Page 79 of Promise Me Never

“Look at me,” I demand as her eyes roll back when I thrust into her. “My eyes, Sunbeam.”

She wraps her legs around my waist as the first wave of her orgasm crests. My cock spasms with my release as soon as she rests her palm against my cheek in a loving caress. I turn my face, pressing a kiss to her hand as I fill her with my cum.

She’s heaven as much as she’s hell.

My lesson and my punishment.

I don’t want to let her go.

She moans when I pull out of her and collapse onto the bed, rolling her onto my chest. I link our fingers, resting them over my pounding heart. She tangles our legs together, pressing as much of our bodies together as possible.

“Did that beat ice cream?” I ask, running my fingers along her spine.

“By the slimmest margin.” I feel her smile against my chest.

She giggles and thrashes around when I tickle her side. I put my hand over her lips to muffle the sound, hoping she locked the door. The last thing we need is for Paul or Jo to hear her and come upstairs to find me in her bed.

She takes advantage of the moment and throws her leg over me, straddling my hips. “I was trying to be mad at you.”

I reach up and cup her breast, teasing her nipple until it hardens under my touch. “I know. I just want us to focus on enjoying the last few weeks we have together.”

She swats my hand away. “There’s ways to tell me you don’t want to talk about something without being so cold, you know? I get it. There’s things I don’t like to talk about.”

“Like what?”

“If I told you, you’d want to talk about it.” She rolls her eyes and then yelps when I smack her ass for being a brat. She leans forward until we’re so close her lips brush mine as she speaks. “You can do that again.”

My hands cup her hips and then move back to that perfect ass of hers. “You like a little bit of pain, Sunbeam?”

She nods and pushes back up into a sitting position. Her entrance hovers over my cock, teasing me with her proximity. I give her ass another smack, a little harder this time.

“Ride me.”

She bites her lip before grinning mischievously. “Make me.”

My cock has never been harder as I grip her hips and drive into her.

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Every spare moment over the past two weeks has been spent with Eli. Late nights in the back of my truck looking up at the stars together and early morning slow fucks. She truly has become a source of light in my life, someone I look for throughout the day, even as I find myself shadowing Paul more and more, trying to intervene before something goes awry.

I haven’t even been inside my cabin aside from quick showers and grabbing clothes to stash in Eli’s room every few days. Colt watches me with shrewd eyes, observing the difference in me. I dread the quickly approaching day she’s going to leave, so I busy myself in the hours in between being with her.

My phone rings as I bring in one of the mares with an attitude. She almost kicked one of the summer ranch hands earlier this week, but I think it’s because she has a small cut on leg. We’ve kept her in a small pen on her own while it heals, but she’s still touchy being led into her stall.

“Hey,” I greet my sister.

“Well hello stranger, about fucking time you answer the phone.”

“I know.” I usually speak to her at least a couple times a week, and it’s been nearly ten days. “What’s up?”

“I want to invite you to a surprise birthday party for Eli. Her birthday is on August second, and she’ll be twenty-one.”

“Really? What’d you have in mind?” I play dumb, already knowing when her birthday is and how old she is.

“Bar hopping, obviously.”

“There’s only one bar in High Point.”

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