Lisa nodded when she thought she should nod. Eventually he’d started talking about making her something, and then he had taken her measurements. It had been thrilling the way she had stood so still while he reached around her in several spots with the tape measure and then wrote down the numbers. She had never had her measurements before. Lisa took the small slip of paper and tucked it away in one of her pockets.
“Well, I should be going,” Lisa said. Her hands were shaking and she didn't know why.
“Why so soon?” Ted said. “I have an extra horse shoe. In fact I've already had it sent over to the stable to have it switched out with the old shoe.”
Lisa stood stunned. He moved to the front of her and took her hands in his.
“What? Why?” She whispered. “Why are you being so nice to me?”
Ted put his curled finger under her chin and lifted her face to look at his.“Because you are a very special woman, Lisa, and I want you to know that you are a very special woman.”
“But, but, I am married,” she stuttered. He quickly laid a finger across her lips.
“I don't want to hear about that,” Ted said. “I realized that as soon as I saw you. I also knew that there was a reason you are alone right now. You needed a little time away from the homestead for a reason. Didn't you?”
Lisa turned away from him to study the street through a window. Finally she turned back after a few minutes. “Yes. I did need some times away from him. He can be so selfish. You have no idea. He does a lot around the homestead to be sure, but I have needs!”
Lisa slapped her palms against her thighs to punctuate the fact that she had needs because she did have needs. Ted reminded her with every glance she cast at him that she had very real needs.
“I'm sure you do have needs,” He took her in his arms and held her close.
“I know this might be hard to understand, but I don't want to come between you and your husband,” Ted said. “I just want you to feel good right now. Do you understand? I think that you and your husband can work out whatever it is you two have going on, but I know that right now we are together because we are supposed to be together.”
“What do you mean?” Lisa said, even though she already knew.
“I mean that I don't think it was an accident that you walked of the gangplanks into my store. I don't think that it is an accident that we are so attracted to each other. None of these things are accidents. Do you know what I'm saying?”
“I know how I feel right now. I know that you are here and I'm here,” Lisa said. “I know that you are right about one thing; I did come into town to get away from the homestead for a little bit. I'm glad that you don't want to come between me and my husband but I'm as equally glad that you want to make me feel good because I want you to make me feel good. I want you, Ted. More than I've ever wanted anyone or anything in my entire life, I want you right now!”
It was as if her words had unleashed a torrent of desire in both of them. Ted tagged her closer to him before bending his head to kiss her passionately. Masterfully he took his lips with his, his tongue tangling with her and mimicking all the delicious things she could imagine him doing to her body.
Lisa couldn’t help the quick spark of fire that flickered alive inside of her at the taste of him. He tasted of the sweet meal they had had along with mint and tobacco. So sweet and delicious! Eager to have more of him, she rose up to the tips of her toes, slanting her lips over his harder and needily. Ted must have known exactly what he was doing to her because he chuckled slightly before withdrawing his tongue from her mouth. Instead of kissing her as hard as she wanted he teased her with small pecks against her lips.
“I need you.” Lisa whimpered. With her words she pressed her breasts against the hard planes of his chest. “Please.”
“I know. I know.” He answered her plea with a smooth and prolonged trail of one of his palm down her back. The way his hand drew lower to cup her bottom then drag her closer to him was lewd yet somehow it felt oh so right. With his other hand he cupped her cheek, caressing the silky skin as his kisses whispered over the edges of her lips, teasing her and setting her nerves on fire.
His tenderness was sweet. It was special. It was sensual.
When he set his lips on hers again, it almost felt like her heart was about to crawl out of her body and lay her soul bare for him. She opened her lips to accept the taste of him, pressing her body even closer to him like she never wanted to let go. They were pasted so close together as they kissed that it felt like not even the thinnest blade could cut between them.
She should stop him.
This was not right.
What about Frank?
His tongue sunk deeper into her mouth, meshing with hers and wiping away her protest. So lost was she in his delicious seduction that she barely felt him pick her up and set her on one of his work tables. He kept his lips to hers as he smoothed his palms over her clothed thighs. The canvas was like a thin veil against his touch, it was no match to the electricity that he evoked each time he ran his hand from her knee to her hip.
She did not protest when his hands moved from her hip to the waist of her pants or when he undid the first button or when he started to lift her shirt. Her clothes fell off of her smoothly, like fetters released. Frank disappeared into nothing more than a faint mist lost in the fiery fires of Ted’s touch. If there had ever been a thought to stop Ted, it got tucked away into a closet that only he had the keys into.
“Has anyone told you how beautiful you are?” Ted whispered as he kissed her instep. Frank had told her but never quite the way Ted was telling her now. She deserved this soft kisses. She deserved this tender loving. She deserved more than the quick jaunts in bed that ended up with Frank plowing her belly like she was a strumpet he had picked in town. The more Ted touched her, the more certain she was that this is exactly what she needed.
