by Ashlee Price
“I see you have gotten used to riding. Are you still afraid of horses?”
She was shivering when he pulled her up against him, her insides trembling. “Not anymore.”
Chapter 10
“I just want to meet her. She has been staying with you for almost a month and me and Vee still haven’t been invited over. What happened to Sunday dinners?”
Grahm knew he was holding off on engagements with his friends. In a way he didn’t know how long he had with her, so he wanted to make sure that he spent as much time with Ashley as possible. There was also the conversation about what they were to each other.
Ashley and him weren’t intimate, only one kiss a long time ago, but there was something other than friendship there. He felt it every time they were close and he knew that she felt it too. “Things have just been hectic at the ranch.”
“I thought that was why you hired more help.”
Grahm sighed and looked off. “Why does our breakfast always turn out like this?”
He shrugged. “Because that is the only time I see you anymore. I just want to know who it is that has taken away my best friend. Are you guys together now or are you still pretending that she is just your employee?”
Jerry was pulling no punches and Grahm sat back. What were they? He didn’t even know. “I don’t know if we are together. We are, but aren’t.”
He looked stunned at the answer. His friend was always the one that was sure of everything. It was strange to hear that he was so out of touch with what was going on. This girl, whoever she was, had done a number on him. “I don’t even know what that means Grahm.”
Grahm didn’t know either, but verbalizing it made it worse somehow. He needed to know what they were to each other, what he was to her. Even if he didn’t like the answer, he had to know. Was he just spending his time pining over a woman that didn’t even want him in that way?
“Hell Jerry, I don’t either. Most women I would have them pegged already. Ashley is different.”
“She is definitely making you different. I don’t think I have ever seen you so flustered before. What is she doing to you?”
“Nothing. Unfortunately.”
His friend kind of chuckled and sat back. “Now it is all making more sense to me. You are coming home to a wife, but not getting the best part of it, huh?”
The conversation was immediately more uncomfortable. Talking about it, made it that much harder to cope with. “Yes.”
“Maybe you finally met your match. I told you it would happen.”
“Maybe.” Or maybe Grahm had just lost his touch. He wouldn’t say that out loud, but he wondered. He left the restaurant with a clear need in his heart. He wanted to know what was going on between them.
***
“Welcome back Grahm, how was Jerry?”
“He’s good. What are you doing up so early?”
Ashley was not a morning person and for her to be up this early never happened. “I was talking to family back home. Mom was always up early.”
His heart started to sink. Summer was winding down and her school was going to begin soon. She was probably already planning her trip home. “Oh?”
“Yeah, she was telling me how it is already starting to get cold at night. I forgot how cold Pennsylvania is in late August. There will be snow there soon.”
All of the courage he had gotten from his talk with Jerry was gone. “So how is everyone there?”
“They are all good. Mom was asking when I was coming home.”
Grahm waited for her to tell him as well, but she didn’t, instead leaving it open ended as she walked back into her room. “So what kind of work do we have to do today?”
He was always sidetracked by her changing the subject so quickly and often. Grahm was starting to think he would never understand her. “Um, we need to go pick up 10 heads for the expansion and then bring them home. We have to go to Eureka and it is going to be an overnight trip. Are you up for it or do you want to stay here?”
“I would love a road trip.”
Happy to see her smile again, he had to suddenly fight the urge to kiss her. There was something in the way that she looked at him. “When do you want to leave?”
“Now, but get anything you are going to need in the morning, change of clothes.”
“Okay, just give me a minute.” Ashley took off back into her room and was back out in almost as short of a time as she had promised. She was carrying one of her smaller bags and waited for him to grab his own. It was supposed to be work-related, but the jitteriness Ashley was feeling had nothing to do with work.
Chapter 11
They drove for most of the day and as they were getting close to their destination, Ashley dozed off against him. In the truck the rough ride pulling the trailer made her jostle more and she had almost went on his lap a couple of times. Grahm tried to take it all in stride, but nothing was going the way he wanted it to go. He was supposed to have come back that morning and had a talk about where they stood, what she was doing, but instead he had chickened out. Now her soft body was against him once more, her perfume in his nostrils and he was no closer to knowing what he had set out to find out.
He tried to wake her up as they got close to the hotel, but she just snuggled closer. “Ashley, come on.”
“Are we there yet?”
“Yes. We are at the hotel.”
Grahm put the truck in park and shut the engine off. He helped her out from his side and they walked into the reception together. Ashley had taken his hand and it felt tiny in his own. When they got to the front, Ashley spotted a soda machine and went to get them a couple of drinks to take up with them. When she got back, he was walking towards her.
“We are going to have to share a room. The place is booked, is that okay?”
She nodded, but didn’t remember that many cars in the parking lot. Ashley asked how many beds there were and it didn’t come as much of a shock when he said there was only one. She had a feeling that it was finally going to be time for them.
“Yeah that is fine. I can’t believe that they are booked up. Is there something going on in town?”
