Kelsey felt her nails digging into his shoulders holding him to her as she arched into him. His hands were moving over her stomach and she felt them tug at her shorts, pulling them down and off her legs, taking her underwear with them as he pushed between her legs. His thick cock pressed against her thigh making her wiggle and mewl as the need to have him inside her burned through her.
Burner seemed to understand her wordless plea or maybe he was just as lost as she was to the passion that stirred between them because he moved to position himself at her entrance. She moaned as he slid slowly into her, pushing deep in one slick thrust. He paused above her, his blue eyes darkened with emotion as he gazed down at her, his lips parted slightly. She felt dazed by the explosive want that detonated inside her. Kelsey couldn’t catch her breath as she silently watched him hover over her, just staring at her with a possessive gleam in his eyes.
“You’re mine, babe. I won’t take no for an answer anymore. I warned you a long time ago that I took what I wanted and baby, I want to own you.” Burner’s words dripped with the arrogance she had once hated him for, but somehow at the moment with him buried inside her it didn’t bother her. Maybe it was the way he’d opened up to her about what he went through or maybe it was that she had missed him desperately because she loved him, but whatever it was sent elation thudding through her.
“What if I don’t agree?” she asked, trying not to give in to the need to just agree with him without making him pay for hurting her.
“Too damned bad. Like I said, you should have run but you didn’t and now you’re mine.” Burner’s voice became hard and possessive when he uttered that last word before he began thrusting into her with deep heavy strokes that had her panting after only a few and crying out in orgasm a minute after that. She felt the power of the bliss that speared through her like an arrow, making her almost pass out from the waves of pleasure that passed over her. Burner was still working on his own orgasm, but the satisfied look he wore as he continued told her he was enjoying her pleasure too.
When he came, it was with a shout of her name as he collapsed on top of her, pressing her into the hard ground beneath her for a long moment before he finally managed to roll off her to lie panting in the grass beside her. Reaching out, he pulled her onto his chest, his eyes closed as he rested her over his heart. Kelsey lay there with him catching her breath.
“I missed you too, Burner,” she whispered, her lips kissing his chest in a reverent caress.
Chapter Twenty-five
Burner lay beside Kelsey on the ground panting, his arm wrapped around her as she rested on his chest, her fingers lightly caressing him. He cringed a little because he really should have at the very least taken her inside before making love to her but once he’d touched her again he couldn’t stop. He lost himself when he was with her. It had always been that way with Kelsey, likely because he was in love with her and had been for a long time, he realized. His hand lifted to rub over her back, the shirt he had never fully removed bunching a bit as he did.
“We should go inside. I didn’t mean to tackle you in the dirt.” Burner winced a little as he spoke.
“It’s okay. I like it out here and I would have tackled you eventually if you hadn’t beat me to it.” Kelsey giggled as she sat up a little, looking down at him. He felt relieved when she didn’t protest lying in the grass with him. Her eyes moved over his chest and abs in appreciation before a frown formed on her brow and she rubbed over several places on his chest. “What are these little red bumps all over your chest?”
Burner couldn’t help the chuckle that escaped him. “Ask your sisters,” he responded, seeing Kelsey narrow her eyes and a dark glower form, pulling her skin tight over her cheeks.
“What did they do?” she demanded.
“I’m not telling. I will say they are devilishly fiendish when riled though. We might need to bring Hanna in on some club interrogations because I bet she could come up with all kinds of crazy shit that would make them talk just to get it to stop.” Burner grinned, almost half serious.
“I told her not to do anything to you, damn it!” Kelsey said sitting up fully, her face contorted with anger. Her delicate hands squeezed into tight fists that he grabbed, pulling her back down to lie on his shoulder.
“Relax, I kind of deserved it.” Burner saw her raise a brow in question and felt a trace of heat enter his cheeks.
“Why, what did you do?” Kelsey sounded a little worried and she frowned at him, her hands flattened on his chest so that she could hover above him, waiting for him to speak.
