“I want you, Maggie,” my words sounded almost like a threat. They hissed through my teeth and made her arch hard in my lap. “There’s no going back now. It doesn’t matter whether it’s wrong anymore.” I curved my fingers inside her and used my thumb on her clit. She was soaking… her thighs spread apart for me…
“There’s going to be a place, baby… when there’s no one around…” I felt her walls clenching with the first hard frenzy of her release. “No one to stop us.” She cried out as I met her thundering climax with a desperate intensity of my own.
“I’m going to fuck you, baby… Nobody but me…”
“And with everything I’ve got…”
Her climax seemed to linger on forever. I wanted it to.
It seemed she could have orgasm after orgasm… All I needed to do was shift the angle of my fingers, the pressure I used to touch her. By the time she’d collapsed in exhaustion, I’d been fucking close to coming myself, just from watching. I’d never experienced anything like her.
I shook my head. It had been a goddamned irresponsible thing to do, on a hundred different levels, but I didn’t regret a second. This had gone way beyond right or wrong. Beyond Dean’s disapproval, or even Bess’s. Maggie was grown now. My woman. And I was going to be the man to bring her into the full awareness of that womanhood. My claim had been made.
She slept easily in my lap as I drove on, and a whisper of conscience rose up. She was twenty-two, but that was still so damned young. In sleep, she looked even younger.
Thunder rolled in the distance and I scanned the flat, empty land that stretched for miles. Dark clouds were building in every direction, but we’d be pulling into town within the hour. We should be well into unpacking the trucks before the rains came. Though the sky was dark, it had none of the eerie, green coloring that warned of a developing twister.
Maggie turned and snuggled her face into the aching bulge of my crotch. I tipped my head back and let out a long, unsteady breath and felt perspiration trickle down my back. There was another, closer boom of thunder…
It was going to be a long, hot fucking summer.
22
Maggie
“Wake up, baby.”
The sound of Joe’s deep voice startled me out of a dream I didn’t want to let go. I’d been cold on the outside… hot on the inside… Joe’s voice in my ear and his hands on my body...
“We’re here,“ he said, as I blinked my eyes, readjusting them to the light. For a minute, I didn’t know what he meant.
I sat up just as we passed the sign by the road. “Pawtauk?” I asked, starting to get my bearings. “How long did I sleep?”
He chuckled as warmth flooded my face. I remembered… and it showed.
“Long enough to be even more beautiful,” he said. “But I hated to wake you.” He smiled a smile that made me thoroughly ashamed and equally pleased. “I like being your pillow.”
I sat up and brushed the hair back from my neck, blushing again. “Joe… I…”
The two-way radio on the dash interrupted us with a rush of static. Then Dean’s voice came over.
“You two alright back there?” The static hit again. “You guys were hanging back there for a while. We were starting to wonder if you were at each other again.”
Joe and I exchanged a look that held a whole riot of thoughts and feelings behind it. “We’re good, Dean,” I answered. “Stop being a big brother and lead the other vehicles over to Baker Street. It’s the biggest location, and we’ll unpack and regroup there.” I looked at my watch. “We’re early. The events aren’t scheduled to start for another three hours.” The radio squawked in reply.
“The storms are building,” Joe said, peering under the visor at the darkening sky. “Weather service says no funnels have been spotted yet… but I don’t know… There’s something I can’t put my finger on…”
I looked out and shifted a little closer to him. “I know.” I shivered in spite of the heat. “Like the air’s too calm… for all those thunderheads.”
He put an arm around me and pulled me beside him. It felt so natural. I curved my body to fit against his lean side. The worn denim of his jeans was pulled tight over his thick muscles. “The way you touched me, Joe… Did you mean it? What you said when I was… when I was coming…”
He looked at me, his dark curls rough and his eyes a brilliant blue. He smiled, and I felt it all the way to my toes. “Yes, I meant it, Maggie. I keep all my promises, sooner or later. This one, most of all. I’m going to have you, sweetheart. Every luscious inch…”
He pulled the truck into the parking lot behind the others, and then kissed me hungrily, desperately, until there wasn’t a single doubt left in my mind.
I was flushed, but no longer completely disheveled, by the time the others were beginning to pile out. Jackie headed into the church to announce our arrival, and Ryan came over with Henry to get their instructions.
The next few hours were hot and busy. Dean and Joe worked side by side, with the comfortable familiarity of lifelong friendship. But Joe took on the heaviest labor himself, quickly, efficiently, giving my brother a much-needed break and allowing me to give out the last of the instructions. Even as he worked, Joe would pause to capture photographs. His steadiness and easy humor had a calming effect on everyone, and what could have been a frantic scramble became orderly and fluid.
Dean and Jackie were almost ready to head for the high school to teach their class. Ryan and Henry were staying on to head up the event at the church, while Margie and Ron were taking the remaining volunteers with them to a park on the north end of town. I was taking the truck with all our own supplies to the old farmhouse on the south side. The town had offered it as a place for us to stay for the next few days. Joe and I would unload there, and then head back to the church.
