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  I had a wild thought as I felt her liquid heat cover my cock.

  “It’s breeding season on the ranch. Guess who’s first on the list.” I emptied a shit load of cum into her belly, making sure to go as deep with my cock as I could, and holding still until I was finished offloading deep inside her.

  Chapter 19

  AMANDA

  I’m almost afraid to believe, to hope. I want it so bad that I just know something’s gonna come along and snatch it away from me, something always does.

  I haven’t allowed myself to want anything in a long time, because I’m always afraid. It’s better to just go through life day by day keeping my head down and surviving the best I could.

  When I snuck away to that shelter in the next town over for help, I had no idea that anything like this would be waiting for me.

  The day I received the call that Lance had been released early, I’d just thrown some things in a bag and hightailed it out of town under cover of darkness. I hadn’t even had time to tell anyone where I was going, which come to think of it was a good thing.

  Not too many people knew that the shelter was a front for something bigger, and I’ll say a prayer of thanks everyday for the nurse that had snuck me the info the last time that ass had put me in the hospital.

  I was just fighting hard to survive in this world that had already given up on me. If I could just find a place to hole up until I get back on my feet was the most I was hoping for.

  How was I to know that my forever was waiting for me here? Or that it would be so hard to grab ahold of it?

  As I moved around the kitchen that I’d come to think of as my own personal domain, I realized that it had been days if not longer since I’d given Lance a thought.

  That in it-self was enough of a reason to accept Caleb’s proposal of marriage. That he could make me forget the most horrible time of my life was a huge accomplishment.

  That I fell asleep in his arms at night without a worry or care in the world, after spending the last four years living in fear of closing my eyes, seemed unreal.

  The fact that I was crazy in love with him just made the whole thing all the better. And the sex, if that’s what you could call it, was unlike anything I’d ever known or even imagined was possible.

  After the brutish treatment I suffered at the hands of the monster I was once hitched to, it was almost surreal to find someone who touched me like I was the most precious thing in his world.

  Since the first time we made love, a day hasn’t gone by that we haven’t been together intimately. Even in the afternoons sometimes, Caleb would sneak away and we’d spend hours in bed lost in each other.

  I’m pretty sure that the others were onto us, but they never let on, and instead were even kinder and a tad bit more over protective of me; which drives Caleb up the wall when they hover.

  It was all happening so fast too, he barely gives me time to think, but now things were getting serious.

  I’d been wearing his ring for a week now and it was still taking some getting used to. I honestly never thought that I would ever wear one of these things again.

  Never thought I would trust anyone with my heart, not that I’d trusted that snake. But Caleb was different, what I felt for him came naturally. I could no more not love him than I could hate myself. But there was still that one remaining doubt, what if I wasn’t the right one for him?

  It’s strange. I never realized being in love with someone meant you put that person’s happiness before your own. I would rather run away if I thought I would bring him sorrow, than to stay here.

  But at night when we were all alone he’d whisper to me, words that filled my heart with gladness and made me believe in happily ever after.

  He paints pictures for me of what our life together will be and it seems so real that I could reach out and touch it. But at times like this, when I’ve been alone with my thoughts for too long, those words fade just a little and I remember my reality.

  His mom was throwing us a party tonight and I am already full of nerves. Caleb kept telling me not to worry that everything was going to be okay, but it was the first time I’d be out among so many people since I’d ran.

  I was sure that no one would even think to look for me here, I was clear across the country after all, and had no ties to this place, but I would still feel exposed.

  I wish I could be as sure of the evening’s outcome as Caleb seemed to be though. He was so excited, going so far as to have some lady come out here to fit me for new evening gowns.

  In the end he’d been the one to choose the gorgeous red gown I was to wear. It was the most beautiful thing I’d ever worn close to my skin. Red satin that clung a little, but not too much, with a sweetheart neckline, and thin straps on the shoulders.

  It looked plain enough on the hanger, but once I put it on it took my breath away, Caleb’s too apparently.

  It was fun watching him argue with her about needing a shawl or something to cover the back of it while she held her ground because it would spoil the dress.

  “What are you thinking about so hard baby? It’s not about tonight is it? Because I already told you that you’re going to be more than fine.”

  He came up behind me at the sink and wrapped his arms around me, nuzzling my neck, where he’d left another one of those marks of his, just a few short hours ago.

  “No, I’m not worried about it, well not much anyway. I just...” I turned around in his arms and hugged him as tight as I could. Being in his arms was the safest place I’ve ever been in my life.

  When he holds me the way he is now, I feel like nothing can touch me. Like all the promises he whispers to me while we’re joined together in the still of the night, will come true.

  “You just what sugar?” He held my head back and looked into my eyes. “You have me now baby, nothing will ever get by me to harm you. Not to mention the boys will never let anyone near you. So let me see that beautiful smile.”

  How could I not smile? If I didn’t he would take it personally I’m sure, since he seems to have made it his mission in life to make me happy twenty-four seven.

