“And a risk. Small libraries can be closed for monetary reasons or lack of use.”
“This one is busy and has been there for many years.”
Mrs. Grimshaw put her hands together. “You look happy with your decision.”
“I am.”
“Then I wish you well. You’re young. Now is the time to go on adventures.” She surprised Gina by hugging her. “Keep in touch.”
“Most certainly, and thank you again for everything.” Gina blinked her eyes to keep back the tears. She stopped at the desk to tell her fellow workers her plan and to promise to invite them out to Montana. Then after cleaning out her cubicle in the employee lounge, she finally got on the elevator and slumped against the wall. She’d invite her closest two friends and their families for a barbecue this evening. It was short notice, but she wanted to get all the explanations done.
When she got to her car, she called and talked to both of them. Luckily, everyone could make it. On the way to the apartment, she stopped at the grocery and got the food. Then after she got home, she changed and cleaned her grill. She’d just leaned over to pick up some trash when a man whistled.
“What’d I tell you about short shorts. They bring out the animal in a man.” Graham’s husky voice spilled heat into every cell of her body. She whirled around.
“I might have known it’d be you lurking around.” Joy rushed through her veins. She wanted to grab him and never let go. He’d come to her, all the way to Florida.
He sauntered up to her. “I don’t lurk. I come right out in the open.” Graham pulled her body tight against his. His hands cupped her butt.
“We’re outside. People will see us,” she whispered.
“Ah, yes, I have the right woman. My prudish, sexy woman.” Lifting her in his arms, he carried her inside.
“Which way to the bedroom?”
“Just like that?”
He nodded. “Yes, aren’t you hungry?”
“Starving. It’s the last room on the right.”
Graham dropped her on the bed and immediately undressed. She watched as he sheathed his large cock.
“Now for you.” He grabbed her small top and pulled it over her head. Then he unzipped her shorts and had them and her panties off in a second. “One thing about this outfit, I can remove it quickly.” He leaned back and studied her body. “You’re as delectable as I remembered.”
“It’s only been two days.” She grinned.
“Really? I’d have sworn it was at least a week.” He cupped her face in his hands and stared into her eyes. “I’ve missed you every minute you’ve been gone from my cabin. It echoes loudly with silence and emptiness. I didn’t expect to miss you. I thought I’d go back to my usual routine and enjoy my solitude, but you’ve destroyed that for me and left me confused and uneasy.”
She ran a finger across his mouth, and he nipped at her fingertip. Her whole body had melted into his. She was so glad to be back where she wanted to be.
“Don’t stop me. I’ll never talk this much again.”
“Then go on, and say it all.”
“I fought with the idea of change. I’d been the same way since birth. But you made me want more. You made me see the possibilities of more. I love my nieces and nephew, and now I want my own children, ours. The date the other day was to see if I could take you places that held no interest to me and enjoy myself. I did, vicariously, through seeing your enjoyment and happiness. Don’t think I’d want to do those type of outings all the time, but once in a while would be all right.”
He kissed her mouth. “I missed your taste, your smell.” He nuzzled her neck and teased her ticklish spot. “I missed touching you and being deep inside your sweet, hot pussy.”
His lips moved down and caressed her breasts. He nibbled on her peaked tips.
An aching desire had coiled in her lower abdomen. She reached down and rubbed her finger across the top of his cock.
“I’ve missed all of you, too,” she said. “I thought you’d enjoyed our outing the other day, but then you didn’t call.”
“Being with you exhilarated me. I started my next book. After writing all night I slept until afternoon. When I called, Mom said you’d gone.”
“She only said I’d gone?” Gina asked.
“Yes. I’d planned to court you slowly to be sure I could make a commitment, but hearing you’d left brought me straight to the reality that I loved you and wanted you by my side forever.”
Graham kissed her mouth and hugged her close, then put her on the bed and slid all the way down and separated her lower lips. His tongue brushed across her clit, and her body bowed. He licked the nectar seeping from her pussy.
“You taste like the sweetest cherries. Your scent of arousal spikes my desire tenfold.” He kissed her soft tummy and positioned his cock at her opening. “I can’t wait any longer.” Graham thrust inside her pussy, and his mouth sucked on her breast.
Pleasure shot up Gina’s spine like an arrow and made her whole body tingle. She raised her hips and met his every stroke. His hard cock filled her pussy completely, and her walls pulsed around him.
He raised his head. “You are mine forever.” His dark-blue eyes stared straight into hers.
“As you are mine?” she asked.
“Always.” Then he grinned. “Can you imagine there being another woman in this whole world I could put up with, or more importantly, one who would put up with me?”
Gina hit him in the shoulder and moved to make him turn over. “Now I’m on top. I rule.” She moved up and down slowly as she studied his dear face. She loved him so much.
“Don’t go getting soft on me,” he said. He clamped his hands around her hips and moved her up and down quicker. She rubbed against him where his cock touched her sweet spot, and ecstasy lifted her up and away.
