Mr. Always & Forever

by Ashlee Price

  Neither one of them moved, basking in the glow of their love for each other. Lisa had never felt so peaceful and all she really wanted was to stay there forever. A phone ringing off in the distance finally made Scott move, but they both gasped when he was pulled out of her. “I promise Scott.”

  She leaned up and kissed him one last time before she went to freshen up before the dinner. Her face was beet red, but she didn’t care. Nothing could make the day turn bad.

  “Are you ready to go tell the family about our engagement?”

  Lisa had already told Gemma and true to form, she was sure that the woman had told the rest of the world as well by now. She never could keep a secret. “I kind of told Gemma.”

  His face fell a little. I am sure Elna would like to hear it from you as well though.”

  “Yeah, right. We both know that I won’t need to.”

  “Are you nervous about it? Wanting to back out?”

  He shook his head and kissed her on the lips again. “Not at all. I am glad they know because I really want to get married here.”

  She had always wanted to have a spring wedding at the ranch, but they would have to move quickly. In the end she really didn’t care where she was married or when, just that Scott was with her. They were supposed to be together and it was in the peace she felt then, now that everything had been righted in her world and what was supposed to happen, had happened.

  ***

  Elna smiled at the family around her table. It was the first time in almost a month that she had all of her kids around the dinner table at once. Scott had taken care of his demons, while her other son was off the oil rig for a few weeks. It wasn’t just that making the older matriarch of the family smile. The fact that all of her children were married or about to be married, made her wish that she had pushed it more from the beginning. There was something akin to contentment in her body. It had all worked out how it was supposed to. That she was sure of.

  It had been a couple of weeks since Scott had been hurt on the cattle run, but he was healing well and back to his old self. Elna thought that more of it was because of Lisa next to him, more than the actual mending, but it was enough. She watched them all smiling and laughing, her heart was full. There was nothing else that she had wanted to see more.

  THE END

  Big Jake’s Seed

  Chapter 1

  “Jake, I can’t believe you are going to work for the Douglas’. If your father was here…”

  He nodded, it wasn’t the first time he had heard it and he knew it wouldn’t be the last time. “He’s not, so Collin and John got it. I just want to move on and do something else. There is no place for me here anymore, I need to train horses. I don’t even like cows.”

  “The family business is supposed to be for you three boys. He wanted you to always have that, stay close.”

  It was the way it was supposed to be. That was the plan laid out in the will, but his father was a cattleman and he wasn’t. Jake had loved horses since he was knee high and his main concern had been riding the horse, not the cows he was supposed to be coaxing one way or another. It had never been about taking over. He had stayed so long because of his father, but now that he was gone, it was time to go. He hated to leave his mother behind, but her home was there, not in Texas where he was going. Jake also reminded himself that she still had two of her boys around close.

  “I’m still here if you guys need me, but I have dreams that don’t include Jerica, Kansas. I won’t be far away, just a day trip in the truck.”

  “Promise you will come home and visit.” Ana had already come to the realization that he was leaving. There was no sense in trying to change his mind. He’d always been as stubborn as his father.

  “Of course.”

  “What about Elise?”

  A blush spread over his face as it heated up with the reminder that he hadn’t told his girlfriend yet. In a way he was afraid of her reaction, in another, he was concerned that she would want to go with. It wasn’t that he didn’t like her and care about her, but there was something missing after almost two years of dating. There had been attraction, lust and then companionship, but never really love. Not on his side anyways and in honesty, he didn’t think that she had ever loved him.

  “I haven’t told her yet, but I planned on stopping by on the way out of town to see her.”

  Ana frowned. “I thought I brought you up better than that Jake.”

  Sheepishly, he went back to pushing the last few shirts into his large duffel bag. “Don’t be like that. I don’t love her, it’s that simple. I know you want me to be happy and I will be as nice as I can be about it. I don’t want to hurt her. Elise is a great girl, just not the one for me.”

  “Well, let her down easier. She was like the daughter I never had and I have to live in town with her after you run off. It is how it looks, that she is chasing you out of town.”

  “It’s not like that. You know that this is what I want to do.”

  “I know. It’s just going to be hard without you here. I am really going to miss you. And I’m serious about Elise, you be nice to her.”

  He promised that he would be and bent down to give her one last kiss on the cheek. Jake wasn’t going to call her or tell her later, but he had made a promise, so he would have to stick to it. It was one less thing he wanted to do, but knew that he better get there and get it over with. Elise was dramatic and he knew that she was not going to take it well. Jake dreaded seeing her and having the conversation they probably would have had months ago if he’d had the balls.

  ***

  Driving down to Texas gave him a long time to think. Mostly for the first hour it was thoughts of Elise and what she had said. Her words echoed in his ears and he wondered if what she said was true. Was he really incapable of love? Jake was almost thirty and had never felt what made the people around him go crazy. He never thought of ending his life for a woman, so in that way, maybe he had never been truly mad in love. But did it mean he was incapable of it? He hoped not. Even if he didn’t understand love, Jake wanted to feel that craziness just once with one person.

