by Wood, Lauren
Chapter 56
Dante
The atmosphere was cold when I got back to the ranch and from what Darryl had said, it appeared that Cece now knew my dirty little secret. I don’t know why I was so worried about it, but the fact that she had told me to find my way home was not a good indication of her mood. I waited around for the car to get out of the impound and paid a hefty fee, but at least I was out. I don’t know what she said or did, but the air smelled a little sweeter with freedom behind it, even though I knew that there was a storm coming.
The horses were being taken care of by Barb and though I didn’t want to see her, I was thankful that I wasn’t completely the whole day behind.
“So the boss sprung ya, huh? I knew when you left that you were too wasted to leave. You should have gotten a cab.”
I gritted my teeth and smiled at her. I didn’t want to talk about it and certainly not when she looked like she was gloating in a way. I don’t know what that was about, but I did know that I wasn’t going to be able to stand it much.
“Well I am out and I just want to get started on work. Where did you leave off?”
She told me what was done and what had to be done later. She had actually done quite a bit and I was thankful for it. I just wish that it wasn’t her that had helped out. She did know the job and the horses though. Damn, I hated this position I was in. All I wanted to do was talk to Cece. I couldn’t concentrate with everything up in the air.
Barb left when I finally made it clear that I could handle it myself.
“Fine, have at it Dante. I was just trying to help.”
I had offended her and I really didn’t care. She was a spiteful person and liked to kick a man when he was down. Once she realized that I wasn’t romantically inclined towards her anymore, her attitude towards me had changed dramatically.
“You should watch yourself Dante.”
She said it before she left and I wasn’t sure how I was supposed to take it. Was that a threat?
Brushing off her comments, I went into the stables and took comfort in some of the horses, as well as checking on Thunder. He was doing better, barely marked at all, but it ignited the same fire in me that I had felt from before. With everything going on, me and Cece still had unfinished business, though now it seemed far less likely that I was going to bring up Cliff. I had my own dirt to worry about now.
“Looks good in here. Did you get everything done?”
It was a couple hours later and the voice was not one that I thought I would be hearing. Cece was behind me when I turned around and she had a smile on her face. Was this a trap?
“I did boss. Was there anything else that you needed me to do?”
She shook her head no and then told me that she didn’t have any more ranch work for me.
“Do you have some other kind of work in mind?”
Cece smiled and started to unbutton her shirt. “I wanted last night to go very differently Dante. I waited up for you all night.”
“I’m sorry…”
She stopped me from saying a word, putting her hand up to silence me. “Let’s not go into that right now Dante. I want you now and I don’t want to talk.”
Her shirt was being pulled off of her shoulders and my heart rate was already going up, seeing her like that in front of me. She was beautiful and I started to move forward, but she wagged her finger at me again and told me no.
“Patience Dante. Start taking your clothes off. I want to see all of you.”
I was thrown off by the demands, but I was also turned on to no end. I liked this new side of her. It wasn’t the same smile on her face or the same look in her eyes, but after a moment I wasn’t worried about any of that. All I could see was how beautiful and sexy she was. Her body was perfect and I was rock hard by the time I got my jeans off.
I stood there, literally with my dick in my hands, not sure what to do next. I had thought we would argue and fight, but it was clear that she didn’t have that kind of thing on her mind. It was just as well because I didn’t want to argue with her anyways. I thought that her alternative to arguing was far better than what I had in mind tonight.
Cece moved towards me, but she wasn’t looking into my eyes. Her gaze was full of my cock and the more I tried to hold it together, the harder it was. What was she going to do next?
She got on her knees in front of me and I had a moment of déjà vu. I knew what she had in mind and I closed my eyes as her soft lips took no time in wrapping around my shaft. I almost growled out it felt so damn good. I wanted to grab the back of her head and push her forward, but I didn’t need to. She had practically swallowed me whole and I looked down to see all of my cock in her mouth and down her throat. The blue eyes that looked back at me were enough to make me groan.
“Stop Cece. I don’t think I am going to make it long with you doing that.”
She pulled off of me and gave me a whining answer. “Dante… Does it not feel good?”
I told her that it did feel good, too good and she just giggled. “Well you better hold it together because I want to lick on him some more. He tastes so good.”
She was toying with me, that was clear and I was left a victim to her lust. I wanted something different, but it was becoming abundantly clear that I wasn’t going to have much of a choice. How could I fault this? Her mouth was amazing and I had to focus on holding back more than anything else. It was hard, really hard, but when she finally pulled away and smiled at me, I knew what she wanted next.
Cece leaned against one of the stable doors and looked back at me with need. She braced herself and bent over a little, sticking her ass out until I was dying a little. Damn she looked so fucking hot. She shook her ass at me a little bit and I was unable to stop myself from moving forward.
“I want you to fuck me nice and hard Dante. You have days to make up for.”