Graham rolled her on her back and plunged in deep and hard. When his orgasm hit, she felt the pulsing and ripples in her pussy as her second orgasm shook her. Graham moved to her side. Gradually, her breathing returned to normal and the ripples of delight subsided.
“Wow, maybe I need to go off once in a while so you’ll miss me.”
“Don’t even think about it. I’ll be two steps ahead.” He kissed her mouth. “What were you going to cook on the grill? I’m hungry.”
“Grill?” Gina jumped out of bed and ran for the bathroom. “My friends and their families will be here in”—she looked at her clock—“one hour.”
“Hurry and dress. I have two things I want to show you before they arrive.”
Gina took a quick shower and dressed in a white-and-green sundress and sandals while Graham showered. She combed her curls and put on pink lipstick. She’d do. Her friends would faint if she put on a lot of makeup.
She went to the kitchen and prepared the food for the grill. Graham walked by her and went out to start the fire. He’d dressed in dark slacks and a light-blue shirt with regular shoes.
When he came in she stared at him. “I haven’t seen you so dressed up before.”
“What do you think?”
“I like it, but I like my cowboy best.”
“I’m thankful you do. You won’t see me dress up too often.”
“What’s the occasion? We’re grilling. Your jeans would be fine.”
Graham went down on one knee. “I was going to wait and take you out for a fancy dinner, but I can’t…wait, that is. Will you marry me soon?”
Her eyes filled with tears. He stood and took her into his arms. “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing, I just love you so much, and you kept saying you were never going to marry.”
“I wasn’t, until I met you.”
She kissed him. “Yes, yes, and yes, I’ll marry you.”
He swung her around the room. When he sat her down, he took out a small velvet box and opened it. “It should fit you. I sized it by Mom’s. Her ring fit you well on our trip.”
Gina stared at the large diamond with baguette-cut stones on the sides. “It�
��s beautiful. I think you mother was very relieved when she got her ring back. I understand. I’d never loan this one to anyone. What was the other thing you wanted to show me?”
The doorbell rang. “I think your company is here. I’ll show you later. It’s plans for a bigger house. I want your input.”
Her heart felt like it might burst with happiness. “It sounds wonderful but very expensive.”
“Honey, don’t you know, I’m a rich man.” He smiled. “Thanks to my brother’s magic touch in investing our family money and the success of my books.”
“Wow, no, I didn’t realize. Where will the house be built?”
“On the prairie close to our waterfall.”
She threw her arms around him again and kissed him. “They can wait a moment,” she muttered. “I love you in spite of your being wealthy.” She kissed him again and walked toward her front door as she heard him laughing behind her.
* * * *
Her friends and Graham got along fine. He’d put himself out to be pleasant. Gina noted how much patience he had with the little ones running around. He’d surprised her, but then he always said he loved Dirk’s children. He’d make a good father and a wonderful husband. She glanced at her ring for the hundredth time.
“Checking to make sure it’s still there?” her friend Maria asked. Gina, Maria, and Judy were sitting to the side while the men lay on the floor and built a fort out of a new building set one of the boys had brought.
“They’re having fun,” Judy said. “We can have some girl talk. Are you sure this will last? It’s been a whirlwind romance.”
“To me it seems longer. I fell for him quickly, but we’ve had some ups and downs and come through them stronger.”
“Still, what do you know about him?”
“He’s a writer.” She told them his pseudonym.
“I can’t believe it. We read his books all the time and can’t wait for the next one,” Judy said.
“Don’t tell anyone his real name. He uses another name to keep his privacy. Which is important to him. He’s reclusive and had difficulty having me around for a while.”
“You stayed with him?” Maria asked.
“Him, and his mother, and he has other brothers and sisters-in-law nearby. There’s one more brother and his sister that I haven’t met yet. It’s a large, loving family.”
“I feel much better about this, knowing who he is and about his large family,” Judy said.
“We want you to be happy and maybe invite us to Montana sometime,” Maria said.
“I will, to both of those things you mentioned.”
Gina glanced across the room. Graham raised his head and quirked an eyebrow at her. She smiled when a little hand shook his arm and said, “Mr. Brodie, can you put this log in place for me?” The little boy pointed to a spot.
Graham grinned at her and then gave the boy his full attention. “Sure, I’ll fix it for you.” His head bent close to the boy’s.
Her heart pounded with love and joy. She heard Judy say in her no-nonsense voice, “She’s in love. We won’t get any sense out of her for at least six months.”
Chapter Seventeen
They had driven Gina’s car back to Montana filled with “stuff,” as Graham called it.
“We may have to double the size of the house for all your things and to give me some room that isn’t cluttered,” Graham said as they viewed the spot where the house would be built.
“I don’t clutter. You said you liked my apartment.”
“I did. But I didn’t want to live there.”
Gina glanced up at him. “Are we having a fight?”
“I hope not. I never fight. We’re discussing.”
She went into a fit of giggles. “You, discussing?”
“You’re much too jovial. I fear it might rub off.” His eyes twinkled with laughter.
“My, I hadn’t thought about what effect I might have on your reputation. No one in town would recognize a smiling Graham. Dear me, what shall we do?”