  The sign for Texas had him perking up and he followed the GPS to the small ranch in the northeast of Texas. There was something so charming about the place and for those that didn’t know, it may look like a small enterprise. It was a lot smaller than many in the area, but Archer Training was the best in the business. The very fact that he had been hired and was given a chance to work there, was better than any other accomplishment he could think of. The only worry he had was if he was good enough. Only time would tell if he would be.

  Jake was a few hours late and it had already gotten dark. He had been given a bunkroom and the keys were sent with his sign-on bonus. He wasn’t supposed to start till the next day, but he had hoped to have a conversation with the owners before he went to bed. With that not an option, he moved towards the small row of bunkhouses, eyes straining to find the one that was to be his.

  Finally spotting the numbers, he found his was the one on the end and he searched his pocket for the key. After unlocking the door, he moved to push it in, but an inside slide lock stopped his progress. Confused, he pushed again and then saw the chain. “Hello?”

  A short, curved woman answered the door, sliding the lock back and looking up at him with clouded brown eyes. “Yes?”

  “Hi, I um…” Jake was floundering, the woman in front of him hypnotic and sidetracking from what he was even there for. Had he gotten the wrong room? He stepped back and looked at the number again, matching it to the keys in his hand. It dawned on him then that it was the right key, so it had to be the right little house, right?

  “Are you okay?” Her smile sardonic as his eyes roamed over her voluptuous body. She was wearing short cotton shorts and a white tank top, her hair bundled on top of her hair in a knot. He had an urge to pull it down, feel it in between his fingers but he stilled his hand from such a silly move.

  “Yes, sorry. I was supposed to move into
this bunkhouse tonight I thought. Number 15.”

  “So you’re the new trainer Jake, huh?”

  He nodded, not sure who she was and wishing that he knew as much about her. “Well come on in.”

  “I didn’t realize I would be sharing it.”

  “You’re not. You were late so Betsy was thinking you weren’t coming and I decided to stay the night instead of driving all night back to Ranson. We have some that get the job and never show up.”

  “Oh, well is there somewhere else I can stay then? I don’t want to bother you. It looks like you are already in bed.”

  “No they are all full. Can we maybe just share tonight? I will be out of here in the morning and I really don’t want to drive tonight.”

  He nodded his head. He wouldn’t have kicked her out anyways. No man in their right mind would have. Jake looked over at the small bed in the corner, rustled with her warm body and he groaned inwardly. “Is there a bathroom in here?”

  She pointed towards the unnoticed door in the back. “Help yourself. I am going to go back to sleep, so just squeeze in when you are ready.”

  Chapter 2

  Bella was just as attracted to the man and for once, she wished she trained on-site with the rest of them. Her body trembled as she waited for him to come out of the bathroom, but then she heard the small shower turn on and she drifted off before he came out.

  Jake looked at her for some time, his body still steaming from the hot water. He had dressed again, but there were no pajamas in his things. He never slept in much of anything and was certainly not expecting to spend the night with a beautiful stranger.

  He was surprised that she didn’t seem as bothered to share a bed with him, like she wasn’t even attracted to him or something. Why didn’t she feel the pull that he did? It only seemed right. Looking down at his jeans, there was no way he would be able to sleep in them so he decided on just wearing his boxers would be enough. Even then it felt like too much clothing and he wished he could slide the rest of it off.

  Moving to the bed slowly, he took in the curves she offered, her back to him. Bella was pushed against the wall, but there still didn’t seem to be much room for his large body. The bed itself didn’t look so big to begin with, without her in it. His eyes went to her round ass and groaned inwardly. Fuck she was fine.

  Jake lay up in the bed next to her, trying not to touch her, but she moved towards him instinctively, taking in his body heat. He groaned at the touch of her soft ass against him, wishing that he hadn’t just broke up with his girlfriend, wishing he could do more but lie there wanting her. It was almost impossible, but he finally fell asleep, wondering about the woman next to him.

  ****

  Bella woke up early and for a moment, she forgot where she was.

  All she could feel was the warm heat against her and her mind went to Carlos. She didn’t know why he was there, but that was where her mind went. To her husband and her body seemed already responsive to the idea. Pushing her ass back against him, she heard him moan and her insides dampened with the sound.

  She moved to take her shorts off, nothing but bareness underneath and when she moved back against him, she felt his hardness nestled against her ass. It seemed bigger than before, bigger than she remembered and Bella figured he was just extra hard. She was extra horny so it made sense. Another groan from behind her as she tried to line him up where he was needed most. Her eyes were still closed and the dark drape on the window left it dark in the room.

  “Come on baby, I need you inside of me now.”

  There was a surge of pressure and then he was inside of her suddenly. Crying out softly, she felt his hand move around her, pulling her closer as he started to move deeper. Her insides suffocated him, desperately trying to accommodate his wide girth. It was not what she remembered, it was better, felt fuller and she was still trying to cope with the rest of his length steadily pushing in. Only when she felt his hips against her ass, did she know that it was finally in. Gasping and panting, Bella squeezed him as the length throbbed inside of her.

