I wasn’t too thrilled at the idea of her travelling all over Europe performing, because I might not always be able to go with her, but she should have the freedom to go where she liked and do as she pleased. Talent like hers should be shared with the world.
Of course I was already plotting how I could keep her stateside with the rare performance oversees.
I don’t think they let pregnant women travel after a certain time, and there was no way I was going to let my pregnant wife travel anywhere while she was carrying my child, whether she was two months or eight.
So my first order of business was to knock her the fuck up, which I might have already done.
“Oh shit.” I held onto the wall when my knees felt weak. We hadn’t used anything none of the many times I’d had her last night and this morning.
Neither of us had even thought of it, her, maybe because of her innocence and me because I was too hungry for her to think about that shit.
She’d skin me alive if I got her pregnant so soon no doubt; she seemed to have an opinion on every damn thing under the sun. I don’t see why this should be any different.
That’s why I wasn’t going to tell her about the shadow I had just put on her, or the device I’d just ordered for her that will let me know where she is every second that she’s not with me.
“Let’s go baby, time for your riding lesson.” Her cheeks reddened and I grinned at her, her mind seemed permanently stuck in the gutter.
“Thanks for looking out for my girl mom.”
“Anytime son, now you two run along and have fun, I have to meet with cook about tonight’s menu. Don’t forget we’re having company for dinner.”
“Fine mom.” I grabbed Maxie and hightailed it out of there before she got it into her head that we should help her with her menu choices.
I wasn’t really interested in her riding lessons this morning. I wanted her away from the house so I could spend some time alone with her without any chance of interruptions.
It was going to take my team a while I was sure, to get all the information that I had asked for, but in the meantime maybe there was something that she could tell me that would lead me in the right direction.
I made her go over every thing she remembered from both experiences with her stalker, as we walked our horses side by side. I was looking for any slip-ups that he might’ve made.
The one thing that I kept coming back to was the second time around. How had he found her? I hadn’t known her as Maxie Shaw, and probably wouldn’t have put the two together.
So was this someone who knew her personally? Someone who had seen her as Maxie and then as The Dove and recognized her? No matter how I tried I couldn’t piece it together.
“Jackson I told you, the cops have been on the case since the beginning, if there’s anything to find, they’ll find it. Besides, I haven’t heard anything from him in months.”
I didn’t bother repeating myself to her again; she’ll learn soon enough that I will never leave her well being up to anyone else.
“Why are you staring at me like that?” I wondered as I studied her, how much of what I felt for her was the legend, and how much was my natural feelings for her.
The answer was easy, without the legend it might’ve taken me a few days longer, but I had no doubt I would’ve fallen for her; how could I not?
“Because you’re beautiful and I like looking at you; problem?” I ran my finger down her soft cheek. She seemed softer here, calmer, more at ease.
The high-strung minx that I’d met a short time ago still shone in those eyes, but she had a different air about her here in my home; like she’d come home.
“No, no problem; just that it feels so weird being here with you like this, when only a short while ago we were at each other’s throats.”
“I was never at your throat love, that was your idea of a mating dance I think. I think you took one look at me and all those old feelings came flooding back, and in your innocence you didn’t know how to handle it, so you behaved badly.”
“You’re full of shit. Where are we going anyway, I don’t remember riding this far out before.”
She looked around at our surroundings before I took the reins from her and led her to the copse of trees.
I’m pretty sure she got the idea when I got down from my horse, and then lifted her off her mount to stand between me, and the horse she’d ridden.
I had the presence of mind to reach for the blanket I’d tied behind the saddle for just this purpose. I pulled her along behind me to the trees and spread the blanket, before turning back to her.
“I don’t think I had my fill this morning and with all those people in the house I wasn’t sure I would be able to do this for hours yet.”
I pulled her down to the ground and covered her mouth and body with mine before she could start in on me.
Her body went up in flames; her response was immediate. Just as with my kisses, I love what my touch does to her. A man would give up much, risk much, for a woman who comes to life beneath him like that.
After I’d kissed her into submission, I eased back and looked down at her.
“How do you really feel baby?” I brushed the hair back from her eyes. She’d taken some hard knocks already for the day and the shit had just started.
“About what?”
“About what I said at breakfast, about your mom and what she did? What do you think?” She shrugged as if to say it didn’t matter, but I noticed she couldn’t quite look at me.
It was amazing how much she’d come to mean to me in such a short time; the legend at play again I think, but I don’t think anything other than fate, destiny, could make a man feel this strongly for a woman.
I wanted to wrap her up in soft silk and tuck her away somewhere where I was sure that no one and nothing could get to her.
And I noticed I had a new fear, I’ve never been afraid of anything before, not really. With her, I feared anything happening to her when I wasn’t there to protect her and it didn’t seem to stem only from what had happened in her past.