“I’m not sure.” He looked ahead as the elevator shut, not able to meet her eyes.
“Well, it’s not like it would be the first time that we have slept together, right?”
He agreed, but Grahm needed more than just sleeping. He had to have her and after having her soft body pressed up against him for the last hour, nothing was going to stop him from convincing her that she had the same desires. When they went up to the room, Grahm let her take the first shower. When she came out she was wearing short sleeping shorts and a small tank top. He immediately noted that she was not wearing a bra, her tits swaying gently as she walked. The smell of her soap surrounded him. “It’s open.”
Ashley watched him walk passed her and she could tell he was feeling out of sorts. Ashley planned to make it worse, waiting for him to get back out with the lights out. She was determined to move their relationship to the next level. Ashley wanted to feel him. Too long had passed for her without and Grahm was all she could think about.
When he finally came out, the light from the bathroom illuminated him in nothing but his boxers. Her eyes took in the hard lines of his body and the way the muscles bulged underneath his skin. It was the first time she had seen him in that way. Ashley noticed the sprinkling of dark hair on his chest that matched the hair on his head. She wanted to touch the muscles and the springy hair that she was convinced would be soft underneath her fingertips.
“Are you coming to bed?”
His eyes moved from her side form, to her face. “I didn’t know if you were awake or not.”
“I can’t sleep and I am cold. Why don’t you come warm me up?”
Grahm just looked at her for a moment. Something had changed and the guile that she had always been so absent from was present and it made his heart beat faster in his chest. He slid into the bed with very little hesitation. Her body woun
d around his as she had before. Grahm could feel the soft flesh of her breasts pressing against his chest, her thighs entwined with him. They had lain together before, but never like that.
“What are you doing Ashley?”
“Just snuggling. Is that okay or do you want me to give you some space?”
It was the last thing he wanted was space between them. “I want you to stay here with me Ashley. Will you stay with me?”
His body moved over hers and her breath came out in short gasps. Her blue eyes were dark in the dying light, but it held her lust in check. “Like stay here and work for you?”
Grahm moved forward, leaning down to kiss her on the lips. His body was settled in against her, grinding against her need. With the boxers on, she could easily feel his manhood pressing against her, putting pressure where she needed it most, as his mouth claimed her own.
“No, like marry me and stay here forever as my wife Ashley.”
Her eyes opened from the kiss and she looked a little stun with his declaration and offer. He didn’t give her time to think though, more worried about the soft, supple curves that moved underneath him. She was pinned underneath his hard body and all he wanted was her submission.
“Your wife?”
His hips pressed into her hard enough that she squealed with pleasure. Her hands went between their bodies and she tried to pull her shorts down to give him the access that they both needed. Ashley needed him inside of her.
“Answer me Ashley.”
She looked up at him and whimpered. He was so close, but his lower body had moved back down, pinning her hands in between their body as well. “Please Grahm. I need you inside of me. You have been making me wait so long. I can’t wait anymore I need you now.”
He kissed her again, but it wasn’t enough. Grahm didn’t just want her this one night, he needed her forever. To stay with him and to be his wife, that was Grahm’s main goal. Anything else was not enough.
“Tell me you are mine and I will give you everything you desire.”
Ashley’s eyes closed as his hardness continued to rub on her panty-clad core. She jumped as he pressed harder, forcing some of the fabric inside of her. Her whimpers went right through him and it was only when her arms went around his neck that his hands moved between their bodies, tugging her shorts down.
Her legs were like her arms, winding around him to bring him closer and stop him from leaving. She needed him inside of her more than anything else in the world. “Yes Grahm. I will do whatever you want, just please don’t make me wait anymore.”
He chuckled as he sat back. “Well I didn’t think it was going to be that easy.”
It didn’t feel easy to her, it felt like he was torturing her in a way, had been for a long time. As he sat back and pulled his boxers down, his hard length sprung out and Ashley’s thighs closed in defense. She had not been expecting it to be so big. Grahm saw her reaction and was torn between making her ready and taking what he had been thinking about for months.
His hand ran down her body, making goose bumps go all over her flesh, following his rough fingertips. He made invisible lines up her thighs, his hands moved underneath her shorts. He pressed on her wetness through the thin material. “I thought I would have to work to make you wet, but you are soaked Ashley.”
His fingers went beneath her garment and pressed in suddenly to where she needed it most. Ashley’s eyes closed to the feel, her insides tightening around the intrusion. Grahm made his own desperate sound with the clenching around his slim digit. It only made his mind go to what it would feel like when he pushed inside of her with something more.
Grahm wanted to make it last, take his time, but every moment she was urging him faster to take what he needed so bad. Kissing her was not enough to silence her, because then her body just did it silently, raising her hips to ride his hand. The gasp and moan, followed by wetness on his fingers, gave him no choice. He had to have her, dying a little every moment that he wasn’t buried deep.
