Page 37 of Wellspring
“Cl-close,” Cade choked out, pushing at Erick’s head.“Wait.Stop.I want you inside me.”
Erick was tempted to continue, to savor Cade’s taste on his tongue, but the thought of feeling Cade around him made his cock jump, and he hoped to have many more opportunities to experience bringing Cade to completion.He pulled off with a final kiss to the glistening tip.“How are we to do this?I will know better to bring a blanket in future, but….”Their surroundings, while private, were not best suited to lovemaking.“Perhaps I could sit on the swing, and you could….”
“Ride you like the stallion Burke compares you to?”Cade said with a lascivious grin.“I can do that.”He stood up, toed off his boots, and dug into his pocket for a jar of lotion before dropping his pants to the ground.“Get comfortable, because I intend to take you for a long,hardride.”
Erick could feel his cheeks heating, but Cade’s suggestion sounded almost perfect.He made quick work of removing his gun belt to set beside Cade’s and stripping his clothes.Tossing them over the back of the swing, he sat and beckoned to Cade.“Let me prepare you, and then you may judge how adept a rider I am.”
Cade set one foot on the edge of the swing, opening himself to Erick’s hands and gaze.“I thought I was the one doing the riding,” he said.
“This time.”Erick pulled Cade between his spread legs.“Lean down so I may kiss you.”As fiercely as Cade plundered his mouth, Erick couldn’t say which of them controlled the kiss, but he was not one to argue with such heady results.He somehow managed to uncap the jar and dipped his fingers inside, rubbing the lotion between them before tracing them along the crease between Cade’s cheeks.He teased around the pucker and slid a finger inside slowly to gauge Cade’s reaction.
“Feels so good,” Cade groaned.“Not as good as you’re going to feel when I finally get on your lap, but still good.”
“Let us see if I can make it feel better still.”Erick added a second finger, circling until he found the spot he was searching for.
“Fuck!”Cade’s gasps of pleasure were hard for Erick to resist, but he needed to be sure Cade would feel nothing but joy when he finally slid inside him, so he worked in three fingers and spread them until Cade was moaning to stop fucking around and just fuck him already.
Erick scooted to the front of the swing to give Cade as much space to put his legs as possible.“Can you climb on?”
Cade grinned at him before stepping onto the swing and lowering himself into a squat that ended with him hovering directly over Erick’s cock.“You’ll have to guide me the last little bit.I can’t quite see where I’m going.”
Erick wiped what was left of the lotion from his fingers over his cock, a gasp escaping at the sensation.He squeezed around the base as he aligned himself, determined to give Cade the long, hard ride he’d promised.“Ease down,” he murmured, holding on with one hand as he grasped Cade’s shoulder with the other.
Cade sank down, taking Erick in all the way to the root.His eyes closed, his lower lip caught between his teeth, his face was the picture of ecstasy, and Erick had to bite his own lip to stop himself from finding completion at the sight of Cade’s bliss and the tight heat surrounding him.Cade’s shout when Erick pushed up into him, pressing just that little bit deeper, was surely loud enough to be heard back at the bunkhouse, making Erick glad Michele was guarding their privacy.
Planting his feet to brace them, Erick caught Cade’s head and pulled him down into a kiss that stole both their breaths.When he could bear to tear himself away, he nuzzled Cade’s ear.“Ride ’em, cowboy.”
Cade let out a sharp bark of laughter that nearly unseated him from his perch on Erick’s lap.“Really, Erick?”he asked even as he began to post on Erick’s cock.
“I have always wanted to say that.”Erick slid his palms down Cade’s chest and caught his hips, pushing up as Cade bore down, settling them into a perfect gait.As much as he longed to draw out the moment, to heighten Cade’s pleasure, it was too intense to last.“I am close,” he groaned, clasping Cade’s cock and hoping he could hold out long enough to see the flush of climax on Cade’s face.
“Then you better fuck the come out of me now,” Cade ground out.“Come on, Erick.Make me feel it tomorrow.”
“I would rather make you feel it now,” Erick gasped.There was no lotion left on his hand, but Cade was leaking enough to ease the friction as Erick stroked him fast and hard.“Now, Cade, now!”He held on just long enough for Cade to stiffen and cry out, spilling hotly through his fingers, before his own release tore through him and his eyes fell closed on the vision of Cade’s face suffused with pleasure.
Cade slumped forward against Erick’s chest.“Damn, I needed that.It’s been too long.”He nuzzled Erick’s jaw and worked his way across for a kiss, which he lingered over.“You’re a good ride, Erick Heller.Even better, you’re a good man.”
Erick bit off a moan as Cade pulled back enough to slide free and dropped beside him on the swing, slinging his legs over Erick’s.He ran his palms against the burr of stubble on Cade’s cheeks and turned his head to claim another kiss.“Perhaps next time you will let me take the saddle.”
“Time and place, sweetheart.You name them and I’ll be there,” Cade said.
Tomorrow wouldn’t be too soon for Erick, but he didn’t suppose they could rely on Michele’s kindness to stand watch for them every night.“You would know better than I where might be safe.Perhaps Payne will schedule us both to herd duty on occasion.”
“Hey, none of that.It’s not a question of safety here at Wellspring.”Cade bumped his shoulder against Erick’s.“Only of whether we’ll be interrupted.We all walked in on Kit and Mac at one time or another before Payne moved them into the foreman’s cabin, and yeah, we gave them shit for it, but that’s all.It’s more that it’s private.Hell, if we told the others we were going to the barn and to leave us alone, they would.We’d just hear about it later.So when I said time and place, I meant it.I want to be with you, even if that means putting up with their teasing.”
Erick swallowed down the swell of emotion warming his chest.Cade’s acceptance, the acceptance of everyone at Wellspring, was everything he had scarcely allowed himself to dream he’d find when leaving his old life behind.“I have always had to hide my desires,” Erick admitted.“I had hoped to find more freedom in America, though it is still hard to trust I have found such tolerance.I fear I may be slow to overcome my instinct to concealment.But if the worst we have to endure is Burke’s comments, it is a small price to pay.”
Cade pressed a kiss to Erick’s lips, the movement tugging the drying hairs on his belly.“We should clean up before we head back.No need to give Burke any more ammunition.The stream shouldn’t be too cold—race you!”Considering the unfair advantage Cade had by being on top, Erick allowed himself to enjoy the view of his magnificent buttocks before rising to join him.
They rinsed and slicked themselves dry as best they could before dressing.Erick picked up the unopened schoolbooks with one hand and, after only a moment’s hesitation, extended the other.Cade smiled and threaded their fingers together as they headed back toward the bunkhouse.
Michele met them at the head of the trail with a raised eyebrow when she saw their joined hands.“See,louveteau.I told you all would be well.Do not make me play matchmaker again.It doesn’t suit me.”
Cade shot Erick an affectionate smile.“I don’t think that’ll be necessary.”
“I thank you for your assistance, Michele,” Erick added, though he didn’t release Cade’s hand.“You must let me know how I can repay you.”
“Just keep this one happy.It grows tiresome to listen to him whining.”
