Chrissy wiped a hand across her breasts shooing a fly away and said, ‘Katsumoto told us what you wanted, these horses belong to a rancher to the north, its more mountainous up there, these guys were born on the hills, they’ll see you across these hills no problem, all you’ve got to do is stay in the saddle.’
Dan rubbed at Bud’s ears and the horse pushed his face in to Dan’s chest. Dan smoothed the horse’s face and let the animal smell his scent, he smiled at the animal and said, ‘You’ll be Chloe’s ride, take care of her okay?’
‘Why do I get Bud?’ Chloe asked with a bemused smile.
‘Bud’s been done, the grey hasn’t, Bud will be easier to manage.’
‘Done?’ Chloe asked unsure of his meaning.
Dan made a snipping gesture with his left hand and Chloe said, ‘Oh, right.’
‘You know horses, I’ll give you that much, Bud is easier to ride, you’ll be fine on him Chloe.’
Dan patted the grey on the neck and said in to the horse’s right ear, ‘Weiser, you’ll have to be Weiser to Chloe’s Bud.’
Chloe ran her hand down Bud’s side and said, ‘I haven’t ridden in a while, but we should be fine, just take it easy with me Bud.’
Dan took Chloe’s hand and turned back to the tents.
‘Let’s see what we’ve got.’
Chrissy led them to the middle tent and held the flap open for them. Dan and Chloe stepped inside and Lacey and Chrissy joined them. The interior was cooler still and Chloe turned to one canvas wall and removed her shirt; her back to the others. She used the shirt to wipe at her skin, drying away the sweat.
‘Man, what I wouldn’t give for a shower,’ she said as she slipped the shirt back on, she turned back to the others and joined them at a portable table where various boxes and tubes were placed.
‘We haven’t got a shower, but we have the next best thing,’ said Lacey cryptically.
‘Oh yeah?’ asked Chloe.
‘Later,’ Chrissy said and smiled at Dan and Chloe, ‘It’ll be a nice surprise.’
Chloe studied the two women as they gathered around the table. Chrissy was the taller of the two with short blonde hair, green eyes with a small scar on her left shoulder. Chloe took a quick glance at the woman’s breasts and ass and decided that Chrissy had the better body compared to Lacey. Lacey was shorter, dark hair, with full breasts and although Chrissy’s were smaller they were more pert. But Lacey definitely had a better ass, her bikini bottoms perfectly filled out. Lacey caught Chloe looking and winked playfully. Chloe looked at Dan who laughed.
‘You weren’t exactly discreet in what you were doing honey,’ Dan told her.
Chloe reddened a little and managed a playful smile, ‘I couldn’t help myself, I had to check out the competition.’
Chrissy laughed, ‘And?’
‘It’s a close run contest.’
Lacey squeezed Chrissy’s ass and said, ‘Dan’s safe Chloe, he’s not what we look for in a mate.’
Dan opened the largest case on the table and whistled loudly when he saw its contents. Packed in foam was a sniper’s rifle broken down in to its various component parts. He removed the pieces and quickly assembled the rifle and held the finished weapon up to his shoulder.
‘You’ve done that before,’ Lacey remarked.
Dan nodded his head but said nothing. Chloe was looking at him slightly stunned; there were still things that she didn’t know about him.
Dan dry-fired the rifle a couple of times and Chrissy said, ‘It’s a Chey Tac International M200 Sniper rifle, four-oh-eight calibre, good for up to twenty-five hundred yards, approximately one point four miles.’
Dan checked the scope and said, ‘The scope’s coated right? No glare from the sun?’
Lacey nodded, ‘Yeah, it won’t twinkle in the light,’ Lacey pointed at Chloe’s engagement ring.
‘That rock might though.’
Chloe turned the ring on her finger so that the stone was in against her palm and held her hand up to Lacey.
‘Clever thinking,’ Chrissy said.
Dan put the rifle down and checked another box which contained a pair of military issue binoculars.
‘Night and day capabilities, again coated, gauge goes up to two miles and offers crystal clear imaging,’ Lacey said. The women were obviously proud of the equipment they provided.
There were also two Glocks, a small Heckler&Koch snub-nosed assault rifle, flares, ammunition, two ponchos and two pairs of rider’s chaps, both black and made of high grade leather.
