Ranger Drew

by Meg Ripley

  “Are you okay?”

  “Yah juh haw!”

  “Huh?” I watched her swallow the bite and sip some wine.

  “I said it was hot!” We laughed. “I guess I shouldn’t have just dove in like that.”

  “Was it good at least?”

  “Oh, it’s incredible. I’m just lucky I didn’t burn my mouth on it!”

  “What a shame that would be…” I had decided to flirt back. What did I have to lose?

  She smiled, but didn’t respond. I decided to try a wonton myself and transferred it over to one of the small plates the waiter had provided us with. To avoid the unpleasant experience she had, I cut mine in half and blew on the center before taking a bite. I could taste the lobster and scallion, but there was a sauce. I think I remembered the menu it saying it was cream cheese and blueberry, which surprisingly went quite well with the seafood and I was floored by how delicious it was.

  Our entrees came out shortly after, and hers actually looked better than I had imagined it would. The gnocchi had been seasoned with cracked black pepper and freshly shaven parmesan, nestled on top of a white bean puree with a red pepper sauce. There was also a small serving of beet and carrot slaw piled near the corner of the plate.

  But I wouldn’t have passed mine up for hers any day. The salmon was pan seared over a vegetable soba noodle salad. I thoroughly enjoyed the flavors of Asian dishes and it definitely quelled my hunger. We ate in mostly silence, which I took as a good sign that the food was to her liking.

  “How was it?” I asked when she seemed to have finished.

  “Fantastic! But I’m always up for dessert…”

  “I don’t think they have dessert here,” I joked.

  “Well, you’ll just have to come up with something, won’t you?” I felt her shoe graze my thigh and my eyes widened.

  Quick guys, I need your help! I reached out with my mind to telepathically reach Trent and Ramon, hoping one of my clan-mates would answer quickly.

  How’s the date going? I heard Trent ask me smugly.

  She’s rubbing my leg with her shoe and says she wants dessert! What do I do? My voice sounded a little more panicked than I would have liked, but I was more worried about time at that point.

  Aye, amigo! You’d better take her back to your place. That’s a very clear sign that she wants the D. There was laughter in Ramon’s voice, but I realized he was right. I ended our communication before they said something else embarrassing.

  “I might have some whipped cream and strawberries in my refrigerator if that would do?” I stroked the top of her foot.

  “Here is the check whenever you’re ready. I hope everything was to your liking.”

  “It was, thank you.” I didn’t even look at him. I was too focused on Kathleen biting her lip in front of me. I glanced at the check to see the total was eighty dollars. I had anticipated a hundred, so I just left the hundred-dollar bill on the table and grabbed Kathleen’s hand, escorting her out of the restaurant. We barely made it to the car before I pushed her right up against the hood and kissed her. My lips were powerful and dominant over her soft, supple ones. It had been a while since I’d last kissed a woman, and it felt damned good. I crushed my body against hers, feeling her well-endowed chest press firmly against mine; I couldn’t wait to fondle those gorgeous breasts of hers. I let one hand tangle in her lovely ginger curls, and it was as if I was touching a cloud. Her hands were on my back and I grabbed her left thigh and lifted it to wrap around my hip which exposed quite a bit of her leg to my touch. I took advantage of it and ran my hand up to her bottom, cupping and squeezing it in my palm. It was a generous handful and I couldn’t help but be pleased with myself when a moan escaped her lips.

  Then, I heard a whistle and my head whipped around to find it. There was a group of guys heading to a nearby bar who were cheering and looking in our direction. I glared and growled, but quickly realized she might think that was a bit uncharacteristic of me, so I tried to clear my throat to mask it.

  “Your place?” She sounded breathless, her chest rising and falling. Her eyes were hooded and dark green in the moonlight, filled with lust and desire. I nodded, and gently placed her leg down, opening the passenger side for her. I got in and drove us quickly back to my cabin, my hand stroking her thigh throughout the entire drive. She squirmed under my touch.