It felt like some sort of permanent affliction, like I was always going to feel this way where she was concerned.
I nope not, because if this shit persisted, I was going to end up forbidding her from going anywhere, ever; and knowing her, that wouldn’t go over so well.
“You don’t have to be brave for me. I know that shit hurt, I’m sorry I was the one that brought it to you, but I wasn’t about to let her lord it over you any longer. I hope you know your true worth, if to no one else, know that to me, you’re priceless.”
She reached up to pull my head down to hers, but not before I saw the sheen of tears in her eyes.
That shit tore at my heart, because I’d always suspected that the tough girl act was just that, an act. It made me wish I’d really let her mother have it.
Where I had planned to plunder, I now gentled my touch. “Look at me baby, keep your eyes on mine.”
She looked so fucking young lying beneath me, her face bare of any make-up, lips a natural soft pink that was red from her constant biting into them.
I made a promise to myself that from this day on, I was going to show her every kindness in life, no matter what it took.
I may not be able to erase all that came before, but I can be sure to make her very happy now that we’d found each other.
I unbuttoned her shirt slowly; taking little nibbles of her lips after each button had been released, and more of her succulent flesh was revealed.
By the time I had it off her shoulders her breath was choppy, and her body held a slight sheen of sweat in the early morning Texas heat.
Lifting her to my mouth, I took first one raspberry nipple in, before paying homage to the other.
She arched her back and rubbed her pussy into my hard-on through our clothes.
I hurried to remove her jeans when she bit my tongue playfully and keened into my mouth as my hand passed between her thighs.
We w
ere like two teenagers trying to get each other’s clothes off at the same time. Elbows and knees were flying, as we tried to avoid maiming each other.
My cock sprung from my pants out into the open like an angry weapon, looking to pillage. There was a string of pre-cum hanging and I almost howled when she ever so wantonly stuck her tongue out and licked it away.
My hands automatically went to her head as I made fucking motions into her mouth. I cautioned her when she tried to take too much in and choked.
“Easy baby, you’ve only tried this once.” I held my cock, making sure to keep at least five of the eleven inches out of reach, before feeding her the other six.
“Lick around the head like I showed you first, that’s it, now get it nice and wet...fuck where did you learn that?” She spat on my cock.
The sly look she gave me left me with more questions than answers and I found myself pulling her head back roughly.
“Where the fuck did you learn to do that?” she laughed, the sweetest sound in my world, too bad I wasn’t in the mood to enjoy it right now.
I bent her neck backward until I was staring down into her eyes? “Who?”
“No one, I saw the tutorial.” She grinned and pulled out of my slackened hand before going back for my dick.
“See what you did? Now I have to start over.” She did that shit again, and I could only watch in amazement, until I realized that from this position, with her on her knees bent over, while I knelt in front of her, that I could reach her pussy.
I was careful to ease only one finger inside her at first. My hands are a bit rough and callused from working around the ranch, and I didn’t want to hurt her.
When she sucked that digit in and moved her ass as if searching for more, I felt safe to add the other one.
I was hitting the back of her throat and pulling back, guiding her without words, showing her how I liked my cock sucked while finger fucking her.
Soon that wasn’t enough, I needed to get closer to her. “Open.” She took one last long suckle of my cock before sitting back on her heels with a sassy grin.
Laying her back against the blanket, I crawled between her spread thighs and taking my already straining dick in hand, I used just the tip of my cock to tease her.
Going up and down her slit, until her wetness covered me and mixed with my pre-cum, making it easy for me to slide into her.
I held still once I was at the mouth of her womb, letting her get use to having me in her again so soon.
Her walls were a little swollen but she took me without too much effort.
“Does it hurt?” I rocked inside her and held still again, until she shook her head no.
“Don’t lie to me baby, it could mean the difference between a pounding and a stroke.”
“It doesn’t hurt I promise, just a little tender from before, but I like how it feels. I like how you feel.”
Her face went red and she tried to hide her face from me as if she hadn’t meant to say those words out loud.
“I want this spot right here.” I snuggled my face into the crook of her neck where I planned to mark her again, lifted her ass and spread her open to take my thrusts.
I love the noises she makes each time I slide into her heat. The way her pussy seems to suck me in like it would never let go, ad when she wrapped those magnificent legs around me, I dug my nails into the flesh of her ass and my toes into the earth for better leverage, and plowed into her belly again and again.
She sent a flock of birds screeching into the sky when she screamed out her climax. “Again.” I kept after her until I had wrung another and another out of her. Fuck, this thing could become addictive if I weren’t careful.
I could easily spend my days wrapped up in her, buried in her as often as I could get my dick up. “Jackson.”
She screamed my name seconds before her pussy clamped down around me and she lifted us both in the air with the strength of the orgasm that ripped through her.
The pull of her muscles, the way she looked, so wanton, along with the growing love in my heart for her, combined to send me over the edge.
