Rodeo Rancher

by Lauren Wood

It sounded cliché, but I didn’t know another way to get my point across. She was practically naked and staring up at me with those big blue eyes. What was I supposed to do? The first thing that sprang to my mind was to take her and make her mine. It had been in my thoughts since I had first met her and seeing her there like this was not doing anything to help that. All I needed was a sign.

  “I don’t know what you are talking about Joel.”

  She was playing coy and I was flustered. Moving a step closer, I lifted up her chin to have her really look at me. Cameron didn’t fight me and the woman’s shampoo was like an aphrodisiac. I couldn’t get enough of it and before I could stop myself, I was leaning down for a kiss. She didn’t have to answer me. Her body was doing enough talking for the both of us.

  Hearing a small whimper come from between her lips, I pushed my tongue in. She sighed and slumped against me a little bit. There was something about the sound and the softness in my arms that pushed me to the point of no return. I didn’t know why I was here, what her reasons were anyways, but I was very certain of mine.

  “Do you want me to stop?”

  It took a minute for Cameron to open her eyes and I could tell right away that she didn’t want me to stop. Her hands moved up to pull me back down, her hair spread all around her on the bed. The towel was coming undone and wouldn’t have taken anything to flick it the rest of the way off.

  Cameron shook her head after our eyes met. She didn’t say it out loud, but she didn’t have to. I had a feeling that this was what she wanted all along. I had just been too blind to see it. Why else would she have come out of the shower like this?

  “If I go any further, I am not going to be able to stop myself. I feel like I should warn you.”

  Cameron giggled and moved the towel to the side, revealing half of her body in one shot. I sucked in a breath and filled my eyes with all of her. Her skin was porcelain and there were small freckles on her shoulders that I wanted to explore. As I moved to climb back over her, her hips rose up and her hands started to undo my pants. I pulled back and told her not yet. There was no way that I was going to have a morsel of control if she put her hands on me. I wasn’t that strong of a man and I knew that.

  “Let me touch you and really see you. I have wanted to get my hands on you for a long time Cameron. Just let me love you.”

  She stopped with my words and I was pretty sure it was the last bit that she had heard the most. I did love her. Carlos had seen it and even though I tried to deny it, it was there for all to see. Her eyes closed as my hands moved to push the other side of the towel down and let it fall beside her onto the bed.

  The perfection was complete and she was everything that I had hoped she would be. Cameron didn’t try to hide herself, but she didn’t seem able to look me in my eyes as I touched her. Not at first anyways, so that just left me time to really take every curve of her in. When my body leaned in to kiss her neck, I rubbed the part of me that desired her most against her own heated core and I heard the soft whimper come through her lips. Each sound and rise of her towards me made it harder than ever to take things slow.

  It was impossible to keep her hands off of me and while I kissed on her, Cameron was pulling my shirt off and over my head. I tried to stop her, but in the end I lifted up to help her. She was determined and I was ready to feel her hot skin against mine.

  Cameron was getting impatient, as was I. I moved to slide between her thighs, my mouth anxious to get a taste of her.

  “No Joel, I can’t.”

  I didn’t know what she was telling me no about, so I moved up to look at her. Did she really want me to stop? I was ready to burst at the seams and she was ready to stop. It didn’t make sense to me no matter how many times I played it in my head.

  “What?”

  “I don’t want to wait anymore. I want to feel you inside of me.”

  That was not what I had expected or along the lines I had been thinking. As long as she wanted me, I didn’t care which way.

  “What do you want?”

  “I want you inside of me Joel. Right now. That is why I called you here.”

  I moved back from her and stood up, fighting my pants off and almost falling because I forgot that I had to take my boots off first. While I had wanted to be sexy and manly, Cameron ended up doubled over in tears from laughter. It wasn’t the impression that I was trying to leave in her, though it all changed when I climbed back on top of her and she looked between our bodies.

  “Oh.”

  Grinning at her, I positioned myself right at her wet opening and pressed in. I didn’t give her time to ready herself. She didn’t need it because she was soaked from our kisses. Gritting my teeth to the hot tightness, I heard Cameron cry out underneath me. She felt so good and I was lost in lust, not able to stop the quick thrusting that my hips began. It was impossible not to slam forward over and over again, each time rewarded with more of her hot sheath and desperates sound from her mouth. It was all too perfect and I had to pull out before I made it end too soon.

  “Don’t stop, please Joel. I am about to come!”

  Pushing forward till I hit bottom, Cameron made a gasping sound as my cock flooded with fluid. It was so much I had to pull out from the pressure and with it came a gush of wetness. She wasn’t joking about coming and the very action sent my mind into a spiral.

  With the sound of her wetness on our skin slapping together, I moved faster, prolonging her pleasure as I came to my own. It was then that I knew she was mine forever.

  Breathing heavy, I moved down to kiss her and she moaned as I jerked in her depths. I had never been so relaxed in all of my life. I had been waiting for this day for a very long time and there was no part of me that wanted to leave her. If there was a way for me to have stayed inside of her forever, I would have.

  “I need a minute Joel.”