  “Shouldn’t you have both hands on the wheel?” she half asked, half moaned.

  “I like to live dangerously,” I smirked, squeezing her upper thigh, making her back arch. My manhood had grown, bulging against my pants, which were growing uncomfortable more and more by the moment. I rejoiced inwardly when I saw the indent of my road up ahead.

  The car swerved slightly, and my heartbeat raced when I felt a hand in my lap, stroking my member through my pants. She laughed at my surprise.

  “I, too, like to live dangerously,” she admitted with a sly smile.

  I could’ve exploded in my pants right there. Jesus, she’s hot…

  I tried to concentrate on pulling into my driveway and parking the car, which was a little hard with her trying to unzip my pants.

  “Whoa, there. Let’s get inside first.” I laughed, grabbing her hand and kissing it. She practically ran out of the car and I shook my head. By the time I reached the door, she was already there, waiting for me to open it.

  “Time to see if you are the homey type or the bachelor pad type,” she giggled.

  I wasn’t sure which category I fit into, but maybe a little bit of both? I let her be the judge as I unlocked the door and swung it open.

  We entered my living room, which had a blue and beige color scheme with stained oak-paneled walls and a fireplace. There were two sets of rustic chandelier style lights hanging from the ceiling. I had a leather sofa, a matching arm chair and oak shelves full of records, which stood next to an end table with my record player on top of it.

  “No way, you have records?” She ran to the shelves and checked out my selection. “And you like classical music? And here I was thinking you’d play country music from your iPod or something.”

  “And why’s that? Do you think I’m some backwoods kind of guy who only cares about cars and putting out fires?” I joked.

  “What? Oh, no. Come on—” She feigned obliviousness for a moment and then smiled. “Of course, that’s not why. I personally love country music. But I like classical, too.”

  “Would you like me to pick something out for us to relax to?” I asked, heading toward the shelf, but she grabbed me instead.

  “I don’t really feel like relaxing just yet.” She whispered in my ear and then licked the edge of it. I shivered; it was an oddly pleasing sensation, and I’d never had anyone play with my ears before. “So, how about you show me where the bedroom is, and I can show you a good time?”

  She didn’t have to ask twice.

  I led her up the spiral staircase to my bedroom, which housed a queen-sized bed with a mahogany headboard and matching nightstands on either side. I really loved the warmth that wood could bring to a living space, and my home certainly showed it.

  “Odd that you like to decorate with wood, one of the most flammable materials, and yet, you’re a firefighter. Aren’t you afraid of this place burning down?” She eased onto the bed, kicking off her shoes by the nightstand.

  “Actually, I have everything coated in a fire-proof stain, so my house could never burn down. I re-coat it every year just to be on the safe side.”

  She reached out her hand and pulled me toward her.

  “I guess you don’t need those strawberries after all, huh?”

  “Not when I have this…” She smirked up at me, stroking my rod through my pants again. She unzipped my fly and reached in, pulling my cock from my boxer briefs. Her eyes widened when it sprung from the fly of my pants.

  I smiled and playfully threw her back onto the bed, climbing on top of her.

  “Why don’t we see what you’re working with…” I grinned and moved down to her h
ips, snaking my hands under her skirt. I felt the waistband of her panties and pulled them slowly down her legs. They were black lace and completely soaked; I held them up and raised an eyebrow. She bit her lip and smiled, and I shook my head and lifted her skirt just enough to expose her womanhood.

  “Nice to see that the carpet matches the drapes,” I laughed, doing my best to get her back for all her jokes.

  “I deserve that,” she giggled, pulling down her skirt. “Well, I am Irish…”

  “You’ll have to tell me more about that later when I’m a little less distracted,” I said, my eyes connecting with hers.

  “Oh yeah? And what could possibly be distracting you?”

  “This.”

