by Rose, taylor
“Are you sure? I mean……are you sure?”
Brandon threw his head back and laughed. “Now who is unsure of herself?” He turned her around and put his arm around her shoulder. “Yes I’m very sure.” He said kissing her on the top of her head as they headed around the back of the house.
“So now what happens?” he asked as they turned the corner.
“First I want to check on Grace. Apparently, with all the activity she was a bit stirred up. And then you get to face Harold and Agnes. You know they know what we were up to this morning? So you get to face the music.”
“I think I’ll come with you……”
Sophia was already walking away from him towards the stable throwing over her shoulder “Chicken”
Brandon reminded himself, CEO of an international corporation, insanely successful television Series, normally confident, employer of hundreds, actually multi-millionaire, if he thinks about it and about to enter the kitchen to face the closest thing to a family Sophia had, beside Lilly, of course.
Agnes turned with a beaming yet all knowing smile on her face. “Morning Brandon. Seeing as you were too busy for breakfast before, here you go.” She said as she handed him a plate of bacon, eggs, sausages, tomato then turned around and giggled her way back to the food she was preparing. Brandon swore he heard her mumble “Whose a naughty boy then?’ but couldn’t be one hundred per cent sure.
Brandon sat at his usual seat and started in on the food. Minutes later Sophia was watching him from the doorway. He looked like he belonged. She swashed that thought as quickly as it came to mind. They had had sex. And whilst it was mind blowing from her perspective she wasn’t so sure that he saw it the same way. Sure he seemed to enjoy it but people could be good at saying what you wanted to hear and she had only known him for a week. She was realistic enough to know that she was no siren and Brandon was too……. What? Good looking? Sophisticated? In command? Sophia couldn’t put her finger on it but there was something about him that made her believe that he was so out of her league, big time. She pushed herself off the door jamb and entered the kitchen when she realized that Agnes was glancing at her.
“Do you want something to eat, sweetheart?” Agnes enquired.
Oh great, Agnes hadn’t called her that since the day that they had buried Archibald. Sophia was shocked to realize that she hadn’t thought about Archibald at all, although why would she? She knew that there was no love between them so why did she feel guilty? She’d have to think about that, but that could wait.
“No, thank you. I am starving but I have things to do first. Has Lilly turned up yet, she should have been here by now.”
Agnes looked up from the stove to say that Lilly had been out the front with her friend Jessie. Both had had a wonderful sleep over and Rachel brought them both to see the hunt off. The two girls begged and pleaded to go on to watch the rest of the hunt. “So my normally grumpy hubby has bundled the girls and Rachel into the Rover and taken them to follow the spectacle.” Agnes put her hand on her chest and looked worried. “I told her it would be OK. I hope that was alright. I am so sorry but with all that has happened I thought you might like some more time, to yourself.”
“Thank you Agnes, I am really not a very good mother am I? I didn’t even think about my little girl or where she is.” Sophia put a hand on her forehead and rubbed, fancy not sparing the most important person in her world a second thought. Agnes walked over and put her arms around her. “Sophia you have a family here. It may not be a traditional family but we are a family just the same. We are here to help out when needed. Lilly is fine. Someone was looking after her. And I know that no one would let any harm come her way.”
“Thank you but it is not good enough to palm her off on someone else.”
Brandon sat and watched the conversation unfold. He realized that Sophia did have a family and more importantly a daughter. His antics this morning had caused Sophia stress indirectly. He needed to remember that she had different responsibilities. He sat looking at his now empty plate. He was brought out of his thoughts by Agnes touching his arm. “Are you going up to have a snooze? I bet you haven’t slept a wink, have you?”
“No I haven’t had any sleep. I am suddenly really exhausted. But I wouldn’t mind seeing some of the Hunt in full flight, Agnes.”
Sophia stood up and said that she would go upstairs to grab a set of binoculars. She looked exhausted as she walked out of the room. Brandon turned to Agnes and asked where the Hunt was going and where it would end up.
“Well I shouldn’t be giving out this information, however you are now a part of Glen Dorking clan so I will give you a map of the Hunt route. It will finish at the bottom pubs car park this year and then everyone comes back here for a bit of rest and attend to the horses. Then the top village pub puts on a dinner starting about 6-30 and some entertainment that goes to the wee small hours of the night. It’s jolly good fun and the whole district turns out for it.”
“Can I ask how you know all this? I thought it was supposed to be top secret?”
“Yes. But you forget that I am on the Hunt committee. We try to share the profits from the event amongst the two villages, since Lord Birmingham death that is.”
“Why, what happened before that?”
“Oh. The hunt would always start here and then run through the villages to finish back here where he would put on the drinks, dinner and his entertainment.” Agnes said.
“Why did it change then?”
“Well Sophia decided that the local economy could do with the boost. It has been great for both the villages and surrounding farm lets. The Hunt numbers have gone from some 30 riders to this year we have 324 riders and then when you count the spectators the area benefits from all the extra attention generated. It is not only this weekend, though. People come back here during the year for weekends. There are some very good horse trails around the area and Lady Sophia is trying to do some work to develop these into a draw card to attract more sedate riders. The only stumbling block is Alfred. And I don’t know after last night’s incident how it will play out now.”
