“According to Texas Penal Code § 12.32, first degree felony is punishable by imprisonment for life or for any term of not more than ninety nine years or less than five years. In addition to imprisonment, an individual adjudged guilty of a felony of the first degree is punishable by a fine not exceeding $ 10,000.”
He cleared his throat and looked directly at Darrel Scott.
“Will the defendant please rise.” He waited a few seconds and continued, “In the case of first degree kidnapping between the State of Texas and the defendant Darrel Scott, in that you were made aware that the kidnapped victim was also with child, are sentenced to life imprisonment, to be reduced by twenty years for good behavior after thirty years imprisonment.”
The court erupted and Shannon released a sigh of relief. At least Jarrod was safe. She leaned against his shoulder and held his hand tight. He kissed her on her hair, just as relieved that the madman would not have the opportunity for rebuttal.
“Now, doll face, you can concentrate on finalizing our wedding arrangements! No more slacking!”
“Slacking! I’ll have you know, I have been working my ass off to get everything done!”
“Hmm … and such a sexy ass it is too!”
“Jarrod Parker! We are in a public place! Behave yourself!”
“You still owe me, honey.”
She frowned at him.
“What do I owe you?”
“A night in the cabin. I have had a burnin’ desire for what you promised … do you want to take me there tonight?”
Shannon shook her head and laughed at him. She leaned closer and kissed him long and lingeringly on his lips. He growled.
“That is cruel! Kissin’ me like that in public, knowin’ what it does to me!”
“Okay, Babe. I’ll take you there tonight … but be warned, muscle man … you better be in good shape … all night long!”
“Oh, doll face … you are goin’ to regret those words by mornin’. You seem to forget how you suffered after the first two times we were together!”
Shannon blushed, but smiled seductively at him.
“Did you hear me complain, Babe?”
“Don’t say I didn’t warn you, doll face.”
Jarrod was as excited as a little boy going on his first fishing trip and Shannon could only shake her head. He loaded his truck full of food Rosa prepared for them and he winked at her wickedly.
“We won’t have time to prepare food, honey. I have other plans for your hands … and other body parts from the moment we arrive there!”
“But it is only noon! We can’t … you know … from now until tomorrow!”
Jarrod straightened and jammed his fists on his hips and scowled at her.
“We can’t? I did warn you what to expect, doll face. Are you renegin’ on your promise?”
Shannon looked at him, her eyes glittering. He was so damn gorgeous and tempting, she felt like jumping his bones there and then. Her insides were quivering with anticipation and just thinking of the hours of pleasures awaiting her, had her panties flush wet in seconds. Her clit pulsed with excited need.
“You do remember that I am sixteen weeks pregnant, Babe.”
“Yeah, so? I have it on good authority that you can take everythin’ I plan on dishin’ out.”
“Jarrod Parker you did not discuss this with Bennett!”
“Of course I did! I had to make sure I won’t harm the babies or hurt you. Quite considerate of me, don’t you think?”
“You’re an asshole, Jarrod! How am I going to look Bennett in the eyes again?”
Jarrod laughed from deep in his stomach.
“Honey, if there is anyone who knows how babies are made, it is him.”
“Yes, but you did not have to discuss our sexual … preferences after the fact with him!”
He walked closer, picked her up and carried her to the truck, sitting her down on the passenger seat. He tweaked her nose.
“I have no intention treatin’ you with kid gloves out there on the prairie, unless I need to, honey. I am gonna make you plead, scream and cry … until tomorrow mornin’, and I had to make sure it is okay.”
“You … you …!”
“Yes, my love! All of that until tomorrow mornin’! I will have to carry you to the truck in the mornin’; that much I can promise you!”
Shannon groaned as a flush of liquid heat spurted down her belly to completely soak her panties and her jeans.
Jarrod continued her education on the prairie all the way there and she was surprised when they topped the hill to notice they were already there. Her loins clamped tight in anticipation. He opened his door and growled at her.
