Loving You: A Cowboy Romance (Texas Hill Country Romance Book 1) (9 page)

On the TV, the contender was making his way to the ring. There was a lot of booing as the camera panned to different celebrities seated in the first and second row around the ring.

Cord asked Jake if he was able to find the time to work a few days in the next few weeks, to help him with his order of producing six trained horses.

Jake often worked with Cord when Cord needed him. They worked great together, and Jake, too, had a way with horses. Jake liked the work, and Cord always paid him well. So whenever that happened, Joan would hire on a handy man around the Shady Brook, allowing Jake the time away.

Cord was sitting up, blocking Annie’s view of the other side of the couch and Dan when he was talking to Jake.

“What’s the name of your ranch?”Annie asked.

Cord turned to her. “The Double C,” he replied.

Just at the same time Calista asked Cord, “What day do you plan on starting?” Annie said in a lower voice “I have two C’s, too. You wanna see them?”

Now, Cord heard Annie say something, and he placed a hand on her thigh to acknowledge her, but he sat back and turned to Calista to answer her question first.

‘Next Thursday or Fri-”

“Holy shit! Annie, did you just flash me your tits?” Dan yelled.

Cord looked to Dan then turned back to Annie, in fact, everyone turned to Annie, and her face turned beet red as she was rolling down her blouse.

“She’s at it again,” Calista said, laughing hysterically, “Give her one too many wines and she’s flashing everyone.”

“I do not.” Annie giggled.

“Fleet week 2007 ring a bell?” Calista said, still laughing.

“The whole fucking fleet?” Rory asked, incredulously, and there was another round of laughter.

“Yeah, no, well, she dared me,” Annie said, pointing to Calista, and unable to control her laughter.

Everyone looked to Calista.

“And she flashed, too.” Annie added.

Rory had a funny expression on his face. “I can see that,” he said.

Then Calista told the story of how they skipped school, rode the train into Manhattan, and went to the harbor. And as the boats sailed by, they flashed the sailors to whoops and cheers.

“Hey, have to support the troops, you know,” Annie said.

Cord looked at her, laughing and shaking his head.

“You weren’t supposed to move back,” Annie said to him.

“Show me,” he said to her, grinning.

“Nope, you missed it.” She climbed over Cord and got up. She went to the kitchen to fill up her wine glass, still laughing uncontrollably.

“Damn, that was the hottest thing, man,” Dan said, and they all laughed again, even Cord.

He followed Annie with his eyes, then quickly slid across the lounge and jumped over the couch’s arm. He ran to the kitchen where he watched Annie, with her back against the counter, laughing so hard, he too, couldn’t stop laughing.

“Show me,” he said again, still laughing as he walked over to her.

“No, I told you, too late.”

“Cord, the bell’s about to ring!” Jake yelled from the couch, indicating the match was going to start.

“Later,” he said to Annie, wagging his finger and flashing a wicked grin at her. He turned to walk back to the living room.

When he was by the doorway of the kitchen, Annie sung, “Corrrrd.”

He turned and she flashed him her tits.

“Oh, fuck me,” he said as he took three long strides over to her. “More,” he said.

“Uh-uh,” she teased.

He pulled her into his arms and leaned her back against the counter and kissed her as he crushed his body to hers.

She could feel his hard cock rub between her legs, and she parted them so she could feel him on her sex.

The sexual tension between them all night was driving her crazy and she wanted him as much as he wanted her.

While their tongues were busy dueling, she wrapped her arms around his neck and Cord placed his hands on her ass and lifted her up. She locked her legs around his waist.

He whispered at her mouth, “Stay with me tonight.”

“I can’t.”

“Why?”

“I have to be in work by four thirty in the morning,” she panted.

All the while they were whispering back and forth, they were rubbing and touching each other.

Cord was ready to explode. As he breathed heavy, he managed to say, “Sit.” He placed her on the counter and removed her legs from around him. He brought his hands up to her face and leaned his head against her forehead as he took a step back. “I can’t do this anymore.”

