Lana felt boneless. The best she could do was offer up a moan.
“I’m going to pull out,” she then felt him leave her body. “Wow. Darlin’, I can see my cum dripping out of you. So hot.”
She jumped when she felt his finger swipe up some of the cream. She shivered when she heard him groan, “Delicious.” She felt his finger between her legs again and then it appeared next to her. “Taste us together, darlin’.”
Lana leaned over and sucked his finger deep into her mouth. She hummed with the pleasure of their combined salty taste. It didn’t taste like she would have expected, but it still was incredible.
“Jesse, I have to tell you that was about the hottest thing I have ever experienced,” Lana breathlessly told him as she moved to sit upright, only to sway limply against his chest.
Jesse licked her ear. “Me too darlin’, but I have to say, I think you are noisier than me.”
Lana laughed. “Okay. You’ve got me there. What can I say? I’m hot to trot.”
Jesse let out a chuckle. “I wouldn’t be surprised if you were heard all over the valley.”
“You have a big cock and I was enjoying riding it. Are you complaining, Jesse?”
“Not at all. Your noisiness is always appreciated, darlin’. As long as its screams of pleasure for me, do as you like.” With that he hugged her tight as they made their way back to the house.
“Looks like Cody is already here.” Jesse kicked Samson to get him to pick up the pace a little.
“What are we going to do about Cody and… us?” Lana would have been straight-up with Cody, but he wasn’t her brother. She felt that she owed it to Jesse to let him call the shots when it came to his sibling.
Jesse seemed to be mulling it over, as they grew closer to the teenager. “Let’s just keep this between us for now.”
Chapter Thirty-Four
Lana
The afternoon passed pleasantly enough, with her and Cody playing The Celestial Prophesy, while Jesse returned to work on the ranch. She tried not show how sore she was from riding most of the night and day. As dinner neared, she offered to cook, desperate not to eat burned frozen pizza again and to get her mind off why her body was deliciously tender.
“What do you want for dinner?” She asked Cody as they moved into the now sparkling kitchen.
Cody gave her a blank look. “Food?”
“Oh. That’s a good idea,” Lana teased as she opened the fridge. “It looks like it’s a choice between steak, steak, and…” she rummaged around for a moment, “steak.”
Cody shrugged cheekily, “Hmmm… I think I’ll try the steak. It is a cattle ranch.”
“True. True. I’m just craving some good Pad Thai or Chicken Tikka Masala,” Lana passed him some lettuce, strawberries, and apples, “Here. Chop this.”
Cody got out the cutting board and began chopping at the table, while Lana started on the steaks. Lana was amazed how at ease she felt with him. They had known each other for years online, but that didn’t mean that the relationship would transfer over easily in the ‘real world.’ Besides, with her relationship with Jesse under wraps, Lana had expected to feel more discomfort, but Cody was so amiable, he made it hard to not feel welcome.
“So, what did you think of the bunk house? Perfect for a camp, right?” Cody asked her as he began on the lettuce.
Lana rubbed some garlic salt on the steaks as she thought more about it. “I think that it’s really good. I just have a few things that I need to work out.”
“If it’s about the price…”
“No, we haven’t discussed that yet,” Lana put the steaks on the pan and watched them sizzle. It kind of reminded her of how she felt when Jesse touched her. That’s sad, Lana, she told herself, you are comparing your body when Jesse touches it to cooking steaks. Shaking her head in disbelief of how love had turned her into a ridiculous woman, she didn’t hear Cody’s question.
“Lana! Did you hear me?” Cody looked at her like she had gone insane, when just a moment ago she had wondered if she had.
“Sorry! I was just trying to remember what I needed to do! OH! I need to pre-heat the oven! That’s it!” As she moved to turn on the oven, she congratulated herself on her cover.
“I asked what Jesse and you discussed,” Cody returned to chopping up the lettuce and putting it in a bowl for the salad.
She could feel her cheeks turn pink. “Oh, he just showed me around the bunk house.”
“Did he at least feed you? I can hear your stomach growl from here!” Cody joked.
