Tamed On The Ranch (The Crooked Creek Ranch Book 2)

by Delta James

  They headed to the house and Luc did not put his arm around her. When they got to the front porch, Luc opened the door, but she resisted his efforts to usher her into the house.

  “Don’t want anyone to know?” she said with a bit of an edge to her voice.

  Jason had been like this. He insisted that people think they were platonic partners in the business.

  Luc turned and looked at her. “If you must know, I was leaving it up to you as to when people found out for certain. If I had my way I’d have kissed you breathless back down at the SUV and carried you up these steps in my arms so there would have been no doubt in anyone’s mind who saw us how the relationship really is. And trust me, there’s already been some speculation.”

  “You didn’t even wait for me or come open the door,” she said, hating how petulant she sounded.

  “Then let me correct that.”

  Before she knew what he was about, Luc had thrown her over his shoulder like a sack of grain and was running back down the steps with her squealing and trying to get him to put her down.

  As they neared the corral Queenie heard Luc’s voice and came to the fence whinnying to greet him.

  “Hello, my other beautiful girl,” he said to the mare, stroking her face.

  He laughed as Queenie regarded the object slung over his shoulder and determined by nudging it that it was not any kind of treat for her. As she bumped Melody’s rump, Melody let out a shriek, which caused both Eddie and Billy, another ranch hand, to come out of the bunkhouse. Both hands started to laugh and called to the others inside.

  “I’m going to kill you,” Melody hissed at Luc.

  “You wanted them to know,” he said amicably. “Now they know. Be a good girl and give Queenie a pet.”

  He turned so that she could do as he asked and without thinking she did. Queenie took a step back but then almost immediately came forward again.

  “Shit,” said Luc. “She’s looking for a treat.”

  He set Melody down, but did not release her from his embrace. He dug into his pocket and smiled. Fishing out one of the peppermints from dinner, he unwrapped it and handed it to Melody. “Put in on your flat palm and offer it to her.”

  “Don’t you think she’d rather get that from you?”

  “She needs to learn that she has no cause to fear others. Give it to her.”

  There was no ask in Luc’s voice, only command. Once again, Melody felt desire gathering between her legs.

  Perhaps because she trusted Luc or perhaps because she felt somehow, she and Queenie shared this strong cowboy, she held her hand out with the peppermint. Queenie sniffed it once and then deftly took it from Melody’s hand.

  Melody was enchanted. “Give me another. Do you have another?”

  Luc smiled. “I do.”

  He searched into his pocket and found two more. Melody grabbed both and unwrapped the first one, offering it again to Queenie. This time as the mare took it from her, she didn’t step back and nudged her hand for more.

  Melody giggled, all fear of horses forgotten for the moment. She unwrapped and offered the last treat to Queenie, reaching up with her other hand to stroke the enormous mare’s neck as she crunched the peppermint contently, enjoying Melody’s attention.

  Luc embraced Melody from behind. His cock surged against the front of his jeans begging to be set free so it could be buried in Melody’s waiting sheath. Luc nuzzled her and she leaned back into him with Queenie leaning forward to be included.

  Both Luc and Melody laughed and patted her. Luc swung Melody up in his arms.

  “Give Queenie a last pat. I have no intention of standing outside with you for the rest of the night while you make googly eyes at our lead mare.”

  Melody patted Queenie with both of her hands and kissed her on the nose. “He’s such a killjoy. I’ll see you first thing in the morning,” she promised.

  “Not if I have my way you won’t,” whispered Luc, causing her to blush and bury her face in his neck.

  Swinging Melody around so that the entire congregation of ranch hands could see them, he said quietly, “Any questions? Problems?”

  There was a general consensus that everything was fine with the hands and in fact most seemed rather pleased.

  Luc carried her back up to the front porch and set her down.

  “Last chance to remain just friends,” he said solemnly.

  “And have every man in that bunkhouse think I’m a frigid, soulless bitch who stomped all over your heart? I don’t think so.”