Chloe lifted a pair and smiled briefly, she hid it before anyone else saw. She’d had an idea and she tingled at the thought.
Lacey withdrew a roll from a cardboard tube and spread it out over the corner of the table. It was a map of the hills; a photocopy of a much older map.
‘This was drawn up in the early part of the twentieth century, it shows every trail over the hills,’ Lacey said, ‘I’ve marked in red the trail we’d take to get over the hills, it’s the closest one to your man’s ranch.’ Lacey tapped at a spot on the map and said, ‘This’ll lead you in to a deep culvert that will get you to within a mile of the ranch without being seen.’
‘Thanks, its perfect.’
‘Just part of the service,’ Chrissy said.
Dan looked across the table at Chloe, she was leaning forward, hands on the table so that she could see the map, her shirt hung forwards and he along with the two women could see Chloe’s exposed breasts. Chloe for once appeared none the wiser. Dan saw that the women were looking too.
I might be safe from them, but what about Chloe? Dan thought to himself with a silent chuckle.
Despite the overwhelming heat and the company he could feel his cock hardening as he watched a bead of sweat trickle down Chloe’s left breast, it hung from her hardened nipple before dropping on to the table.
Dan cleared his throat and stood up straight, the spell was broken and everyone else stood back from the table.
Dan wiped sweat from his forehead and said, ‘I need to get out of the heat.’
Chrissy smiled. ‘Follow us; we have a surprise for you and at no extra charge.’
The surprise turned out to be a fresh water pool, approximately sixty feet around, the water was clear and was fed by a natural spring running down over a red rock. The pool was hidden from them earlier by a series of low rocks, on the other side of the pool to where they stood were a couple of tall, sun-bleached trees and some bushes before the hills took over.
‘Wow,’ said Chloe.
Lacey laughed. ‘Wow, exactly, there are a couple of them around the hills, and completely safe, no piranhas lurking in its depths.’
Chloe laughed at the joke.
Dan crouched down and put his hands in the water and cupped them, he splashed water over his face and down his neck.
Chloe kicked off her plimsolls and walked out in to the pool, she didn’t stop until the warm water covered her to the shoulders.
‘How deep does it get?’ Chloe asked.
Chrissy shrugged her shoulders, ‘I don’t know, I’ve swum out to the middle and dived down but have never been able to touch bottom.’
Chloe smiled at Dan and said, ‘Aren’t you coming in?’
Lacey strolled out in to the pool and swam slowly to the other side and then started back, she stopped out in the middle and floated on her back. Dan made sure he didn’t look too closely at the woman’s breasts bobbing beneath the bikini. Chrissy slipped out of her flip-flops and joined the two men already in the pool. Chloe tugged off her shirt and threw it back to Dan and slipped beneath the water, when she resurfaced only her face showed above the water line.
‘Will we be safe if we’re all in the pool?’
Chrissy nodded her head, ‘We’d hear anyone coming from miles away; it’s safe.’
Chrissy turned her back on Dan and Chloe and swam out to Lacey. The two women bobbed together in the water, they were paying no attention to either Dan or Chloe. The two women swam across th
e pool and climbed out on to a flat rock, they turned on to their backs and began to bask in the sun; Dan gave them ten minutes before they’d start to turn crispy from the unrelenting heat; sun-block or not and he was amazed that the trapped heat in the rock didn’t burn them.
‘Well?’ Chloe asked.
‘I’m not wearing boxers, remember, you made me not wear them.’
Chloe smiled, ‘I forgot about that.’ Chloe disappeared beneath the water and resurfaced holding her shorts in her left hand, she swum towards him until she could stand up and walked towards him until her stomach was out of the water. She tossed the shorts at Dan who caught them.
‘There, now I’m as naked as you’ll be.’
Dan looked over at the rock where Lacey and Chrissy were, they slid on to their fronts, with their faces away from Dan. He could see though that they’d removed their bikinis and he motioned his head and Chloe looked over at the two naked women.
Chloe looked back at Dan and said, ‘I’ll protect you from them baby.’
‘Fuck it,’ Dan said and quickly stripped off and joined Chloe in the pool. They swam out to the middle of the pool and circled one another.
