Madison took a long shower and washed her hair. With a towel wrapped around her she sat down in front of the dressing table and blow dried her hair. She just finished smoothing night cream on her face when she heard a car screeching to a stop. She sighed. Damn Shane! Could he not have waited until tomorrow!
Logan slammed into the cottage and thundered her name the minute the door closed behind him. The next moment he stood in the bedroom door. He stood breathing hard, his eyes glittering like emeralds on fire. He was intimidating – the huge, muscled specimen all male and very, very angry.
Madison chose to remain seated in front of the mirror and just stared at him. His hair was ruffled and he only wore a pair of jeans and was barefoot. He ripped his jeans from his body and her eyes widened as his fully erect arousal sprang free. He had no underpants on. She shook her head.
“NO! You are no longer welcome in my bed! Go away!”
Naked, with his huge perfect manhood and his toned muscles he was even more of a thread and she swallowed. He took the two steps that separated them and yanked her in his arms. Before her body slammed into his, he ripped the towel off and she gasped when naked flesh met naked flesh.
“You will not leave me! Do you hear me, Wildcat! You will not leave me! I will not allow it!”
He picked her up by her shoulders and fell on the bed, spreading her legs as they went. He surged into her hot and wet sheath the same time her back hit the mattress and she cried out at the unexpectedness of his entry. He reared up and looked at her. His eyes were hot and sizzled fire into hers.
He pulled out slowly and she moaned, lifting her hips to entice him back in and he slammed back into her, hard and to the hilt. He kept her eyes captive as he started to move. His thrusts were spasmodic and slow. Madison keened in need and wrapped her legs around him, locking her ankles behind his back, desperately grinding her hips into his. Pleading for more, harder, faster.
“I swear I did not sleep with Daphne. Yes, I had every intention to, but I could not drench up one ounce of desire for her! All I saw was your beautiful sensual body below me … just like now. You’re the only one that ignites the fires inside me, Wildcat. Only you!”
His eyes forced hers to remain on his and she pleaded silently with him. He pushed back, agonizingly slow and she mewled like a cat in pain. This time he started a rhythm, an agonizingly slow pace. If his aim was to drive her insane, he succeeded. He filled her inch by inch only to withdraw just as slowly leaving her to feel empty and craving his thrust back in to fill her aching sheath.
Madison moaned with each stroke while Logan kept teasing and torturing her with glacially slow thrusts. He was breathing hard. His body was tense all over and he appeared like a rock hard, yet skin soft sculpture rearing over her. His head lowered and he pulled a nipple into the heat of his mouth and he sucked hard, exulting in her resulted animal like mewl. He moved to the other and gave it the same attention. Madison felt ready to explode from her skin, she was that tense.
“Please Babe! I … aahh … need more!”
Logan looked into her eyes, his rhythm remaining slow and steady, the rigidity of his jaw testament to the effect it had on him as well.
“Promise me Wildcat. Promise me you won’t leave me!”
She shook her head and her nails dug into his back, the pressure inside her bursting into an inferno of need. She dug her heels deeper into his back, desperately bucking against him. She screamed in frustration when he pushed her hard into the mattress and then stopped. Her eyes were feverish and begged with his. He shook his head and she keened.
“You can’t … oh God … Babe please!”
Logan felt the quiver of her tight walls around him and he knew she was on the verge of her climax. He clenched his teeth, forcing his body to immobility. If it killed him, it would end here if she didn’t give him what he was after.
She panted and begged; her voice hoarse with need. “You can’t ask … some … aahh … thing like that from me now!” She tried to thrash against him, but his body held her imprisoned beneath his.
“Yet I am. Hear me well … hmm … Wildcat. If you don’t give me what I want, I will walk away now!”
She cried and tears of frustration and need escaped down her cheeks, yet he refused to relent. He took her face between his hands and forced her eyes back to his.
“Madison … give me your promise!”
Stubbornly she refused and then remembered she needed to warn him. She licked her lips and realized he would most probably leave her once she told him anyway. But she knew it was not something she could set out to do without warning him of her intentions.
“I … told you I was going to take the ultimate step … before you finish this … of God! You need to know what that is.”
She thrashed under him desperately grinding her hips against his and dug her head in the pillow as she drew him even deeper inside her. He growled and she felt the slight tremble in his back.
“That step had better not be walking away from me!”
“Oh … I can’t think … you’re driving me insane! Please Babe!”
He ground his hips harder against her and she mewled when she felt him caress her womb he was that deep.
“I … stopped taking the pill … on Tuesday.” She hesitated when his body stilled on top and inside of her. His eyes burned her to cinders. “So …uhhmm … if you don’t want my child … you better leave … now!”
Whatever reaction she expected from him it was not the loud growl of possession when he pulled back all the way and then plunged back into her. Slamming into her with hard and deep thrusts, his passion totally unleashed in his possession of her body. Madison’s body was shaken by the uncontrolled passion that flowed from his and her entire body shook from pulsating waves of explosive pleasure.