Pulling his hand away, he ripped her panties down and pulled them off of her legs. Her thighs closed more at the quickness than fear, but he commanded that she open herself to him. His tone harsh and his hand filled with a handful of hard cock. Ashley hesitated, knowing she had asked for it, but the reality overwhelmed her, Grahm overwhelmed her with the dark need in his eyes.
His body nudged her thighs open before she could do it herself. Grahm was sick of waiting and knew that she was as ready as he was. He didn’t have to be gentle.
Pressing her thighs opened wide with hands on her inner thighs, Ashley whimpered when she felt his hardness at her core. She begged for it silently, eyes dilated and then closing as he started to push into her. Tightening up, he growled above her as her tight sheath suffocated him.
“Stop, Ashley. Let me in.”
Her eyes were squeezed about as tight as her insides and she didn’t want to release his thick shaft, knowing it would plow into her at any moment. She wanted to control it, but as his body pressed harder, his arms held her hands down. There was no stopping his descent and as she released her grip, he plunged the rest of the way in, crashing against her womb as her body started to spasm around him. Her soft moans in his ear drove him deeper.
Grahm waited till the convulsing had subsided. She still trembled underneath him, his cock throbbing inside of her. When her eyes finally fluttered open, Grahm started to pull his length out as she gripped his girth. Gasping as he slammed back in, Ashley could feel herself pushed back on the cliff. Several strokes later, she was crying out again, her hands pushing back on his chest.
It only made him sit back, dragging her body with him. Pulling up the bottom of her shirt, his fingers pressed on her nipple, rolling in between his fingers as his cock rutted in and out of her. Moving to the left one, her eyes closed as his pace picked up.
Abandoning her breasts to jiggle underneath him, his hand moved between her legs as the other one grabbed her thigh for leverage. It pushed him deeper and allowed him to go faster. Each thrust sprayed fluid as she continued to water for him. Each drop just made her wetter and pushed him to go deeper.
Ashley tried to stop his hand, touching her sensitive flesh to the point of madness. Grahm just rubbed faster and harder, the pace of his hips matching his hand. Begging him fill her, he couldn’t have stopped if he had wanted to. One last push forward and he was lost. His mouth moved down to kiss her as his balls filled her with his hot seed.
She pushed back after a few moments. The cum filled her up so tightly she felt ready to explode, the salt burning her walls as she clenched around him, stretching to take him all. He had left her raw and it was only relieved as he pulled out. She sighed, her thighs going back together to ward off anymore stimulation. Even the overhead fan’s breath was causing too much to her senses.
“Ashley, open up.”
Her eyes flew open and she felt him nudging at her knees. She shook her head that she wouldn’t and his eyes darkened with her answer. “I am not done with you yet, you said anything Ashley.”
She whimpered at his words and finally started to open her legs. Ashley knew that he would pry them open if she didn’t, always getting his way. If Grahm gave her a command, she was useless to try not to follow it.
Expecting his hard spear, her body jumped as his face moved down between her legs. Grahm shushed her as he took his first lick, calming her with a hand on her stomach. Grahm pulled squeals and then screams as he took her again, only stopping when she started to doze off, exhausted from his lovemaking.
Grahm left her to go to his jacket. He had brought it with him, somehow knowing that then would be the right time. He laid back down, pulling her naked body to his. When Ashley felt him nestled against her, still hard, she whimpered and tried to pull away.
“I will let you rest Ashley. I just want to hold you.”
She calmed down a little, still not trusting that he was done. Ashley felt his hand on hers and then something sliding along her finger. Looking down, s
he saw that it was a ring. “I meant what I said Ashley, you are mine now.”
~THE END~
Cowboy’s Heart
Introduction
Foster is ending the year with a few regrets and starting the next one with a few resolutions. Her life is already marred with loss, and when she finds out that her mother is sick with cancer it seems like the bad luck is never going to stop.
Foster is devastated, but her mom realizes that it’s her last chance to see the West and Foster agrees to join her on a road trip. She wants to spend as much time with her mom as possible and to be with her in case something happens.
She expects many things from the trip, but nothing as life-changing as Trent. When Foster and her mother find a place to rest deep in ranching country, she meets one of the local ranchers. He makes her forget everything that’s going on and reminds her that life goes on, no matter what’s going on in it.
Foster needs his touch, and when they finally kiss she finds herself lost in her need for him. Trent becomes her rock amid the turmoil in her life, and eventually she needs more than just his touch – she needs his cowboy’s heart as well.
Chapter 1
Foster laid back on her bed. It was the start of a new year, but she still had to work off the night’s drinking from the year before. Her head pounded when she opened her eyes to the sun streaming in from the blinds. Another year, she thought to herself. Not sure where it would take her, Foster just hoped that it would be better than the last year.
The year before, she had lost her grandmother to cancer and then her father in a car wreck. Now only her mother survived her immediate family and she looked at everything so differently. There was just no time anymore and another day was not a given.