‘How far did you say you swam down Chrissy?’ Chloe called out.
Chrissy and Lacey sat up and turned back to the pool. Dan looked away from the naked flesh on show.
‘I managed about fifty feet and still didn’t reach bottom.’
Lacey and Chrissy lowered themselves in to the water and Chloe said to Dan, ‘Did you just look at their pussies?’
‘No,’ Dan replied and he hadn’t, he’d kept his eyes on Chloe.
Chloe grinned, ‘Pity, I did, and very nice they were too.’ Chloe took a deep breath and disappeared under the water. Her ass was the last thing he saw before Chloe vanished beneath the still waters. Chrissy and Lacey swam out to him, and although he tried not to see it was impossible not to see their breasts beneath the water.
Lacey looked down and said, ‘Is she a good swimmer?’
Dan nodded as he kicked his feet to stay afloat.
‘I haven’t seen anyone better.’
Lacey and Chrissy were close to him but not too close and they too trod water to stay afloat. Lacey flicked a hand at Dan splashing his face with water. Dan laughed and flicked her back. Chrissy dipped beneath the water and resurfaced and spat a stream of water at Lacey. Lacey laughed and grabbed Chrissy and the two women kissed passionately. Dan dipped his head beneath the water and tried to see Chloe, he couldn’t. Dan brought his head back up and the two women were still kissing passionately and he said, ‘Argh, come on ladies, that isn’t fair.’
Chrissy broke away and laughed at Dan’s embarrassment and the three of them began to swim in a lazy circle.
‘How long’s she been down for?’ Lacey asked.
Dan looked at his watch, ‘Just gone two minutes.’
‘Shit,’ said Chrissy. ‘That’s impressive, how long can she stay down for?’
Dan shook his head, ‘I’ve no idea.’
They continued to circle and then Dan was tugged under the water. He surfaced and coughed as Chloe kissed him and said, ‘I couldn’t resist.’
Dan laughed and then coughed again. ‘You scared the shit out of me.’
‘So?’ asked Chrissy.
Chloe shook her head, ‘It’s too deep for me, it’s more than a hundred feet that’s for sure, I reached that and still couldn’t see the bottom.’
‘I’m impressed,’ said Lacey.
Chloe smiled as she circled behind Dan and put her arms around his neck. She kissed the back of his head. Dan reached one hand back and squeezed her buttocks.
Chrissy swam towards shore and said, ‘Lacey, come on lets get a fire started, I’m starving.’
Lacey joined her partner at the shore.
‘See you guys in a bit,’ Lacey said with a smile. The two women walked naked away towards the camp; their asses swinging in unison.
Chloe pushed Dan under the water. He resurfaced and Chloe said, ‘I’m not the only exhibitionist in the world.’
Chloe put her arms around Dan’s neck, her breasts against his chest and she kissed him.
‘They were snogging when you went under.’
Chloe looked at him closely and smiled, ‘Hmph, I bet you enjoyed that,’ she said playfully.
Dan shook his head, ‘Two women have never done it for me, I was embarrassed more than anything.’
Chloe could see he meant it.
‘Really? But I thought it was every man’s fantasy.’
Dan shook his head. ‘Not this man.’
They moved slowly to the shore and when Dan could stand up Chloe turned her face up to him and Dan kissed her. He gripped her buttocks and Chloe could feel his hardness pressing against her belly. She wrapped her legs around his hips. She reached down between her legs and grabbed his cock and guided it to her slit. The water felt good against her sex and she moaned in to his neck as he pushed up inside her.
As the sun neared the horizon Chloe was helping Lacey and Chrissy at the fire where a stew cooked in a pot hanging over the flames. Chloe was wearing a white shift dress and flip-flops. The two Australian’s were wearing shorts and vests and Chloe looked across the fire to where Dan was feeding the horses. She could see in the dying light that he was enjoying himself with the simple task he had set himself. Dan was relaxed moving between the big powerful animals and Chloe could see his lips moving as he talked to the horses in a soothing tone.
She smiled when he told Bud to look after the woman he loved and to make sure than no harm came to her.