“Don’t move. I am takin’ our stuff inside. I will come and get you.”
Shannon watched him taking two trips back and forth. She smiled when he walked back and opened her door. She swung her feet out and gasped when he stepped in between her legs. He snapped her jeans open and before she could comprehend what he intended, her jeans and panties were laying on the seat behind her. Next her stretch top flew over her head. She cried out.
“Jarrod! What are you doing?”
“I’ve wanted to make love to you in this truck from the first time you got into it. Now out here … I can!”
He had no patience to find the clip of her bra and just snapped the front piece in two. He slipped it off her shoulders and it was added to her clothes behind her. She felt the leather seat beneath her ass and she took a deep breath.
Good Lord, we’re out in the open!
Enjoy it, doll face!
Shannon moaned when Jarrod’s lips locked around a nipple and he suckled eagerly, yanking her hips tight against his. Holding her with his one hand on her hips. He fisted his hand in her hair and pulled slowly, forcing her back to arch and her breasts to be pushed high, offering him the access he wanted. Shannon twisted and rubbed against his rough jeans pressed against her clit, crying out in need as he feasted on her breasts.
“Oh lord, Babe … you are driving me crazy! Please no more! I need you! Please!”
Jarrod however, was in no hurry. He sucked her nipple deeper in his mouth and pulled his head back, stretching her breast along and she keened in desperation, he repeated it with the other; she thrashed against him. He nibbled playfully on her nipples. Shannon drove her core against him now with ferocity.
“Babe … please, I beg you!”
She reached for his jeans and popped the button and unzipped it quickly, then grabbed his tee-shirt and pulled. He growled when he had to release her breast so she could pull off the shirt. The moment it was off his lips was back on her breast, his hand pulling her head further back. He widened his mouth around her breast and took more of her in. Shannon reached for his jeans and pushed them down awkwardly. The position Jarrod held her in made her somewhat helpless, but she managed to free his rock hard dick and then cried out when he scraped his teeth all around her breast to the tip of her nipple to sharply bite on it. He licked and suckled the tip quickly to reduce the sting and she panted. He repeated it with the other and Shannon now desperately thrashed against his straining dick. He lifted his head, watching the need straining her face. He kissed her lips, leisurely as if he had all the time in the world and Shannon growled angrily against his lips. He looked at her.
“Lean back with your arms behind you. No, move your hands further back. Perfect … absolutely perfect.”
Shannon was leaning back with her hands far behind her, her breasts thrusting forward, her belly quivering with need. She watched him slowly flick his fingers over her nipples and then trace over her soft belly to hover just above her clit. She lifted her hips pleadingly. Jarrod slipped one finger lower and gently spread her lips, watching as the swollen nub pushed forward eagerly. He flicked his finger over the tip, once twice and Shannon jerked, crying and throwing her head back.
“No, doll face. Eyes on me. All the time. I want you to watch.”
She lifted her head and keened when his fingers traced
a wide circled around her clit, ignoring her pleas, then tighter until he rubbed and tugged on her clit. Shannon could not keep her hips still and thrashed desperately against his hand. She mewled when she saw his hand fold around his large shaft as he positioned it against her eager channel. He pushed forward slowly, holding her hips still for his entry. She bit her lip, watching his dick open and stretch her wider the deeper he went. It was the most erotic sight ever. She started panting.
He was going too damn slow!
Jarrod watched the desperation in her eyes, the way she bit on her lips to keep from screaming her frustration at him. He took a deep breath and pulled back and then slammed hard into her, all the way to the hilt. Shannon screamed and lifted her hips tighter against him as she climaxed immediately. Jarrod grunted and held himself still inside her. Watching her face contract with the pleasure, her breathing stopped and her breasts bobbed with exertion. Her eyes met his and she pleaded with him.
“Do you want to me ride you, honey? Hard and fast?”