  Luc laughed. “So that’s why we’re going to move forward, because you don’t want to erode morale at Crooked Creek.”

  “Of course. Good employee morale is at the heart of every successful business.”

  “Then, sweetheart, if you being my woman and sharing my bed is good for morale, we should have the most successful business since Disney.”

  “That would make you Gaston—because you sure as hell aren’t Prince Charming.”

  “If he’s the one with the big cock that knows how to make his woman scream with pleasure, then that would be me.”

  “I’m sorry, no Disney princess screams with pleasure. Breaks into song, maybe, but no screaming.”

  “That’s because they always choose Prince Charming to ride them instead of a cowboy who knows how to get the job done.”

  Melody was laughing with unbridled feeling as Luc once again swung her in his arms and took her to his room and to his bed.

  Chapter Six

  Luc set her on her feet once she was inside the room and she kicked off her shoes. He pulled her blouse from her jeans and began to unbutton it to expose the lacy bra underneath. He removed both and smiled broadly as her naked breasts were finally revealed.

  “You have no idea how many times I’ve fantasized about being able to suck on your nipples.”

  She brought her hands up as if to cover herself and Luc pushed them aside, capturing both behind her back.

  “You’re beautiful. Why do you want to hide yourself from me?”

  “I’m not. I’m just kind of average. I don’t have a killer figure like Sierra’s.”

  “Shh. You’re not going to talk badly about yourself. That, my beautiful princess, will earn you a trip over my knee.”

  Melody’s pussy clenched in reaction to his words. She idly wondered why his merely speaking those words could have such a powerful effect on her.

  “Your breasts are perfect; your ass is perfect; your legs are perfect; your face is perfect and I’m quite sure you have the perfect pussy.”

  He leaned his head down, taking one of her nipples into his mouth while he turned her around so her back was against the door as he brought one hand up to caress her other nipple.

  Melody found herself moaning and pushing her lower body against his. She was reveling in the way he was handling her—switching which nipple he sucked frequently but always ensuring the one not in his mouth was being pleasured by his hand.

  Luc nibbled his way up her chest, neck, and chin until he claimed her mouth with another mind-numbing kiss. When Luc kissed her, she could think of nothing else, feel nothing else. Melody felt all of Luc’s emotions—all he wanted to convey—in that kiss... Her tongue dueled with his, always yielding when he pressed the advantage.

  As she came up for air, Melody realized at some point that his leg had become wedged between hers. Used to trying to find some pleasure when Jason had wanted sex, she rubbed herself along the top of his thigh.

  “No,” he said in a voice filled with lust, command, and something she was afraid to name. “I’ll get to that but you do not seek your own pleasure. That is my job and one I intend to see well-tended to.”

  He unfastened her jeans and ran his hands down her back to cup her ass as his mouth claimed hers again. One finger traced the crevice of her bottom and lightly rubbed the entrance to her back passage.

  “I don’t like that,” she whispered, afraid to disappoint him.

  “Then it hasn’t bee
n done properly by a man who knows how. But it can wait. Just relax, souris. Remember, I lead, you follow, and we’ll be fine.”

  He cupped both of her bottom cheeks in his hands and squeezed them, drawing her into closer contact with his lower body. Even through two pairs of jeans she could feel how aroused he was and she began to worry again that she would not be able to accommodate his size. He seemed to sense her concern and began to suckle her nipple again, causing her to arch her back and try to rub against him. He swatted her backside... hard.

  “Ouch,” she said, annoyed at the residual sting.

  “I told you no rubbing.”

  He slid her jeans down over her rump and past her thighs. Before she knew how he’d done it, he had her completely naked and he was still fully clothed. He picked her up and took her to the bed, turning back the covers as he did so.