  I had gotten hard inside of her almost immediately and moved deeper to see her reaction. Her hand moved to my chest and I knew that she really did need some time. I had been rough with her and I wanted to do it again. She felt too good to stop, but the pressure on my chest was enough to snap me out of it. I wanted her to beg for more, not for me to stop.

  Pulling free, she relaxed and I was left looking down at her. I wasn’t done, couldn’t be done, but it was clear to me that she was. Her back was still arched from where I had held her and she was tempting me back into the bed.

  “If you need a minute Cameron, you are going to have to cover up a bit better.”

  She giggled, unaware of how serious I was and how close I felt to losing myself inside of her once more. She was perfect, Cameron really was and I was sure that she didn’t know it.

  “Is that a threat?”

  “No, it is a promise.”

  She covered up, but it was only for a few minutes before she was pulling it back off and calling me on my bluff. It wasn’t a bluff though and I was quickly showing her that I was a man of my word.

  Chapter 16

  Cameron

  It took a bit of convincing, but I finally got Joel out of my apartment. I had to tell him simply that I just couldn’t think with him there and I had some thinking to do. Everything that I had imagined it would be, it was and somehow more. He was perfect for me in some ways, but so wrong in others. It was hard to see which way would be best. I didn’t want to think about everything that was going on with him though. I needed to focus on work and finding something else.

  He wanted to see me later the next day, but I told him I wasn’t sure. I still wasn’t sure what it was that I was doing with him. That was something that I needed to figure out first that didn’t involve him. My life in the city was in question and even though I had gotten a great severance package, I still had to find something soon or I wasn’t going to be able to stay in the city I had grown to love.

  I called around to a couple of job placement agencies to see what they had available. After a few calls I had several prospects in mind and an interview to do a few tests. I did
n’t mind something temporary until I could find something else. Not only would it help with me not dipping into my savings, but I would have something that I could do to keep my mind off of all of the unanswered questions running around up there.

  Just about to leave for the interview downtown, the doorbell rang and I was sure that it was Joel. I hadn’t seen him all day and I was starting to think that I shouldn’t have said anything about him coming over later. I wanted to see him and my heart started to race a little more when I thought he felt the same way and wanted to see me too.

  “Hey…”

  It wasn’t Joel. It was actually one of the last people that I would want to see then.

  “Stephen, what are you doing here?”

  I looked around out in the hallway, sure I was going to see Joel there ready to fight him again. If he knew the whole story, I was sure that he would, but I didn’t want any more trouble. The two of them acting like children had already ruined everything, so I certainly wasn’t going to encourage it.

  “I wanted to see you. I heard about what happened and I just wanted to say I was sorry. I had to do something to get the settlement and you know that I needed it.”

  I didn’t know anything except that I wanted him to leave. “Can you please just go? I don’t want to talk to you about this. I got fired because you lied and from what I hear, insisted that I get fired, so why are you here? Are you here just to rub it in my face?”

  The more I said, the more indignant I became. Why in the world was he even here?

  “Aren’t you going to invite me in? I wanted to talk to you and you are not making this easy. I wanted to tell you that I am sorry.”

  “You already did. You can go now Stephen. I have heard enough.”

  I went to shut the door and he stopped it with his hand and a foot. There was a touch of something in his eyes and the blonde-man wasn’t as appealing as he had been in the past. I had never really liked who he was, but even his outer attraction was gone when his face was screwed up in such a way.

  “I said to leave!”

  “I still don’t get why you had to be like this. I knew that you wouldn’t go with my story, that’s why I had to get them to get rid of you. If you would have just been someone that went with it, everything would have been easier on you.”

  My foot moved down to stomp on his so I could close the door. I heard Joel coming up the stairs, asking if everything was okay and I was relieved that he was there to help me. I didn’t care if he lost his temper then. I wanted him to be the guy that had smashed Stephen’s face before. There was nothing else that could be done. He had already ruined my life completely with his lies.

  “Stephen was just leaving.”

  Stephen looked back at Joel and for a moment I thought he was going to say something, but I think that he had learned his lesson the first time around. Joel was not someone that was to be messed with and even though I knew that Joel was gentle to me, he wasn’t the same to everyone else.

  “Yes I was just leaving. Think about what I said Cameron. I mean it.”

  I nodded my head, but felt a big rush of relief when he was down the stairs and out of my sight.

  “What was that about?”

  I shrugged, not really sure how to answer that. I don’t even think that Stephen knew what it was about, but there was the same look of jealousy in his eyes from before. I wasn’t sure if I liked it or not, but I was sure that he was feeling something for me.

  “So he just came over to say hi?”

  “No I think he was here to say he was sorry and get something from me. A date? I don’t know. Who knows with guys like him?”

  “I don’t like him showing up here like that Cameron.”

  The way he said it threw me off and it went back to that possession thing that he liked to do. “You know that we aren’t even dating right?”

  “No, we aren’t dating, but you are mine. You realize that, don’t you?”

  “Yours?”

  “In all ways Cameron, you are mine. I don’t want you thinking that this was just a one-time thing with us. This is going to be much more than that.”

