Page 13 of Promises on the Mountain

"But before I wreck this virgin pussy, I want to make sure we're on the same page, here. I'm in this for keeps, April, and I don't want you thinking that's just a line of bullshit to be the one that punches that V-card."

"What do you mean by 'keeps?'" She's all raspy again, with those baby blue darkened by her blown-out pupils and when I slide against her again, there's a lot less friction where her pussy's leaking with need for my cock.

"I mean I want you to believe me when I tell you I'm in love with you. I need you to know I'm not just saying what I think you want to hear when I tell you I plan on marrying you and filling you up with babies.

"And I need to know you want the same thing, April, because I can promise you right now that I'm not about to let another man near you. Once you're mine, you're mine forever."

"I need you inside me, Raine." April's eyes are steady on mine, her voice is throaty as hell, and I can feel her pulse racing where I'm still clutching her wrists, but damn if she doesn't sound as serious as I've ever heard a woman be.

"Don't make me wait. I want to be yours, and I want to start now."

Never gotten my pants off so fast in my damn life, and that includes that time I found out the hard way I'd been standing on a nest of fire ants.

Notching my leaking tip against her entrance, I look down between us and damn near lose it just at the sight where our bodies are about to be joined together.

A thought hits me that has me reaching for my discarded jeans before I'm hit with the overwhelming urge to go in raw. I want to breed this woman, rut her deep and plant my seed in her fertile womb.

The need is so strong I can barely get the words out.

"Tell me you're sure about this, baby," I croak, pushing against her entrance, "I'm not putting anything between us. I'm clean but, if you're not on birth control, we could be fast forwarding those wedding plans."

April laughs, swatting my ass with a firm palm "I'm sure if you're sure," she says and I don't give her a chance to say anything else before I'm up to the fucking hilt in her tight heat.

"Shit, April, baby, you okay?"

Her nails are dug into my sides hard and the way her body tenses up reminds me too late that I should have been gentle. But dammit, a man can only hold out so long when he's claiming the woman who's going to have his children.

"I'm good," she says after a moment and then she opens her eyes and looks up at me with a grin that lets me know she really means it. "Really good," she adds with a wiggle of her hips that has me pulling back and thrusting into her till those pretty blue eyes of hers are rolled into the back of her head.

The sweet little gasps coming out of her have me on the edge and it's not the fire that's got sweat beading up on my skin as I drive back inside of April's tight little sheath.

As soon as her pussy starts to flutter, I know I won't be able to hold back if she starts coming on my cock but damned if I'm not going to make sure my girl comes for me.

Reaching between us, I press the pad of my thumb over her clit, and I don't have to do more before April's body convulses around me. Her legs clamped across the backs of my thighs to pin me in place while her perfect little tunnel clenches down and tries to drag me farther into her body.

My balls are on a hair trigger as I do my best to keep up with April's frantic movements as she milks my cock for my cum.

Then I hear my girl panting my name.

"Raine," April's voice is strained between soft cries, "I want you to come with me, come in my pussy. Fill me up and make me yours."

With that, my woman steals whatever control I was holding onto. Everything tightens and surges as I do what she asks.

7

APRIL

Today is the best day of my life. Or maybe that was yesterday. Or maybe it started yesterday and every day from now on is going to be amazing.

That's definitely how I've felt all day. Even when the alarm clock went off far too early after Raine and I stayed up at the cabin later than either of us had planned.

We'd talked till he had to build the fire back up in the stove. I'd told him more about Kay and how she's made it hard for me to move on with my life-- even being hostile since I moved away. And Raine shared his own experiences with death, telling me how he saw his entire family torn apart when his father and grandfather were killed together in an auto accident on the old ferry road to the valley when Raine was only eleven.

I'd heard rumors about his oldest brother, who left town long before I came to Moonshine Ridge, and Zephyr had mentioned losing her father and grandfather in an accident when she was just a baby; but I had no idea how much their family suffered as a result of their loss.

I guess Zephyr was so young when it happened, she never really knew anything else-- but Raine explained how his grandmother blamed his mom for sending the men to Slow River to begin with, how his mother accepted the blame, and how his oldest brother channeled grief into anger and alcohol abuse while his other brother escaped the mountains in pursuit of a professional sports career.

Leaving Raine somewhere in the middle to make sense of everything that had happened, and find his own way through it.

---