“I might have broken into your apartment to sleep in your bed for the last few weeks because I couldn’t stand not being close to you,” Burner told her, looking at the sky and trying to avoid eye contact with her because he was a little embarrassed by his need for her.
Kelsey let out a laugh as she leaned down, her lips brushing over his. “Oh Burner, you’re such a bad boy. Wait, why did you break in? I mean why didn’t you just use Hanna’s key?”
“Hanna took it the day she gave me the ice bath.”
Kelsey began to laugh, her whole body shaking against his before she fell back on the ground on her back still laughing. Burner scowled because it wasn’t that damned funny. He sat up on his elbow to glare at her as she lay there laughing at him.
“I–I just can’t help it. Hanna found you asleep in my bed and she dumped ice water on you.” Burner found himself grinning as he watched her; she continued to laugh deep bellied cackles that made her glow with a happiness he couldn’t help but admire. He let out a little sigh, shaking his head and staring down at her as her laughter finally stopped and she gazed up at him with a soft look in her eyes that made his chest ache.
“I think you enjoyed hearing what you sister did to me way too much, babe,” he muttered.
“Ha, you deserved a little payback after being such an ass when you left me. I’m glad Hanna made you suffer a little.” Kelsey lifted her hand, cupping his cheek when he frowned and turned away from her. “I’m not mad anymore about that, Burner, but don’t you ever talk to me like that again.”
“Yeah, I know it was way out of line. I–shit, I don’t even know how you can forgive me for it,” he grumbled, his eyes darkening with self-loathing.
“Stop, no more doubt and no more bullshit either. I don’t want to wake up in a week and find that you’re pulling away again. I won’t put up with that, Burner. One chance is all you get from me,” Kelsey told him, her eyes narrowed on him.
Cupping her cheek, he lowered his mouth to hers, his tongue parting her lips to delve inside for a long lazy duel before pulling away to whisper, “You won’t. I can’t bear being away from you. It nearly drove me crazy not knowing where you were for the past few weeks.”
“How did you find me anyway?” she asked him and he couldn’t help the guilt that twisted his guts. What should her tell her? He didn’t want her mad at him again but he didn’t know what to say about how he’d found her. Would she be angry that he’d gone to such lengths to find her because he needed to be with her? He didn’t know but he thought it better not to push it.
“I asked Greta,” he said and that was technically true. “She told me.” He hoped she wouldn’t press him for more information because he really didn’t want to have her mad at him when he’d just made up with her.
“You do know that I know my sister better than that, right? If she’d wanted to tell you she would have called me first.” Kelsey glared at him
“Technically, I did ask her and she did tell me,” Burner told her.
“Uh-huh and how did she technically tell you, Burner?” she commanded. Her narrowed green eyes were sparkling with a gleam he didn’t recognize. He let out a little sigh before rolling to his back, staring up at the darkened sky with the tiny dots of stars just starting to be visible.
After a moment of silence, Kelsey seemed to lose her patience. “How, Burner,” she snapped, making him let out a little grunt before he responded.
“I might have eavesdropped on them and then called a guy I know in the property office to have him look up the deed to this place.” Kelsey snickered and leaned over him, kissing his chin and then his mouth lightly. Burner tried to capture her lips and deepen the kiss but she pulled away, looking down at him with a wide grin spread over her face that took his breath away. She was so damned beautiful when she smiled; his heart always picked up speed when he saw it making him feel as if it was fluttering in his chest.
“That sounds more like what really happened. You know if they found out that’s how you found me, they would really be pissed off about it,” she said, a wicked twist to her smile now and she wiggled her eyebrows.
“Shit, don’t tell them,” Burner found himself saying in an embarrassingly hoarse voice because who the fuck knew what her two crazy-assed sisters would come up with to punish him with.
“Hmm, I don’t know. I might have to think about–” Burner tackled her, rolling her to her back, kissing along her jaw before moving to her lips to kiss her senseless before he pulled away looking down at her.