  Luc looked down at her and smiled as he ran his finger down the centerline of her flushed body. He leaned down to take her mouth again in a sweet, but satisfying kiss before sitting on the edge of the bed and pulling off his boots and socks. Melody knelt behind him and reached over to begin unbuttoning his shirt. He placed his hands over hers as she did so and caressed the back of them.

  Melody pulled his arms from the sleeves of his shirt and removed it, rubbing her beaded nipples along his strong back, making him groan. Her hands reached over his shoulders to splay across his muscular back. His chest was covered with dark hair that led to a line that ran down the middle of his body and disappeared into his jeans.

  “Christ, you ever do that to me in the kitchen, you’d best be prepared to get fucked then and there.”

  She giggled. “I don’t know why you say that, it isn’t getting me fucked here... yet.”

  Before she could even feel him move he had flipped around, put her on her back, and settled himself between her thighs.

  “That’s all well and good,” she teased, “and I know it’s been a while for me, but I’m pretty damn sure that at the very least your fly has to be open and better yet you’re completely naked.”

  Luc laughed. He seemed to be enjoying that she was relaxed and needy. “Yes, it works better when I’m naked, but there will be times I won’t wait long enough to do anything other than just getting naked enough to get at you. Now quit teasing me so I can finish getting undressed and put my cock where it belongs.”

  “Where would that b—”

  She didn’t have time to finish before he slid two fingers into her pussy, making her thrust her pelvis up to capture more from him. He leaned down and kissed her hungrily.

  “And there will come a time, woman, when I feast on all that honey you keep producing for me.”

  He continued to kiss her as he rose off the bed to shuck his jeans onto the floor. Melody had just enough coherency left to have it register that he wore no boxers or briefs. She thought to make a mental note of that for when she wanted to play with him in the future.

  He grasped her thighs and lifted her lower body as his cock probed between her legs, seeking its targeted destination. He slid forward until the head was poised at her entrance. She knew it was going to be a tight fit but she desperately wanted him deep inside her.

  “Please, Luc.”

  “I don’t want to hurt you, sweetheart. I told you I’d be slow and gentle.”

  “You said only as long as I wanted you to be. I want you. I need you. Please, take me?” she said, starting to cry softly, not from any pain he was causing her but from pure sexual hunger.

  “Don’t cry, Melody. I’m not going anywhere but as deep inside that sweet pussy as I can get.”

  With one smooth fluid motion he breached her entrance and sank to his full length.

  Melody was quite sure she’d never been that full with any man before. Not only was he hung long, but he had considerable girth to his cock. But even though she was stretched to her maximum capacity, she orgasmed as he settled into her. He let her ride the wave and crest of her climax as he kissed her and mimicked with his tongue what he began to do with his cock.

  Luc held her ass steady so that she couldn’t move against him and then he began to plunge into her with long, languid strokes that made her cry out in exquisite pleasure each time his tip reached the end of her channel. Melody clung to his arms and arced her body up into his as she wrapped her legs around his hard thighs. He used his thighs in conjunction with his buttocks to hammer slowly into her wet sheath. Each stroke caused her to produce more of her honey to make the sliding motions of his cock even more sensual and demanding.

  Melody kept her mouth busy nibbling and kissing his collarbone in order to keep from screaming out loud.

  Luc chuckled. “It’s okay, princess, you go ahead and scream. I told you the villain was better able to take care of that need.”

  His laugh was full of arousal and delight in her response to him as she came again. He continued to thrust in and out of her with strength, but little speed as he fucked her through two more orgasms.

  “God, Luc, please?”

  She didn’t even know what she was asking for. She knew he’d brought her to climax numerous times, but still her body sought something more.

  Luc responded by increasing the speed and vigor with which his cock claimed her pussy. She heard him groaning as he began to seek his own release and felt another orgasm building to come with him. He triggered hers just as he starting releasing his cum in her. This time she called his name and clung desperately to him to embrace him as fully as he had her.

  Her pussy continued to spasm after its completion of her climax and grasped his cock, milking the last of his cum.