I groaned as I watched her entice me. Her hand moved between her legs and she told me how wet she was as I moved in behind her. It was nothing like the other times. I was so damn horny, I was going to come out of my skin soon if I didn’t get to be inside of her, like right now.
Pressing up against her wetness, I was ready to slam inside of her, but she was ready for it too and I wanted to make her wait just a little bit longer. I could feel the heat coming out of her like mad and she dripped her wetness on the tip, making it glisten in the dying light of the barn.
“Now Dante! Fuck me now! I need you to pound into me like the first time.”
That was all I could take. The way she sounded when she was talking dirty like that was too much for me and I forgot about why I was supposed to be taking my time. I needed her and I was left to do what she asked of me. She wanted it like the first time and I remembered it fondly.
Slamming in as I pulled her back to me from her hips, I heard her cry out and knew that she was already coming. Fluid rushed over my cock and made it easier to slide inside of her. She felt amazing, so wet and yet so damn tight. It was more than I could handle and I had to pull out before I lost myself.
Smacking her ass, I pushed back in suddenly to get that scream that I wanted. Her insides were milking me, squeezing all sides and I was ready to lose it right then and there. I pulled out again, knowing that I needed another moment, cursing the feel of her that made it so hard to control.
“Harder Dante, fuck me harder!”
Her words spurred me on and waiting around didn’t seem an option. I moved back into her as hard as I could and got a moan out of her that was just damn well perfect. Her tightness engulfed me, squeezing and suffocating me as I drilled into her over and over again. I loved the way her ass jiggled as I slammed in deeper and deeper. It was perfect and I never wanted it to end.
Cecelia had a different idea though. She pushed off of me and told me that she couldn’t come anymore. I just pulled her back to me and powered back in. She could take it and I was going to make her take it. I didn’t want to wait any longer. All I could think about was blasting inside of her and
I was so close, had been so close for what felt like forever.
“Dante, oh God, yes!”
Another rush of fluid and I knew that she was coming on my cock again. Her body vibrated and her legs visibly shook as she clenched my dick with her inner muscles.
I couldn’t take anymore and I finally filled her with my hot seed. It was intense and I had to brace myself to the stable in front of us to guarantee that I wasn’t going to fall myself. Every time with her was better than the last, but there was something different this time around. It was more than I could ask for.
As I pulled out of her finally, I saw a bit of the stickiness coming out of her and running down her leg with the trails that her own orgasm had made. I had never seen such a beautiful sight before. As always, she was more than I could stand.
When she moved back to her knees and took me back into her mouth, my tip was so sensitive that I had to pull away.
“Cece.”
“What? I was just helping you clean it off a little.”
I didn’t know what to say, but I knew that I wanted more of what she was offering. I could have had her again, but Cece slapped my hand away.
“That’s enough. I have to get to bed. I just wanted to see you before I went upstairs.”
Cecelia was putting her clothes on and I was looking after her like she have very well just lost her mind. I don’t know what game she was playing, but I still wanted to talk. We had a lot of unfinished business that had to be attended to, one way or another. I wasn’t going to be able to just let it all go. I wasn’t able.
“I think that we should have a conversation Cece, don’t you? I mean, after the day we have had, after that…”
Cece just shook her head no. “No I think no words are needed. Thanks for that Dante. I really needed it.”
Chapter 57
Cecelia
It had been a couple of weeks since the fiasco with Dante and Darryl. Ashlea finally came clean about being with Dante a few times when she found out that I knew. I hated to hear about him and at some point I confessed that I was with Dante now. The silence was awkward, but it was no better than when Karen found out. Conroe was a small town and when I got Karen’s voicemail that she as coming over, I knew what it was that she wanted to talk about.
Now she was here and by the look on her face, she wasn’t going to give me a break on this.
“Hey girl, how have you been? It’s been a while since I have seen you Karen.”
“Don’t hey girl me. You know what I want to talk about and I am going to say now that I am a little mad that I had to hear from Ashlea about the new man in your life. No wonder you have been avoiding me.”
I had been avoiding her just a little bit, but that wasn’t the sole reason or even the biggest one.
“Karen, you know it is not like that. I have just been really busy since we started renting out the horses for shows and stuff. I can’t believe how much revenue it has brought in, but it is still taking up all of my time.”
“Uh huh.”
She didn’t believe me and she sat down on the stool at the bar, letting me know that she wasn’t budging until she got what she wanted. What she wanted was the scoop and it was not something that I was even sure about myself.
“So…”
I sighed and sat down next to her. I was starting to wonder if I needed to get some wine. I started to have a feeling that I was going to need it. I hadn’t really thought to myself what this was with Dante yet. I knew that I was being a lot more careful about how I approached it all because I wasn’t sure what it was that I wanted to do. I didn’t know what we were, but I know that I had backed up a lot with my heart. We still made love almost nightly and I felt myself falling a little more every night, but I still tried to tell myself that it was a good thing.