“You were saying?” he asked, seeing the slightly dazed look in her eyes and feeling her hands tightly clutching him, one curled in his hair and the other digging into the skin on his shoulder.
“I don’t remember,” she whispered, trying to pull him down to her so she could get more kisses most likely. Burner was about to comply when something ran across his fingers and he glanced at his hand and almost screamed because the biggest spider he’d ever seen in his life was crawling towards her hair near his hand. Grabbing her, he jerked her up to her feet, staring at the creepy little fucker.
“What’s wrong?” Kelsey questioned, following his gaze.
“It’s a big spider and I didn’t want it to bite you.”
“That?” she asked, pointing to the spider on the ground near where they’d been laying. Burner nodded and she looked from it to him and back again. Then she snickered a little, making him glare at her because you would think she’d be glad he’d saved her from the giant thing, not laughing about it.
“Yes, that spider. It’s fucking huge and we’re a long way from a doctor,” he grumbled, glaring at her.
“You’re afraid of that,” she said, pointing at it again.
“No, I just thought you would rather it not bite you,” Burner grunted and frowned because he wasn’t scared, it was just that he didn’t like the damned things.
“Oh my God, you are! You’re afraid of spiders. And–and…” She couldn’t finished because she was currently laughing so hard she was bent forward holding her stomach as she made incoherent sounds and pointed at the escaping spider.
“I am not! You would think you’d be glad I didn’t let it bite you instead of laughing like a hyena,” Burner grumbled, grabbing his pants to put them on before standing with his arms crossed glaring at a still giggling Kelsey.
“Yo–you realize th–that’s a grand daddy long leg, right?” Kelsey asked a little breathlessly, making him tilt his head and stare at her, unsure why the type of spider it was mattered in the least.
“So?” he snapped at her, bending to grab her shorts and handing them to her. Kelsey took them and shook her head and giggled again.
“Put those on, we’re going inside, damn it.” Burner didn’t like that she was having such fun at his expense. He wasn’t afraid of spiders, he just found them creepy and yeah, that might be a little lame but all those legs and teeth and shit made him nervous.
“Okay, but Burner, those aren’t going to bite you. They’re not even spiders,” Kelsey explained as she stepped into her shorts while holding onto his arm to steady herself.
“Kelsey, it’s a damned spider. It’s got all those creepy legs and I’m sure if you looked closely you’d see the fangs,” Burner insisted, glaring at her.
“No, it doesn’t. Watch, I’ll show you.” Kelsey rolled her eyes and took two steps towards it. He grabbed her around the waist when she would have gone after the damned thing and gotten bitten to prove him wrong.
Damned, stubborn woman!
“What are you doing? No, don’t throw me over your shoulder like a sack of potatoes, damn it. Burner, what am I going to do with you?”
“I don’t know. Love me like I love you?” he asked before he proceeded to heft her over his shoulder.
“I do love you, but put me down! Burner!” she screeched and he let out a little growl even as a smile curled his lips and he stomped towards the cabin with a laughing Kelsey smacking his butt every other step. He was still shaking his head at her crazily chasing after a big-assed spider to try and prove him wrong when he tossed her on the bed and ravished her a few minutes later.
Kelsey leaned across the bar to accept the kiss Burner was offering her, having arrived about ten minutes ago. He held the back of her head, their tongues dueling as shivers of desire raced down her spine. No matter how many times he caressed her over the past three weeks since they returned to Death Valley after a blissful week at the cabin, she still trembled when he touched her.
“Ugg, not again. Could you two do that sappy crap in the back or something?” Hanna grumbled. Burner pulled away to glance at her sister with a wide grin.
“Jealous?” he asked, making Kelsey laugh at the expression on Hanna’s face. Her mouth fell open and she crossed her eyes before she shook her head.
“Hell no. I would just rather not see you molest my sister all the damned time, asshole,” she snapped. Kelsey sighed. Hanna was not Burner’s biggest fan. In fact she had become downright annoying with her disapproval.
