“How did you even get to the ranch so quickly?”
She glanced away. “I was actually behind you, but you guys went to the stable first. I just followed the music around the back.”
“Even worse. Fuck. Rod Severs is a fucking wild card. He had you fucking kidnapped by Gil, who,while not all that smart, knows a pretty girl when he grabs her.”
“Colt–”
“Then Severs drugged your horse,” I continued, pushing right over her. It was time for her to listen and understand, not talk. “You could have been killed riding him. He knocked your father unconscious.”
Repeating the man’s list of sins was not helping me to stay calm. With my hands on her lush thighs, her pussy right fucking there, I needed more. Needed her to feel as frantic as I did.
As I ate her out again, pushing her to the brink of orgasm and leaving her hanging once again.
It calmed me having her here on her bed. Having her bare. My hands on her, knowing she was safe. Whole. Getting pleasure–at least partway–from me.
“BEAU!” My name came out as a growl as she pushed up onto her elbows. Her heated eyes glared daggers.
“Why’d you go there, love?” I asked. “Why’d you go to a ranch where the owner literally bought your new sister-in-law?”
“Because youtoldme what to do!” she cried. “You’re just like my brothers.”
“Wanting you to be safe? Yeah, I’m just like them. But remember whose face is between your thighs. Mine,” I growled.
“Just make me come already,” she whined.
I shook my head. “Not happening until you understand what’s going on here.”
“What’s going on here is that you’re mean.”
She wanted mean? I’d show her mean. I put my mouth back on her pussy and got my fingers involved this time, sliding two into her pussy and fucking her nice and deep with them. Got her right to the edge and pulled my fingers free. Licked them clean as she swore at me.
“Oh my God, I hate you!”
I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand as I stood. “Yeah? Well, I love you.”
That stilled her. She didn’t even breathe. Her eyes widened. “Wh–what?”
I met her blue gaze. Held it. Made sure she knew I was telling the truth. “You heard me. I. Love. You. Only woman I’ve ever said those words to. Only woman who can tie my insides up in knots seeing you go toe-to-toe with one of the Trout boys. Alone. Do you haveanyidea how I felt seeing you there, three entitled pricks and you?”
All the anger drained from her. “Beau, I didn’t do it to hurt you, I did it because–”
“Because your brothers took away your choices to protect you even when you thought you didn’t need it,” I said, finishing for her. It only validated I knew exactly where she was coming from.
She nodded. “Yes.”
“I’m not them,” I reminded. “I don’t look at you in any kind of brotherly way.”
“You just pushed me off to ride home with Ma. I wasn’t asked. I was told, like a little kid.”
“There was no asking. You weren’t going. Should Ellie have gone with Trig?”
She frowned. “What? No way. She’s pregnant.”
“Yeah, and you might be, too.”
Her mouth opened. Then closed. Then opened again, making me think of what that sweet mouth could do wrapped around my dick once again.
I curled my finger, beckoning her closer. She pushed up, came onto her knees so we were eye to eye, her kneeling, me standing at the foot of the bed.