Lana hadn’t noticed that her stomach had been growling. She wasn’t about to let Cody know that she had licked Jesse like her favorite Popsicle then swallowed his release. “Actually, I hadn’t noticed because we were so busy, but I am hungry. I missed lunch.”
Cody shook his head in disappointment. “That sucks! I’ll chat with Jesse. He’s a great guy, but he’s kind of lacking on the hospitality skills.”
“I did suck… I mean it sucks, but I’ll be fine until dinner,” Lana prayed that Cody wouldn’t read more into her slip of tongue. Popping a strawberry in her mouth to keep herself from saying anything more, she decided to turn the topic away from herself. “How do you and Jesse get along?”
Cody let out a deep sigh. “I love my brother, but he and I couldn’t be more different. He’s a manly man,” Cody held his arms out making muscles and made his voice deeper. Lana laughed. “I always wanted to be like him as a kid. He always appears calm and others look to him for leadership.”
“You don’t think you’re like that?” Lana looked at him from the corner of her eye as she flipped the steaks.
“Well, look at me. I weigh one-twenty wet. I live in horse and cattle country, but me on a horse is just wrong and embarrassing. I am much better suited to computers and cities.”
“So what do you plan to do? Did you apply to colleges?”
“No,” Cody replied.
“No?” Lana turned with spatula in hand to look at him. She could feel her stomach sink. Jesse wouldn’t like this. “Cody, you should go to college.”
“You didn’t,” he pointed out as he began chopping the apples.
“Yeah, but my life has been different. I had to make my own way or not eat. You have a loving brother who will help you. Take my advice. Go to school.”
“I want to be a pro gamer like you, Lana,” Cody announced.
Lana didn’t know what to say. She was certainly flattered, but she was afraid to steer the boy wrong. “Cody… when I started, things were different. When I began, The Celestial Prophesy was rather new and the teams were mostly made up of friends who played together. I don’t know if you know, but now there is a really competitive vetting process to join the top teams.”
“So you don’t think I’m good enough,” Cody accused her.
“No, what I’m saying is that things aren’t as easy anymore. I would hate for you to miss out on your education chasing after something that is super hard to attain and not as exciting as it looks,” Lana pinned him with a look. She felt bad saying this to him, but life in the teams wasn’t as glamorous as it was perceived. Most of the teams hardly made any money at all. The majority of the money she made was from the big prize winnings of the tournaments she and her team played, and endorsements. However, endorsements only came with wins. Lean times followed if the team wasn’t hot.
After the scandal in Quebec, Lana knew in her bones that she was ready for something else. As much as she loved her teammates and The Celestial Prophesy, playing it at the competitions had become work. It was no longer fun. Lana knew first hand that life wasn’t all fun and games, but the feeling of foreboding always seeped into her bones when she stepped on the stage now. She wanted an out, but didn’t want to let her teammates down, especially with the International Tournament in Seoul, South Korea in a few months. Lana felt herself longing more and more for something stable and consistent, instead of the uncertainty that came with being a pro gamer who could be in this week and e
asily out the next.
Cody looked to be stewing as he cut up the apples. He seemed to be attacking them with the knife.
Taking the steaks from the stove, she kept them in the pan and stuck them in the oven to finish cooking. Preparing the green beans, she added them to the stove.
The only noise in the kitchen was that of the food cooking and Cody’s whacking with his knife. The kitchen has never seemed louder to Lana than at that moment. Gone was the feeling of comfort and in was the knowledge that she had popped Cody’s bubble. Frack!
With her mood sinking, she was thrilled when Jesse opened the kitchen door. She had to stop herself from throwing herself at him. He looked delicious as he stepped inside, pulling his hat from his head. His dark hair was tousled and his eyes sought hers out immediately. She didn’t miss the heat coming off of them. He took a glance over at Cody and must have noticed his brother’s disappointment, because he instantly stilled.
“What’s going on?” Jesse’s deep voice broke the silence.
“Cooking dinner,” Lana answered with false gaiety.
