to the center of her back. “I don’t want you to be careful. I want you to take me.” Her pussy and ass kept clenching, while her clit tingled hotly for attention.
“Put your shoulders down, Sarah. Jesus, this ass is a thing of beauty.” Phoenix’s voice, barely a rasp, sent shivers up and down her spine.
Sarah cried out again at the burning sensation of having two fingers pushed into her, but found herself pushing back against him. “Phoenix! Oh, God. It burns.”
“Do you want me to stop?” His voice, deep and rough with tension, came from just behind her ear.
Arching her back to give him better access, she lifted into his touch again. “No! I can’t believe we’re doing this.” Her thighs shook as the pleasure grew, her voice becoming shaky and breathless. “I can’t believe you’re touching me there. Phoenix, are you sure this’ll work?”
Sliding his hand from her breast, he pressed it against her back again, his firm fingers moving in and out of her with a slow deliberation that only made her want more. “It’s not only going to work, honey, it’s going to feel so good.”
The need in his voice fueled her own, allowing a wildness she hadn’t know existed inside her to break free.
Bucking restlessly, she threw her head back, her breath coming out in ragged moans. “Please. I ache so bad.”
Straightening again, he ran his hand up and down her spine. “Hell, woman, you’re gonna be the death of me.”
Moaning in frustration when he pulled his fingers free, she clenched helplessly, crying out when the head of his cock pressed firmly against her puckered opening.
Her bottom burned as he worked the head of his cock into her, the shock of it rendering her immobile. “Oh, God. It’s going in.”
Phoenix growled, a low, gravelly, primitive sound that excited her even more. “Yes. Hell, you’re tight.” He pushed against her slick puckered opening, not stopping until the head of his cock forced the tight ring of muscle to give way. “Say my name.”
Crying out at the full, stretched sensation, Sarah fisted her hands as a shudder raced through her. “Pho
enix!”
Her clit tingled unbearably, the need for his touch so strong, she whimpered. “Please, Phoenix.”
She felt wild, and Phoenix’s low groans and curses made her feel even wilder.
Slowly rocking his hips, Phoenix pushed his cock deeper. “Hell, woman, you’re killing me. Say my name again.”
She cried out again at the burning, stretched feeling as he pushed his cock deeper into her ass, stunned at the overwhelming feeling of being taken there.
So wild.
So primitive.
“Phoenix. Oh, God.” Alarmed at how solid his cock felt inside her, she stilled. “Phoenix? Please. Oh, God. It’s so deep.”
“Easy, honey.” Bracing a hand on the ground, he pressed his lips against her neck. “You’re mine now. I’m taking my wife. How can you think I don’t want you?” His cock jumped inside her, the feel of it startling her. “You belong to me now, and I don’t think I’ll ever get enough of you.”
Sobbing with hunger, she lifted her head and turned it toward him. “Phoenix. It feels too good. How can something so naughty this feel so good?”
“Because we want each other.” He buried his face against her neck, his hand sliding down her body. “It’s gonna get better.”
Her stomach muscles quivered under his hand, her body tightening when his fingers slid over her mound. “Yes. Please. Oh, God. It’s so hard. I feel so full. Oh!” She couldn’t hold back her moans when he withdrew almost all the way before thrusting deep again. Jolting when his fingers slid over her clit, she started shaking harder, the pleasure too much to endure.
He groaned, his deep voice rumbling next to her ear. “Yes. So good. So tight. So sweet. Yes, honey. My cock’s so damned hard. I can’t hold out much longer. Hmm. You’re soaking wet, love. Yes. Oh, yes. You like that.”
The pleasure sharpened in her clit, and with a sob, she tried to close her legs, but couldn’t. Shaking, she tried to grab his hand, the waves of pleasure growing and threatening to overtake her. “Phoenix!”
“I’ve got you, honey.”
Without warning, the pleasure exploded, the heat and delicious tingling sensation coursing through her veins overwhelming her.
Caught in the grip of pleasure so intense it almost hurt, she barely registered Phoenix’s low curse.
A low growl rumbled from his chest as his cock stilled inside her. His fingers slowed on her clit, drawing out her orgasm until she couldn’t hold herself up anymore.
Phoenix caught her when she slumped, his voice low and crooning. “I’ve got you, honey. Just lie still and I’ll take care of you.”
She couldn’t seem to move, each slide of his hand over her body creating little sizzles of heat, while somehow soothing her. “Oh, Phoenix. I’m so weak.”
“You’re okay, honey.” Warm lips moved over her back. “I’ve got you. Yeah.” His arms tightened around her, his lips pressed against her upper back. “I’ve got you.”
They stayed that way for several long minutes, the sounds of their breathing and water dripping, and the caress of Phoenix’s hands up and down her sides lulling her almost to sleep.
A moan escaped as he withdrew from her ass, her inner walls so sensitive that she clenched on him again. “Oooohhh!”
“Shh.” Running his hand over her bottom, he turned her head until she faced him and studied her features. “I know, honey. Your bottom and clit are sensitive. Just stay here while I get something to clean you up and you’ll feel better.”
Smiling when he tossed the edges of the blanket over her cooling body, she burrowed deeper. “I can do it. Just let me lie here for a minute.” Still trembling with the remnants of her orgasm, she closed her eyes, pillowing her head on his shirt and breathing in the warm, male scent of him. “Just a minute.”
“Just rest, honey.”
She must have drifted off, because the next thing she knew, he knelt beside her, soaking a cloth from his canteen. “Phoenix?”