“OK, now you have my interest.”
“Most of the trails would be superb if they could go through a couple of acres on Alfred’s place. But Alfred being, well Alfred, he will not entertain the idea unless he has some way of making money out of it for himself. It’s a shame because everyone else can see the sense of allowing the odd rider to cross their paddocks.” Agnes said.
Very interesting, thought Brandon.
Sophia came through the door at that moment. “Have you managed to charm the map out of Agnes yet?”
“Yes and I didn’t have to remove any of my clothing to do so.” Brandon said standing and smiling at the same time.
Agnes put a hand on her chest “Oh, My, if I’d known that I would have had a show like that, I would have held out.” She shrugged her shoulders and turned away mumbling something about her heart not being able to cope with it anyway.
Sophia headed for the door and laughed as she had had the same thought only yesterday.
Brandon had a moment of spontaneity and walked over to Agnes and kissed her on her check.
“Don’t ask what that was for because I have no idea myself” Brandon said as he turned and walked out the door past a staring Sophia, who followed closely behind.
They headed for the garage where Sophia jumped into the driver’s side. Brandon turned to her and said “You have a good family here, even if you don’t see it as a family. It may not be postcard perfect but you are surrounded by people who love you.” He just managed to stop himself from saying and that includes me. It would have Sophia running for her life. But the thought still wanted to be said. Quickly he tried to think of a way to stop the words from coming out so he did the only thing he could think of. He leaned over and kissed her. Somehow she ended up straddled on his lap in the passenger seat of the Land rover driving him insane. Perhaps this was not the best option to take the strain out of his
body. Perhaps telling her he loved her would have been better.
Chapter Twenty
Sophia had never straddled a man, any man, let alone one this sexy nor in the front seat of a Land rover in the garage where anyone could walk in and see them. At this moment she couldn’t care less because her body was rubbing against his and it felt good. Really good.
“You are driving me wild, woman. Please stop or you are not getting out of here anytime soon.”
She barely breathed out “I can’t stop.”
Well that was it, for Brandon. A man only has a certain level of control and Sophia had rubbed him way past that. “I don’t have any condoms left.” Brandon breathed.
“At this point I don’t think I care.”
“Let’s do this instead” Brandon reached for the zip on Sophia’s jeans as she continued to rub herself up against his now engorged erection. He put his hand between her legs and she let out a groan and threw her head back. With one hand rubbing against her nub he used the other to lift her top and extract a nipple from her bra then began to suck, softly at first then he could feel her organism growing, he sucked harder. He was just about to explode himself when she came apart on him. As he felt the first spasms he pushed two fingers inside her and felt her contract around them. It was heaven. Sophia slumped against his shoulder for a moment to recover. She said something but he couldn’t quite understand her. Sophia lifted her head and repeated “That was not fair, to you.”
“Oh I don’t know. I couldn’t say that I didn’t enjoy watching you.”
“Yes but look at you” she said looking at him bursting out of his jeans.
“It’s OK. Nothing that won’t go away, in a day or two.” He said with a smile.
Sophia sat up and looked around. As fast as lightning she said “Stay here, I’ll be back in a minute.” And with that she jumped out of the car zipping up her jeans as she went out a side door of the garage. Brandon thought that in his present state it was unlikely that if the garage started to burn down that he would move. What if Agnes came to his rescue, she would be horrified that a man, carrying an erection like this, had just given her a kiss on the check…….No he was sitting here no matter what. Next minute Sophia stuck her head around the corner of the garage and motioned for Brandon to follow her. Well maybe he could make an exception for Sophia, about leaving the garage. She ran across the courtyard leading to yet another block of stables with Brandon in hot pursuit. As he entered the stone building he spotted Sophia climbing a ladder to a floor above the stables. He really wanted to touch that very tantalizing bottom that was making its’ way up the ladder. So he quickly followed her up. When he reached the top Sophia was standing there not making any secret that she was checking out his present state.
He started to ask what they were doing when she put a finger to his lips and said “Shh. Please, I am pretending to be brave here and I will lose my nerve if you say anything.”
Well he wouldn’t want to spoil the party so he just followed her deeper into the loft. It had bails of fairly new hay, or so he supposed because it wasn’t dusty or dank. Sophia stopped and looked left then right then took a few strides to her left. As she walked she took off her top and threw in on a bale, then turned to look at Brandon. He certainly didn’t need to be asked twice. His T-shirt landed somewhere…His shoes somewhere else, he thought, he was reaching for his button on his jeans when Sophia took the two steps separating them and started to undo his jeans for him. Her eyes never left his face. His eyes never left hers. The jeans fell to the floor and Brandon walked out of them. He scooped her up in one swift movement and headed for the soft hay. Sophia’s jeans ended up somewhere along with her underwear. Brandon suddenly stopped. They couldn’t do this, there was no protection. Sophia must have read his mind because she produced the most beautiful square foiled package Brandon had ever seen in his life from the palm of her hand. Yes it may have been a boring blue color but it held the key to an experience he wished to have limitless numbers of times with the woman laying underneath him at this moment.