Cody gave his brother a look that Lana couldn’t decipher. “Lana has some issues with the ranch being the site for the camp.”
Lana looked at Cody with a hint of annoyance. “That’s not what I said. I said I have some issues that I have to look into.”
Jesse grabbed himself a beer from the fridge, silently offering Lana one first, before sitting down at the table across from Cody. “What might those be?” He took a long swig and Lana cursed herself as she started having naughty thoughts about his lips as she watched them wrap around the neck of the bottle. Time to change the panties again!
Composing her thoughts, she put the lid on the green beans. “Well, I was just thinking about where the girls would eat, take their classes, and the Internet.”
Jesse put his beer down. “I’m thinking that they could take their classes in the main living room of the bunk house. You plan on having how many girls, again?”
“About twelve,” Lana pulled the steaks out of the stove to check on them and then put them back in.
“We can set some tables up for them. As for food, you haven’t seen it, but there’s a main bunk house with a kitchen that most of the men who work for me live at. Jeremiah is the cook there, and if your group will pay, we can have him make extra food. We can have them eat at their house, as well as set-up some fun cook-outs and stuff,” Jesse offered as if it was no big deal.
“That works. I plan on hiring a guide to take them on trails and stuff, besides the coding teacher,” Lana told him as she removed the steaks form the oven.
“That’s fine with me, but I want to be in on the guide hiring. I have to be confident that the person will not steer the girls wrong and get them in trouble out here,” Jesse took another sip of his beer.
Lana glanced over at Cody, who appeared to be fascinated by their discussion. Lana continued, “Which brings us to the Internet.”
“That’s going to be the big problem,” Cody interjected. “I throttle most of the bandwidth around here and it still isn’t great. If you want it working at a decent speed, then you are going to have to find a way to get a more powerful connection out here.”
“Why not ask your company that you work for to fund it?” Jesse suggested.
Lana added butter to the top of the steaks and then turned to face the men. “Steph and I thought about asking Nebula One, but we wanted to be able to run this clinic as we see fit. If we ask Nebula One to assist with the funding, then they will want a say in how things are done.”
“Is that bad?” Cody asked as he began tossing the salad.
Lana thought about it, “No, but it’s not ideal. Steph and I want to focus on teaching the girls coding that will help them get jobs. Some of the coding languages we think will help them most aren’t used by Nebula One as much. If we have Nebula One help, then they will want us to only teach those languages.”
“Is that so bad?” Jesse leaned back in his chair. Lana couldn’t help but notice how his shirt stretched along his broad, muscular chest. She longed to touch him and lick the skin that peeked out from beneath his shirt above his pants.
“Eeehhh,” Lana responded.
“So who’s paying for this, if you don’t have your company funding you?” Jesse asked.
“Steph and I got some education grants and Daemon, my wealthy teammate, has kicked in a bit. Which reminds me, we haven’t discussed the price of renting your facilities and all that.”
“We can discuss that later,” Jesse waved a hand like he wasn’t concerned.
Lana was beginning to feel a bit nervous. She and Steph had gone over all the financials and the main game plan, but seeing and hearing what needed to be done, made her wonder if they were better off getting Nebula One’s deeper pockets. She had no doubt that Nebula One would invest if they asked, it was just what they would want in return that scared Lana.
Lana placed the dishes on the table and sat down to eat. The group ate in silence as they mulled everything over. It wasn’t uncomfortable; just that they all seemed lost in their thoughts. Finally, Cody stood and put his plate in the sink. “I better get to my homework.”
Chapter Thirty-Five
Jesse
Jesse watched his brother leave the room, looking depressed. He had noticed when he had walked in earlier that something wasn’t quite right. “What’s up with Cody?”
“He wants to be a pro gamer and I tried to talk him into school,” Lana fiddled with her napkin as she spoke.
Jesse noticed that she seemed preoccupied as well, but it was not lost on him on how natural it felt to have her in his kitchen, at his table, at his side. Even though dinner was a silent affair, it was not a crushing silence, but a comfortable one, where everyone was just thinking, even with Cody’s mood. She fit. The problem now was finding a way to get her to stay.