“Oh, I’m so sorry. Too heavy?”

“What? Are you kidding? No, babe, I’m about to embarrass myself in my pants.”

She smiled a wicked smile and reached to stroke his cock through his pants. He caught her hand with his and held it out to their side.

“Nu-uh,” he said. He looked intensely at her. “I want to fuck you, so bad,” he said to her.

“I want you so bad, too,” she said as she felt butterflies in her lower body shoot out the very core of her and continue down her legs at his declaration.

“Then say it.”

“I did, I want you, too.”

“Nu-uh. Come on, a city chick, born and bred like you, shy? Say it.” He teased.

She looked in his eyes. “I wanna fuck you, too,” she said all breathless.

“Oh, yeah,” he said a little too loudly, and he savagely took her lips.

“Oh man, Cord, you’re missing it,” Rory yelled from the couch as the others were yelling and whooping it up at the TV.

They broke the kiss and stared at each other until their breathing slowed to normal, then Cord placed an arm around Annie’s back and one under her knees and scooped her up off the counter, and carried her to the living room. He placed her down in her spot. This time he crowded her in with his whole body on the lounge.

She placed a leg over one of his.

He looked at her and smiled. He liked that.

Three rounds later and the returning champ knocked out the contender.

Everyone started moving at the same time to clean up and get ready to leave. Most of them had to work the next day. Cord said good night to everyone but Annie.

“She’ll meet you outside in a minute,” he said to Jake, who was driving her home.

Jake said, “Okay, man. Good night.”

Cord closed the door and captured Annie between him and the front door. He kissed her sweetly.

Annie thought she would never be able to get enough of his amazing kisses.

“Sure you can’t stay?”

“Yeah, I’m sure.”

“I know. I won’t pressure you. You want to do dinner Monday night?”

“Yeah, I’d like that.”

“Great, we’ll talk about it tomorrow, for now, you’d better get going, before I kidnap you.” He chuckled.

He kissed her again, and she left.

****

Cord gave it about an hour for Jake to get them home. He then texted Annie.

U in bed yet?

Sent: Sun 11:56 pm

By: Cord

After about fifteen minutes, Cord still didn’t get a reply. He though she went to bed without checking her phone. Around forty-five minutes later he got a reply.

Cord was barely awake when he heard his phone ring. He reached for it and read the text.

No, room vandalized.

Mon. 12:58 am

By: Annie

Cord replied.

What? Whose? Yours?

Mon. 12:59 am

By: Cord

Annie answered his text.

Yes

Mon. 12:59 am

By: Annie

Less than a moment later, her phone rang.

“Annie, what happened? Where are you? You okay?”

“Yes, I’m fine. When we got home, I came to my room and the place was a mess. The lock on the door was broken. My clothes were out of the drawers and shredded. The bedside lamp was smashed on the floor. My iPod is missing-”

“I’m on my way-”

“No, Cord, it’s all right, it’s okay. The cops just left. Jake put a new lock on my door, and I’m just going to get a couple of hours of sleep, then I have to get up for work.”

“Fuck. Do you know who did this?”

“No.”

“Was anyone else’s room vandalized?”

“No. Just mine. The cops think it was a random act. Maybe they were looking for drugs or something. They got angry there was none and decided to destroy the place out of spite. The cops think we scared them away when we came home.”

“All right, I’m calling Jimmy, tell him to keep an eye on the Shady Brook.”

“Thank you, Cord. I’d appreciate that. He was here earlier with another officer taking the police report.”

“You sure you don’t want me to come by-”

“Yes, get some sleep. You have to go to work in a few hours, too.”

“Okay, baby, I’ll call Jimmy now, and I’ll call you tomorrow.”

“Okay, Good night, Cord.”

“Good night, babe.”

Cord and Rory leaned against the glass half wall on the second floor of the mall, outside the Victoria Secret store, looking down to the first floor, people watching. They had a look of gloom on their faces.