In all, we’d be covering ten square miles and serving more than three hundred people’s needs over the next few days, handing out shelf-stable foods and first aid supplies, emergency kits and information packets. Half an hour before the doors were scheduled to open, we were ready. I was watching my dream come true. And Joe was in the center of it all. He had been the quiet in the storm.
“You’re amazing,” he said. He tucked his lips closer to my ear and my neck. His breath touched my skin. “I was watching you the whole time, baby.”
“Hey guys…” I jerked away as Dean came up behind us. “You two… Be back as soon as you can, okay?” He gave me a strange look, and then turned his eyes to Joe with a frown. “We’re gonna be short-handed until you get back.”
I saw a look pass between the two men, a look I didn’t understand. For a minute, neither moved.
“We’ll be back, Dean,” I said, reaching up to give him a quick hug. “With the look of that sky, we don’t want to get stuck out on the road.”
Dean stuck his hand out and Joe took it, pulling him close as the two men exchanged claps on the shoulder.
“She’s my kid sister,” Dean said pointedly. “Make sure she’s safe…”
“I’m trusting you…”
23
Joe
“We can’t. You heard what he said, Maggie. He trusts me to protect you.”
“And we’re back to that,” she bristled. “Everybody thinks little Maggie can’t take care of herself…”
“Goddamn it, that’s not it at all.” I tossed my hair out of my eyes in irritation. “I want you… and you want me. There isn’t anything in hell that’s going to keep us from happening, Maggie. But I need to find a way to talk to your brother. We’ll be together… But I want it to be the right way. I can’t have Dean thinking that I’m taking advantage of his little sister. He has to see this, to see us, in a different way.” Maggie stomped the gas and the old engine whined in response.
“I know…,” she said finally. “You’re right. I just don’t care for the feeling that I need anyone’s permission to live my life.”
I smiled, and stroked my finger leisurely up the long expanse of
her thigh. She turned to look at me, her dark eyes even darker, her pupils large with arousal. “Patience,” I said, “has many, many rewards…”
“Dean will accept us, or he won’t. But I owe it to him, to tell him things have changed. I don’t want to destroy a lifelong friendship… and I don’t want this to come between the two of you. Especially when you guys are just starting to get close.” I reached up to tangle my fingers in the damp ringlets at the nape of her neck.
“I’ve waited so long,” she said, leaning the weight of her head back into my hand. “I’ve waited my whole life for you…”
“In a strange way, I have, too,” I answered, letting my thumb fall into the delicate valley below her ear. “I’m a decade older than you… I’ve had relationships…”
“But I’ve always loved you, Maggie. When you were a sad little kid, I just loved you like a brother. But it’s sure as hell not what I’m feeling now. Not since I first laid eyes on you at the bus station… and didn’t even recognize you.” I brushed my thumb over the soft skin of her cheek. “I want the woman, not the child… Although the history between us seems to make it all even more powerful…”
She caught her breath, turning to take the tip of my thumb between her teeth. Then it was my turn to suffer the ache of impatience.
“We were meant to be, Maggie. I think somewhere deep inside I always knew…”
“But you had to grow up, and I had to be patient.” She was sucking my thumb now, and threatening all my hard-won self-control. “I want your first time to be more than you ever could have dreamed of, Maggie. I want you to be fully ready… there are so many different ways for us to explore… and to learn…”
A crash of thunder hit close, startling us. For a moment, the delicious tension between us seemed to pause, and we both sucked in a deep breath. I took her hand and held it as she drove on, faster now, towards the old farmhouse.
The first wave of hail began just as we’d gotten most of the boxes packed into the large, mostly empty living room. The wooden floors creaked in objection, but at least the owners had cleared out most of the dust in advance of our arrival. As we climbed the stairs to explore the bedrooms and bath, the hail grew even louder. I said nothing to Maggie, but I was concerned. Hail, without rain, can be a bad sign…
“I should call Dean and tell him we might be a while,” she said, looking out a casement window over the wide, empty land. “We can’t head back in this.”
I was behind her and put my arms around her waist, looking over her shoulder. “I’m not sure there’s a landline that works out here,” I said. I pulled out my phone. “No cell reception either. I should have called him before we were too far out of range.”
The room, dark already, grew even darker. The pounding rhythm of the hail on the rooftop seemed to quicken the pace of my heart. I could feel her warmth, and in spite of the heat, it drew me in closer. She leaned back against me and her scent filled my lungs. The thunder outside had stopped, but the air between us crackled with electricity. Maggie turned in my arms and the weight of her breasts dragged across my chest…
“I want you to teach me, Joe,” she said so softly I almost didn’t hear. “Maybe we have to be patient… for other things… But you said there’s so much for us to explore.” She reached up and touched her fingertips to my jaw and kissed me… slowly at first, almost shyly, until a moan came from deep inside her, and I gripped her waist, her hips… pulling her to me with a fury that matched the storm outside… “I want you to touch me,” she gasped. “I need to feel your skin…”
The winds blew and the house groaned around us. I drew her to the bed, and in the dim, ethereal light I undressed her. The last thing to go were the boots, and I groaned inwardly at the sight as she kicked them off. Her breasts bounced hard with the effort, and I wondered if I had the strength to hold anything back.