His lips on her calf said that she was even more precious than all the wood in the world. The tender flick of his tongue along the length of her creamy legs made her feel like her skin was smoother than all his expensive fabrics. The small kiss on her knee, planted like a seed, carefully and precisely, as he journeyed up her leg said that there was nothing he would love to enjoy more than the taste of her and when he placed his lips on her upper thighs she new he meant every silent word.
Heat burned in her body. Her breasts swelled in need and her lower belly throbbed in need. She was half afraid that she was going to stain his expensive table. Ted didn’t seem to mind. In fact his nose flared at the scent of her arousal before he placed his lips there –right there.
“Ted.” Lisa yelped in shock, her eyes widening as she scooted away from him. No one had ever done that to her. Certainly not Frank! “What are you doing?”
“You’ll enjoy it.” Ted soothed pulling her back to the edge of the table. With a knowing smile, he once more bent his head and planted a kiss on the most sensitive part of her womanhood. Lisa couldn’t hold back the tiny whimper when his tongue flicked softly over her over-sensitized seam.
She had been touched there but not with a man’s mouth and never like this. Surely this was wrong. Surely she would go straight to hell for allowing a man, especially one who wasn’t her husband, to do these things to her. Surely, they would all …she screamed when he latched onto her clit with his lips, the electrical sensations zipping through her body with alarming speed.
Her eyes rolled and she moaned with pleasure as he flicked his tongue over it with expert precision. Lisa didn’t even realize that she wasn’t even sitting up on the table anymore. In her pleasure she had lowered herself until the only thing keeping her from completely lying on the table was her elbows planted on the hard surface. When he dipped his tongue into her, even that last support disappeared and she collapsed on the table on her back.
Ted’s lips released her bud, but it was only so his fingers could take over the work. He pushed a finger into her womanhood, easing it in and out. Lisa rose up and down following his
finger when he withdrew and tucking him deeper into her when he pushed in. When he added in a second finger, then a third, the sensations were so intense she was sure she was going to erupt.
While his fingers strummed a fine tune on her lower body, he kissed his way up body, placing soft tender pecks up her taut tummy to her breasts. Instead of immediately suckling them, he teased her by running the tip of his tongue around the swollen flesh, interchanging between each breast until he had had Lisa thrashing her head and arching her body off the table in need.
The teasing was too much.
“Ted. Ted. Ted.” She whimpered, her hands on the back of his head, urged him to bring her to completion. Ted was slow to respond but when he did it was well worth the wait. Almost the same time that he took her nipple into his mouth, he hooked his finger inside her touching some bundle of nerves that she had never even realized existed. With a keening cry Lisa came apart in his arms.
But it seemed she had come too fast because he didn’t stop the torture. His hands and his mouth played a sensual rhythm on her body causing it to light up in ways she had never even thought possible. Where she thought the pleasure ended, he started up a new fire till she was writhing again in another climax. In replete completion she lay, eyes clothes as the ripples continued to flicker through her body.
She barely even noticed him divest himself of his own clothes. She only realized he was naked when he lifted her from the table. She wrapped her arms around his neck and locked her long legs as he walked them to one of the sturdy seats. He settled with her on his lap, straddling his trunk like thighs.
His shaft lay beneath her. A hardened monster against her nether lips ready to maraud yet he didn’t hurry her. Instead he concentrated on kissing her and running his hands over her back. Almost unconsciously, she began to grind on him, fitting his heavy length in between her lips and coating him with her wetness. Immediately, her desire was reawakened.
“Are you ready?” He asked, instinctively knowing that she was ready for his possession.
She nodded, lowering her eyes in sudden shyness.
“Look at me,” Ted insisted. “Look at me, Lisa.”
She lifted her head to stare at him.
“Thank you for giving me this gift.” He said as he slowly lifted her. He fitted his shaft between her legs then started to lower her. Even as he lowered her further down his length, letting her womanhood engulf his steely heat, he kept his gaze on hers.
Unable to bear his sensuous scrutiny or the intensity of his possession as he entered her, she bent her head, tucking her face into his neck. There was so much of him, too much even. They both groaned when he his groin finally joined hers. For a minute he just sat with her in his arms and inside her. Frank had never had the patience to let her just enjoy that first sensation of a man inside her. But it seemed Ted had a bottomless pit of patience.
He waited her out till she was ready for him to start moving – and when he did, heaven and hell came apart. With firm hands on her waist, he lifted her up and down, filling her to the hilt then slowly retreating. Every stroke in was an exploration of her body, setting her on fire and burning her up.
She wanted it to stop. She wanted it to never stop.
She wanted to let go. She wanted to keep holding on.
With each stroke, he seemed to dig deeper into her excavating every last drop of sensation. Lisa couldn’t stop her own hands from moving to touch him. They had a mind of their own as they ran down his back, molded the firm tendons of his upper arms and cupped the back of his head. She clamped her walls tighter around his shaft as he thrust into her, instinctively riding him faster.
“Ted.” Her whole body rocked in pure bliss as finally the wave of pleasure hit her hard. Even then Ted continued to stroke inside her until with a groan he filled her with his hot seed.