Jesse reached out and grabbed her hand. He needed her to see that the ranch was just as exciting as her life as a gamer. “Come on, darlin’. There’s someone I want you to meet.”
Jesse dragged her to the coat rack and grabbed her coat, helping her slip into it, then stealing a kiss as he zipped her up.
“Where are we going?” She asked as they started to make their way out the door.
“To the barn,” Jesse simply stated. He marveled at how just the touch of her hand was enough to turn him on more than anyone he had ever met before.
Pulling her into the big, red, barn, Jesse pulled her to the back. He could tell that she wanted to greet all the animals, but there was someone special he wanted her to see. Stopping in front of the pen, he couldn’t help but smile at the sight of the little colt, drinking from her mother. She was a beautiful little thing, with a dark coat and mane.
“Oh my Zelda! She is so cute!!!” Lana’s voice hit that high-pitch that all women reached when they were excited. Normally Jesse wanted to cover his ears, but with her, it was a surprising turn-on.
Jesse opened the pen and ushered Lana inside. “Wait a moment before touching the colt so they can get used to us.” He could feel her radiating excitement.
“What’s their names?” She whispered as she leaned into his arm, resting her head against him.
Jesse closed his eyes as he bit back the need to pin her to the wall right then and there. “The momma is Jezebel and the baby doesn’t have a name yet. Why don’t you name her?”
Lana pulled away a bit, causing Jesse to pull her back to him. “Me? You want me to name her?” She looked up at him as if he had gifted her the world.
“Only if you want to,” he added with a kiss to her forehead. He could get used to those looks of hers.
“Hmmm… naming someone is serious business.” She looked thoughtful as she debated names. Jesse loved how her brow furled with concentration.
He couldn’t help but chuckle, “Lana, she’s a horse. It’s not like she needs a serious name for a job interview later in life.”
“True, true. Hmmmm…I’m d
ivided with Epona from Zelda or Shadowmere from The Elder Scrolls.”
“Both good names,” Jesse really had no clue what either of those games were. He had heard of them, but never played them.
“I got it. Let’s name her Shadowmere. She really looks like her. Epona was brown, anyway.” She looked so pleased with herself that Jesse had to give her a kiss.
“You can name the next horse Epona,” he added. He heard her breath catch and smiled as he guessed her thoughts. Jesse was determined that there would be a next time for her to name a horse. “Let’s leave them alone. There’s something else I wanted to show you.”
Jesse hoped that she would want to help him fulfill a lifetime dream, as he led her to the ladder that went to the hayloft. He’d been with women in the past, but none of them had participated with him in this fantasy. He knew that he had been waiting for the right girl and he had found her.
“Ladies first,” he winked at her as he motioned to the ladder. He loved how she gave him a slow smile before starting to climb.
Her little rear looked delectable as she worked her way up to the hayloft.
Once they made it to the top, Jesse couldn’t help himself. Seeing her in his hayloft, was his every kinky teenage dream come true. He knew that he had to look like a beast stalking his prey, but she brought out that animalistic quality in him. As he neared, she backed up, but he knew that she liked it by the small smile on her face. Just when she was right where he wanted her, he began to slowly unbutton his shirt.
The look on her face encouraged him to continue. Her eyes lit up with desire as he watched her following his every move. Easing his shirt off his shoulders, he moved to place it on the haystack next to him. Coming up here, he knew that he had wanted to have a roll in the hay, but he hadn’t planned on doing a strip tease for her. But, her panting and watching every move of his with her fiery green eyes made him decide to give her a show to remember.
Running his hands along his chest and then down his stomach, he smiled as he watched her throw off her own shirt. Her eyes met his as he began unbuckling his belt and his jeans slowly, allowing the tension to build. Reaching inside, he pulled out his throbbing cock and began stroking its length. Lana’s eyes went right to that part of him and he felt his pre-cum begin to drip from his slit. Her eyes watching him was almost as much of a turn on as feeling her. He groaned as he pumped harder, imagining her on her knees, “Look how hard you make me, Lana.”
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