“Leave them alone, Hanna,” Greta said, walking out from the back. “If she wants to date him, it’s her business. Now, we have work to do. Come on.” She hooked her arm in Hanna’s and dragged her away to the other end of the bar with a little wink at Kelsey.
It still shocked her that Greta was Burner’s biggest supporter since they got back from the cabin. The week they’d spent there had been bittersweet. Burner had made love to her often but when it was dark and quiet he would talk about some of the things that he went through. It tore her heart apart to hear some of what he’d had to do with the Headhunters but it had connected them in a way she’d never thought they would be.
“Can you leave?” Burner asked grinning.
“No, she can’t. We’re busy,” Hanna called from where she was a few feet down the bar fixing a rumrunner.
“Yes, I can,” Kelsey said before adding in a louder voice, “Because I own half this bar and my sisters and Brenda can handle it tonight. I only came in because I was bored waiting on you at the house.” She hadn’t thought he’d be home tonight because two nights ago he’d gone on a run with Reaper, Animal and Lock. He wasn’t supposed to be back till tomorrow.
“Good. Go grab your stuff cause I have a surprise for you,” Burner said, brushing her hair behind her ear with a little grin splitting his face.
“Done, be back in a minute,” Kelsey told him before heading into the back room to grab her bag. A minute later she was waving to a grumbling Hanna and a smiling Greta as she let Burner guide her out to his bike and help her on.
“Hold on tight, babe.”
Kelsey sighed, leaning into his back with a little frown and holding on to his stomach tightly as the bike took off. He was always overprotective but after what he experienced it was something she was trying to deal with because she understood why he felt he had to keep her safe, even if it annoyed her. She couldn’t fault him for trying to keep her sheltered.
They pulled up to her apartment and she grinned because she realized what he wanted to show her was likely his dick because it had been two days since they had seen each other. She almost laughed at the thought as he parked and helped her off the bike.
“I missed you,” he whispered, leaning down to kiss her on the forehead before walking her to the door. Kelsey was a little disappointed that he’d only placed that chaste kiss before he turned to head inside. Her lips compressed into a tight line and
she glared at his back as he walked towards the door. He couldn’t have missed her much with a greeting like that. She waited while he opened the door to the apartment entering ahead of her. Her anger left her when she saw the living room.
Burner had lit candles around the room and pushed the furniture out of the way to create a little pile of bedding on the floor in the living room reminding her of their time at the cabin. They had spent more than one night making love in front of the window watching the sunset through it because after the ‘spider’ incident he refused to go out to the meadow to watch it. A grin teased at the corners of her mouth as she thought of the look of revulsion on his face as he’d stared at the granddaddy long leg.
“I guess you did miss me,” she finally said, feeling her heart swell inside her as she leaned into his back, her face pressed to the back of his shoulder. Burner wasn’t ready and she almost fell when he stepped forward but he spun and his arm shot out catching her.
“Damn, I forget you’re so damned clumsy sometimes,” he muttered and she glared at him.
“You were the one who moved when I was leaning on you, not me,” Kelsey said defensively.
“You’re right. My bad.” He was grinning when he said it and she could almost hear the sarcasm in his voice but he ushered her towards the blankets and she saw the little picnic he’d set up. She sat down on the blanket with a little huff, almost ready to forgive him for calling her clumsy.
“I’ll be right back. Stay,” he barked, and turned to head into the kitchen. She watched him as he took two pots on the stove, pouring them into bowls before grabbing a tray from the fridge.
Kelsey glanced at the crackers and little breads that were already on the blanket and wondered if he thought she had starved while he was gone because she didn’t need this much food. He set the bowls and tray on the kitchen counter and grabbed a bottle of wine and two glasses for them, bringing those into the living room first before going back for the bowls and the tray. When he set down the bowls, she realized that one was melted cheese and the other was melted chocolate, while the tray had assorted fruits, meat and vegetables.
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