  And I dove between her legs, going straight for her pleasure center, my nose buried in her soft, ginger curls. My tongue lapped at her juices, which only made them flow more freely into my eager mouth. I teased her, flicking over to her entrance and thrusted inside, grabbing her hips and coaxing her further along the length of my tongue. She gasped and squirmed, but I held her firmly, quickly moving in and out. She soon moved along with me, riding my tongue as I dove deeper inside of her. I dragged my tongue up slowly toward her sensitive bundle of nerves, sucking it into my mouth, flicking my tongue over it, making her writhe and moan at my onslaught. I felt her shiver slightly and stopped immediately, which really made her whimper.

  “Please…don’t stop,” she whispered.

  “But I have something better,” I assured her, standing up to reveal my shaft at full attention. I lifted her legs onto each of my shoulders and pressed her knees to her chest. Unbuckling my pants, I let them fall to the floor with my boxer briefs and kicked them across the room before I positioned myself at her entrance and slid into her slowly.

  “Ah!” She threw her head back and moaned in ecstasy as my length filled her, pulsating as it plowed more deeply into her core. I felt the soft flesh of her cervix caress the tip of my member and heard a sharp intake of breath as I pressed against it, which made me even harder.

  I pulled out just as slowly, making her squirm before entering her the same way once again. I continued to tease her, thrusting in and out at an excruciating pace. I wanted her to feel every inch of me as it exited and filled her; I wanted the feeling to be burned into her memory forever.

  When I felt she had become best adjusted to having my rod inside her, I decided to pick up the pace a little, then a lot until I was plowing into her, the head of my cock ramming into her cervix each time. It wasn’t long until I felt her shudder beneath me, exploding in spasms of pleasure and screams.

  I sucked down her neck, leaving a trail of wet kisses as I let her screams push me over the edge, spilling my seed deep within her with a growl. I clenched the sheets as my shaft twitched deep within her walls, body seizing against hers. After the spasms subsided, I finally withdrew myself and released her legs, slumping on top of her. I could feel her chest heaving from fatigue and exhaustion and mine was no better.

  “Hey.”

  “Hmmm?” I answered, ready to slip off to sleep.

  “You’re heavy,” she giggled, squirming beneath me.

  I smiled and rolled off of her. “Well, I suppose if we’re going to sleep, we should sleep the proper way, anyway,” I admitted. We were laying horizontally across the bed instead of with our heads at the headboard. Kathleen adjusted herself and slid over to the left side of the bed, while I took off my soaked shirt, throwing it onto the floor.

  “Are you usually this messy when you have a girl over, Drew?” she teased.

  “Only after extraneous activities,” I joked. I laid next to her and she curled up against my chest.

  “So, you’re Irish, huh? Were you born there?” I asked, stroking her curls.

  She groaned. “I was hoping you forgot.”

  “Nope.”

  “It’s not a pleasant story.” Her voice sank lower; pained, it seemed.

  “You don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to. I just want to know more about you.”

  “It’s fine; I have no problem telling you. Honestly, I’ve grown mostly numb to it over the years. Yes, I was born in Ireland. I’m from Kinsale, a little town of only about five thousand people. Mom and Dad were making dinner one evening when I was thirteen and there was a gas leak no one knew about. There was a huge explosion and my dad threw me out the window to save me. By the time the town was able to put the fire out, my parents had been burnt to cinders, and I was left with gashes from the broken glass. I still have the scars from where the glass cut me.”

  She lifted the side of her shirt and showed me the section between her ribs and hip. I sat up to have a better look, and there were definitely at least three large scars going straight down. I reached out my hand to touch them, but she grabbed it.

  “Please don’t touch them.”

  I nodded and laid back down. “So, did you stay with relatives or something?” I decided to continue the conversation so things wouldn’t get awkward.

  “I had no living relatives. Ireland doesn’t exactly have the fostering or adoption system that the United States has, and apparently, Irish children are wanted here, so I was flown here and put into foster care. But I must have been too old or something, because I stayed at that foster home until I was eighteen. The day after my birthday, I left and have never gone back.”

  I could feel her shrug. I wasn’t really sure of what to say after her story. “Where do you live now?”