  He kissed both of her eyelids before kissing her mouth and gently withdrawing from her. She clutched at him.

  “Luc? Don’t leave.”

  “Where would I go, sweetheart?” he asked as he drew her close to his side. “I have my beautiful, wanton woman lying naked next to me. I’m not going anywhere. But you’d best sleep while you can because I am a long way from being done with you this night.”

  She gave an exaggerated sigh. “I take it you’re not fond of the idea of me going and grabbing my Chicago Bears sleep shirt?”

  “The only thing you’ll be sleeping in from now on is my arms.”

  He ran his hand down her back and fondled her backside possessively.

  She cuddled closer to him. “I can live with that,” she said happily as she closed her eyes.

  Luc made love to her twice more during the night, each time more powerfully than the last. Melody found he had no trouble bringing her to climax. Often times he would have her so aroused that her body would climax as he mounted her. The one time she reached for him, he was quick to take control away from her for their lovemaking, but considering how he made her respond and soar to heights she’d never known, she could hardly object.

  When at last they’d fallen into a deep slumber, she was curled on her side with Luc spooning her, with her back to his front and his cock nestled in the crack between her butt cheeks.

  Melody woke as his cock began to harden and began poking insistently at her back channel.

  “Luc?” she said with some concern.

  “Don’t worry, sweetheart, you are nowhere near ready for me to claim your rear passage as mine. But when I do, you will be more than able. For now,” he said, rolling her to her back, “I’m more than happy with what I have.”

  He kissed her hungrily and then made his way down the length of her body kissing, nuzzling, and sucking greedily as he went. She spread her legs for him as he put each of her legs over his shoulders and began to suckle on her clit. Luc grinned as she began to buck her hips, looking for more than just his teasing.

  The man knew what he was doing and took his time in order to maximize her pleasure. He nuzzled and nibbled all around her sensitive bud before drawing it into his mouth where he combined sucking with flicking it with his tongue. Melody grasped the bedding as she felt her body respond and ride the wave of desire he created. As she crested t
hat wave, she felt an orgasm burst forth, causing her to call his name.

  Luc continued to suckle her gently as she reveled in her pleasure. He then swirled his tongue around her nubbin before tracing a line to her pussy and plunging his tongue into her. Melody arched her body up, pushing herself against his face as he stroked her with his tongue and lapped up all of her pooled desire.

  Melody felt more than heard his muffled laugher. She thought she might have been more self-conscious about her uninhibited response to him but he seemed to delight in it—always whispering what a good girl she was to respond as dramatically as she did and how much she pleased him.

  Luc worked his way back up her body, rubbing his stubbled chin and cheeks all over her, which resulted in light abrasions all over her belly and ribcage. She felt his hands sweep under her body as he grasped her buttocks to hold her in place as he mounted her. Her body responded with wild abandon at his possession. Melody felt the head of his cock part her swollen lips and begin to enter her heated channel.

  “Good girl,” he whispered.

  She tossed her head and clutched at him, trying to get him to plunge all the way to her deepest recesses. She was beginning to lose touch with her surroundings as the world seemed to collapse to this room, this bed, and the man who was claiming her. As he thrust forward, she felt her pussy contract around him rhythmically, drawing his cock even deeper as she climaxed for him again.

  “Oh, God,” she whispered as she clung to him.

  Luc didn’t acknowledge her plea but began to stroke her powerfully. His thrusting was harder and faster and her body quickly ramped up to another orgasm as he whispered her name and something in French. He kissed her repeatedly and nibbled on her neck.

  As Melody felt a third climax begin, his stroking became more dominating and he released his cum into her. As she hit the pinnacle of her pleasure, her cunt began to spasm in time with the throbbing of his cock and the releasing of his seed. Melody felt as though her spirit had been set free to soar among the heavens. There was no time; no space; only Luc. He held her close as her spirit re-entered her body and it became languid in his embrace.