“Hang on a minute…..” He started to say with a frown on his face.
“I remembered that Teddy has a stack of these in a drawer in the tack room. Although, this is the only one left. I should really keep a better eye on this place…..”
Brandon went to grab the packet but was surprised by the speed and strength of Sophia as she rolled Brandon onto his back. She sat straddling his thighs and this bought back very vivid memories of what they were doing to the garage only moments ago. There went any hope of control. Sophia tore open the blue foil and hesitated. She looked up at Brandon uncertain. He put his both hands behind his head and raised an eyebrow, gave a smug grin and said “I’m all yours, do whatever you want to do. Anything at all, I won’t mind.” Sophia looked him up and down for a few seconds and then looked at his face again, she then bent her head down to his chest and started to kiss him. She continued her way down until she reached his erection. She had never done this before and wasn’t really sure if she would do it right. But Brandon did say whatever she wanted. He was just so damn sexy and she may never get another chance to touch such a body again. So she wanted to play.
Brandon did not expect her to drive him to the brink of insanity in two seconds but she held his mind and clearly his body. She had just taken him into her mouth. God this was mind blowing. If she didn’t stop he would not be able to. He gently pulled her up and with no amount of effort tried to stop the explosion that was rising from his body. She wore a hurt expression but all he could do was hold his hand up in a signal to say stop. After a few seconds he could talk. “I was so close to losing it then.”
“Really?”
“I don’t think you realize how sexy you are, do you?”
“Smooth line Mister.” With that she reached down and put on the condom. He again put his hands behind his head and let her be in control. She was very wet and he slid inside her easily but she was setting the pace and was taking her time which was impossible..:
Now Brandon prided himself on being a good and patient lover but never before had a woman had him so ready to explode before he was fully inside her. He couldn’t wait, his hands were on her hips and he drove himself inside of her. She rose above him and waited. He pushed her down again. She rose above him, he was about to push her down when she slammed herself down onto him. Then he felt the first spasm of her orgasm. He gritted his teeth and as she slowly lifted herself off him he could feel her building. Sophia slammed down so solidly on him he thought he was going to pass out from the sensation and then they both exploded together. Just as her orgasm ended Brandon grabbed hold of Sophia and flipped them around so he was on top whilst still inside her. He let his fingers find her center and he rubbed in a soft lazy circular motion. When she came again moments later around his still semi erect penis he truly thought he’d died and gone to heaven. Finally she slumped from exhausted. He put his arms around her and enjoyed the aftermath of her orgasm.
Chapter Twenty-One
“I’m sorry but I can’t get the grin off my face. And no amount of threatening me will make this expression go away.” Brandon said to Sophia who went back to looking across the field through the binoculars.
“You are making it obvious that we’ve been up to something.” Sophia mumbled.
“We are also standing on a deserted road looking at cows looking at us…….actually we are here alone. There is no one watching us……”
“Don’t you dare” squealed Sophia as Brandon caught her trying to dash past him and he tossed her gently onto the bonnet of the Rover. He then moved in for a kiss. She could see the temptation of having her clothes just fall off and making love to this man in the middle of the roadway. It appeared that she could not get enough of him. And she knew there was plenty of him, for sure, that made her laugh. He, of course, took that as an invitation.
“No. I was laughing at something.” She tried to say.
Mr. Lanky had run across the field some mi
nutes before. It was toward the end of the Hunt route and he was doing a good job of keeping in front of the pack. Brandon had to admire him, this poor guy had been running for his life for quite a while.
Sophia was still sitting on the bonnet of the Rover and had wrapped her arms and legs around Brandon and said “Do you realize that that poor chap has been running the whole time we were in the loft and the front of the car? Poor fellow.”
They both heard the noise of a vehicle coming up the road and separated like naughty teenagers. Then realized what they would look like so tried very hard to act normal. Needless to say that caused yet another bout of giggling from them both.
“I have not laughed this much in years.” Brandon said as he leaned up against the vehicle trying to look nonchalant.
Sophia turned to look at him “Neither have I.” She reached out and touched his hand and he squeezed her hand with affection. After that they were swept up with the crowd in the madness of the hunt.
As expected the Hunt ended at the top village pub. Brandon realized again that horses equated to lots of hard work as they had to be cooled down, brushed down and loaded into lorries to be taken back to the Estate where they would be hosed off, fed and rugged for the night. Of course many of those riding just handed the horses over to others to do the dirty work but there were a number who no longer had staff. Sophia mentioned that the current Global financial situation had hit many with old money hard and they were having to fend for themselves for the first time in centuries. Brandon realized that this really highlighted how remarkable Sophia’s achievements were in turning her Estate around even in the worst of financial conditions.