“God, you’re lovely, Maggie,” I breathed, unable to tear my eyes away. “The loveliest woman… the loveliest soul…”
She smiled, an irresistible mix of both innocence and vixen, and slipped her hands underneath my shirt. She stripped it off over my head. Then we stood inches apart, not touching… but devouring each other with our eyes. I could feel her gaze like fire on my skin. I had to reach for her…
I picked her up and lifted her onto the down-filled coverlet. Her huge eyes never left mine as I climbed in beside her, hovering over her sweet, young flesh. As powerfully as I wanted her, I wanted to take my time just as much. This moment was once in a lifetime… not just for her, but for me as well. She’d remain a virgin… for now. But she would learn every inch of me.
And I would learn every inch of her.
24
Maggie
“Oh, my God…” The velvety heat of his body swept over me, enveloping me. For the very first time, I felt the heavy and powerful weight of a man’s body on mine. Not any man. Joe. My Joe.
“God, Maggie…,” he groaned against my ear. “I want you more than my life, baby… I want to bury myself inside you…”
I lifted my legs and wrapped them tightly around his hips, and felt his hard, granite shaft pulse against my sex. He moaned again and thrust his hips, and his cock slid hard against my slippery wet opening.
When he started to kiss me, it felt as if the world itself had started to spin… round and round, until I was dizzy and breathless. “I love you, my darling girl…” I heard the words and knew they were his. His voice… his heart… Pulling me toward him, as though from miles away…
“I love you. All my life… with all my soul… I love you…”
His mouth moved against mine, drinking in my breath, my taste… my very self. He touched me as if he could see me with his fingers. He kissed me as if he could taste my soul. It felt like hours, as he took his time… leaving no trace of my skin unadored. What had been desire before had become as unstoppable as a cyclone. We were wrapped together in heat, and passion, and in love. We were inevitable.
He turned, ferocious with need, and took my hips with his hands. “Open for me, baby,” he demanded. And I did... Spreading my thighs wide and shaking with the first hot touch of his mouth on me.
“Delicious… fucking… girl…,” he said, deep into my aching core. The words vibrated against my flesh, and I shuddered and bucked. “I’m going to make you come in my mouth, and I’m going feel when it happens.” He pushed two fingers deep inside me and brilliant colors flashed behind my eyes. “Lay back… let me give you this…”
“Not… without… you.” I could barely manage the words. He was relentless, pushing me higher, demanding my response. I reached out for him and took his throbbing cock in my hands. “Let me…,” I ordered breathlessly.
He shifted us both without effort. Then I was on my back, knees up and spread wide, as he never let me go. My head fell back gently over the edge of the bed, as he stood on the floor and leaned over me.
Legs braced and spread wide, his rampant cock swayed...hovering just above my lips. His balls were huge and heavy, but tight against his body. He never stopped using his hands and his mouth on me. But now he was offering himself.
I took him in both hands and slipped him into my mouth. His huge cock was shockingly heavy and already slick. The white hot current shot through us both and my clit hardened on his tongue. His hips jerked with the need to drive deeper, but he held himself back, letting me rock my mouth along his length. I had control of my movements… I could take as much or as little of him as I wanted. I already knew his shape and his taste. What I needed was to know what shook him to the core… Greed and desire made me reckless as I swallowed up his every hard inch.
My hands roamed over his back and his hard, tight buttocks. I felt him back away, ever so slightly, and knew he was afraid I couldn’t take it all. I gripped him harder and swallowed him deeper. The fuck, you’re getting away, I thought mercilessly.
We drove each other on… pushing and demanding. I relented only when he did, knowing he was prolonging the pleasure as long a
s he could. I followed his lead, trusting him, both of us desperate for climax, but not wanting this feeling to ever end…
For a fast second he took his mouth away. “I’m going to come, Maggie… I can’t… I don’t want to…”
His breath was hot on my wet, swollen pussy. I knew he was giving me the chance to let go…
I answered by taking his balls in my hands, guiding him deeper and squeezing my lips and cheeks tight. He dropped his chest onto my belly and pushed both his fingers and his cock into me. The moment I felt the head of his cock swell, I was lost. The taste of his orgasm made me climax like I’d never done before. Together we rocked into each other, against each other… pushing and pulling in the struggle of exquisite pleasure. We writhed together until there was no more left in us.
Spent, we collapsed alongside each other, slick with sweat and heavy with the musk of passion. He eased his heaving chest beside me and cupped one damp breast in the curve of his palm. He kissed the swollen bud of my nipple as we both drifted off…
lulled by exhausted fulfillment, and the thunder in the distance…
25
Joe
I woke up to the memory of Maggie in my arms, and the picture of her face on my pillow. I turned without waking her, to watch her sleep in the silvery morning light.
She stretched, sensuous as a cat, and opened her big brown eyes. “You’re here.” She smiled as the memories flooded back. “And we’re naked…”
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