With his next thrust her whole body tightened and her walls clamped around his shaft so hard he cried out at the strength of it. In the throes of her earth shattering climax he lost all control and pounded desperately into her, realizing she lost her ability to breathe again when she tore her nails down his back in panic. Yet he could not stop the thundering need driving him into her and he shouted her name as his climax ripped through him with such force it felt as though his skull was about to explode.
Madison panted but could not breathe and when his hot seed shot against her core she screamed. She arched her body against him, lifting her hips high as a climax so strong it took the breath from her body again and everything went black. Bright spots of light flashed behind her eyes and she concentrated on Logan’s voice soothing her and drawing her back from the claws of pleasure still pulsing around his shaft.
Their eyes met and Madison asked haltingly, still panting breathlessly.
“Why …?”
“Because that is even better than a promise, Madison. It is a full on commitment. You just gave me the weapon to keep you here. When you bear me a child, you will be here to be a mother to it.”
“When … not if?”
He chuckled. “I tried, Wildcat, Lord knows I did. I can’t stay away from you and I can’t get enough of you. I have no intention of dressing up in a condom now that I am used to feeling your naked skin against mine … everywhere.”
What he was not prepared to admit to Madison was the utter elation that smashed into his heart when she told him she was prepared to go to the extreme and have his child to stay with him. In that moment he saw a flash of her with his child in her arms, smiling up at him and he felt the rightness of it.
She stroked his back and drew her hand back when she felt something wet and gasped when she noticed the blood on her fingers. Her eyes clashed with his and she cringed.
“Oh Babe! I am so sorry! I didn’t mean to …”
He leaned down to kiss her and pretended a flinch of pain. “Hmm … quite a punch you pack with those nails of yours! We’ll have to cut them otherwise I will have no skin left on my back.”
“Let me up.”
He shook his head.
“I’m far from finished with you, Wildcat. You can just as well treat them and the rest you’re about to give me later.”
He kissed her hard on her lips and pushed his rock hard shaft slowly deeper and deeper inside her until she flinched and groaned as he filled every inch of her.
“I love that you give yourself so completely to me that you lose your breath every time, honey. Let’s see how many times I can take your breath away before the sun rises!”
And he set out to do just that. Long before the sun rose in the sky, Madison was as weak as a baby, her body so sensitive from his continuous caresses that her skin tingled from her toes all the way to her scalp. Her nipples, clit and sheath were swollen and tender from his mouth, lips and the numerous times he buried himself to the hilt. She lost count of the number of times he took her to reach shattering climaxes. He made sure she lost her breath every time!
Chapter Fourteen
“I don’t care, Wildcat. I want you to come with me.”
“Babe, you have not seen your mother for twenty five years. I should not be there.”
“Yes you should. You need to keep me from strangling her.”
They were already dressed and just had breakfast that Madison whipped up for them. Logan was quite impressed that she was so ‘useful’ in the kitchen. He drew her tight against his body and smiled at her.
“I need someone to ground me when I face her for the first time. I have no idea how I will react. If not for what she has been responsible for the past month, it might have been a different reunion. She has no heart. That much is clear.”
She searched his eyes and noticed the hurt deep in the back of his eyes. She hugged him against her and sighed.
“If you insist, Babe, I’ll go with you.”
“I insist.”
He was relaxed and happy for the first time in a very long while. The night gone by was very satisfying, not just from a physical point of view, but emotionally as well. In between satisfying their need for each other they talked and he learned a little more of the person she was. He still did not think in the direction of marriage, but Madison made a commitment to stay with him and that was all he needed. He refused to contemplate anything further than that, except that he feels warm and fuzzy just thinking of her carrying his child. He refused to dissect that emotion and what it meant.
Stella Dalton was due to arrive around eleven and it was already ten in the morning. Madison pulled out of his arms and turned to go back to the bedroom.
“Where are you going?”
She looked over his naked torso and bare feet and his blood warmed immediately.
“You might not have any compunction to appear before your mother dressed like that, but these shorts aren’t really meeting your mother attire.”
“Madison … she might have brought me into the world, but she was never a mother to me or to Shane. Meeting her today is going to be difficult, not because of some long lost desire to meet my mother again, but because I hate her with a passion so deep I can’t even put it into words. It is going to be difficult because I will have to pretend it means something more to me to meet her again, now after twenty five years.”
She walked towards him again and kissed him softly on his mouth, whispering against his mouth. “I understand, my love and I will be there to support you, but I am still not meeting her dressed in this short.”
He let her go and stood outside waiting for her, his brow furrowed. The closer the moment got when he was going to face his mother again, the higher the hate in his heart bubbled. He learned to hate her at a very young age. When as a ten year old boy he had to soothe his little seven year old brother’s fears and tears and longing for his mother. How he became a liar when he could not give him what he promised night after night when he rocked him to sleep. The promise was always the same.
“Don’t worry, Shanie … Mommy will be back soon. I promise.”
His throat clogged up remembering the trust Shane placed in him. Eventually when he told him two years later that she was gone forever, he accepted it without any heartache and only asked for one promise. It was a promise he never reneged on and never would.