“Oh yes,” Ted panted. “That was good, wasn't it? Did you like it? Was it good for you? Tell me it was good for you, as well. Tell me I didn't disappoint.”
Ted took Lisa's head in his hands and pulled it to his chest. Lisa listened to his heart beat go from frantic to the slow and steady rhythm of someone completely at rest and relaxed.
“You made me feel so good,” she said. “Better than I've ever felt before. I didn't even know that sex could be like that. You've given me something today much deeper than just an orgasm. You've done much more than fulfill the duties my husband refused to. You've been a good friend to me and shown me how things are supposed to be between a man and a woman.”
Ted smiled down at her. “I'm glad that you think so!”
For a moment Lisa smiled, but then she blanched and held Ted at arms length.
“But how can I go back to my husband now, knowing how it's supposed to be. How can you expect me to never ever feel again like you've just made me feel? Oh, wretched am I, that I must endure his cruel fumbling,” Lisa said.
Ted look puzzled for a moment, like he was trying to think of something to say but words were failing him.
“Well, whenever you come into town we could do it again,” Ted said.
For a moment Lisa considered it.
“I don't know,” Lisa said. “We promised each other that this time would be the last time and I'm not sure I'm ready to go back on that promise. People aren't supposed to cheat on their husbands, nor are they supposed to cheat with those who are married. We both knew this but decided to go ahead anyway because you were hot in the moment and I was deep with the need.”
My husband will never be able to make love to me like you just did.” She added, “I will spend the rest of my days thinking back on this moment. Every time my husband tries to make love to me, I’ll know he is doing it wrong because you showed me how it felt when it is done right!”
“Don't say such things!” Ted said. “Surely we can meet when you come into town, and although it might not be as much as you want, won't it be much better than never feeling that way again? I want to see you again after this!”
“I know I said that I wouldn't try to come between you and your husband, and that isn't what I'm trying to do,” he said, “I'm just saying that I want to make you feel good again is all. I don't know what about that is so wrong, or why you think that is so wrong. I do not think it wrong at all.”
Lisa put her head in her hands.
“Maybe you're right,” she said. “Maybe it isn't such a sin that we do this again. Maybe God sent me down Main Street today because I was supposed to meet you and I wasn't supposed to have married my husband years ago. Or maybe this is all wrong. I don't know.”
Ted looked at her sadly for a second, but then his face brightened with an idea.
“Well, maybe we don't have to decide today!” Ted said. “Maybe we can both think about it and in the future you can decide. Because I already know I will do whatever you want. Once you make a decision you can tell me. How does that sound? I don't want to pressure you into doing anything you don't want to do or into making any commitments to me that run contrary to your own desires.”
Lisa looked up at him, her face streaked with tears then hugged him.
“You're right, you're right,” she sobbed. “I shouldn't be so quick to make a decision. There is nothing but time in this world and no need for me to rush.” Ted stroked her hair and smiled down at her.
However she knew that whatever decision she made, she knew she would remember his gentle touch long after she left for the homestead.
Chapter 4
Lisa sat in the saddle of her horse, Jeb, headed out of town. She thought back fondly on what had happened that day as the sun dipped low in the horizon. She had made a new friend who had turned out to be much more than a friend. Although she knew that the relationship between her and Ted would never blossom as much as it deserved he was still very special to her.
Before she’d saddled up to ride out he had asked her to think about what he’d said about them doing it again every time she road into town. She’d tried to explain that she didn't come into town oft
en. In fact the most she came in to tows was probably twice a year, but he wouldn't have it. Pressing a finger to her lips to silence her, Ted had explained that he didn't need an answer right then. She could think about it for as long as it took.
Lisa had mounted up without saying anything further, and now she was headed back out on the dusty trail. The events of the day had pushed the thought of the Indian out of her mind, but as the shadows grew long as the sun set it call came back to her—the fear, the thoughts she'd had when she'd thought she was going to die.
There wasn't much she could do now but head back home. She wasn't worried about what Frank would say at all, though. She could easily make up some kind of story where it had taken her long than expected to get the shoe on. Lisa doubted that Frank would even say anything to her coming home after dark. When she really thought about it coming home after dark from town wasn't anything out of the ordinary.
Even though she didn't expect to make the same mistake twice, she had to be careful of how she acted around Frank. And there she went again, thinking that what had happened had been a mistake. Lisa was having a hard time recalling the exact line of thought that had made the affair okay in her mind, but she knew at the time something really good had occurred to her. Whatever it had been, she didn't feel horrible about what had happened, and that told her a lot.
Things with Frank weren't going well. That much was clear to her now.
Stress from trying to keep the homestead going had taken its toll on their relationship. It hadn't helped when she hadn't been able to get pregnant. Something she didn't like to think about and neither of them brought up was how she hadn't wanted to get pregnant before they tried and then she'd changed her mind.
Lisa wondered at times if Frank blamed her. She wondered if he thought that she’d asked God to make her pregnant. Maybe that was why he didn't take his duties as a husband seriously the vast majority of the time.
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