I was conscious enough to seek her womb, slamming into her rubbery cervix just before my cock started spitting into her, where it would do the most good.
I gave us both enough time to catch our breaths as well as we could with our mouths fused together, before I was pulling her to her feet and getting her back into her clothes.
I had a meeting in half an hour that I couldn’t miss. With all the shit that had happened this morning I’d almost forgotten that Thomas Ambrose was due here this morning.
I hadn’t made up my mind as yet just what I was going to do to his sister for the lies she’d told, but I knew she wasn’t getting away with it.
She’d cost me two fucking years; who knows where we could be right now, Maxie and I, if she hadn’t done that shit?
I wasn’t exactly looking forward to all the shit I had to deal with in the next few days.
At a time like this, I should be concentrating on bonding with her, putting my stamp on her. Instead I have to take time away to deal with every fucking person that had ever fucked with her.
I stole one last kiss before putting her back in the saddle, only this time I put her up on my mount.
I climbed on behind her and wrapped my arms around her as I led her mare back by its lead.
The warmth of her weight against my chest felt natural, the way she sunk into me, like she already trusted me to look after her.
I hugged her tighter and kissed her ear with a hidden smile. For the first time in my life I knew what it meant to look forward to tomorrow. I wanted a million tomorrows with her.
Chapter 32
MAXIE
Jackson finally let me out of his sight since Mike had taken the others to show them around town, and I went in search of his mother.
“Thanks for not telling on me.”
“We Collins women always stay together because our men aren’t always the most rational. Now you had started to tell me what this was all about before my son interrupted us.”
“Yeah, it’s kind of a long story and not too nice either.”
“Give me the synopsis, I’m sure I can pick it up.”
“Well, it was a couple years ago, I had just discovered your son. I saw him in a magazine layout and something about him just grabbed me.
I can’t explain it even now, but it was almost like being shocked by an electric charge.
From that day on, I tried to find any and all information I could on him, but there wasn’t much since he seems t be very private.”
“Yes he is. I’m surprised you found anything at all, he usually threatens the rags with lawsuits and they pretty much leave him alone. Go on.”
“Anyway, right about that time I met my new roommate, Sophia. Imagine my delight when she told me that she knew him personally, I was in heaven.
I asked her for every scrap of information she had on him. What he was like in person, was he really as gorgeous in real life, the usual schoolgirl crush behavior.
Then the invitation came, another minor miracle. I was so excited, I just knew that we would meet and fall in love. But then she dropped her little bombshell and tore my whole world apart.
She claimed that he had got her pregnant; in fact what she said was that he forced himself on her and was forcing her to have an abortion. Then she disappeared and I had no choice but to believe her story.”
From the looks on her face I was thinking that maybe I shouldn’t have said anything.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to upset you.”
“Too late, but don’t be silly, you didn’t upset me, she did. Now what do you plan to do with her now that you have had me invite her to dinner tonight?”
“Uh, maybe I shouldn’t tell you?” I had figured out that with Jackson around, there was no way I was going to escape his notice to pay that little bitch a visit, so I had to come up with something else.
I hadn’t thought b
eyond getting her here, I wasn’t sure what came next, other than I had the need to plant my fist in someone’s kisser and since he won’t let me flatten mom or one of her brats, Sophia was the next best thing.
“Well he’s going to see her if she shows up here, so you better tell me what you have planned, maybe I can help out.”
“I’m not sure, I was thinking of meeting her halfway, before she made it to the house.”
“You really think he’s going to let you out of the house? We’d better think of something, short of poisoning her soup, I’m not sure what all we can do with her when she gets here.”
I think my eyes lit up when she mentioned poisoning the wench, but she laughed at me. “I can’t let you do that, as much as I find myself wanting to do just that. That was a horrible thing she did, I don’t think Jackson has ever been alone with the little twit ever.”
“I can’t just let her get away with it. I have to do something.”
***
JACKSON
I knew she was up to something; the way she kept trying to get rid of me, I finally caught on and played along. I guess she thought I would relax my guard since she was going to be alone with mom. Hah.
What mom doesn’t know is that after her accident dad and I had decided to cover the whole house with security cameras.
We knew that her pride would not allow her to tell us when she was in need, so we did the only thing we knew how.
It’s not like dad didn’t have her tagged, we just upped that shit by like a thousand. I usually gave her as much privacy as possible, only checking in on her every once in a while if dad wasn’t home, and she was having a bad day.
I hardly ever turned on the audio, but thank fuck I did today. I should skin her little ass for going behind my back, but I understood vengeance.
Too bad I was going to have to take this away from her, the Ambrose girl wasn’t worth her time. My first inclination was to call and rescind the invitation, but I thought better of it.
Might as well get it out of the way. Firefox needed her pound of flesh. I will try to give it to her without her getting her hands dirty. That was now my job.
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