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“I guess they’d just gone inside with your mother to watch. They’d left Lainey at her trailerwith her horse, then she went off half cocked when she heard Cammie fighting with Gil.” I held a hand out in front of me when I knew him going to have a little chat with his younger brothers was going through his mind. I also gave Lainey a stern reminder with my hand about being reckless. I had to wonder if she’d competed with a sore ass. It sure hadn’t hurt her time. The way she raced… fuck, she was amazing. Competitive, smart, one with her horse. It was hot as hell. Watching from a seat between my mother and sister, I’d had to hide my hard dick from them with my Stetson in my lap.
“I called Colt already this morning,” I added. “Told him who the men were and what happened. He said he’s on it like flies on manure. Coming here to join us.”
Trig’s shoulders relaxed slightly. After what happened with Ellie back in the spring, the way she’d been a bargaining chip between her father and another rancher in the area, he wasn’t too keen on the women he loved being fucked with. Not to mention his mother getting whacked in the head.
I’d wanted to call Trig the night before and update him, but I’d had to go sit with Momma andCammie in the stands to watch Lainey win her event. After, I saw her with her family, but I hadn’t been able to go to her. She’d been safe with them and I wanted to make sure my kin were also safe back at their hotel. By the time that was done, it had been late to message.
Instead, I texted him this morning to meet.
It’d been a sleepless night, imagining what could have happened to Lainey. Envisioned murdering Gil and the other assholes. But the bulk of the time was thinking of that kiss. Of how right Lainey felt in my arms. Of the feel of her ass quivering beneath my palm when I spanked her. How she’d responded to that and my hand cupping her pussy through her jeans. Stunned, angry, but ultimately submissive. And aroused. I hadn’t missed the way she’d squirmed.
My dick had been hard even after rubbing one out in the shower. I’d had to jerk off two more times before I could fall asleep and once again this morning just to get my dick to go down enough to leave my hotel room.
The kiss had been unreal. There wasn’t much soft or sweet about it. She tasted like heaven and the little sounds she made were enough for me to have wanted to fuck her up against the side of thatrandom trailer. But I wasn’t doin’ more than kissing my girl or spanking her over her jeans until I told Trig of my intentions.
I wasn’t letting him come between us and if he had a problem with me claiming his little sister, well, that was his fucking problem. But I respected him enough to let him know that I was gonna be the man in her life now. She might have eight brothers and a strong father watching out for her, but I was the one she’d come to from now on.
Lainey Wilder was mine and I had to let Trig know it. Then, I’d be claiming her.
Fuck, yes. I’d wanted to go to her, hold her. Kiss her. Bury myself so deep inside her she’d have no doubts who she belonged to. Hell, mark her inside and out so she’d never forget.
The waitress came by, order book in hand. I ordered the cattleman’s special–two scrambled eggs, bacon, hash browns, and a side of toast–and Trig ordered the same, except asked for his eggs over easy.
Colt came to the table then, removed his Stetson and smiled at the older waitress. “Hey, Mabel. Only a cup of coffee for me. Thanks.”
Trig slid over and Colt sat beside him. Theirshoulders were so broad they barely fit in the booth.
Great. Two Wilder brothers and one of them armed. Hell, Trig probably was, too. They looked similar with their dark hair and beards. Grim expressions. Trig was in a plain green t-shirt and jeans, Colt in his uniform shirt and jeans with his holster at his hip.
When Mabel left, I sat back and fiddled with my mug. “I was just telling Trig about last night,” I said, updating Colt.
He grunted, then took a sip of his coffee.
My place was in Bozeman, a couple hours away. While I’d been friends with Trig for years, we usually only saw each other on the rodeo circuit and at events. I’d driven through once and took Trig to dinner, the night of the snowstorm when we found Ellie. But the county fair here in Devil’s Ditch was the first time I’d been in town for a rodeo or met his family. And Lainey.
“After this, I’m headed to the fairgrounds and take care of Gil and friends.”
“Lainey has shit luck with men,” Trig said. “Even ones who don’t want to kidnap her.”
“What do you mean? What kind of boyfriends has she had?” I wondered. I tried to keep myfingers from clenching at the idea of Lainey with another guy. I wasn’t a monk so I shouldn’t expect a woman in her mid-twenties to not have any kind of past with men.
Still, I wanted to be the only one to touch her. To make her come. I’d just be sure to mark her with my cum, inside and out. Claim her so thoroughly she wouldn’t even remember any other man’s name.
It took Colt a second or two to answer.
“She dated a guy earlier in the summer. Chris Gomez. A dentist from over in Barnes.”
I knew the town, about ten miles on the other side of the highway.
I flicked my gaze between the two of them, gauging their feelings about the guy. “You don’t look too thrilled about him.”
They glanced at each other, then back my way.
“While they were dating, Buck and Shep saw him at The Roadside one night with Tawdra Collins. They were real friendly at a corner table.” Trig drew out the word real to last a few seconds. “Later on, Shep went to take a piss and found Gomez getting his dick sucked in one of the stalls.”
“The list of people I want to kill is growing by the day.” I met Colt’s gaze as I said it, unafraid ofbeing arrested by the lawman for my threats. I couldn’t imagine why the hell any man would cheat on Lainey Wilder. The guy was a fucking idiot. Maybe he picked up syphilis or something from the encounter.
“Get in line,” he replied grimly. I could only imagine the kinds of people he dealt with at his job. Besides his own woman, Molly, having an identical twin who was a psychopath who’d tried to destroy Molly’s life in the spring, Trout had fucked with Ellie, this asshole had cheated on Lainey and a crazy lady had knocked out Mrs. Wilder because she was obsessed with Bray. Now Gil at the fair.