Annie and Calista were inside the store replacing Annie’s bras and panties that were shredded the other night.

“Did Jimmy say anything new about the break-in at the B&B?” Rory asked.

“No, nothing. I didn’t tell Jimmy, but I keep thinking that she was targeted for some reason.”

“Why do you say that? Jimmy seems to think it was random.”

“Yeah, I’m not so sure. There was no other damage in the whole inn. Joan was home sleeping, she didn’t hear anything either.”

Cord blew out a breath and turned around, leaning his back against the wall with his elbows on top. He caught sight of Annie holding up a pair of hot pink and black lace panties. She looked up to catch him watching her and she smiled and raised the panties. Cord lifted the corners of his mouth and nodded. She blushed and moved to the next table of panties, but not before placing the ones she held up in her basket.

Cord crossed one leg over the other at the ankle and folded his arms in front of his chest. “Tell me why we’re here again, I fucking hate shopping, and I fucking really hate malls.”

“Cause we love pussy, my man, and if our ladies want to go shopping, we go shopping.”

“Yeah… it would help if I was getting any.”

“Ha, you didn’t do her yet?”

“No,” Cord said all frustrated, “Not for lack of trying either.”

“I know she’s into you. Calista told me.”

“Yeah, I know she’s into me, too, and God knows, I want to do her in the worst way. We’ve just never been able to be alone long enough. I came this close to throwing all of you out of my house Saturday night, and fuck the fight.”

“Well, I’ll tell you what. I’m gonna help you out tonight.”

“Yeah? You gonna fuck me?” Cord asked, sarcastically.

“Yeah, you wish. No, Instead of going to dinner together, I’ll tell Calista you two want to be alone. She’ll be good with it. Besides, she knows if I go shopping with her, she owes me, you know what I mean. I’ll take her to dinner alone so you two can take off together, then we’ll get busy.”

“Yeah buddy, I like it. Works for me, I call the pool house though.”

“It’s cool. I’ll also give you a piece of advice.”

“Advice? From you? I don’t think so.” Cord snickered.

“Hey man, I’m getting laid regularly. You?”

Cord paused before he answered. “Okay, point made. What’s the advice?”

“Make sure you go down on her.

“Yeah, that’s right at the top of my list of things to do along with fucking her brains out.”

On line at the cash register, Annie asked Calista if she would mind if they didn’t go out to dinner that night.

“I want so badly to be alone with Cord tonight. I need to jump his bones, well, one in particular,” she said and they both giggled.

“Fine, but I want details tomorrow.” Calista teased. “Nah, just kidding. I don’t mind. Besides, you both look like you’re ready to combust. You guys are making all of us hot and bothered, which isn’t really a bad thing. Why do you think I took Rory shopping?”

“Why?”

“Well, always, afterwards, we go home and do it. He thinks it’s his idea that I owe him for dragging him shopping. I drag him shopping for that reason, but he doesn’t have to know. Oh, I have him trained, my little pet,” she said, laughing evilly, and Annie cracked up and hugged her best friend.

“That’s why I love you,” she said.

The girls came out of the store with packages and Calista started acting like she was getting a headache.

“Aw, cut the act, sweetheart. We’re splitting up when we get back to the B&B,” Rory said, and they all laughed.

Rory had driven all of them to the mall in his hot, green and black Challenger. Then he drove them all back to the B&B where the two couples said their goodbyes, and Calista took Annie’s bags. She would drop them off in her room on her way to her own.

Cord had his hands in his front jeans pockets, leaving his elbows sticking out. Annie wrapped her hand around his bicep and he squeezed his bicep to him, bringing her closer to him. “Hungry?” he asked.

“Starving.”

“Where do you want to go eat?”

“Two blocks up is a Chinese restaura-”

“Yeah, Wong’s.”

“Would you mind if we get some take out, and bring it back to the pool house, and eat there?”

“Sounds good.”