He swung her into his arms and headed for the waterfall.
“You need a cold shower.”
“Not in my clothes.”
Graham put her down and stood back. “Then take them off.”
She pulled her T-shirt over her head. She hadn’t worn a bra, and then she yanked her jeans and panties down and off. Her sneakers were last. Graham leaned against the boulder staring at her.
“Men. All you think about is sex.”
“You’re right.” His lip curled up in the half smile she loved. “Are you going to stand around all day or get wet?”
“It’s cold.” She put her foot under the water.
“I guess I’ll have to go in with you.” Graham undressed and, lifting her, stepped into the waterfall. He kissed her mouth, and she cuddled against his strong body.
* * * *
Her gorgeous breasts hugged his chest, and her smile illuminated the air around him. His cock was so hard it hurt.
He let her slide down his wet body until all of her was flush against him. His fingers tightened on her sweet ass and jerked her tight against his throbbing dick.
“See how hungry he gets for you? I can never get enough of your sweet body.”
She put her arms around his neck. “Then take me to the blanket and warm me.”
He lifted her legs, and she wrapped them around his middle.
At the blanket he gently laid her down. His kisses started at her face. Taking his time, he kissed, licked, and nibbled at her fair skin.
Her full nipples tasted sweet, and her fragrance of jasmine and lilies scented the air he breathed. When he spread her pussy lips, he licked from her clit to the opening of her pussy. He kissed and licked her pink folds and raked his teeth across her clit. Her body shook with desire, and fire flashed in her golden eyes.
Gina shoved him over and straddled his body. She moved across the top of his legs and took his pulsing cock into her warm mouth. A shot of pleasure almost blew his head off. Her tongue licked across the top and along the sides, then her motion changed to up and down and sucking on his dick.
His fingers held on to her soft curls as his body filled with glorious ecstasy. “I’m coming.”
When her mouth sucked one more time, his orgasm hit him so hard it was pleasurably painful. He arched his back and groaned.
“Are you all right?” Gina asked. Anxiety showed on her face.
“I think so. Give me a moment.” He pulled her close to his side as his body gradually returned to normal.
He studied her lovely face. “How sad. Now we have to start back at the beginning with you.” He clamped his mouth shut to keep from laughing at her expression.
“Sad?” She started to get up, but he pulled her back down on him and rolled. Quickly he sucked on her beautiful breast. “This is a good place to begin. I love you, love you, Gina, almost Brodie,” he said as he scattered kisses over her tummy. Graham glanced up at her. “Tomorrow your friends arrive, and your mother and her husband. The next day we marry.”
“And after our honeymoon I go to work at the library. Our life is going to be wonderful.”
Graham spread her legs apart. He licked across her clit and put two fingers into her pussy. She was wet and hot, but he took his time kissing her pussy lips and rubbing her clit with his thumb. His finger brushed across her sweet spot.
“Take me, now,” she cried out at him.
She watched as he positioned his cock at her opening. “Wait, you forgot the condom.”
“I didn’t forget. Do you want me to get it?”
Her glorious smile warmed him through and through. “No. Let’s both forget it.”
At her word, he plunged in deep, and her hot pussy clenched him tight. She wrapped her legs around his middle, and he slid in farther. An immense wave of wild, passionate bliss engulfed him, and Graham heard her shout of joy as they were both swept away.
They lay in each other’s arms for long minutes. He glanced at her shining aub
urn curls and her sweet face.
“Our honeymoon may kill me,” Graham whispered in her ear.
She didn’t open her eyes, but smiled. “No. I have lots of sightseeing to do in London and Rome. It’ll keep us so busy there will hardly be time to make love.”
“I knew it. Underneath is a woman who likes to sightsee and shop.”
Gina blinked her eyes open. “I do, but most of the time I’ll be satisfied with your mom, or my sister, or yours to accompany me.”
“Thank heavens, and don’t worry, I’m sure we’ll find time to make love frequently in London and Rome.” He tickled her neck. “You little bewitching witch. What have you done to me?”
“Put you under my spell.”
Epilogue
“Do you like it?” Graham asked. He and Gina stood in the middle of the great room of their new home.
“I love it. Let’s walk through the house.” She led the way into the large eat-in kitchen. “There was room for all of my kitchen supplies, and the table’s big enough for our children to eat breakfast together.”
Graham touched her tummy. She’d gotten bigger this last month. He couldn’t wait to meet his son. “How many children are we talking about?”
“You know. We agreed to two, but if they’re both boys, we’ll try the third time for a girl.”
“Just checking to be sure you remembered.”
“Anyway, if the noise level gets too loud for you, you still have the old cabin to retreat to and do your writing there in the man cave,” she teased.
He nuzzled her neck. “Hmm, you smell good.” He led the way out of the kitchen and up the stairs. “We’ll look at the rest of the downstairs later.”
“I know, you want to see the master bedroom.”
“Have to make sure it’s still exactly what we wanted.”
Gina let go of his hand and walked past their room to the baby’s. “I love the light-blue paint we picked out.”
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