  “West Virginia. But I don’t have an apartment or anything. There’s this really great app called Couchsurfing where people offer free lodging to strangers for up to three days. There’s close to three hundred thousand people in the state on it, so I sort of just hop from place to place. Unfortunately, I don’t have a stable income, so I can’t really afford to get my own place right now. And with no family…”

  “But you can afford a vacation to Acadia?” I was merely teasing, but it did sound pretty odd.

  If she’s broke, what’s she doing here?

  “I…uh…. Actually, one of the hosts gave me the vacation. I had given her some shitty gift from the dollar store and she was so in love with it. She was sick and said she wouldn’t be able to come and asked me if I would come enjoy it on her behalf. Her only request was that I take lots of pictures and send them to her when I get back.”

  She seemed a little too nervous for such a simple question. Something told me she probably wasn’t telling the whole truth, but I decided to let it slide. What did I care?

  “Well, then you should get to the park and start taking those pictures! You should have taken some last night, so you could tell her about meeting a handsome stranger here,” I joked.

  “You’re totally right, I should’ve. I would take one now, but I don’t think that little old lady could handle your super-hot bod.”

  I heard the laughter in her tone and it made me smile. I hadn’t had someone I could joke around with in a while that wasn’t Trent or Ramon, so it felt nice.

  “Well, since you have to go to the park anyway, maybe you can come with me tomorrow and meet everyone? I can take you to see all the great sights it’s so famous for, so you can really give this woman a look at Acadia.”

  “I’d love that.” She cuddled closer to me. “How about you, though? Where are you from?”

  “Me? I was born in Detroit, Michigan. My parents had me late in their lives, when they were both almost forty and they’re both gone now. My dad died of prostate cancer when he was sixty-five and my mom died of a broken heart shortly after. They’d been inseparable since they were teenagers, so a life without him was just a life she couldn’t live, it seemed. I was old enough to be on my own by then, and they had left me the house, but I couldn’t live there with the both of them gone, so I sold it and moved to California. I’ve always wanted to be a firefighter, ever since I was a kid, so I made it happen. I originally worked for the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in Los Angeles, but I felt like I wasn’t real
ly needed there. They had to have a firefighter on hand and it was easy money to just patrol and get paid four thousand a month, but I wanted to go where I was needed. Acadia had a lot of random fires when I was hired on, so I was able to place safety precautions and take care of the fires which sort of restored my purpose. I’ve been here ever since. There aren’t many fires these days, but I really like it here; it’s become my home.”

  “Want to hear something funny?”

  “Sure.”

  “When I was younger, I used to wave at fire trucks that passed by. And they would always wave back if they saw me. I always thought of how nice they were and every time I think of firemen, I picture them as the nicest people in the world. Isn’t that silly?” She turned and looked up at me.

  “I don’t think that’s silly at all. I’m happy my brothers have given our occupation a good reputation.” I kissed her head. “So, you know what I do, but you haven’t told me what you do. You said you’re not making a stable income, right? Are you a freelancer of some sort?”

  “I’d rather not say, if you don’t mind.” She tensed in my arms and I figured it must be a touchy subject.

  “That’s fine; we don’t have to talk about it if you don’t want to.”

  That’s odd...

  “I’m getting pretty tired, Drew. I think I’m ready to go to sleep, if that’s alright.”

  Great, Drew. Look what you did. I scolded myself, but just kept holding her. She was such a fascinating, yet mysterious person; I just wanted to know everything about her. But she’d dealt with a lot of pain in her life and I knew I had to let her open up to me at her own pace. I decided I would make our day in Acadia a special one for her.

  Chapter 4 – Kathleen

  When I woke the next morning, Drew had prepared breakfast for us. I was pleasantly surprised, and it was absolutely delicious. The Log Cabin had some fierce competition nearby.

  Drew said he had went out earlier and picked up some clothes for me to change into since I didn’t have any at his place. He figured that since he lived on park grounds, driving back to my hotel just to have me change clothes would be a little much. It was such a nice gesture, but a little odd.