  I could feel my face getting red and though I would have liked to stay and talk about that further, I had to leave for that interview. “I need to go for a bit. We can talk about this later, okay?”

  He agreed, but I could tell that he was put off by my unwillingness to stay. Joel made sure that he kissed me before going downstairs and I wondered for a moment what he meant about me being his. I didn’t like the idea of being owned like I was some kind of property, but I liked the idea of him owning me. I really liked the idea of it being Joel.

  As I was walking down the stairs to go out to the garage, Joel stuck his head out of his door and asked me to come by for dinner. I agreed to go, but I didn’t know what time I was going to be back. “I will just keep it warm if you are late. Just come by when you can. I will be home all night. I really want to see you.”

  “Okay.”

  It was all I could get out and even then it felt like it was stuck in my throat. I still hadn’t dealt with Joel and the more I thought about him, the weaker in the knees I got. The whole interview I was thinking about and I don’t even really know how I did. I did the tests that they wanted of me and before I could realize that it was over, the blonde haired older woman named Denise was telling me that she would get back to me soon.

  Leaving the placement service, I was looking for my car when I saw a black sports car that seemed out of place. It wasn’t the type of car that would be unnoticed in that part of the city and the black-haired woman behind the wheel seemed to be staring at me. I was sure that it was all in my head, but it gave me a weird feeling and I was always one to go with my instinct.

  Walking faster to my car, I didn’t feel better until I was away from the agency and I didn’t see the black town car behind me. Chiding myself for being such a dope, I paid attention to the road and tried to keep my thoughts from where they wanted to drift.

  Getting back to the apartment, I was on edge for some reason. Maybe it was the strange woman and the strange car that I had seen when I got out of the agency or maybe it was the conversation that I had started with Joel. Either way, I was on edge and I still had to get ready for my date with the manager. I wanted to look nice and I wanted everything to be perfect, but it was hard to push aside the ill feelings that I was having. Something just wasn’t right.

  I somehow got to my place without seeing Joel and with no uninvited surprises. To me, that was a good day and I went inside to get ready. What was I supposed to wear? I was pushing towards something short and slutty. There was no reason to pretend that I was going to be there for anything other than that.

  With a little makeup and my hair pulled back from my face, I threw a coat on a very slinky dress and made my way downstairs to see him. There was no answer when I knocked on the door and I waited for quite some time before I went back upstairs, confused and a little hurt. Where was he?

  Chapter 17

  Joel

  “What the hell are you doing here Lisa?”

  My ex-wife didn’t like the question and like everything else, she was there for a reason. While I was sure that the reason was to drive me crazy, I knew that she wanted something from me or she wouldn’t be there at all. Lisa didn’t just pop up unless something was about to happen. She had a knack for that and it made me nervous. What was she doing here?

  “I was in town and someone told me that you moved here. I didn’t believe it, but here you are. I thought you were never going to leave Chicago. I couldn’t even get you to travel out of the tri-state.”

  “Well I did. I would like to say that it is a good time Lisa, but like usual, it’s not.”

  She pouted a little bit and I remembered the look well. Everything was coming back to a memory that didn’t want to remember. The woman broke my heart into a million little pieces and the last thing that I wanted to do was give her the ability to do it again.

  “
When did you get so bitter Joel?”

  I sighed out loud and asked her again what she wanted. I wasn’t going to listen to her tear me down, not this time. I was in a good place and here I was making dinner for another woman. I wouldn’t say that I was bitter, except when it came to Lisa. With her I was bitter because of what she had done. It was something that I couldn’t forgive and I didn’t want to forgive her.

  “You just caught me off guard. It isn’t every day I see you.” I had thought that I had moved far enough away to never see her again. Apparently that was wrong and the world was obviously too small.

  “I just wanted to see you. I tried to call a couple of times but you turned your phone off, so I had to come down here and see you.”

  “Or you could have just left me alone. I don’t know why you are here Lisa, but I have plans for the night that don’t include my ex-wife. I pushed the exe part to remind her of our divorce. The marriage might not have meant anything to her, but the divorce had meant a lot to me. I wasn’t going to pretend that she didn’t break my heart. That would be a waste of time. This woman took my heart and stomped it out on the sidewalk. I wasn’t going to let her do that again.

  “I miss you. Isn’t that enough of a reason to see you?”

  I shook my head that it wasn’t. I knew that I was being harsh, but I couldn’t help it. The way she left me was the worst I had ever been. I couldn’t just forget that and I couldn’t give her an opportunity to do it again because Lisa would. I could already feel my body responding like an idiot.

  “You need to get to the point or leave. I don’t have time for this Lisa.”

  She gave me this look that told me everything that I needed to know. Lisa still had some sort of hold on me and she wanted something from me. There was no telling with her what it was going to be. Whatever it was, I needed to get her out of my life before she came in like a steam roller and destroyed it all. It was only then that I thought about Cameron and the fact that she was going to be back any time. I wasn’t sure when, but I knew that it wouldn’t be good if she passed by and we were out here talking.