“Yes … oh bloody hell, yes!”
He did then. He slammed back and drove into her with ferocious need and passion. Driving her pulsing core to another climax that milked him desperately, yet he continued and she screamed as the third climax ripped through her, her eyes glued to his dick ramming in and out of her with the forceful speed of a stallion.
Jarrod’s eyes flashed from his dick pumping into her to her bobbing breasts to her face and his heart swelled.
Oh Lord, how I love this woman!
He increased his speed yet again, pounding harder and deeper into her, amazed when she climaxed again, screaming harder and nonstop as this time was so intense it felt as if she was ripped in two. She clamped around him so hard, he followed her almost immediately. His climax weakening him so much, he had to slump into the truck over her, desperately thrusting short and hard until every drop of him filled her pulsing channel.
They stayed like that for long moments, their breathing haggard.
“You’re goin’ to kill me, honey. If this is what you do to me with our first round … you might have to carry me to the truck in the mornin’!”
Jarrod kicked off his jeans and added them to her bundle of clothing. He picked her up and wrapped her legs around him.
“Jarrod! You can’t carry me around naked!”
He laughed so hard he nearly dropped her.
“Doll face, you just screamed the prairie to fire makin’ love to me in the open and now you complain when I carry you naked? Relax, honey. There is no one around.”
“It feels wicked, Babe!”
“Hmm … we are aimin’ for a wicked memory, aren’t we?”
“That we are … where are you going?”
She realized he walked past the cottage and around to the back and then smiled.
“Oh … we’re going for a swim.”
“We’ll if that is what you want to call it …”
Yeah, who are you trying to fool?
Shh … I’m busy!
They did spent a lot of time in the water, but swimming was the last thing on their mind. By the time Jarrod let up, Shannon was as weak as a baby and he had to carry her back to the cabin. He put her down in the middle of the large bedroom and kissed her briefly.
“I’m goin’ to take a quick shower, honey. I’ll run you a nice tepid bubble bath and while you finish, I’ll set up our dinner on the porch.”
“Don’t you need my help?”
“No, doll face. You just relax and regenerate … you’re goin’ to need it!”
By the time Shannon walked out on the porch wearing a light and flowing blue sundress, Jarrod sat waiting for her. He jumped up the moment she appeared and hugged her.
“I was just about to come and check if you fell asleep in the bath.”
“Hm, I nearly did. Oh, the sunset is beautiful and you went to so much trouble setting the table! I am so impressed, Babe!”
“Yeah, see … I am not just an asshole Cowboy!”
“Whoever dared call you that?”
He chuckled and pulled out the chair and settled her behind the table. He took the chair next to her and lit the candles. She sighed and smiled happily.
“Who would have guessed you have such a romantic streak in you?”
“Not me, for sure. You brin’ the best out in me, doll face.”
She leaned closer and kissed him tenderly, covering his hand resting on the table with hers.
“Hmm … I like your kisses, honey. I really do! Now, let’s eat. I heated everythin’ up and I am starvin’”
They ate in silence for a while until Shannon’s questions about the prairie started again. Jarrod answered her with a smile, happy that she has taken so easily to living on the farm.
Jarrod cleared the table and told her to move to the comfortable patio couch looking out on the prairie. She sat down, sipping on the sparkling grape juice he poured for them. He sank down next to her and took her hand in his while he looked into her eyes.
“Are you sorry yet you decided to brin’ me here?”
“No … not yet.”
“And about askin’ me to marry you?”
“No, I’m not.”
“And about me deliberately makin’ you pregnant?”
“No, I’m no … wait a minute! What did you just say?”
Chapter Twenty One
Jarrod’s eyes did not falter with hers narrowing dangerously on him.
“Repeat what you just said, Cowboy.” Her voice was deceptively soft. Jarrod shrugged.
“I am sure the pregnancy did not affect your hearin’, doll face.”