  “There she is, now let’s go up to our room I have something to show you.” I gave him a sidelong look and a smirk. “Again?”

  “No smart ass I really do have something to show you, but now that you mention it...”

  “No you don’t, I have to get lunch going.” I tried to evade his arms but he was too quick. “Feel that?” He pressed his hard-on into my rump.

  “Yeah, and? It’s always like that.” And it was; morning, evening, noon and night, it didn’t take much to get him started. My protest went unheard and I laughed my way up the stairs because he was being grabby feely.

  He grew serious once we got to the room, and walked me over to the wall where there was a Van Gogh of all things hanging.

  I was about to ask him what he was up to when he moved the painting and revealed a safe, from which he removed a long velvet box, and walked over to the bed.

  He patted the space next to him. “Come baby.” I sat and watched as he lifted the lid and I almost swallowed my tongue.

  “Please tell me those aren’t real.” I actually started to hyperventilate. The necklace was beautiful at first glance, but there’s no way it could be real.

  “Of course they are.” He looked at me like I was out of my mind, when he was clearly the one that was off the rails.

  “Caleb...” I knew what was coming next, but there was no way I could wear that. The ring was bad enough, the only reason I felt okay wearing it is because of what it represents, and I’m sure he would never let me take it off anyway, but this was something different.

  As if that wasn’t bad enough, there was another compartment that held the matching earrings and a bracelet. I’m no expert, but if they were real they had to be worth millions.

  There’s no way, “Caleb I don’t deserve...” He couldn’t possibly believe that I was worthy of these; this was too much now surely.

&n
bsp; “Hey, whatever you’re about to say don’t, it’ll only piss me off. I’ve been giving you time to get used to me, to us, but that is one thing I will not tolerate, not even from you.

  Sometimes life knocks us down baby, and it knocks us down hard as fuck. But if you can get back up, then you’re still in the fight. You’re not only back on your feet, you’re winning this round and I aim to see that you win the whole damn purse. Do I strike you as a stupid man?”

  Sometimes his change in topic midstream gives me whiplash. I could only shake my head no, because he was anything but. “No, you’re kind and smart and...”

  “Yes, yes I know, I’m the epitome of perfection.” He actually rolled his eyes at me. “Well if I’m so damn smart I will thank you not to call my choice in a wife undeserving or any of the other bullshit you have going on in your head. I will also thank you not to invite that asshole into the most important aspects of our lives thank you very much.”

  “But...” I was fighting to hard to hold onto what he was saying; to make myself accept and believe.

  “No buts. Now, this was passed down to me as the first son to one-day give to the woman of my heart. That happens to be you, and before you ask, I’ve never even taken it out to look at, or been tempted to give it to anyone else, until you.”

  “I don’t know what to say.”

  “You don’t have to say anything, just wear it tonight at our engagement party the same way my great-great-great nana did. Now since we’re already up here...”

  Chapter 20

  CALEB

  Every time I touch her, I find something new to love about her. How can she not feel that, sense it? The boys are always teasing me these days that I’m worst than a lovesick cow, but she doesn’t see it.

  It hurts like fuck that she’s been so hurt, that someone else got to her before I did and tried to put out her light before I even had a chance.

  I was hoping that my love would be enough to get her over the past. I knew that given time she will no longer live under that cloud, but it wasn’t going to be as easy as I had first thought it seemed.

  I’m a long way from being frustrated though, and every chance I get, I’m going to show her just how much I love her, until she has that ah-ha moment, like now.

  I clasped the diamond necklace that had been in my family for almost a hundred years, around her neck. One day, I’ll tell her the love story behind the first man who’d had it made and the wife he’d loved more than anything in this world.

  For now I took my time and unbuttoned her shirt, revealing her sun kissed skin bit by bit, like unwrapping the most precious of gifts. When she was dressed only in the necklace, I lifted both of her feet in my hands, spreading her thighs a little.

  Starting at her instep, I made love first to one foot, before moving on to the other and making my way up her leg. By the time I reached her wet core she was writhing against the sheets in heat.

  I teased her with the tip of my tongue, running it up and down her slit, sucking her swollen clit into my mouth and making love to it as I took her essence into me.

  I didn’t stop eating her sweet pussy until she was moving against my tongue wildly and pulling on my hair to get me to come to her.

  Licking my way up her middle, I took one of her nipples into my mouth just as I lined my cock up with her opening and slid in. Again that feeling of completeness shook me to my very soul.

  “Please tell me you feel that baby, please tell me you love me more than you hate him, because if you don’t, you’re never going to feel what I feel right now.”

  I didn’t mean to make her cry, but that’s exactly what happened. “I do feel it Caleb, I promise I do.” She tried catching my mouth with hers and I fed her my tongue, sharing her taste with her.

  I took my time and made love to her as slow as my body would let me. It wasn’t easy going slow when my dick wanted to plunder, to conquer, but I did it, because it’s what she needed now.