“So, I don’t know what to say. Dante and I have been having a little fun on the side. That’s it.”
She looked at me with an accusatory look and I know that she had every reason to feel that way. I still remembered what I said to her about him months ago when she asked. I was always clear that he wasn’t a guy that I wanted to have anything to do with. Was I the whole time trying to defer her so that he could be mine? I didn’t like to think that it was true, but I knew that it was a good possibility. There had always been something about him that pulled me in.
“You told me that he wasn’t a good boyfriend type. Remember?”
“I do remember and I still hold to that. He isn’t a good boyfriend type, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t be friends.”
“That is not what you told me. You told me that I would fall in love and he would break my heart.”
I started to feel a redness come over me and my eyes burned, a knot formed in my throat. It was exactly that way. It was exactly what had happened to me and as much as I hated it, I had been right.
“Cecelia, what is wrong?”
I didn’t want to look at her, but Karen wasn’t going to let it go. I didn’t cry much, never had been one to break down, but to say out loud what was happening to me just crack my veneer just a little bit. It was hard to hear out loud why I hurt so much.
She put her arm around me and told me that it was going to be okay.
“I don’t think it is. I fell for him hard and I don’t know if I am ever going to feel better. Sometimes I really don’t know if I am or not. All I can think about is that he is not mine and he never will be. I didn’t want this to happen to you. I still don’t know how it happened, but now I am in way too deep.”
It felt good to get it out, like a flood gate was finally releasing all of the water that was rushing through. I stayed that way for a moment before I moved back a bit. “I am going to get some wine.”
“Yes girl, I think we need it.”
She made me laugh when I had literally just been crying and that was why she was so special to me. I don’t know what I would do without her and I never wanted to find out. It wasn’t something that I ever wanted to have to think about.
“I am sorry I pushed you away from him.”
Karen scoffed. “I don’t blame you. That man is fine. You know you are going to have to tell me everything. I took off the rest of the afternoon for this and I was supposed to work this evening, so we are going to drink wine and you are going to dish on that sexy ass man that you are having ‘fun’ with.”
I sighed at her air quotes and took a drink of the wine. She had a good plan and as we moved upstairs, it was good to finally have someone to talk to about this. I needed some prospective more than anything else. I needed someone to tell me if I was just being an idiot or what it was that was going on. She was the only one that I trusted with this kind of thing and for once, it felt like a huge weight was lifted off of my shoulder.
“So?”
“Are we not going to ease into it?”
Karen shook her head that we weren’t and I had to admit, she had the funniest look on her face. I don’t know what I was supposed to say to that, but I really couldn’t help it.
“Well let’s just say that he is everything that you would hope he is, and so much more.”
“See you later Dante. It was good to see you again.”
Dante waved at Karen and then looked at me confused. “Haven’t seen her in a while.”
“It’s been a busy month or so.”
He agreed and then pulled me to him. “I was thinking about you all day.”
“Were you?”
Dante nodded his head that he was and it made me smile inside. I liked to hear things like that, but as I had told Karen, I still wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do with Dante. I knew how I felt, but I also knew that I couldn’t trust him. How could we be together if I couldn’t trust him? It just didn’t seem to make any sense to me at all. How could we ever be anything more if he was a certain way? More importantly, why was I still playing this game if I knew that I was going to lose?
“Yes, are you ready to go upstairs and see if we can find something to enter
tain ourselves?”
I liked the sound of it, but I wasn’t ready to fall into his vortex again. I needed some more time and I knew once I was in his arms for the night, I wouldn’t get anything else done. I couldn’t even think when he had his hands on me.
“No Dante, I have to get some thinking done.”
“Uh, oh. Every time you get to thinking, something bad happens.”
I pushed him away and told him that it wasn’t true. “You want to talk now and that means that I am not going to get any nookie.”
“I didn’t say you wouldn’t, just not right now. Why don’t we talk for a little bit? I have a few new jobs lined up for next week that are a little different and I want to know how you feel about them.”
“Oh?”
He didn’t look like he was that happy to hear about it, but I was going to ignore his reaction. After talking to Karen, she had me thinking about where this was all supposed to lead to. I knew that I wanted him in my life, but could my heart really take it?
But in the end I told him about the driving job for him and another person to take a couple of horses and help drive some cattle about a hundred miles away. It was for an old family friend, so I wouldn’t usually offer. I would have liked to go myself, but I was due at another rodeo looking for more clients.
His reaction was not what I thought it would be. “How long is it going to be for?”
I shrugged and told him that it was usually a week or so.
“You want me to stay away for a week?”
“No, it’s not like that Dante. I have things I have to do here. I have done it for them for years, my parents had always helped them. It would be a favor to me and I will make sure to give you a good bonus for it. I don’t want to break the tradition.”