  She had never felt so full in her life and Bella moved her hand down to play with her quim, trying to get her mind off of the painful stretching feeling inside. Her fingers moved quickly as he pulled out slowly, her insides gripping him as he left her. Slamming back forward, Bella heard a deep groan behind her. It didn’t sound like Carlos and it certainly didn’t feel like him.

  Bella looked behind her, seeing the man from the night before, remembering that Carlos wasn’t with her anymore. Stopping Jake though, was not in her mind to do. She was aching with need and it had been far too long for her, to ever stop it from happening. He moved to kiss her, his lips soft, but his tongue so insistent. It was unexpected and it made him sliding into her feel like more. She was lost in the moment, lost in his lustful groans that were trapped in her mouth.

  Jake cupped her large breasts, squeezing the tip as she started to meet his short thrust by slamming her ass back to meet him. “Yes, I’m so close. Faster.”

  Lifting her leg, he slid in deeper, taking both of their breaths away. She had not been expecting it, thinking she had taken all of him, until another inch crashed against her womb, pressing into some unknown place of pleasure deep inside. Bella started to whimper, her mouth moving away to look at his long meat glistening before it plundered back down inside of her.

  Jake moved quicker, feeling her wetness as it shot out of her. She soaked his thighs and the sheet underneath him as he rutted in faster and deeper than before. Biting her shoulder, he slammed in one last time before he too was lost in the moment. In the sweet unexpected moment that made him feel like his head was going to blow off.

  He didn’t know what name to say, who to call out to for such bliss.

  Instead, he sucked on her neck as he emptied his hot seed inside of her. There was no thought of anything else but her velvety sheath convulsing around him as she continued to moan and mewl next to him. Jake pulled the blanket back to let in some air, his cock still buried deep inside of her. It allowed him full glimpses of her naked bottom, the thick thighs and butt cheeks that he was in between.

  “Wow. I wish I could wake up like that every day.”

  Bella remembered what she was doing and with whom she was doing it with. She moved away, Jake hissing with the pull out and his cock hitting the cool morning air. He wanted to stay inside of her forever in her warm, wet tightness, but she had other ideas.

  She didn’t say anything as she scooted out of the bed from the bottom. Wearing just her white tank top, he admired her curves as she went to the bathroom. Soon there was water running and he looked around the room with a smile on his face. The new job in Texas was looking better every minute.

  There was a small purse on the bedside table and he looked in it for a second while she took a shower. It wasn’t for any other reason than he had to know her name. Jake had never been in that kind of position before and it was strange to have done so much and know so little. Finding her driver’s license, he read the name. Bella. It fit and rolled off his tongue well.

  Chapter 3

  Her hands shook as she turned the hot water on and then the little spigot to turn on the shower. Her body hummed with the moments that were definitely hot, but Bella couldn’t believe she had done it, almost feeling like a betrayal to Carlos. Shaking her head, admonishing herself for feeling that way, she tried to think of something else. It was almost impossible to shake the feeling though and she was left thinking of Jake as she washed off their need. She was soaked and she turned a little hot thinking about it. Bella didn’t think she had ever come like that before.

  When she got out of the bathroom, she had a towel wrapped around her and Jake was still lying in bed, his eyes following her as she went to her bag to find something to wear. She wished that she would have thought about it before and brought something with her. It would have stopped him from looking at her like that and stopped her from feeling her nipples harden in response.

  “Why d
on’t you come back to bed and keep me warm?”

  Bella nodded, moving back to change in the bathroom. Jake’s smile fell and he felt like he should get up and dressed as well. His boxers were still on, so he just pushed his softened cock back in and sat up. The bathroom door opened again, but she still wouldn’t meet his gaze.

  “Bella?”

  She looked up, her dark eyes filled with something that he wasn’t sure he understood. “Look, I’m sorry about that, but I woke up from a dream or something. I don’t know what I was thinking.”

  Jake shook his head. He had just had some of the hottest sex of his life and she was apologizing about it. Bella was also putting her shoes on, back to acting like they had not just made love. He was shocked, used to the girl being doe-eyed and exhausted when he was done. Jake blamed it on the fact that he hadn’t been prepared. He had been ambushed, waking up to a wet quim nudging his cockhead and the woman saying that she wanted it. His first reaction had been to press forward, but now he was left feeling strange.

  “It’s no problem, any time, really.” He meant it to, his cock hardening slightly just from the suggestion. There was something in the way that she looked over at him for a minute, but then she turned back around and starting putting her things in the bag.

  “Hate to run and all after…that, but I’ve got to load the horses up and get moving.”

  “Do you need some help?” Jake was already to his feet and she stopped, her gaze falling to the hardness that was trying to creep out of his boxers.

  “No really, thanks though. Nice meeting you Jake.”

  ***

  He watched the door shut kind of in a daze. Jake had heard of hard to get, but Bella was something else entirely. Unavailable came to mind loud and clear. He should know the signs of course. He had lived that way for some time. It made the moments with her seem more precious, but also left him sitting on the side of the bed, her shampoo smell still in the air. He kept asking himself, what had just happened?