“Promise me, big bro, that you will never leave me!”
Logan stood in the door watching Madison chatting to Shane and his father on the side patio facing the pool. She was totally relaxed and seemed to belong there. Shane stood next to her and laughed at something she said. He put his arm around her shoulder and hugged her against his side. Logan stiffened immediately, but relaxed when the immediate rage he felt before when he saw his brother hugging here was absent. He realized it was because Madison committed to belong to him. However, he did not appreciate the continued closeness between them and reaching them pulled them apart, glaring at Shane.
“I’m not going to keep telling you this, little bro – keep your hands to yourself!”
“Jeez! All I did was rest my arm on her shoulders. Where did this extreme possessive streak come from, big bro?”
“Since she told me she is going to have m …”
“Logan Dalton don’t you dare!” She glared at him but at the same time there was a hint of panic in her eyes. He smiled at her teasingly.
“I don’t keep anything from my family, Wildcat.”
“Some things you just don’t have to share!”
His eyes were all of a sudden serious when he looked into hers.
“What if it is something I want to share with them?”
Her breath snagged in her throat and her heart beat so wild in her chest she could hear the thumb, thumb, thumb in her ears. He was as much as admitting he wanted her to have his child!
“Hey you two … remember us? Yoohoo!”
Logan caressed his fingers softly down her cheek and turned to his father and brother.
“She decided she was not leaving anymore. However, Shane … you still have to find a replacement for her. Pretty soon I won’t allow her to fly all over the country anymore.”
She gasped and Shane and Jonathan looked at him questioningly.
“Why?”
“All will be explained in due time.”
They heard the soft hum of a car approaching and stood watching the cab driving towards the house slowly. Madison felt Logan stiffening next to her and his hand reached for hers, plating his fingers through hers.
“Remember, Dad, Shane, you are happy to see her and welcome her back in your lives. Shane told her how I feel about her so at least I don’t have to pretend. She must not realize we are on to her.”
They both nodded and Shane ran down the stairs to meet Stella Dalton at the car. Logan’s eyes were glued on the white cab and his heart quivered when she alighted from the car.
She was of medium height and at fifty seven still a strikingly beautiful woman. She was well built, had medium brown hair and reminded Madison of Linda Gray, the actress that played the role of Sue Ellen in Dallas years ago. She hugged Shane and slowly walked up the stairs towards the patio, her eyes first meeting Jonathan’s then moved and faltered when they met the steely gaze of her eldest son.
When Shane found her years ago she was flattered that he turned to her and immediately accepted her back in his life as his mother. Logan, on the other hand … his face was expressionless, hard and his eyes shot shards of hatred in her direction. She swallowed and wondered if he could see right into her mind, his gaze was that direct and cold.
“Stella … thank you for coming. You’re looking lovely.”
She smiled her socialite smile in her husbands’ direction. Maybe there was an easier way to get her bank balance back to where she wanted it. She used to be able to wrap him around her finger. Getting the offshore rig was taking too long and she was running out of funds. If she couldn’t get Phillips Financial Bank to approve her application she would be in deep trouble. As collateral she indicated that she would put up her shares of the company. She already sold forty percent over the past year and had to sign over another ten to Vernon Miller who drov
e the campaign to get their hands on the Dalton’s offshore rig that would turn their lives around immediately.
“Jonathan, thank you. You are still as handsome as ever.”
She walked up to him and offered her mouth for a kiss. He stiffened and leaned down to offer a quick peck on her cheek, her deceitfulness and heartlessness too much to bear to touch her any more than that.
She frowned at him and he smiled to cover his true feelings. Stella turned and walked up to Logan and his fingers tightened painfully around Madison’s. She hugged him and held on for a while, but when she realized he was not going to return the hug, stepped back and looked into his brooding eyes.
“Logan, you have turned into such an imposing man. I am so proud of you.”
“Why? You had nothing to do with how I turned out. Nor Shane, for that matter.”
His voice was hoarse and cold as ice. Madison traced slow circles on his palm and his body relaxed slightly. Stella gasped and glanced back at Jonathan.
“Are you going to allow him to talk to me like that, Jonathan? Just remember I am still your mother, Logan. I demand your respect.”
He smirked. “Respect has to be earned, mother dear, and you have done nothing to earn even a pinch of it.”
Jonathan shrugged and informed her with a smile. “Logan is a thirty five year old man, Stella. I have stopped giving him instructions when he was twelve years old. When he realized you were not coming back and he had to take over the household and become mother and father to his brother, because I was too busy with work and drowning my sorrows in the bottle. He has been in charge of Dalton Oil from when he was just twenty two years old. At that point he just finished his PhD in Drilling Engineering.”
Madison looked up at Logan with pride in her eyes. He had to endure so much at the hands of this woman. No boy of ten should have been forced into such a life. Her heart warmed when she realized how similar their lives had been, except hers were forced on her and he chose his himself.
“Well, I suppose it won’t serve any purpose to offer my apologies and regret for leaving you boys at such a young age.”
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