  If ever a man showed his love for his woman through touch, I was that man. Every touch was like butterfly wings, every word was whispered lovingly in her ear as I held her close, trying to get as deep inside her as I could.

  “I love you. I love everything about you.” I touched her scars with my fingertips, and kissed those I could reach easily with my mouth.

  I slipped out of her and kissed and sucked my way down her middle until I took her in my mouth once more, letting the taste of her wash right through me.

  When she was limp and sobbing for release, then and only then did I slide back up her body, and into her.

  “I want to give you my son.” I didn’t realize until I whispered those words in her ear just what an affect they would have on me.

  All my good intentions went out the window. With the thoughts of fucking my kid into her filling my head and heart, I lifted her ass into me and fucked into her hard; I didn’t stop until I had pushed my way past her cervix.

  “Shh, baby, sorry.” She screamed again when I eased out and back in; but the way she juiced all over my cock, I knew she had to be okay.

  I fucked into her cervix with every stroke of my cock as I bit into her neck. She wrapped her legs and arms around me tight, making sure to keep me just where she wanted me.

  When I emptied my seed inside her this time, I was pouring everything I had into her, my heart, my soul, and my dreams.

  ***

  I had to inspect the overgrown kids before we left for my parents’ home that evening, to make sure everyone was dressed appropriately.

  Mom doesn’t play when it comes to one of her shindigs and dress is a huge part of it for her. The boys were on their best behavior though, because they knew how important the evening was for my baby.

  I’d already put a bug in their ear about how nervous she was so they knew what had to be done. “One of us will have eyes on her at all times. I’m going to try not to leave her side all evening, but you never know what the fuck, so you boys be ready to back me up.”

  I gave them a few more instructions before it was almost time for her to come down the stairs and they left.

  I was left to stand alone at the bottom of the stairs waiting for her, worrying about the evening ahead. There wasn’t much that could go wrong as far as I could tell, but I knew she was going to be on display this evening and so did she.

  I had already made up my mind to boost her up as soon as she came downstairs, and was wracking my brain for all the right things to say, but when she eventually reached the top of the stairs, I forgot every last one of them.

  My tongue and my dick went south. For a brief moment I had no words, couldn’t put two together if my life depended on it. It was only when she started fidgeting under my stare that I came out of whatever it was that I had gone under.

  “Babe, I’m having second thoughts about this.” I tugged at my collar, which was suddenly too tight.

  “Is something wrong, did something happen?” she started to hurry down the stairs.

  “No baby, stay there, just one second more please.” She stepped back and looked down at me quizzically.

  “Wait right there baby.” I went into the study where I was sure I had last seen the camera. My heart beat like a crazy drum in my chest and I had to wipe my suddenly sweaty palms on the legs of my tux to get them dry again.

  I snapped more than a few pictures of her before placing the camera on a side- table. “Okay baby now you can come down, but do it slowly.”

  She was smiling now because she was finally getting that the way she looked was making her man stupid, I’m sure all women like leaving their man speechless.

  As soon as her feet landed in front of me I reached for her. “I’m not sure that I want to share you...” She placed her finger over my lips to shush me.

  “You never have to.” Now who was reassuring whom here? “In case you missed all that or it went over your head, you look beyond amazing baby, and it’s not the dress or the jewelry either, it’s all you.”

  And it was
true; maybe taking her from behind in the shower had done more to relax her than I thought. Whatever the case, she was radiant, her eyes outshone her jewels they were so bright with excitement.

  I couldn’t resist taking her mouth under mine even though I knew I would muss her up a little, but she didn’t even complain. I was more than a little bit tempted to take her back upstairs and say fuck it. Shit, we’d better get out of here before mom sent out a delegation after us.

  “You ready tigress?” She nodded as I placed her arm through mine and led her outside to the waiting car. Mikey had wanted to get her a carriage, to make a grand entrance he said, but I figured that could wait for the wedding if she wanted to do something like that.

  I held her hand the whole way there in the back of the limo, talking to her softly, never letting her forget how beautiful she was and how much I couldn’t wait for the night to be over so I could have her all to myself.

  By the time we entered the melee she was so full of me that she didn’t have time to be afraid. Mom knew the deal and was on the ball from the go.

  It looked as though she’d been standing at or near the door with her eyes peeled outside waiting for us. Either that or she had put one of her spies up to it.

  “Hello Amanda and welcome, it’s nice to finally meet you after speaking to you on the phone.” She gave me a scolding look since I’d been the one to prevent her from coming out to the ranch. At least they’d talked on the phone so it wasn’t like I was trying to keep her to myself. Not much anyway.

  “Thank you, you have a beautiful home.” Mom tried walking off with her but I kept hold of her hand. “Caleb the guys are over there holding up the wall and scaring my guests away with their faces, can you please go make them stop?”

  I looked over to where the boys were standing together on the far wall with their usual faces on. They hate parties for all the reasons they’d noted earlier, but they would never disappoint mom no matter what they said.

  “They’re fine, where’re you taking her?”