“Jarrod Parker … I am becoming highly agitated! What did you just say?”
“I wanted to know if you’re sorry I deliberately made you pregnant?”
Shannon gaped at him. She did not hear wrong! He did say deliberately. His eyes were open and clear as he sat waiting for her answer. She swallowed hard, trying to digest the meaning of what he just admitted to.”
“Shannon?”
“No, I am not sorry I am pregnant, but what the devil do you mean deliberately? For that matter, when did that thought pop into your mind?”
“You totally blew my circuits, doll face. From the first climax when you clamped around me, I was lost. Hell, I was lost when our eyes met out on that road. Yes, I was so deep in lust, I could not think straight, but it was more than that. The further the night progressed, the more you touched me. When you whispered brokenly and breathlessly, a few hours into that marathon night, that I took your breath away and you would love nothin’ more than to have me inside you all night lon’, every night … right there and then you sealed your own fate.”
He stroked her cheek and leaned down to stroke his lips over the pulsing vein in her neck.
“At that moment when I looked into your eyes, I saw little Jarrod-Shannon children running over the prairie and I wanted that. Selfishly … I needed that and only with you. I stopped usin’ condoms then and set my plan in motion to get you back before you even left the ranch. I never for one moment believed we would manage to fall pregnant so easily.”
“Easily! Jarrod Parker, you were an absolute fiend that night! After that moment you did not stop until dawn!”
He chuckled and tweaked her nose.
“Yeah, but you spurred me on! You could not get enough of this Cowboy, doll face.”
“Oeeff! Vanity is thy name! You did it on purpose and then you gave me such a hard time about it when I told you I am pregnant!”
“Because, you waited ten weeks to tell me! Bloody hell, Shannon! Every time we came together I waited for you to give me the news! I yearned to be told I made you pregnant and you kept it from me!”
“I suppose all of that is now water under the bridge and the answer is still no. I am not sorry you deliberately made me pregnant.”
He sat up and turned towards her, her hand still in his. He looked deep into her eyes, then dropped to his knees in front of her.
“I know you asked me to marry you and I said yes, but I need to know if you really want to marry me. Doll face, the day you trotted on those ridiculous spikes of yours around the car and popped your ass in the air, you took my breath away. More than that, you took possession of my body … and that is truer than I wanted to admit at first, but no other woman had any effect on me since you made me yours. Totally and completely, that very first night. I want and need only you. That day I walked into the penthouse to find you gone, I felt as if a part of me was missin’. Only the thought of findin’ you as soon as possible was what kept me goin’. I love you, Shannon. God knows, I love you. More than I ever thought possible to love another human bein’. Shannon Davis, will you please marry me?”
“Jarrod, you are such a wonderful and caring man. I am the luckiest woman on earth and you literally took my breath away the moment I laid eyes on you. I am still battling to get it back! I love you, so, so much that it hurts sometimes! Yes, yes, yes, I will marry you!”
He dug in his cargo shorts’ pocket, took her hand in his and pushed a ring on her finger. Her breath caught in her throat when the diamond ring glittered in the candle light. Her other hand covered her mouth and tears glittered in her eyes.
“Oh, Babe! It is beautiful!”
“Not as beautiful as you, my love!”
He spread her legs and moved forward and pulled her flush against him. His lips covered hers and he kissed her with loving tenderness, then growled and the kiss became wildly sensual. His lips nuzzled in her throat.
“I want to make love to you here under the stars. Will you let me, honey?”
She chuckled and caressed his strong back lovingly.
“Now he asks me. The whole day he flaunts and spreads me open under the open sky and sun and now he asks for permission!”
Shannon shrieked when her dress flew over her head and Jarrod’s lips closed around her nipple before she even lowered her arms. He took her body to instant arousal and her thong was soaked in a flash.
“Oh, Babe! More … I need more!”
The couch was double width and he lowered her to lean over her, his leg between hers spreading her thighs.
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