“Shh.” After cleaning her slit, he spread the cheeks of her bottom, chuckling softly and holding her when she squirmed. “There’s no reason to be embarrassed. I’m your husband. It’s my right to take care of you this way—to see you this way.”
His smile held a new tender possessiveness that tripped her pulse. “You’re my wife. You’re going to spend the rest of your life with Hawke, Blade, and me, and if you’re going to get embarrassed every time we’re intimate, you’re going to spend your entire life blushing.”
Phoenix slid in next to her, pulling her close and pillowing her head on his chest. “You know you’ve gotten to me, don’t you?”
Sarah smiled weakly, turning her face toward the fingers sliding over her cheek. “Does that mean you don’t regret marrying me?”
His lips touched her hair. “Never. You’re in my blood now. I thought you were beautiful from the beginning, but now I understand why Hawke and Blade are so enthralled with you. I didn’t see what they saw, and now I understand why you didn’t feel as close to me as you felt with them.”
“They wanted to marry me. You only married me because they did.”
“That’s not true—not entirely.” His fingers slid through her hair. “You interested me, but I didn’t want to get attached to you. I really didn’t think you’d stay.”
Secretly pleased, she snuggled closer, loving the feel of his warm arms wrapped around her. “You were too busy watching the saloon girls to notice me.”
Fisting a hand in her hair, he rolled her to her back, his eyes hooded. “Are you lookin’ for compliments?” The sparkle of playfulness and affection in his eyes gave her the confidence to lift her face to kiss his chin.
She ran her finger over his bottom lip, thrilled when he kissed it. “Maybe. Maybe I just want to make sure that you’re happy that you married me and that you aren’t going to visit those women when you go back to town.”
She watched his eyes, forcing a smile while holding her breath for his answer.
* * * *
Phoenix stared down at her, wondering what he’d ever done to deserve her. The feel of her soft curves under him had his cock stirring again, but the way she moved and the weakness in her voice told him that she’d had enough loving for now.
He could wait, now that he knew she wanted him, too.
Lying back, he closed her eyes, enjoying the feel of her in his arms. Smiling to himself, he realized that he hadn’t even thought of the saloon since he left town, and even now, his body still trembling from the pleasure he’d found with his wife, he couldn’t recall the faces of the women he’d bedded there.
Sarah’s image was the only one he saw, every feature imprinted in his mind and wiping away the image of every other woman he’d ever known.
“You really like me?”
Phoenix’s eyes snapped open. “Like?” Rising to his elbow, he leaned over her, his chest swelling with pride at the lingering pleasure still clouding her eyes. “I think it’s a little more than like.”
Touching his lips to hers again, he held her tight, surprised at how much pleasure he got just from kissing her. He fisted his hand in her hair to hold her head tilted, and sipped at her lips, quickly becoming addicted to her kisses.
Her shy attempt to kiss him back excited him more than the practiced moves of the whores in town, and gave him a feeling of masculine satisfaction that he’d never expected.
Lifting his head, he stared down at her, smiling at the picture she made with her eyes closed and her head tilted back. “No, sweetheart. I think I more than like you, and it scares the hell out of me.”
Chapter Ten
Leaning against the wooden fence, Blade looked up as he’d been doing every couple of seconds for the last hour, searching the horizon. “It’s gonna be dark soon.”
Hawke lifted his head from the barrel of water he’d dipped his face into to cool off. Throwing his head back, he pushed his long hair out of the way, and glanced in Blade’s direction. “She’s with Phoenix. He’ll watch out for her.”
Shifting restlessly, Blade looked out into the distance again, not believing his brother’s cool nonchalance for an instant. Anyone who knew Hawke well would recognize the look of concern in his eyes. “Don’t give me that. You’re just as worried as I am. He doesn’t feel for her what we do. Everything’s a game to him.”
Hawke shrugged, slipping his shirt on. “He’ll change his tune, or I’ll change it for him. Neither one of you had to marry her.” Turning to Blade, he narrowed his eyes. “What is it that you think you feel for her?”
Amused at his brother’s attitude, Blade turned to face him fully. “You know damned well she’s gotten to me.” His cock stirred with anticipation of the things he planned to do to her. “She’s so damned sweet that I just want to take a bite out of her, and so passionate that I can’t stop thinking about all the things I want to teach her. I never even dreamed we could have anyone like her. Hell, I never thought we’d share a woman. I just knew that I’d regret it if I didn’t make her mine while I had the chance.”
Hawke frowned and glanced into the distance again. “But do you care about her? I don’t want you playing with her and hurting her feelings when she finds out it’s just sex for you.”
Insulted, and more than a little annoyed, he closed his hands into fists. “What the hell makes you think it’s just sex for me?”
Hawke looked pointedly at Blade’s hands, his lips twitching. “You’re starting to love her, too, aren’t you?”
Blade straightened, his pulse leaping when he saw Phoenix coming over the hill. “Yeah, but I’m sure as hell not gonna let her have the upper hand. Look at them together. She’s gonna lead Phoenix around by the nose and you’re not much better.”
“Excuse me?” Hawke’s dark brow went up.
Blade smiled, elated that his older brother had finally found a woman he could care for. “You heard me. I see you with her, and you’ve already fallen hard. You coddle her.”
Turning to watch Phoenix approach, Hawke frowned. “She could use some coddling. I don’t think she’s ever had any tenderness in her life. Why the hell is she lying across Phoenix’s lap that way? I hope he didn’t let her get hurt.”