Lacey handed Chloe some tin plates and said, ‘I can’t imagine how you two ended up in your current predicament.’ Lacey went in to one of the tents and Chrissy stirred the stew.
Chloe looked once more at Dan and quietly said, ‘Because we chose to.’
‘What’s that Chloe?’ Chrissy asked.
‘Nothing,’ Chloe replied.
They sat around the fire on small canvas chairs and Dan said, ‘Chrissy, this is really good.’ As if to back his statement up Dan spooned another mouthful of the stew in to his mouth.
‘Uh-huh,’ Chloe added. ‘The meat’s so tender, what is it, beef?’
‘Kangaroo,’ Lacey said smiling.
Chloe shrugged her shoulders, ‘Still good whatever animal it is.’
‘Lacey’s yanking your chain, its beef, but Kangaroo does make for fine eating.’
Bats darted in and around the tents and high in the hills they heard a jackal call out.
‘Out here in the desert all you’ve got to do is to keep the fire going at night, they stay away,’ Lacey said to Chloe who was looking up in to the hills.
Chloe nodded her head and shivered, ‘It sounded so close.’
Chrissy swallowed and said, ‘Out here there are a few jackals, maybe some dingoes but it’s the snakes you need to look out for.’ Chrissy was serious and both Dan and Chloe paid attention.
‘Always check your bedrolls before you get in them, when you set up camp overnight check the area, clear any rocks away. Light a fire, most of the time they stay out of the way of humans, but we have the most venomous snakes on earth in this country so don’t take any chances, if you see one stay well away.’
‘There are various anti-venoms in the first aid kit, and a photographic guide of all known venomous snakes with an individual fact-file so you’ll know which anti-venom to administer should the worst happen but don’t take any unnecessary chances,’ Lacey added.
‘What about spiders?’ Chloe asked.
‘Nah, all you’ll find in these parts are tarantulas, the worst they’ll do is give you a nasty bite, maybe cause a headache, but nothing fatal,’ Chrissy said. ‘Scorpions can be a pain, but its only the small ones that are deadly, if you get stung by a big one, don’t panic, its no worse than a bee, the small ones, cut the sting out and tie a tourniquet as quick as possible.’
Chloe looked around the cleared campsite and said, ‘Is there anything i
n this country that doesn’t bite or sting.’ She laughed but Dan could see she was a little nervous and to be truthful so was he.
Lacey nodded. ‘Sure, kangaroos, koala bears, some camels, but you won’t see anything like that near here.’ Lacey reached over and stroked Chloe’s arm, she smiled at Chloe. ‘Relax honey, you’ll be fine, we’re just yakking is all.’
A little after ten that evening they all turned in, Chrissy and Lacey took one tent and Dan and Chloe took the one nearest the horses.
Chloe held up a battery powered lantern and checked the corners of the tent. Dan stepped in to the tent and zipped the flap shut behind him. He laughed as he saw Chloe poking in to one corner with a camping spade. She looked over at him, ‘I’m checking for critters.’
‘Relax honey; there are no critters in here.’
Chloe bit her bottom lip nervously.
‘You’re sure?’
Dan rolled back their large sleeping bag, ‘See, nothing in there; relax.’
Chloe put the lamp down on the ground sheet and hugged Dan.
‘Your face looks almost as good as new,’ Chloe said, she traced her baby finger across his bottom lip, ‘I’d say those stitches can come out too.’
Dan sat down on their bedding and Chloe retrieved a small pair of cosmetic scissors from one of their bags. She snipped delicately at the line of stitches and pulled the remnants out of his lip. When she was finished she kissed him and sucked on his lower lip. She sat back.
‘That’s better,’ Dan said.
Chloe quickly stripped from her clothes and naked slipped beneath their bedding and snuggled in to the sleeping bag. Dan undressed and switched out the lantern and slipped in next to her. It was snug and warm. He adjusted the pillow beneath his head and lay looking up at the darkened roof of the tent. Chloe snuggled in against him, her left thigh across his knees, her left arm draped across his belly. Her breasts were snug against his ribs and Dan kissed the top of her head.
Dan moved his right arm behind her, his hand ran down her back and he gripped her ass in one hand, his fingers in the crack of her ass and Chloe kissed his chest.
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